Shaw College secured a $450,000 grant from the Nationwide Science Basis to help the “Analysis Initiation Award: Investigating Disparities Amongst Sensible Expertise Privateness Research” venture.
The first goal of this venture is to evaluate whether or not particular system sorts or demographic components—together with race, ethnicity, gender, and age—are underrepresented in present research about sensible know-how privateness.
The grant is a part of the NSF’s Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities—Undergraduate Program Analysis Initiation Awards. This system helps STEM school at HBCUs by enhancing their analysis capabilities whereas enhancing undergraduate college students’ academic experiences.
Dr. Nyteisha Bookert
Dr. Nyteisha Bookert, the assistant professor of pc science and the cyber operations program coordinator at Shaw College, is main the initiative. “My general analysis objective is to analyze the safety and privateness of rising applied sciences to guard people,” Dr. Bookert says. “Sensible know-how is built-in into numerous points of our lives, together with houses, faculties, and workplaces, enhancing methods akin to transportation, healthcare, and manufacturing. Nonetheless, these applied sciences additionally increase important safety and privateness issues. There’s a rising name within the U.S. for a nationwide knowledge safety legislation in response to those issues and the growing variety of knowledge breaches.”
Shaw College President Dr. Paulette R. Dillard, Ph.D., expressed her enthusiasm concerning the grant’s transformative potential. “Our pc science and cybersecurity college students can be empowered to excel of their research and future careers via this analysis venture,” says Dillard. “We’re thrilled concerning the alternatives this award presents for each our college students and school, significantly those that are constructing their analysis packages.”
Together with aiming to handle disparities in sensible know-how privateness analysis, the venture additionally emphasizes the significance of inclusivity. It seeks to contain minority and underrepresented undergraduate college students in interdisciplinary analysis initiatives at each native and nationwide ranges. The grant will help scholar analysis assistants, permit them to current their findings at conferences and symposiums, and enhance their technical expertise {and professional} growth.
The analysis’s findings are anticipated to result in insights into Individuals’ privateness issues and supply suggestions for creating inclusive insurance policies, legal guidelines, and rules.
