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• Fall Intern - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.
  
• On-Campus RC Helicopter pilot- UMBC Geography & Environmental Systems
  
• Research Assistant / United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
  
• Protocol Development Intern- Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Student Mental Health Research Assistant - Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Volunteer Opportunities in Mental Health- Sheppard Pratt Health System
  
• Research Assistant / ExecuQuest Corp.
  
• Research Assistant- Sage Policy Group
• Research Clinical Extern- UMB School of Medicine
• Disaster Caseworker-American Red Cross
• Paid Research & Marketing Interns- BioMarker Strategies
• Paid Parent-Child Interaction Video Coder-University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
• R&D Intern- Quantum Medical Metrics, LLC
• Research and Policy Assistant- United States Department of Education
• Research Development Intern- iHire, LLC
• Research Intern- The Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit
• Nutrition Intern- University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
• Paid Research Technician Intern- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
• Volunteer Policy/Research Intern- Minority Business Roundtable
• Research Assistantship- Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland
• Advancement Department Intern- American Red Cross 
• Assistant Proposal Coordinator- Ross Technologies, Inc. (RTGX)
• Big Data & Cloud Software and Research- Ross Technologies, Inc. (RTGX)
• Paid Research Assistant- UMBC Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education(CUERE)
  

Four students in UMBC's Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering have been selected for major scholarships to study cybersecurity in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Scholarship for Service (SFS) CyberCorps program.   Each student will receive full tuition, fees, and a nine-month stipend ($20,000 for undergraduates, $25,000 for MS/MPS students, and $30,000 for PhD students) for up to  two years (three years for PhD).  For this first year of the program at UMBC, recipients are Oliver Kubik (BS student in computer science), Brendan Masiar and Brandyn Schult (MPS students in cybersecurity), and Mary Mathews (PhD student in computer science).  

While in the program at UMBC, each student will participate in paid summer internships and have opportunities to engage in mentored research opportunities at the UMBC Center for Information Security and Assurance (CISA) and its partners from industry and government.  Following graduation, each student must work for the government (for pay) for one year for each year of scholarship received.  Drs. Alan T. Sherman and Richard Forno direct the program using support they received from their recently awarded $2.5 million NSF grant.  The CyberCorps program will produce highly-qualified professionals to meet the increasing need to protect American's cyber infrastructure.

Each year students may apply for SFS CyberCorps scholarships at UMBC, with application deadline in mid January.  For details, see www.cisa.umbc.edu.  In each of the next three years, UMBC expects to make six new awards.   Applicants must be accepted to a full-time degree program in a cybersecurity-related field (CS, CE, cyber, EE, IS, math, physics, education, public policy).

UMBC CSEE Colloquium

Human Sensor Networks for Improved Modeling
of Natural and Human-Caused Disasters

Oleg Aulov, Computer Science Ph.D. Student, UMBC

1:00pm Friday, 14 September 2012, ITE 227, UMBC

This talk will discuss the importance of different roles that social media can play in management, monitoring, modeling and mitigation of natural and human-caused disasters. We will present a novel approach that views social media data as a human sensor network. These data can serve as a low-cost augmentation to an observing system, which can be incorporated into geophysical models together with other scientific data such as satellite observations and sensor measurements. As a use case scenario, we analyze the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. We gather the social media data that mention sightings of oil from Flickr, geolocate them, and use them as boundary forcings in the General NOAA Oil Modeling Environment (GNOME) software for oil spill predictions. We show how social media data can be incorporated into the GNOME model to obtain improved estimates of the model parameters such as rates of oil spill, couplings between surface winds and ocean currents, diffusion coefficient, and other model parameters. Other social media mining and citizen science projects performed by groups outside of UMBC, on air quality, earthquakes and the Fukushima disaster will also be summarized as related work.

Oleg Aulov received B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO, in 2004 and M.S. degree in Computer Science with a concentration in Computer Security and Information Assurance from George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 2006. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD. His topics of interest include social media mining, citizen science, machine learning, trust establishment and management, information assurance, and social engineering.

For more information and directions see http://bit.ly/UMBCtalks

Do you aspire to become the next Mark Zuckerberg?

Give you dream a shot at Startup Weekend Baltimore, which takes place September 28-30 in Locust Point.

The weekend brings together developers, coders, designers, marketing gurus, and businesspeople for a high-energy weekend where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch ideas, form teams, and then present their progress to their peers at the end of the day Sunday. Participants leave with a business model, a website, and a range of business connections to help get their start-up off the ground. 55% of participants continue to work on the project with their team.

A worldwide movement, Startup Weekend has branches in over 200 cities around the globe, from Anchorage, Alaska to Marrakech, Morocco. The weekend has helped conceive successful companies including Foodspotting, a smartphone application that allows foodies around the world to recommend favorite dishes rather than restaurants.    

To learn more about the weekend and to register, visit Baltimore.startupweekend.org.