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Intel ISEF 2019 Special Awards Organization Profile

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National Security Agency Research Directorate

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http://cps-vo.org/group/sos

The NSA Research Directorate is one of the most established research organizations in the U.S. Intelligence Community. As a world leader in science and technology, Research engages with leading industries, universities, and national laboratories to both advance core competencies and to leverage work in overlapping disciplines. The ISEF Special Awards recognize exceptional research that demonstrates world-class skills in mathematics, computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, physics, and neuroscience while promoting research that can assure and protect cyberspace.

Why We Participate:

The NSA Research Directorate participates in ISEF to encourage more students to join a growing multi-disciplinary and collaborative community of scientists and cybersecurity professionals. In an increasingly interconnected world, NSA’s Science of Security and Privacy Initiative encourages aspiring researchers to utilize scientifically rigorous approaches for the advancement of cybersecurity.

Current Awards Offered:

First Place Award "Mathematics" $1,500

First Place Award "Material Science" $1,000

First Place Award "Cyber Pioneer" of $1000

First Place Award "Science of Security" of $3,000

Second Place Award "Science Security" of $1,000

Second Place Award "Mathematics"$750

Second Place Award "Cyber Pioneer" of $1000

Honorable Mention "Cyber Pioneer"

Honorable Mention "Material Science"

Honorable Mention "Science of Security"

Honorable Mention Mathematics

Previous Award Winners

First Place Award "Mathematics" $1,500

Daniel Alejandro Santiago

Loop Spaces, P-Curvature, and Homotopy

First Place Award "Material Science" $1,000

Kaitlyn Lee Zuravel

Glue Busters II: The Effects of Accelerated Cure Time on the Ultimate Shear Strength and Efficiency of CA and PVA Glue

First Place Award "Cyber Pioneer" of $1000

Kevin Meng

Looking through Walls with Artificial Intelligence: An Innovative Solution for Real-Time Retrieval of the Human Figure behind Visual Obstruction

First Place Award "Science of Security" of $3,000

Suha Sabi Hussain

Detecting Privacy Violations in Children's Apps Using HPCs

Second Place Award "Science Security" of $1,000

Alice Guo

Protection of Deep Neural Networks against Adversarial Attacks with Application to Facial Recognition

Second Place Award "Mathematics"$750

AnaMaria Perez

Classifying Magic Squares and Their Associated Symmetries Using a Chord Diagram Approach

Second Place Award "Science Security" of $1,000

Divya Amirtharaj

A Secure Implementation of Mendelian Randomization via Multi-Party Computation

Second Place Award "Science Security" of $1,000

Gabrielle Kaili-May Liu

Weight Friction: A Simple Method to Overcome Catastrophic Forgetting and Enable Continual Learning in Neural Networks

Second Place Award "Mathematics"$750

John Tadeusz Piwinski

On the Application of Heat Diffusion across a Manifold for Dimensionality Reduction

Second Place Award "Cyber Pioneer" of $1000

Milidu Jayaweera

A Game of Jamming: A Multi-Agent Game Theoretic Learning Based Cognitive Anti-Jamming Communication System to Combat an AI Jammer

Honorable Mention Mathematics

Aayush Karan

Generating Set for Nonzero Determinant Links under Skein Relation

Honorable Mention "Science of Security"

Adam Kelly

Improved Gate Level Simulation of Quantum Circuits

Honorable Mention "Science of Security"

Advay Koranne

Non-Periodic Pseudo-Random Number Generator Using Sinai Billiards

Honorable Mention Mathematics

Brendon Franz Matusch

Improving Particle Classification in WIMP Dark Matter Detection Experiments Using Neural Networks

Honorable Mention "Material Science"

Jacqueline Prawira

OceanBioplas: The Plasticity of Marine Exoskeleton-Inspired Materials and Their Degradability in the Environment (Soil and Seawater/Saltwater)

Honorable Mention "Science of Security"

Michael Norman Brockman

The Next Artificial Intelligence Revolution: AI Making Decisions without Human Models or Knowledge of Rules to Create Completely Independent Solutions

Honorable Mention "Cyber Pioneer"

Ryan McDowell

Should I Trust What's in My Computer? Using Current Draw Analysis to Identify Malicious Firmware in Solid State Drives

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