He was recognized for his contributions to software reliability, security and cybersecurity education.

He will use the grant to help develop a master's program in embedded signal processing at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.

Birdsnap, a field guide for identifying birds in the wild, has been downloaded 25,000 times and builds on the work that Jacobs has done in the field of identifying human faces.

He spoke about the different ways hackers can penetrate an agency’s network.

He describes anti-poaching efforts in Africa using unmanned aerial vehicles guided by mathematical modeling tools from UMIACS.

He is revolutionizing computer science education by refining a "flipped classroom" approach, where students engage with problems in class while learning concepts through multimedia outside of class.

The course required students to create smart contracts atop a new cryptocurrency called Ethereum, which has a Bitcoin-like decentralized infrastructure with an open platform for development.

She will use funding from the award to study ways to defend against non-black-box attacks, a class of cryptographic attacks that can be particularly damaging.

They were honored for their paper “GhostRider: A Hardware-Software System for Memory Trace Oblivious Computation."

The researchers discussed the application of quantum information science to physics.