GLASS Project

The projects for Tandon Honors students in the Global Leaders & Scholars in STEM program consists of a culmination of various experiences, research, and interests related to the Tandon Areas of Research Excellence. Scholars are also required to address the NAE Grand Challenges and think about the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals when doing so. At the end of the 3 years in the GLASS Program, students have a better understanding of the impact they can have on changing the world for the better. GLASS students enter the world as globally competent and socially responsible innovators and engineers!

• I am interested in utilizing artificial intelligence algorithm to solve some challenges in computer security. Cyber attacks that require greater computation power and closer monitoring can be more easily detected by using artificial intelligence algorithm to train the patterns. 

• I took several academic courses at NYU Tandon such as artificial intelligence, computer security, data analysis to help me better understand fundamentals of each discipline. 

• I have also worked with Amazon's artificial intelligence Alexa, during my internship with Amazon, to gain experience working with real life scope of implementing automated systems.

• More technical research needs to be done to analyze and training data set needs to be identified. 

The project relates to the field of artificial intelligence and cyber security. 

Artificial intelligence algorithms are often though of "automated super brain". They have the capacity to compute complex problem within timeframe impossible to humans. The so called "Siri" or "Alexa" of the future have greater potential than we imagine today. 

Cyber security is practice of securing the cyberspace. Internet has grown exponentially in the 20th century. However, there were little to no rules in the beginning. Hackers take personal information, spread wrong data, target specific group, and more. The act of policing the cyberspace to protect against such attack is, in simple term, cyber security.

• Secure Cyberspace (NAE Grand Challenges)

• Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure (UN Sustainability Development Goals)

• The project integrates the two unique challenges presented by NAE and UN. The objective is to utilize artificial intelligence to secure cyberspace and contribute to equal and just infrastructure in utilizing new innovations.