Dr. AMBAREEN SIRAJ

Invited Talks as Speaker / Panelist

• Invited Panelist, “Is There a Security Mindset and Can it be Taught?”, 11th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY ’21), Virtual, April 26 - 28, 2021.

• Invited Panelist, “Broadening the Participation of Women in Cyber: A French-American Discussion”, Embassy of France – Office of Science and Technology, March 8th, 2021.

• Invited Panelist, “Non-Profit Organizations Role in Diversifying the Future Tech Workforce?”, 1st NSF Re-Enter STEM through Emerging Technology Conference (RESET ’21), Virtual, March 4 - 6, 2021.

• Keynote, “Data Inspired Doing”, FloCon 2021 organized by Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, January 12-15, 2021

• Invited Panelist, “Fearless Computing”, IGNITE, February 17, 2021

• Invited Panelist, “To Empower - Empower Women to Lead and Shine”, WiCSME, November 14, 2020

• Invited Speaker. “Towards Gender Balance in Cybersecurity” Briefing at the Meeting of the Cybersecurity Workforce of the Federal Aviation Administration Committee by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, April 23, 2020

• Invited Speaker. Congressional Hearing Testimony, More Hires, Fewer Hacks: Developing The US Cybersecurity workforce, Subcommittee on Research and Technology, held, February 11, 2020

• Invited Speaker: Global CyberSecurity Forum, held in Riyadh, Feb 4-5, 2020.

• Presenter, “Cybersecurity Education, Research and Outreach: An Integrated Experience for CyberCorps Scholars”, PI BootCamp at Scholarship for Service Job Fair, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 Washington, DC

• Invited Panelist: “Post-Secondary and Workforce Discussion”, The 2019 Arkansas State Governor’s Summit on CS Education, held June 10, 2019, Little Rock, AR.

• Invited Panelist: “Integrating Security Across the Curriculum”, The 2019 NSF Cyber Education Workshop, held April 15-16, 2019, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

• Invited Presenter: “Encouraging Diversity in CyberSecurity”, The 2019 NSF Cyber Education Workshop, held April 15-16, 2019, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

• Invited Presenter: “The Response—Equipping the Next Generation”, The 2019 ABET Symposium, held April 10-13, 2019 Dallas, Texas.

• Presenter: “Using Pop Culture to Teach Cybersecurity to Generation Z”, NICE National K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference, held 3-4 December, 2018.

• Presenter: “60 Minutes in Exploring Cybersecurity: Introduction with Career Landscape”, Invited Talk: Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Colorado Spring, October 25, 2018.

• Presentation, “Hands on GenCyber Activities at Tennessee Tech GenCyber Camp, September, 2018, Seattle, WA.

• Keynote, “World of Cybersecurity: Are You in it”, Hendrix-Rhodes-Sewanee Mathematics and Computer Science Symposium, Rhodes College, April, 2018

• Presenter: “Introducing CyberSecurity with Hands-on Activities: Cyber Defense against the Dark Arts”, NICE National K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference, held December 4-6, 2017, Nashville, TN.

• Presentation, “Capture The Flag Unplugged”, National K12 CyberSecurity Education Conference, December 4-6, 2017, Nashville, TN.

• Panel Presentation, “Strategies to Develop a Diverse and Inclusive Cybersecurity Pipeline”, NSF Cybersecurity Summit for Large Facilities and Cyberinfrastructure”, August 2017, Arlington, VA.

• Panel Presentation, NSF Cyber Education Summit, June, 2017 Baltimore, MD

• Presentation, “Tennessee Tech GenCyber Camp, “ GenCyber PI Meeting, May, 2017, San Antonio, TX

• Keynote, “Cybersecurity Education, Research and Outreach: Why the World Cares & How Can One Contribute”, International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) held Dec 18-20, 2017, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• Panelist, “Cyber Security in the Context of Bangladesh”, International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) held Dec 18-20, 2017 Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• Abstract, Ambareen Siraj, Eric Brown and Zach Wallace, “From Rural Appalachia to Washington DC: Feeding the Pipeline of our Nation’s Cyber Defenders”, ACM Mid SouthEast Conference held in Gatlinburg, TN November, 2017.

• Poster, Jnana Deepika Bala, and Ambareen Siraj “Use of Machine Learning in Feature Selection for continuous Authentication”, 4^th Women in CyberSecurity Conference held in Tucson, AZ April 2017.

• Keynote, “Cybersecurity Education, Research and Outreach”, Computing and IT Alumni Conference in April, 2017, Tennessee Tech

• Panelist: ”Educating to Protect the Future”, International Conference on Cyber Conflict in the U.S. (CyCon U.S.), held October 21-22, 2016, Washington, DC.

• Presenter: “Diverse Learning Community: Women in Cyber”, NICE National K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference, held October 4-6, 2016 Arlington, VA

• Panelist: “Mentorship of Women in Computer Security”, USENIX Advances in Security Education Workshop, in conjunction with 25th USENIX Security Symposium held August 10–12, 2016, in Austin, TX.

• Birds-of-a-Feather Session Presenter: "Assessment of Knowledge, Skills and Abilities using Hands-On Exercises " at the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), held in Memphis, TN, March 2-15, 2016.

• Presenter: The World and My World in Cybersecurity” Women in Science Event by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), held October 2015 at Qatar, Doha.

• Presenter: “CAE Community and the National Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Initiative: Collaboration/Engagement Opportunities”, 2015 Centers of Academic Excellence Community Meeting held November 2015 at San Diego, CA.

• Presenter: Birds-of-a-feather Let’s Work Together to Empower CS Education Community to Teach Cybersecurity across the Curriculum,” 2015 National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education Conference and Expo (NICE), Columbia, MD.

• Panelist, “Developing Tomorrow’s Cyber Workforce: Broadening Participation in STEM”, NSF-supported Forum on Next Generation Learning for All, November 2015, Washington, DC.

• Presenter: “Diversifying Cybersecurity Workforce”, Annual SACNAS National Conference, 2014, held in Los Angeles, CA, October 15-18, 2014.

• Presenter: “10 Numerical Reasons to Consider Cybersecurity as a Career Path”, Annual Grace Hopper Conference (GHC), 2014, held in Phoenix, AZ, Oct 6-8, 2014.

• Presenter: “Efforts Towards Broadening Participation of Women in Cybersecurity”, The 18h Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE’18), held in San Diego, CA, June 16-18, 2014.

• Presenter: "The Rising Renaissance Engineer Spectrum Awards” with Martha Kosa, at the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), held in Atlanta, GA, March 5-8, 2014.

• Presenter: “Careers in Cybersecurity: It’s Not a Job: It’s an Adventure”, Annual Grace Hopper Conference (GHC), 2013, held in Minneapolis, MN, Oct 3-5, 2013.

• Presenter: “Diversity in the Cybersecurity Workforce”, 4^th Annual NIST National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Workshop, held in Gaithersburg, MD, Sept 17-19, 2013.

• Presenter: “Integrating Security in Traditional Computer Science Courses”, The 17h Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE’17), held in Mobile, AL, June 10-12, 2013.

• Presenter: “A Cyberlearning Environment for Smart Grid Security Education”, The 17h Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE’13), held in Mobile, AL, June 10-12, 2013.

• Birds-of-a-Feather Session Moderator: "The Changing Face of Computing: Bringing Security into Traditional Computer Science Courses: Challenges and Support" at the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), held in Denver, CO, March 6-9, 2013.

• Panel Moderator, “Women in Cybersecurity: Why there are so few and what we can do about it”, 5th Annual Cyber Security Expo, University of Memphis Center for Information Assurance, October, 2012

• Presenter: “A Cognitive Modeling Approach for Intelligent Alert Fusion in an Intrusion Detection Environment”. Poster Presentation at 8th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), Seattle, WA, September 7-9, 2005.

• Presenter: “Intelligent Fusion of Sensor Data in an Intrusion Detection Environment”. Southeastern Software Engineering Conference. Huntsville, AL, March 29th – 31st, 2004.

• Presenter: “Decision Making for an Intelligent Intrusion Detection System”. Workshop on Network Intrusion Detection, organized and sponsored by Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) and Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and held at the H.E.A.T. Center, Aberdeen, MD, March 19-20, 2002.

• Presenter: “Decision Making for an Intelligent Intrusion Detection System”. Southeastern Software Engineering Conference, Huntsville, Al, April 9th - 11th, 2002.

• Presenter: “Information Assurance Metrics”. Lecture topic in CS6243: Information Security, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University.