Dr. AMBAREEN SIRAJ
Professor, Computer Science, Tennessee Tech University
Founding Director, Cybersecurity Education Research and Outreach Center (CEROC)
WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity) Founder and Conference Program Chair
Email: asiraj [at] tntech.edu
External Grant Activity
NSF SFS Project (PI): Tennessee Cybercorps: A Hybrid Program In Cybersecurity, Academic year: 2016-2026. Amount: ~ $9.5 million
DoD Project (PI): CySP CyberSecurity Scholarships and Capacity Building, Academic year: 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022
DoD Project (PI): NSA GenCyber Camp, Academic years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
DoD Project (PI): Cyber Career Exploration (C2E) Platform and Training for Veterans in Tennessee, Academic year: 2021-2022, $149,173
DoD Project (PI) with University of South Florida as Lead: The 502 Project: Building Gateways to the Cybersecurity Community, Academic year: 2021-2023, $91,603.00
DoD Project (PI) with Fordham University as Lead: CEDI CyberSecurity Education Diversity Initiative Coalition Participation, Academic year: 2020-2022, $215,182.00
DoD Project (PI): CySP Community College Cyber Enrichment Program, Academic year: 2020-2021, $199,989.00
DoD Project (co-PI): NCAE-C CyberSecurity Research, Academic year: 2020-2021, $149,993.00
Collaborative NSF SFS Project (Lead PI): CyberWorkshops: Resources and Strategies for Teaching Cybersecurity in Computer Science (CReST), Academic year: 2014-2017. Amount: $422,917.00.
Collaborative NSF SFS Project (Lead PI): Capacity Building in Cybersecurity: Broadening Participation of Women In Cybersecurity through Women in Cybersecurity Conference & Professional Development, Academic year: 2013-2017. Amount: $ $244,160.00
NSF TUES Type-I Project (PI): SecKnitKit (Security Knitting Kit): Integrating Security into Traditional Computer Science Courses, Academic year: 2012-2014. Amount: $199,872.00
INSuRE Project: Problems in National Information Security, PI: Ambareen Siraj. Funding Agency: Purdue University via Department of Defense. Grant Amount: $12,000.00 Grant Period: 2017 – 2018.
DOE Project (Senior Personnel): Public Private Partnership to Promote Efficient Manufacturing and Workforce Development, Academic year: 2016-2021. Amount: $1,750,000.00
ORNL/DOE Project (Co-PI): FPGA based Fuzzy FNET signal security monitoring, Center of Energy Systems Research, Tennessee Tech University/ Oak Ridge National Lab. May 2009. Amount: $10,000.00
Internal Grant Activity
Undergraduate Research Experience Course for COE Honors and/or FastTrack Students, Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Grant, TTU, Academic year: 2015-2016.
TTU Office of Research Project (PI): Towards the Development of a Community Resource Infrastructure for Smart Grid Security Resources, Office of Research, Academic year: 2010-2011.
TTU Office of Research Project (PI): Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Network Security, Proposal No. 0728, Office of Research, TTU, Academic year: 2007-2008.
Active Learning Through Development of Computer Security Awareness and Training (CSAT) Seminar, Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Grant, TTU, Academic year: 2010-2011.