Dr. AMBAREEN SIRAJ

Member, National Science foundation Committee of Visitors (COV), 2019

Panelist, National Science Foundation Panel, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019

Board Member, Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE): 2015 – 2018

Member of Working Group (Informal Education) brought together by the White House Office of Science and Technology for the CSforALL initiative, 2016.

Member of Working Group (Collegiate) on the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 2017-18

Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security (SWSIS) Committee, 2015.

Program Committee Member, Annual Grace Hopper Conference, 2014.

Reviewer, Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, 2011-14.

Program Committee Member, COMPSAC 2014 (STPSA: Security, Trust, and Privacy for Software Applications)

Session Chair: 7th Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIR 10)

Initiated Tennessee Affiliate for NCWIT Aspiration Award in Computing since 2011

Program Committee for the 26th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2011)

Reviewer for the 26th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2011)

Judge, ACM Annual Software Research Competition, 2010.

Program Committee for the 25th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2010)

Reviewer for Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, 2009.

Program Committee for the 24th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2009)

Session Chair for Authentication and security management session, International Conference on Communication, Network and Information Security (CNIS 2007) held in Berkeley, CA, September 24-26, 2007.

Participated in ABET Accreditation, Department of Computer Science, TTU, Fall 2006

Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Intelligence Security Informatics, 2005.

President, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science Honor Society), Mississippi State University, 2004-2006.

­ Executive Committee, 2020-21

­ Cyber Curriculum Committee, 2006-21

­ COE Diversity Committee, 2020-21

­ CS Diversity Committee, 2020-21

­ Curriculum and Research Committee, 2020

­ Personnel Committee, 2020

­ Dean Search Committee, 2019

­ CS Search Committee, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020

­ International Affairs Committee. 2018

­ Software Engineering Committee, Department of Computer Science. 2011-2016.

­ Mary Patterson Committee, Department of Computer Science. 2017

­ Annual College of Engineering Rising Renaissance Engineer Spectrum Award

­ Renaissance Education Model (REM) Team, 2017

­ CESR Search Committee. 2011-2012.

­ ECE Search Committee. 2011-2012.

­ ECE Search Committee. 2010-2011.

­ International Affairs Committee, 2010-2011.

­ ABET Review Committee, Department of Computer Science. 2010.

­ CAT Scholarship Committee, Department of Computer Science. Fall 2009.

­ Stonecipher Search Committee. 2009

­ Programming Fundamentals Committee, Department of Computer Science. 2009.

­ ECE Search Committee. 2008

­ ABET Accreditation Committee, 2006

­Invited Participant, NIST sponsored New America Foundation meeting on The State of the Cybersecurity Gender Gap, November 2018

Invited Participant, President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy meeting on National Security and CS for All Initiative, August 2016

Invited Participant, NSF International Security Education Workshop, June 2016

Participant, Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, 2015.

Participant, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2015.

Participant, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, 2015.

Participant, Decrypting the Cybersecurity Gender Gap, A Forum by New America Foundation, held November 2015 at Menlo Park, California.