At the Anita Borg Institute, students are always asking us how to find scholarships, internships, mentors, and financial support to continue their studies. Of course, many students apply for Grace Hopper scholarships, which ABI sponsors underwrite. (The deadline to apply has been extended to June 22 and underwriting opportunities are still available.)
But did you know that many of these companies offer additional opportunities for students?
Earlier this month, Symantec announced the recipients of its Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship, awarded to exceptional graduate students who show a desire to work in IT industry laboratory research and toward finding innovative solutions to real-world problems in information security and availability, storage, and systems management.
Symantec just named two scholars — Polo Chau and Junghee Lim — who will receive full one-year fellowships covering 100-percent of tuition and fees, along with a competitive stipend to fund their own ongoing research. Through the program, the two scholars will be paired with mentors from Symantec Research Labs (top researchers who can provide ongoing technical guidance).
Lim is a doctoral candidate in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and focuses her research on detecting malicious code by verifying that programs exhibit only safe behavior. By developing a tool to generate static analyses for application binaries and a language for the semantics of instruction sets, her technology opens up new directions in computer security analysis.
A doctoral candidate in computer science at Carnegie Mellon, Chau is working on machine learning techniques for computer security. Using data mining techniques and graphs for capturing important connections among entities, his technology detects suspicious patterns that indicate fraud. This technology promises to help proactively protect computer users from many classes of online fraud.
You’ll be pleased to know that Symantec and other ABI partners offer scholarships, funds, internships, and continue to support the next generation of technical women. Visit the partners listed at the bottom of the ABI home page to learn more about the companies that support ABI’s work — and yours!