REU Site: Software Assurance and Security in Emerging Technologies: Research Experience for Undergraduates

REU 网站：新兴技术中的软件保障和安全：本科生的研究经验

• 批准号: 1757773
• 负责人: Renee Bryce
• 金额: $ 36万
• 依托单位: University of North Texas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-02-01 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1757773&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Software; Assurance; Security

This project establishes a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of North Texas on the topic of software assurance and security in emerging technologies. The proposed REU Site will i) expose undergraduate students to hands-on research experiences in security and software development and testing, ii) enhance their research experience, iii) promote their interests in research, and iv) seed their desire to pursue advanced degrees and careers in CS. The project aims to increase the number of students that pursue graduate studies by exposing students to exciting and attainable research goals, giving them the opportunity to build their resumes with research experiences and publications, and providing a supportive community of peers and mentors that encourage them to be successful. By introducing competition and collaboration as drivers for research innovation, the project intends to achieve a unique and cohesive undergraduate research experience that entices students to pursue graduate studies. Students will gain a background to learn state-of-the-art technical knowledge, the ability to think independently, and the confidence to work on challenging problems. As a result, they will be better prepared to enter the graduate school pipeline. The project's broader significance and importance are that it trains three diverse cohorts of ten students recruited from minorities and underrepresented groups including female students. The project's intellectual merits are that it exposes students to an intense research experience that combines security and software development and testing research with emerging technologies (i.e., web, mobile, and wearable applications) as artifacts used for evaluation of the different research techniques. The intellectual merit of this REU site is reflected in each individual research project, which has interesting and crucial applications that participants can easily identify with. Some projects, designed for highly talented students, seek to advance knowledge and understanding by addressing unsolved problems. Others seek to employ security and testing techniques to solve the real-world problems. The projects will also apply an intellectual approach to encourage students through active learning, free and open exchange of ideas, team spirit, and recognition and rewards for achievements. Specifically, the objectives are to foster i) creative and independent thinking, ii) problem-solving skills and hands-on experience, iii) enthusiasm and confidence, and iv) critical thinking, communication and organization skills. The student projects are designed to include individual and collaborative tasks that foster a strong connection to the group and a better understanding of the larger context of their work. Students work in collaborative teams that explore research questions and innovations in the areas of message integrity, computation on encrypted data for different resource-constrained devices, test suite prioritization, and test suite reduction. The students will investigate cryptographic algorithms and protocols that are suitable for mobile and wearable environments and aim to achieve end-to-end message level integrity and to support computing on encrypted data. They will also conduct empirical studies that hypothesize about the fault detection effectiveness of test suite reduction and test suite prioritization by coverage-based metrics. Empirical studies examine the techniques in the context of emerging technologies (web, mobile, wearable, etc.).

该项目为新兴技术中的软件保证和安全主题建立了本科生（REU）网站的研究经验。拟议的REU网站将i）将本科生接触到安全，软件开发和测试方面的动手研究经验，ii）增强他们的研究经验，iii），iii）促进他们在研究中的兴趣，iv）播种他们追求CS中的高级学位和职业的愿望。该项目旨在通过使学生享有令人兴奋和可实现的研究目标，通过研究经验和出版物来建立简历，并提供一个鼓励他们成功的同伴和导师的支持社区，从而增加追求研究生学习的学生人数。通过引入竞争和合作作为研究创新的驱动力，该项目打算取得独特而凝聚力的本科研究经验，诱使学生从事研究生学习。学生将获得学习最先进的技术知识，独立思考的能力的背景以及在挑战性问题方面的信心。结果，他们将为进入研究生院的管道做好准备。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性是，它培训了从少数民族和包括女学生在内的少数群体和代表性不足的群体中招募的十个学生中的三个不同的人群。该项目的智力优点是，它使学生获得了强烈的研究经验，该研究经验将安全性和软件开发和测试研究与新兴技术（即Web，Mobile和可穿戴应用程序）结合在一起，作为用于评估不同研究技术的工件。该REU网站的智力优点反映在每个单独的研究项目中，该项目具有参与者可以轻松识别的有趣且至关重要的应用。一些专为才华横溢的学生设计的项目试图通过解决未解决的问题来提高知识和理解。其他人则寻求采用安全性和测试技术来解决现实世界中的问题。这些项目还将采用一种智力方法来通过积极学习，自由和开放的思想，团队精神以及取得成就的认可和奖励来鼓励学生。具体而言，目的是促进i）创造性和独立思考，ii）解决问题的技能和动手经验，iii）热情和信心，以及iv）批判性思维，沟通和组织技能。学生项目旨在包括个人和协作任务，以促进与小组建立牢固联系，并更好地了解其工作的更大背景。学生在协作团队中工作，探讨信息完整性领域的研究问题和创新，对不同资源受限设备的加密数据计算，测试套件优先级以及减少测试套件。学生将研究适合移动和可穿戴环境的密码算法和协议，并旨在实现端到端消息级别的完整性并支持加密数据的计算。他们还将进行经验研究，以假设测试套件降低和测试套件优先考虑基于覆盖的指标的断层检测有效性。实证研究研究了新兴技术（Web，移动，可穿戴等）中的技术。