A nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will provide scholarships for doctoral students to study cyber security and information assurance in UNT’s College of Engineering, College of Business and College of Information. CSE Professor, Dr. Ram Dantu, is leading this program.
About six students will be accepted into the program beginning in Fall 2013 and each will receive $45,000 for 9 months with a possibility of additional funding during summer. For more details see this UNT press release. Application and scholarship information can be found at the Center for Information and Computer Security.
Congratulations to these Outstanding Students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering!
Undergraduate students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering will present their senior design projects at the UNT College of Engineering’s Design Day on Friday, April 26. All CENG students will participate in poster presentations in the hallways of Discovery Park from 9:30 to 11:30 am. CSE students will begin their group presentations at 1:00 pm in the B155, the Discovery Park Auditorium. Everyone is invited to attend!
Prof. Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, will give a presentation on 
The Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of North Texas is happy to announce that we have received summer camp scholarship funds from the Texas Workforce Commission and the National Convergence Technology Center. Any student who applies to one of our camps and meets some basic criteria (13 or 14 years of age and attend school in Texas) will receive a full $375 scholarship while seats are available. This summer we are offering our Robocamp program (with special sections just for girls as well as co-ed camps), the XBox Game development camp, and a new AppCamp that focuses on Android app development. There are still seats available for all camps. Details and registration can be found at 
Dr. Hassan Takabi joins us as an Assistant Professor from the University of Pittsburgh, where he is completing his Ph.D. in Information Science. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh, he was a research scholar in the e-Security research centre at the London South Bank University. Dr. Takabi completed his M.S. in Information Technology from Sharif University of Technology in 2007 and his B.S. in Computer Engineering (Software) from AmirKabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) in 2004. Dr. Takabi's research is on access control models, trust management, privacy enhancing technologies, usable security and privacy, and security, privacy, and trust issues in cloud computing environments and online social networks. In 2013-2014 it is expected that Dr. Takabi will teach classes in computer security and privacy. He will also be a member of the Center for Information and Computer Security (CICS).
