Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and School of Public Policy proudly present CSI’23!
Cybersecurity has become a common feature of national and global politics. The main goal of the Cybersecurity Summer Institute (CSI) is to provide Ph.D. students with foundational knowledge of both the technical and social aspects of cybersecurity and to facilitate interdisciplinary research on this topic. By the end of CSI, policy students should become more aware of the technical complexities of their research, whereas computer science students should have a better understanding of the policy implications of their research. Students should leave CSI with a robust foundational understanding of cybersecurity in order to continue conducting in-depth research combining the strengths of both the computer science and policy fields.
Requirements
We plan to recruit students from national and international institutions. An ideal candidate is a Ph.D. student who is working on the topic of cybersecurity and who either has a relevant technological background and is interested in the social implications of their work or has a relevant social science background and is interested in the technological implications of their work. Up to 20 students will be selected for participation based on the following criteria:
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Students must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program in computer science, history, law, political science, public policy, sociology, or a related field.
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Student research interests must include cybersecurity, under the context of technology, computer science, or social sciences.
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Students must have completed at least one year of coursework in their Ph.D. program by the start of their time at the CSI.
We are particularly interested in students of groups who have been historically underrepresented in the field of cybersecurity. Additionally, we are also interested in receiving applications from students from institutions where coursework in cybersecurity is not regularly offered.
Application deadline for 2023 session is December 30th, 2022. Applicants should include two brief letters of recommendation (externally emailed to csi.gatech@gmail.com), a short statement from the applicants explaining their research project ideas/abstracts and why they are interested in attending CSI.