Research Topics in Cybersecurity

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A course in performing academic research in security and privacy. Students will get an opportunity to engage with published research through reading impactful research papers in the field and writing review-style paper summaries of their readings. Students will also present these papers to the class, and lead discussions about the papers’ merits. Concurrently with reading and evaluating research, groups of students will work on a novel security research project on a topic of their choosing. The course will culminate in a research symposium, with groups presenting their research findings to the class.