Image: Roberto Perdisci, Patty and D.R. Grimes Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director of the UGA Institute of Cybersecurity and Privacy, was selected as a recipient of an Amazon Research Award. Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provide unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating various research topics in multiple disciplines. This cycle, ARA announced 73 award recipients who represent 46 universities in 10 countries. Perdisci, an expert in computer and network security, malware detection, pattern recognition, and data mining in the School of Computing, is one of four awardees in the AI for Information Security area, which was one of the five areas where awards were made. The award will support his project, ContextADBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Contextual Anomaly Detection. All proposals received were reviewed for the quality of their scientific content and their potential to impact both the research community and society. All awardees will have access to Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools. Type of News/Audience: Research Read More: 73 Amazon Research Award recipients announced
