{"605160":{"#nid":"605160","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Public Policy Ph.D. Student Wins \u2018People\u2019s Choice\u2019 at Cybersecurity Event","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team including School of Public Policy graduate student Majid Ahmadi won the People\u0026rsquo;s Choice Award at the Cybersecurity Demo Day finale on April 12, 2018. The event is sponsored by the Institute for Information Security \u0026amp; Privacy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe win comes in the first-ever appearance in the annual competition for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E, a unit of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/community\/alumni-success\/sarah-cooper\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAhmadi, a Ph.D. student in Public Policy, and Virginia Tech researcher Hanif Rahbari proposed a security dashboard for Internet of Things devices. It was chosen by attendees and those who voted for it online using a Twitter hashtag.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team won $2,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA second School of Public Policy team competing in the event, comprised of graduate students Karim Farhat, Karl Grindal, and Ishan Mehta, did not place.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe top award in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cyber.gatech.edu\/cyber-demo-day?_ga=2.137627065.880980620.1523626832-1592961131.1511809631\u0022\u003EIISP contest\u003C\/a\u003E went to a team from the School of Computer Science, who proposed a tool to help developers identify potential software licensing violations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA team from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering won first place in the research track.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe annual contest is designed to help students begin to move their ideas from an academic setting toward commercialization. After submitting an application, teams presented their research at a poster competition in September. Winning entrants received mentoring throughout the year, culminating in the finale.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team including School of Public Policy graduate student Majid Ahmadi won the People\u0026rsquo;s Choice Award at the Cybersecurity Demo Day finale on April 12, 2018. 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