{"658100":{"#nid":"658100","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rising Stars: Georgia Tech Cyber Students Recognized as RSA Scholars","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo Ph.D. students studying in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(SCP) will join students from over 30 universities and institutions at the RSA Conference where they will participate in the Security Scholars program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVagisha Srivastava\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EYibin Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;will be among 80 cybersecurity students attending the conference and will have access to a wide range of perks offered to all participants. Throughout the second week of June students will have the opportunity to participate in team-building exercises, network with over 300 companies at the conference expo, attend an invitation only dinner with cybersecurity experts, and more.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESrivastava is a student in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(SPP) where her research focuses on the policy side of cybersecurity. She is advised by SCP and SPP Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMilton Mueller\u003C\/strong\u003E, who nominated her for the program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Vagisha is a cybersecurity-oriented policy student who is very bright,\u0026rdquo; said Mueller. \u0026ldquo;She is working on issues related to data governance by platforms and sovereignty and policy issues related to the digitization of money. She has also done studies of vulnerability disclosure programs in India.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYang, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s second RSA Scholar, is studying cryptography under his advisor, SCP Associate Professor and Senior Associate Chair\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EVladimir Kolesnikov\u003C\/strong\u003E. Yang studies zero-knowledge proofs and practical secure multi-party computations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Yibin has deep expertise in zero-knowledge systems,\u0026rdquo; Kolesnikov said. \u0026ldquo;I know he will greatly contribute and learn from the RSA Scholar program.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about the RSA Scholar program on their\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.rsaconference.com\/securityscholar\u0022\u003Ewebsite\u003C\/a\u003E. The RSA 2022 Conference will take place in San Francisco from June 6-9.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two Ph.D. students will represent Georgia Tech at the RSA Conference in June. "}],"uid":"36253","created_gmt":"2022-05-11 16:56:49","changed_gmt":"2022-05-11 16:56:49","author":"John Popham","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"626044":{"id":"626044","type":"image","title":"Cybersecurity stock image","body":null,"created":"1568223064","gmt_created":"2019-09-11 17:31:04","changed":"1568223064","gmt_changed":"2019-09-11 17:31:04","alt":"Stock photo of stylized padlock icons surrounded by a word cloud of information security terms.","file":{"fid":"238338","name":"Cybersecurity_stock_image.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cybersecurity_stock_image.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cybersecurity_stock_image.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":110089,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Cybersecurity_stock_image.jpg?itok=0IXlXdwN"}}},"media_ids":["626044"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166847","name":"students"},{"id":"175617","name":"RSA"},{"id":"1270","name":"conference"},{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"3221","name":"privacy"},{"id":"767","name":"Policy"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Popham\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer | School of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\njpopham3@gatech.edu\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jpopham3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}