Mary Fetzer

Aiping Xiong, associate professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), earned a five-year, $585,818 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for a project titled “Enabling Human Situation Awareness across Physical and Cyber Spaces for Vehicle-to-Everything Communication Security and Driving Safety.”

Some TikTok users acknowledge the technology underlying personalized content online but can’t deny sometimes feeling that a higher power is involved, according to Penn State researchers

The Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) has named Miranda Goodman as its summer 2024 student marshal. She will lead the procession of IST graduates during the commencement ceremony, which will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10, at the Bryce Jordan Center.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A $100,000 gift from Penn State Altoona alumnus Stephen Pace and his wife, Rita Pace, has endowed a new scholarship for students in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST).

For the third time, Penn State has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD). The designated program of study is the security and risk analysis major, information and cyber security option, in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST).

Sharon Huang, professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), is the new holder of the David Reese Professorship of Information Sciences and Technology, effective Aug. 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027.

Hong Hu, assistant professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), earned a five-year, $654,681 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for a project titled, “Enhancing Practical Defense Mechanisms Against Memory Errors and Attacks.”

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) has announced the retirement C. Lee Giles, the David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology. While he will end his teaching career on June 3, he will continue to pursue his research and advise graduate students at University Park.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Priya Kumar, assistant professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), has been awarded the college’s PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship, effective July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027. The endowed position helps to attract and retain outstanding faculty who can make significant contributions to the college, Penn State and the world through their research and interactions with students.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Yubo Kou, assistant professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), has been awarded the Haile Family Early Career Professorship in Information Sciences and Technology, effective July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Computing Research Association (CRA) has selected Shomir Wilson, assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), to participate in the new Future CRA Leaders Program.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A novel, human-inspired approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) systems to identify objects and navigate their surroundings could set the stage for the development of more advanced AI systems to explore extreme environments or distant worlds, according to research from an interdisciplinary team at Penn State.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State has awarded a Walker Graduate Assistantship to Hope Stylios, a graduate student majoring in cybersecurity analytics and operations in the College of Information Systems and Technology (IST).

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used to create text, images and videos, impacting the way society consumes and produces online content. As that technology continues to evolve, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between AI-generated and human-generated content.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Two teams from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) were among the winners of the 2024 Social Engineering Competition. The event, held April 19–21, was hosted by the Cybersecurity in Application, Research and Education (CARE) Lab at Temple University.