
High school interns take on cybersecurity research at ASU
ASU’s Center for Cybersecurity and Trusted Foundations‘ summer program partners high school students with graduate student mentors from the center and the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools, for collaborative research projects on campus. This summer, 23 high school students from the Phoenix area took part in an eight-week cybersecurity research internship guided by ASU students, including Fulton Schools computer science doctoral students Syed Navid and Ananta Soneji. More than more than 100 students competed to participate in the internship in the center directed by Adam Doupé, an associate professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence. One high school student said the internship enabled him to see how research can make important impacts on society.