New Project Aims to Help Veterans Gain Skills in Hardware Security

Dr. Wanli Xing & Dr. Sandip Ray

A new project led by Warren B. Nelms Institute researchers has received $1 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) Program.

The project, “Pivots: VETS-HASTE: Veterans SkillBridge through Industry based Hardware Security Training and Education,” is led by Principal Investigator Dr. Wanli Xing (College of Education) and Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Sandip Ray (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering). This three-year project will develop an experiential hardware security training program to actively involve veterans, a significantly underserved population in STEM.

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