Leading by example. That's the theme of "Dreaming Big," an article in The UCSB Current featuring the work of four UCSB College of Engineering professors whose classroom teachings address not only UCSB students, but global issues as well.

Gianluca Stringhini is now Assistant Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Security and Crime Science at University College London. In this Nature article titled "Shining a light on the dark corners of the web," Stringhini explains how he studies hate speech and fake news on the underground network 4chan. Read the interview here. 

Congratulations to CS undergraduate student John Lau, on receiving an award from the United Airlines Scholarship Fund for use toward his educational expenses! United Airlines investments in the education and development of hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students by awarding more than $1 million in scholarships to its employees and their families through the United Scholarship Fund (USF).

For their project titled, "Defending Cyber-Physical Systems Using Federated Learning of Physical Models," Professors Giovanni Vigna and Christopher Kruegel have been awarded a $2 million grant by the Office of Naval Research.