{"id":43207,"date":"2025-11-24T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43207\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:43:08","slug":"pitts-mai-abdelhakim-receives-ieee-excellent-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43207\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitt\u2019s Mai Abdelhakim Receives IEEE Excellent Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a class=\"pp_cb_imagegallery_7581094\" data-sharepath=\"https:\/\/news.engineering.pitt.edu\/asset\/31d29386-1ccc-4e8c-9715-0fc207506a87\/greg_inl_georgemason\" data-uuid=\"31d29386-1ccc-4e8c-9715-0fc207506a87\" data-sourcepath=\"https:\/\/content.presspage.com\/uploads\/2602\/31d29386-1ccc-4e8c-9715-0fc207506a87\/greg_inl_georgemason.jpg?10000\" data-uploadid=\"1799741\" data-filename=\"greg_inl_georgemason.jpg\" data-title=\"Greg_INL_GeorgeMason\" data-description=\"L-R: Rajendra Upadhyaya, Greg Shannon, Mai Abdelhakim, Al Hanian Bin Emran, and Duminda Wijesekera\" data-copyright=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-attr-hash=\"a6dd27e16896ccbbc2c81905a06bf77c811149c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1920_greg_inl_georgemason.jpg\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 50%;\" class=\"pp-inline-image pp-right pp-ml20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1920_greg_inl_georgemason.jpg\" alt=\"Greg_INL_GeorgeMason\" title=\"Greg_INL_GeorgeMason - L-R: Rajendra Upadhyaya, Greg Shannon, Mai Abdelhakim, Al Hanian Bin Emran, and Duminda Wijesekera\"\/>   &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                Greg_INL_GeorgeMason&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p>          &#13;<br \/>\n         <\/a>        <\/p>\n<p>At the IEEE SR-CIST workshop, participants explored new challenges, evolving technology, and innovative approaches necessary to secure infrastructure on Earth, such as energy and transportation systems, and in space. The program featured a keynote delivered by <a href=\"https:\/\/inl.elsevierpure.com\/en\/persons\/gregory-shannon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greg Shannon<\/a>, fellow and chief cybersecurity scientist at the <a href=\"https:\/\/inl.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Idaho National Laboratory<\/a>, and an invited talk by Sekar Kulandaivel, a research engineer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bosch.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bosch<\/a>. It also included a dedicated panel on operational technology (OT) security, highlighting the unique risks and protections required for OT environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe workshop brought together a diverse group of leaders from industry, academia, and national laboratories to share new research and explore ways to design resiliency into critical systems,\u201d said Abdelhakim.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cAcross the conferences, there were important discussions from many perspectives about AI and large language models, exploring how these technologies can be used to enhance security as well as the risks they introduce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMai\u2019s efforts showcase her leadership in the community and her commitment to advancing security initiatives,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.pitt.edu\/people\/faculty\/alan-george\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alan George<\/a>, Department Chair, R&amp;H Mickle Endowed Chair, NSF SHREC Space Center Director, and professor of electrical and computer engineering who is helping to lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/space.pitt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pitt Space Initiative<\/a>. \u201cShe is advancing important progress in space security research, contributing to a field that remains in critical need of innovation and growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Greg_INL_GeorgeMason&#13; &#13; At the IEEE SR-CIST workshop, participants explored new challenges, evolving technology, and innovative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25759,3892,3893,25758,3895,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-43207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-banner","10":"tag-dept-banner","11":"tag-electrical-computer","12":"tag-pitt-swanson-school-of-engineering","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","15":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}