Josh Bowen
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

You’re right, I didn’t do a good job explaining my background knowledge and what a learned reading through the research.

  1. I know I wanted this project to be centered about machine learning and cyber security from the beginning. This allowed me to focus on papers that talked about both during preliminary research. It can be difficult.
  2. Once I had decided on insider threats, all the papers I found on that topic took (in a broad sense) either technical or physiological approaches to detection. That gave me a path to follow.
  3. At my campus there is no computer science program (I’m in entrepreneurship), so a business professor oversaw my project. He has been very helpful, especially with writing and editing. I would not say this is necessary.
  4. I presented at the Arizona/Nevada Academy of Science, all I had to do was submit an abstract and show up with my poster. There are many national conferences that are either specific to, or have a section for, undergraduate research. I found a list (and other great resources) at the Council on Undergraduate Research website.

An option for non-students is to speak at industry conferences. The process is relatively the same and speaking at a conference looks a bit better on a resume IMO.

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