Shamaria Engram, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, is the recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award. The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. For the 2017 competition, NSF received over 13,000 applications and made 2,000 award offers. The three-year fellowship provides an annual stipend of $34,000, plus $12,000 for tuition and fees.
Shamaria is working in the Software Security and Programming Languages research group under the supervision of Jay Ligatti, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her research areas include cryptographic protocols, authentication, and formal models of security. She is a participant in the NSF Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FGLSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate activity. In 2016, Shamira was awarded a National GEM Consortium PhD Fellowship. Shamaria earned her BS in Computer Engineering from Bethune Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida in May 2015.