“It is very gratifying to be recognized for contributing to cybersecurity and data science education as well as working with the systemically marginalized communities,” Thuraisingham said. Lee earned an early career research award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. Students Place 2nd in Cybersecurity CompetitionA team of four University of Texas at Dallas students placed second in an international cybersecurity competition for the team’s policy brief and presentation on national security concerns. The students were honored in November at the CSAW Cybersecurity Games & Conference, a student-run competition hosted by the New York University Center for Cybersecurity. This is the second year in a row a UT Dallas team has placed in the finals of the competition.