Romilla Syed, Ph.D.

Awards

• Joyce Commodities Award for Faculty Service, UMass Boston 2024
• Best Track Paper Award, Organizational Systems and Technology Track, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Conference 2024
• Donald Shephard College of Management Endowed Award for Research, UMass Boston, 2023
• Accepted into MISQ Scholarly Development Academy 2022
• Best Track Paper Award, International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS) 2020
• Donald Shephard College of Management Endowed Award for Research, UMass Boston, 2019
• Nominated for the Best Paper Award, International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS) 2015
• Deans Scholar Award, School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015
• Nominated for Best Student Paper Award International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Information Security & Privacy Conference (IFIP-Sec) conference in 2013

Grants & Fellowships

• Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity 2024-25
• FONDS RECHERCHE QUEBEC – SOCIETE CULTURE (https://frq.gouv.qc.ca/en/program/call-forprojects-research-program-on-disinformation-in-quebec/) Grant CAD$175,000 with Dr. Stéphane
  Gagnon at Université du Quebec en Outaouais
• Human Centric Cybersecurity Partnership (https://www.hc2p.ca/) Grant CAD$25,000 with Dr. Stéphane Gagnon at Université du Quebec en Outaouais
• Amazon Web Services Education Credit, $1200, Spring 2021
• Amazon Web Services Education Credit, $1400, Spring 2019
• Google Cloud Platform Education Grant, $2400, Fall 2018
• Doctoral Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2011-2015