An Education Program for Big Data Security and Privacy

This paper describes the course that we developed at the University of Texas at Dallas on Big Data Security and Privacy with funding from the National Science Foundation. The project started in 2017 and was completed in 2023. We have taught the course starting Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022 and we are teaching it for the fourth time in Fall 2023. This is an extremely popular course and we limit the enrollment to 80 students. Students have some background in cyber security and big data analytics. This paper provides an overview of the organization of the course, the course content, and learning outcomes and the evaluation carried out. The members of the project include those who have expertise in (i) Cyber Security, (ii) Big Data Analytics, and (iii) Education Research.