Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowships
– The fellowship program is awarded to three promising graduate students who demonstrate an interest in investigating innovative solutions to real-world challenges in information security, storage and systems management.

• Polo Chau, Ph.D., Machine Learning Department, 2009
  – His research combines the fields of machine learning and human-computer interaction to create visual and interactive graph mining systems that help analysts keep pace with emerging threats by identifying and specifying anomalous patterns and instructing a system to detect them. Chau was also a recipient of the Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship awarded in June 2008. His research efforts as an intern contributed to the development of Symantec's innovative reputation-based approach to malware detection.

• Polo Chau, Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction Institute, 2008

• David Brumley, Ph.D., Computer Science Department, 2007