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Contact

Phone: 470-578-5168

Email: xtian2@kennesaw.edu

Office Location: J 378B

Office Hours:
2025 Spring Tuesday 1-3 pm (in-person, Teams) Thursday 1-2 pm (Teams) Or by appointment MSIT student advising: Please go to https://msit.kennesaw.edu to make an appointment.

Grants

  • Xin (Shirley) Tian, Faculty Grant, Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys 2025).
  • Tian, X, "ALG Round 26 Continuous Improvement Grant", Sponsored by Affordable Learning Georgia, State, $10,000. Funded. (December 2024 – December 2025).
  • Tian, X, "ALG Round 25 Continuous Improvement Grant", Sponsored by Affordable Learning Georgia, State, $10,000. Funded. (March 2024 –  May 2025).
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian, Faculty Grant, Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys 2024).
  • Tian, X, "ALG Round 24 Continuous Improvement Grant", Sponsored by Affordable Learning Georgia, State, $10,000. Funded. (January 2024 – December 2024).
  • Li, Z., Tian, X., Zheng, G., Yang, M., "ALG Round 24 Research Grant" by Affordable Learning Georgia, State, $10,000. Funded. (January 2024 – December 2024).
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian, Faculty Grant, Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys 2023).
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian, Zhigang Li, First Year Scholar (FYSP), $2,000, Office of Undergraduate Research, 2023 - 2024.
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian, Faculty Grant, Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys 2023).
  • He, S., Tian, X., Grant, “REU Site - RIDS: Summer Research for Undergraduates in Robust Intelligent Non-Invasive Deep Brain-Computer Interface Systems”, National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal, $324,689, Funded. (2023-2026).
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian, VIP program, $5,000, Office of Undergraduate Research, 2022 - 2024.
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian, Zhigang Li, First Year Scholar (FYSP), $2,000, Office of Undergraduate Research, 2022 - 2023.
  • Tian, X, "ALG Round 23 Continuous Improvement Grant", Sponsored by Affordable Learning Georgia, State, $10,000. Funded. (March 2023 – May 2024).
  •  Xie, Y., Tian, S., Zhao, L., Zheng, J., Pouriyeh, S., Shahriar, H., Grant, “ALG Round 22 Continuous Improvement Grant”, Sponsored by Affordable Learning Georgia, State, $10,000. Funded. (November 2022 – December 2023).
  • Tian, X., Xie, Y., Le L., Jamison J., Morrow D., Grant, “ALG Round 22 Continuous Improvement Grant”, Sponsored by Affordable Learning Georgia, State, $10,000. Funded. (November 2022 – December 2023).
  •  Li, Z., Tian, X., Jin, Y., Grant, "Advancing Cybersecurity Education Through Standards-Based Cybersecurity Curriculum for Grades 6-12 students.", Sponsored by SunTrust, Private, $7,500.00, Funded. (April 2022 - June 2023).
  • Li, L., Rutherfoord, R., Li, Z., Tian, S., Le, L., Morrow, D., Grant, "ALG Round 20 Continuous Improvement Grant", Sponsored by Affordable Learning Georgia, State, $10,000.00, Funded. (November 2021 - December 2022).
  • Shahriar, H. M., Valero, M. A., Zhao, L., Pouriyeh, S., Tian, S., Grant, "ALG Round 19 - MSIT Course Revision", Sponsored by Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (BOR), State, $10,000.00, Funded. (March 19, 2021 - August 15, 2022).
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian, Faculty Grant, Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys 2021).
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian (PI), Zhigang Li (Co-PI), Yi Jin (Co-PI), National Security Agency (NSA), “KSU GenCyber Teacher Camp”, 2021, Federal, Funded (amount of $66,446.41).
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian, Faculty Grant, Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys 2020).
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian (PI) and Zhigang Li (Co-PI), SunTrust Grant Fellow, “Collaborative Guided Learning Pedagogy for Information Security Topics”, July 2019 to June 2020, funded (amount $8,979).
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian (PI) and Zhigang Li (Co-PI), “Collaborative Guided Learning Pedagogy for Information Security Topics”, KSU Office of Research FY20 Seed Grant. July 2019 to July 2020. (amount of $14,042).
  • Xin (Shirley) Tian (PI), “Nudging Pregnant WIC Women into Breastfeeding: A Systematic and Environmental Approach”, Old Dominion University, August 2019 to July 2020. funded (amount $2,000).