Cooperative Agreement 1446804

This $400,601 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop rigorous scientific mechanisms that enable resilience in large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS), with a focus on connected and autonomous transportation systems (CATS). The key research thrusts include: 1) Modeling cyber, physical, and human assets and their interconnections, as well as economic and policy constraints, to...

This $200,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at Michigan State University to develop data-driven modeling techniques for securing cyber-physical systems. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the two-year award will create automated strategies using reinforcement learning to characterize attacker intent. Researchers will integrate defense approaches combining game theory, reinforcement learning and Bayesian...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop novel methodologies for understanding and enhancing the cyber-physical resilience of continuous critical manufacturing systems. The $540,362 award, effective from October 1, 2024 through June 30, 2029, will fund research to: 1) create generalizable tools for quantifying cyber-physical resilience by integrating cyber...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) is for a 2-year planning project to develop a multi-university consortium focused on advancing the state of the art in applied cyber-physical systems (CPS) research. The key activities under this award include: Developing new monitoring and control paradigms for learning, estimation, and control of complex system-of-systems...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $505,999 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CPS: MEDIUM: MUTUALISTIC CYBER-PHYSICAL INTERACTION FOR SELF-ADAPTIVE MULTI-DAMAGE MONITORING OF CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE" to the University of Illinois, a U.S. state government, 1862 land grant college, and educational institution. The project aims to develop a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) that enables "mutualistic interaction" between...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, provides $530,000 to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ to develop a physical computing testbed for collaborative, problem-based learning of cyber-physical systems (CPS) concepts. The research aims to explore and characterize the key threshold concepts required for CPS mastery, integrating student-centered...

This $1,722,089 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program aims to develop rigorous, scientific mechanisms to enable resilience in large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS) against various perturbations. The award to Purdue University, effective June 15, 2024 through May 31, 2029, will focus on modeling and understanding the impacts of unintended errors, security attacks, unexpected interactions, and...

This Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support research to develop a novel compositional framework and computational tools for designing and verifying learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPS) that can ensure functional safety and robustness. The $213,679 award to the University of California, Berkeley will leverage stochastic models,...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to characterize the vulnerabilities of learning-based controllers in networked cyber-physical systems (CPS). The $149,985 award will enable the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to develop real-time reward manipulation schemes, multi-level attack strategies, and data-enabled detection methods to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $199,973 to support planning activities for a large-scale proposal to increase the security and privacy of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPS). The planning project, led by an interdisciplinary team, aims to develop foundational knowledge and tools to understand and defend against the unique risks of...