Project Grant 2026148

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $299,905 Project Grant to Loyola University of Chicago to develop and evaluate a comprehensive 12-workshop experiential training program to raise awareness among AI practitioners of the cybersecurity and privacy risks associated with building AI-based systems. The project aims to provide knowledge and skills needed to build AI systems that are secure, ethical, and privacy-preserving. The workshop...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a learner-centered artificial intelligence (AI) co-pilot tool to crowd-source the curation of comprehensive cybersecurity attack artifacts. The $299,999 award to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) aims to leverage large language models and techniques like prompt engineering to guide users in emulating end-to-end...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $640,000 from July 2024 to June 2028 to Purdue University to address critical challenges in cyberinfrastructure (CI) workforce development. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: AI and Cybersecurity Education for Cyberinfrastructure: A Hands-On Approach," aims to integrate machine...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop an open cloud-based "CTF5G" platform for cybersecurity training and workforce development focused on 5G network security. The key products to be delivered through this 2-year project are: Automating the workflow for setting up 5G network-based...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $149,951 in funding to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to organize a series of 24 hands-on workshops over 2 years. The workshops will train emerging researchers on utilizing the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) to develop AI applications in three critical domains: cybersecurity, edge AI, and autonomous driving. The goal is to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1.2M Project Grant to the University of Virginia under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to enhance the security and privacy of community cyberinfrastructures (CI) for collaborative research. This 3-year project focuses on developing advanced techniques to secure data management and computation within CI systems, including centralized computing, distributed computing, and data computation. The...

This National Science Foundation award of $150,000 provides funding for a two-year project grant to Arizona State University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project aims to develop a software analysis framework to detect and mitigate security and privacy risks in augmented reality mobile applications. Specifically, the university researchers will conduct static and dynamic program analysis focused on unique augmented reality elements like...

This $117,392 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund a 1.5-day workshop in 2023 to support aspiring principal investigators for the agency's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace grants. The workshop will provide mentorship and guidance to help researchers strengthen proposal writing skills and develop comprehensive research plans through one-on-one mentor meetings, mock review panels, and drafting an executive summary....

This two-year, $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop techniques to enhance the security and privacy of augmented reality mobile applications. The University of Texas at San Antonio will analyze the software behaviors of augmented reality elements like trackables and anchors to detect potential privilege abuses. Researchers will create a framework to formally model these behaviors over an...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal grant award (CFDA 47.070) provides $200,000 to New York University for a 3-year project focused on improving personal account security. The project aims to: 1) better understand the experiences of those targeted by account security attacks, 2) catalog existing account management tools and authentication mechanisms, 3) design new account management tools to enhance detection and investigation of...