The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $399,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant supports the collaborative research project "DEFENDING AGAINST SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACKS WITH IN-BROWSER AI" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The research aims to develop in-browser artificial intelligence techniques to defend against social engineering...
The National Science Foundation awarded $349,079 under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to Stony Brook University for a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: APP-DRIVEN WEB BROWSING: NOVEL RISKS, VULNERABILITIES, AND DEFENSES." The project, taking place from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2026, will analyze security risks inherent in non-browser applications that enable web browsing. Researchers...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $402,229 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University. This 1-year grant, effective November 1, 2023, supports research and development focused on improving the security of machine learning (ML) systems that leverage third-party, pre-trained models. The project aims to develop rigorous methods for detecting and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $220,000 Project Grant to the Research Foundation For The State University Of New York under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research to develop techniques for detecting accounts involved in influence campaigns on social media platforms. Leveraging its expertise in computational social science, the State University of New York at Binghamton will collaborate with other...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $499,728 Project Grant to Stony Brook University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The grant funds research into Small, Efficient Plausible Deniability Systems. Specifically, the university will develop computing and communications technologies that advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure, consistent with...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded a $499,058 Project Grant to Stony Brook University to support research titled "SATC: CORE: SMALL: SELECTIVE DATA PROTECTION AGAINST DATA-ORIENTED AND TRANSIENT EXECUTION ATTACKS." The grant period runs from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The funding supports research and development of techniques to protect data and systems against data-oriented and transient execution attacks through...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $214,287 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University. The goal of this research is to advance the foundations of formal methods in order to make formal verification of AI-based cyber-physical systems (CPS) practical. The project investigates approximation approaches where an...
The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University, received a $299,975 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support research investigating the use of history independence as an analytical tool for designing randomized algorithms and data structures, especially against...
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (RF SUNY) received a $299,498 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations to support the STEM: STIMULATE, ENGAGE AND MOTIVATE STUDENT RESEARCH BY ENHANCING THE RESEARCH CAPACITY program. The award, made on October 1, 2021 with a completion date of September 30, 2023, will fund efforts by RF SUNY to enhance research capacity and engage students in computing and information...
This $505,017 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop an open-source software suite to enable the rapid collection, management, and analysis of social media data. The goal is to help identify and mitigate information manipulation, such as misinformation and disinformation, on social media platforms. Key components of the project include: Developing a full-featured crawler construction toolkit to support...