The National Science Foundation awarded a $505,418 project grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from July 2021 through June 2025 titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: LEAKAGE-FREE ISOLATED EXECUTION: ARCHITECTURES AND SECURITY MODELS." The University of California at Riverside will conduct investigator-initiated research to develop...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations. The award will support research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The grant funds collaborative research on precise static analysis of event-based systems. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims...
This $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop new techniques for software vulnerability discovery. Specifically, the University of California, Riverside will receive funding from February 2022 through January 2025 to create a fast binary code concolic execution engine and dual concolic execution approach that combines source code and binary code analysis. These new methods seek to significantly...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1.2 million Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a network analysis system for detecting lateral movement, reconnaissance, and exfiltration by malicious actors within enterprise networks. The three-year project beginning June 1, 2022 aims to advance the modeling of causality between computer and network events to distinguish...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations. The award will fund research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The grant supports research to develop data-driven thermal monitoring and run-time management techniques for manycore processor and chiplet designs. The...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a $1.2 million project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under the grant, UC Davis will conduct research on studying and exploiting the bimodality of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $204,962 to Duke University to develop machine learning models that can reliably detect malware without running it. The key innovations of this 3-year project include new techniques to improve the resistance of malware detectors to evasion attempts, as well as more efficient model architectures. The project aims to open-source these advances where...
The University of New Hampshire will receive $599,991 from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to advance research countering obfuscated malware from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025. The project aims to develop novel techniques to comprehensively analyze sophisticated virtual machine structures in obfuscated malware, reveal core techniques used to combine and mutate diverse virtual machines, and build...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $900,000 project grant to the University of California, San Diego to develop foundations, techniques, and frameworks for building end-to-end verified secure sandboxed systems from May 2022 through April 2026. This award falls under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically,...
The University of South Carolina (USC) was awarded a $599,999 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to enhance network security through the implementation of a machine learning-based malware detection and classification system. The project aims to leverage programmable data plane (P4) switches and smart network interface cards (SmartNICs) to perform real-time deep packet inspection of Domain Name...