This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) in expanding its Center for Cyber Science, Management, Applications, Regulation, and Training (Cyber SMART). The Cyber SMART center will conduct research and development on a range of cybersecurity topics, including communications security, U.S. government...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant will support collaborative research examining how to balance predictability and security in the design of time-sensitive cyber-physical systems (CPS). The NSF's Computer and Information Science...
This $500,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of new cyberattack detection approaches for large networks using complex graph modeling. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), key products include constructing a complex graph model with graph refinement techniques to represent network traffic. The University of Virginia will design semi-supervised and weakly-supervised graph-based learning algorithms leveraging...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) received a $195,938 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NG4S: A NEXT-GENERATION GEO-DISTRIBUTED SCALABLE STATEFUL STREAM PROCESSING SYSTEM." The award period is from February 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023. The grant supports Virginia Tech's research efforts under the Computer and Information Science...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $600,000 in funding to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop advanced real-time cybersecurity monitoring technologies for detecting crypto-ransomware attacks. The project aims to overcome the challenge of heavy logging overhead that hinders effective ransomware detection, by comprehensively evaluating...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $180,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IMR: MM-1B: PRIVACY-PRESERVING DATA SHARING FOR MOBILE INTERNET MEASUREMENT AND TRAFFIC ANALYTICS". The project aims to develop new methods for quality-explainable data synthesis and augmentation,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $133,487 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct collaborative research towards developing distributed, secure, and resilient network security protocols and standards for next-generation mobile networks. The key focus areas include creating distributed public-key infrastructure (PKI) and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to The University of Texas at Arlington under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to develop a framework for monitoring social media discussions around online security and privacy safeguards from January 15, 2023 through December 31, 2023. The university will capture emerging collective intelligence shared on social media platforms regarding safeguards to improve online security,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $187,723 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University from July 2021 through December 2022. The grant supports research titled "EAGER: BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION USING NONCONTACT CARDIOVASCULAR SIGNALS" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This program aims to advance computing and information sciences through investigator-initiated...
This $163,132 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports an interdisciplinary research project investigating privacy negotiation behaviors among stakeholders in smart environments. The project team at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) is designing, developing, and deploying an interactive system to collect real-world data on how people manage and negotiate their...