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 the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The project aims to develop a new software environment and ecosystem for implementing an "always-on" Internet of Things (IoT) system that can enable new cross-disciplinary discoveries and make IoT more broadly accessible. The...
This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enhance education and training in IoT software and systems security. The project will design and host a next-generation Capture-the-Flag (CTF) platform called "PwnIoT.Academy" that supports student-centered and inclusive pedagogy. Key activities include: Developing IoT-specific CTF and defensive challenges for different architectures and software platforms to...
The University of California, Davis received a $328,084 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems on July 1, 2021. The grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to advance the evolution of computer vision for low power devices and break through existing power and computational complexity barriers. Specifically, the university will conduct investigator-initiated research...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $177,840 Project Grant to the University of Alabama's Office for Sponsored Programs to support collaborative research towards sustainable, efficient, and secure Internet of Things. The award period is from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023. The grant is funded through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education...
This three-year, $244,997 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop scalable methods for analyzing large-scale network traffic data to quantify internet-of-things (IoT) device insecurities and characterize malicious IoT campaigns. The awardee, San Diego State University Research Foundation, will work with collaborators to design algorithms and formal methods using supervised deep learning to fingerprint exploited...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $323,806 supports research toward safe, private, and secure home automation. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the University of California, Los Angeles will collaborate with the State of California to develop formal models, automated analysis tools, and user evaluations for Internet of Things devices and platforms. Over a two-year period ending in October 2024, the researchers will gain a...
This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to improve wireless network security designs. The project aims to (1) create stronger, practical adversary models to understand the limitations of security for Internet of Things (IoT) systems that leverage wireless channel properties, and (2) design new defense strategies to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless network...
The University of Chicago received a $149,999 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program grant (CFDA 47.070) on May 1, 2024. This "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EAGER: CPS: DATA AUGMENTATION AND MODEL TRANSFER FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS" project aims to address technical gaps in anomaly detection for network management in Internet of Things (IoT) environments. Key objectives include developing techniques to improve novelty detection...
This National Science Foundation project grant provides $100,000 to support research into integrated circuit cloaking against reverse engineering through adversarial machine learning techniques. The University of California, Irvine will utilize the funding over a two-year period ending April 2024 to develop novel integrated circuit cell layouts that cannot be identified through scanning electron microscope images obtained via reverse engineering attempts. Researchers will introduce adversarial...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $225,761 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct collaborative research on security and robustness for intermittent computing using cross-layer post-CMOS approaches. The 3-year project, running from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026, aims to address security vulnerabilities in resource-limited, normally-off energy...