Clemson University received a $140,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research to enable high performance multi-scale simulation on big memory platforms. Specifically, the award supports investigator-initiated efforts to advance the development and use of research...
Clemson University received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems on July 15, 2021 to complete work by January 31, 2023. The grant supports research titled "SATC: CORE: SMALL: LEVERAGING PHYSICAL SIDE-CHANNEL INFORMATION TO BUILD DETECTION-BASED ROWHAMMER DEFENSES" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). This program supports investigator-initiated research and education in...
The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded a $146,000 project grant to Clemson University to support the development of a learning platform and education curriculum for artificial intelligence-driven socially-relevant cybersecurity. The two-year award, made under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will fund Clemson University's collaborative research project titled "EAGER: SATC-EDU: Learning Platform and Education Curriculum for Artificial...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $135,000 to Clemson University to research integrated photonic physical unclonable functions (PUFs) for optoelectronic hardware security. The key goals of the 3-year project, awarded on May 1, 2025, are to: 1) investigate the performance and information capacity limits of unclonable photonic circuits, 2) develop techniques for extracting digital key material from photonic properties, and 3)...
Clemson University was awarded a three-year, $298,418 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct collaborative research on rational design and mechanistic understanding of carbon-based hybrid nanostructures for potent microbicidal function. The grant is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $212,718, was provided by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award, which commenced on October 1, 2024 and is scheduled for completion by September 30, 2025, will support foundational and applied research efforts at Clemson University aimed at advancing fundamental knowledge in scientific and technical domains critical to national...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant totaling $248,011 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) with a start date of March 1, 2024 and an end date of February 28, 2029. The award supports research to develop technologies that can secure electronic computing hardware against sophisticated physical attacks along the microelectronics supply chain. The key focus areas...
This $219,148 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) supports Clemson University's research on lattice reduction in cryptography and number theory. The key objectives are to: Develop a new algorithm for finding short vectors in ideal lattices, which are critical to the security of many post-quantum cryptographic systems. This algorithm will generalize a recently introduced complex continued fraction method to work over arbitrary...
Clemson University received a $183,638 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2023. The grant funds experimentally-informed mesoscale modeling of anisotropic grain boundary solute segregation in nanocrystalline alloys. Specifically, Clemson University will conduct research to enhance understanding of solute segregation behaviors at grain boundaries in nanocrystalline...
Clemson University was awarded a $550,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds research to develop high-throughput purification and quantification techniques for bionanoparticles using capillary-channeled polymer fiber stationary phases. The work aims to advance understanding and applications of nanoscale materials...