The Pennsylvania State University received a three-year, $720,744 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support the development of a large-scale, longitudinal data resource to advance technical and legal understanding of privacy issues related to textual data. As the sole awardee, Penn State will leverage its expertise in computing...
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,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a CFDA number of 47.070, provides $379,224 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) from July 2025 to June 2030. The project aims to develop better methods for assessing privacy risks in machine learning (ML) models trained on tabular data, which are commonly used in privacy-sensitive domains like healthcare and finance. The key products and...
This $100,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research to understand the impact of privacy interventions on the online publishing ecosystem. The three-year award to the New Jersey Institute of Technology will support studies of how publishers comply with and implement privacy regulations, how users respond to new privacy tools, and the effects on user engagement, publisher revenues from online advertising, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $280,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research into privacy ecosystems and management strategies for vulnerable populations. The project aims to go beyond an app-centric view of privacy by examining the broader privacy risks faced by vulnerable individuals, particularly in the healthcare context. Through qualitative research including...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $423,204 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) for a 4-year collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: DIFFERENTIALLY PRIVATE SQL WITH FLEXIBLE PRIVACY MODELING, MACHINE-CHECKED SYSTEM DESIGN, AND ACCURACY OPTIMIZATION." The goal is to develop an open-source, customizable system for preserving privacy...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of an empathy-based framework to enhance privacy education and design. The project team at the University of Notre Dame is using generative AI to create synthetic personas with AI-generated personal data. These personas are then used to design interactive sandboxes and developer tools that allow individuals to empathize with the...
This federal Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of empathy-based privacy education and design tools. The project team at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) is using generative AI to create synthetic personas with AI-generated personal data. These personas are then used to design interactive sandboxes and developer tools that allow...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $100,000 to Northeastern University provides funding for a 3-year collaborative research project titled "SATC: CORE: SMALL: Empathy-Based Privacy Education and Design Through Synthetic Persona Data Generation." The project aims to develop new frameworks and tools to enhance privacy education and design through the use of AI-generated synthetic...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $247,000 project grant to The Pennsylvania State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of February 15, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant funds a collaborative research project titled "Innovation and Information" that will contribute to the program's goals of supporting basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Specifically, the research aims...