This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program Project Grant award in the amount of $137,541 provides funding to Tufts University for research to develop algorithms and solutions to guarantee anonymity in network communications. The award addresses the fundamental challenge of obscuring meta-information about who is communicating with whom, when, and for how long, while mitigating increased communication and network congestion issues. The...
This $288,085 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will fund collaborative research at Brown University to develop algorithms and techniques for guaranteeing anonymity in network communications. The research team will address two key challenges: (1) designing routing schemes that obscure traffic patterns and metadata, and (2) developing cryptographic tools to secure data even when network...
This $377,003 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of a suite of new privacy-preserving web services. The key products include: 1) Private machine-learning inference, enabling clients to evaluate server-side ML models on private data without revealing the input data; 2) Private search, allowing clients to search large document corpora without revealing their queries; and...
The Columbia University was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems on October 1, 2021 to be completed by September 30, 2022. The grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which aims to advance computing and information sciences through investigator-initiated research and cyberinfrastructure development. Specifically, the Columbia University will conduct...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070), totaling $456,905, aims to advance the theory and practice of anonymous communications by systematically exploring and leveraging radio frequency (RF) fingerprints inherent in communication devices. The key research thrusts include: (1) developing statistical models and identification methods for RF fingerprints, (2) achieving untraceable communications by...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under CFDA Program 47.070 "Computer and Information Science and Engineering", provides $225,441 to Harvard University to research fundamental limits of privacy-enhancing technologies. The goal is to develop new methods that optimize privacy-preserving techniques while minimizing distortion and bias, in order to enable more accurate, fair, and privacy-protected machine...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $600,000 over 3 years (March 2025 - February 2028) to the University of Washington to develop new privacy-preserving authentication techniques. The project aims to advance the theory and practical implementation of blind signatures and anonymous credentials, which are critical cryptographic primitives for enabling authentication methods that...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $387,044 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Arizona State University to improve the fundamental limits of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). The research aims to develop new PET methods that optimize the balance between preserving individual privacy and enabling comprehensive data analysis for societal benefit in domains such as healthcare, education, and resource allocation. Key...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IMR: MM-1B: PRIVACY-PRESERVING DATA SHARING FOR MOBILE INTERNET MEASUREMENT AND TRAFFIC ANALYTICS" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, doing business as the University of Nebraska, in the amount of $170,000. The project aims to develop new methods for augmenting mobile internet...
This $1.2 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to evaluate and address security and privacy threats to programmable networks. Awarded to Cornell University on July 1, 2021 for a three-year period concluding September 30, 2024, the grant funds three main research thrusts. The first focuses on implementing secure and privacy-preserving algorithms on programmable switches. The second...