The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $143,240 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to Auburn University from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. This grant will support research at the intersection of geotechnical engineering and structural mechanics to realize flexible burrowing probes for applications such as site investigation and underground excavation. The research aims to provide an understanding of the microscopic and macroscopic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $1.2M Project Grant to Northeastern University from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research to develop next-generation resilient cloud infrastructure to secure scientific cyberinfrastructures including network-attached accelerators. Key focus areas include identifying advanced network-layer attack...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Project Grant of $450,292 to Oakland University (OU) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). This 3-year grant will support OU's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, titled "UNCORE-CYBERAI". The project will engage 30 undergraduate students, many from underrepresented groups and institutions with limited STEM...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $788,297 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a security-centric, intelligent approach to resource management for serverless computing platforms. The project aims to enhance cybersecurity research and education by addressing security concerns in cloud-based, serverless computing architectures. Key research...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $127,390 Project Grant to the University of Alabama under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA #47.070) program. This grant will fund the development of a data-driven closed-loop platform for optimal design of deployable pin-jointed (DPJ) structures, which have applications in aerospace, civil, and biomedical engineering. The key products of this project include: 1) a novel stochastic...
Auburn University was awarded a $154,006 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (STEM Education) program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support the development of authentic learning modules for DevOps security education (ALAMOSE) in collaboration with Tennessee Tech University and Kennesaw State University. The modules aim to educate computer science students on integrating cybersecurity practices into software...
The University of Utah received a $220,500 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). This 5-year award, beginning March 1, 2024, supports research to develop scalable security testing techniques for large software systems. The project focuses on advancing "fuzzing" - a predominant software vulnerability detection method - to address the unique challenges posed by software...
Purdue University was awarded a $599,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA #47.070) program. The funding will support research to develop techniques for testing and detecting software upgrade failures in data-intensive distributed systems, which are critical components of many cloud-based computing services. Key objectives include implementing differential testing...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) awarded a $212,345 project grant to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) on February 1, 2025 to mitigate the risks of metastable failures in distributed software systems. The 5-year project aims to investigate the patterns of metastable failures, design more failure-resistant systems, and eliminate feedback loops that amplify the impacts of these failures. Key...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $174,925 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T). The award, titled "CRII: OAC: DEPLOY-FIRST AND ELASTIC DATA TRANSFER OPTIMIZATIONS FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORKS," is intended to develop novel algorithms and a comprehensive monitoring framework to enable efficient data...