The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $179,055 Project Grant to the University of Virginia under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant supports collaborative research to develop privacy-preserving algorithms for fundamental problems in graph mining and network science. The project aims to create scalable, accurate graph differential privacy algorithms for applications like healthcare, social networks, finance, and computational...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to enhance the ACCORD cyberinfrastructure project at the University of Virginia (UVA). The $600,000 award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026, will fund three key components: (1) a responsive security framework to lower user access barriers, (2) new policies and controls to support data rights, and (3) a...
This three-year, $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to improve computing security and privacy tools and processes for scientific end-users. The University of Maryland, College Park will investigate how scientists currently learn about and implement security-relevant behaviors for their equipment and data through surveys, interviews, documentation review, and other methods. Insights on existing tools,...
The University of Virginia (UVA) received a $197,290 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct collaborative research on security and privacy in machine unlearning. The project aims to better understand and defend against security and privacy risks that may arise from the use of machine unlearning techniques, which allow companies to remove the influence of personal data from their...
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...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $299,619 to the University of Virginia to lay the foundations for differentially private Internet measurement. Specifically, the award supports three main research thrusts. The first will study existing privacy issues in collecting and sharing Internet measurement data and develop an...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $640,000 from July 2024 to June 2028 to Purdue University to address critical challenges in cyberinfrastructure (CI) workforce development. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: AI and Cybersecurity Education for Cyberinfrastructure: A Hands-On Approach," aims to integrate machine...
This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to advance the security and privacy of on-device machine learning (ML) models used in Internet of Things (IoT)-driven scientific cyberinfrastructure (CI). The project has two primary goals: 1) Developing a novel runtime detection and prevention mechanism to protect ML models from extraction attacks, utilizing techniques like multi-level...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the University of Virginia (UVA) a $278,815 CAREER grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program. The 5-year project titled "FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES FOR HARNESSING PROVENANCE ANALYTICS FOR ADVANCED ENTERPRISE SECURITY" aims to develop automated techniques for rapid detection, investigation, and response to stealthy cyber threats within modern data centers. The project will focus on leveraging data...
This Project Grant award of $599,755 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure supports research by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) to fortify the cybersecurity of data-intensive scientific cyber-infrastructures. The project aims to form a cybersecurity coalition within North Carolina to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing, collect comprehensive cybersecurity incident data, and utilize the data to model...