This $275,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development and evaluation of a novel biometric authentication system by Morphosis Inc., a small disadvantaged business in Berkeley, CA. The project aims to enhance digital security by integrating continuous biometric verification into human-computer interactions, using wearable neural interface technology to capture unique...
This $152,994 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will fund research on physical side-channel attacks in biometric systems at West Virginia University from October 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The grantee will develop methodologies such as metrics, deep learning algorithms, protocols, and tools to analyze physical side-channel attacks and countermeasures in biometric systems. This includes a biometric protection...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $187,723 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University from July 2021 through December 2022. The grant supports research titled "EAGER: BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION USING NONCONTACT CARDIOVASCULAR SIGNALS" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This program aims to advance computing and information sciences through investigator-initiated...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Career grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), provides $632,019 to West Virginia University Research Corporation to investigate biometric system security vulnerabilities and develop data protection mechanisms to enhance the safety and privacy of these systems. The 5-year project aims to establish a research infrastructure to identify unexplored hardware and software attacks on biometric...
This federal Project Grant award of $130,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the Center for Identification Technology Research (CITER) at Clarkson University. The research funded through this 5-year award (Aug 2024 - Jul 2029) will focus on developing advanced biometric identification technologies and addressing challenges in areas such as spoofing detection, liveness testing, biometric...
This $254,369 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Michigan Technological University (MTU) on May 1, 2025. The grant supports the development of a wearable device capable of continuously sensing physiological signals for biometric authentication and health monitoring. The key objectives are to: Model and analyze multispectral transient photoplethysmography (PPG) signals Design novel algorithms for real-time user...
This $245,631 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a wearable device capable of continuously sensing a wide range of physiological signals for use in biometric authentication and health monitoring. The project, led by Louisiana State University, will explore the use of multispectral photoplethysmography (PPG) signals for biometric authentication through custom-designed wearable devices. The research tasks include...
The University of South Florida received a $287,406 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support research from April 2021 through March 2024 toward developing age-aware continuous authentication on personal computing devices. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communications research...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $393,599 project grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to support an REU Site: Frontier Technologies for Biometrics and Authentication from March 2021 through February 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Through...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $150,000 supports research at the University of Maryland, College Park to develop secure cyber-physical links for supply chain authentication using micro-surface sensing and vision-enabled verification. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three-year award running from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 will investigate the scientific foundations and technological barriers to utilizing physically unclonable features of...