This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Project Grant award of $254,369 aims to develop a wearable device capable of continuously sensing physiological signals for biometric authentication and health monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year grant, awarded on May 1, 2025, include: Modeling and analysis of multispectral transient photoplethysmography (PPG) signals for user identification and authentication...
This $275,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The grant was awarded to Morphosis Inc., a small disadvantaged business in Berkeley, CA, on September 1, 2024. The project aims to develop and evaluate a novel biometric authentication approach based on sensing unique neuromuscular activity patterns during human-computer interactions. This "continuous identity verification"...
This $347,386 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel wearable device to enable continuous, cuffless, and convenient blood pressure (BP) monitoring. The goal is to create an accurate, inexpensive, easy-to-use technology to help manage hypertension, a major public health issue affecting 45% of US adults and a leading risk factor for heart failure. The key product being developed is a wearable watch that...
This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering) aims to develop and implement a novel testing platform to evaluate the accuracy of wearable photoplethysmography-based blood pressure monitoring devices. The University of Maryland, College Park will construct a bench flow phantom that simulates physiologically relevant blood pressure, blood flow, anatomical, and optical...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $166,289 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a novel single-ear biosensing system for continuous facial and eye movement tracking and 3D facial reconstruction. The research aims to enable camera-free facial landmark detection and 3D facial animation through cross-modal transfer learning between visual and biosignal data. Key project objectives include designing low-power...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $503,930 to the University of Puerto Rico to develop an advanced wearable sensor network with distributed computing capabilities for real-time biomarker analysis and health monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) a novel distributed machine learning architecture deployed on wearable sensors using field programmable...
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 is a Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The $299,708 grant, with a period of performance from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2027, supports collaborative research to develop AI-driven radio frequency identification (RFID) sensing techniques for smart health monitoring applications. The research aims to create more affordable, comfortable,...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering CFDA program (47.070), provides $200,000.00 in funding to George Mason University to develop a new approach for secure and trustworthy human identity verification. The research aims to create a digital representation of human identity based on the chemical analysis of sweat using hyperspectral imaging, which can overcome limitations of current biometric technologies. The project...
This $1,200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop innovative diagnostic sensing technologies that can enable more frequent and comprehensive health monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Integrating DNA nanotechnology and CMOS electronics to create highly sensitive and easy-to-use biosensing platforms that can detect a wider range...
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 physiological signals for use in biometric authentication and health monitoring. The key research tasks include: (1) modeling and analysis of multispectral transient photoplethysmography (PPG) signals; (2) designing novel algorithms for real-time user identification and authentication; (3) creating adaptive learning models for continuous user-independent/user-dependent classification; and (4) integrating these models into a wearable prototype platform for evaluation. This project, awarded to Louisiana State University, seeks to advance the state-of-the-art in biometric authentication, signal analysis and processing, and wearable sensing to support emerging applications in cybersecurity, health monitoring, and human-computer interaction. The award period is from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2028.