This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) will support planning activities for a future large-scale Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SATC) Frontier proposal. The goal is to advance science, education, and workforce development around supply chain security for connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) systems. The award will fund a series of activities, including a...
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 enable developers to perform fine-grained software testing, thereby increasing software quality. The key objectives are to: (1) develop a language and framework for expressing and using fine-grained tests; (2) automatically generate fine-grained tests from code or existing tests; (3) adapt fine-grained tests to software evolution and...
This $4,679,886 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support the University of Delaware's "SCIPE: Building a Computational and Data-Intensive Research Workforce & Network in the Mid-Atlantic Region" initiative. The project aims to create a team of cyberinfrastructure professionals, also known as Research Software Engineers (RSEs), to advance computational and...
This $499,828 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research to formalize the concept of "threat perception" (TP) in software development and design educational interventions to improve TP learning among undergraduate computer science students. The primary goals are to: 1) develop a mechanistic model of TP based on constructivist learning theory, 2) analyze how code analysis tasks like "build it, break it, fix...
This two-year, $174,900 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems will fund research at DePaul University towards developing more accurate vulnerability detection and less disruptive vulnerability mitigation techniques. The goal is to address challenges in reliably finding software vulnerabilities and patching them without compromising system availability. Researchers will design a scheme for encoding intrinsic vulnerability characteristics...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $222,427 to Purdue University to secure deeply embedded software (DES) systems. The project aims to develop novel software security techniques and tools to address inherent challenges in DES, including diverse hardware/software environments, resource limitations, and legacy code. Key products include: 1) a method for hosting DES on Linux...
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 enable developers to perform fine-grained software testing, thereby increasing software quality. The research project will: (1) develop a language and framework for expressing and using fine-grained tests; (2) automatically generate fine-grained tests from code or existing tests; (3) adapt fine-grained tests to software evolution and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $147,518 to develop a software health monitoring and improvement framework. The framework will integrate and enhance recent advances in software issue detection and refactoring techniques to serve diverse scientific and engineering domains. It will detect and help fix software quality issues in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant award of $509,008, with a period of performance from October 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, is funding research to develop secure container technologies for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures. The key products and services being delivered under this grant include: 1) the design of an efficient image vulnerability scanner using techniques such as graph neural networks and...