The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) awarded the University of Rochester $147,846 on June 15, 2024 to conduct research on security vulnerabilities in mobile computing platforms with shared memory. The project aims to uncover security threats that could enable malicious parties to circumvent protection mechanisms and extract sensitive information by monitoring data access patterns. The research will...
This $749,997 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into robust enforcement of customizable resource constraints in heterogeneous embedded systems. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the three-year award running from October 2021 to September 2024 will advance development of techniques to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in computing, communications, and information science at the Colorado School of...
This $150,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the CFDA Program 47.070 "Computer and Information Science and Engineering". The award, effective July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024, supports collaborative research on safeguarding the emerging "miniapp" paradigm within mobile "super apps". The research aims to investigate new security and privacy threats, design secure miniapp APIs, and...
This $353,258 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of new methods for evaluating and mitigating security vulnerabilities in computer hardware design. The 5-year project, which commenced on March 1, 2025, aims to create abstract models and programming interfaces to help hardware designers reason about and address microarchitectural vulnerabilities during the design...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $166,924 aims to enhance privacy leak detection in mobile applications by identifying and analyzing sources of domain-sensitive user data. The key products and services to be delivered include: Conducting a crowdsourcing study to categorize domain-sensitive data within mobile app user interfaces. Developing a novel approach using static and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant award (CFDA 47.070) is developing a new framework for securing hardware intellectual property (IP) against reverse engineering, theft, and piracy. The $148,347 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2028, is being led by the University of Maine System (UMS) to create a scalable, learning-guided hardware IP protection platform. The research leverages artificial...
The Colorado School of Mines received a $613,397 project grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FRAMEWORKS: SEISMIC COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORM FOR EMPOWERING DISCOVERY project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. Under this project, the Colorado School of Mines will develop a computational platform to advance seismic data analysis and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant totaling $248,011 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) with a start date of March 1, 2024 and an end date of February 28, 2029. The award supports research to develop technologies that can secure electronic computing hardware against sophisticated physical attacks along the microelectronics supply chain. The key focus areas...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1.2M Project Grant to the University of Virginia under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to enhance the security and privacy of community cyberinfrastructures (CI) for collaborative research. This 3-year project focuses on developing advanced techniques to secure data management and computation within CI systems, including centralized computing, distributed computing, and data computation. The...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $200,000 in funding from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2026 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to conduct research on "Information Management Policies for Secure Resource Allocation." The project will investigate how to maximize the security of critical societal infrastructure systems, such as power grids and transportation networks, through strategic management and control...