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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $177,308 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as Colorado School of Mines. The grant supports a collaborative research project to explore security vulnerabilities in mobile computing platforms with shared memory. The research aims to uncover potential side-channel attacks that could be used to extract sensitive...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $301,689 project grant to the University of Rochester under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from September 2021 through August 2024 related to the design, programming, and prototyping of programmable hierarchical caches to support investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. The grant aims to advance the...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, CFDA 47.070, provides $585,484 to support the development of compiler-assisted security techniques for low-cost embedded systems from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2026. The University of Rochester will produce open-source compiler enhancements, benchmark applications, and educational materials to integrate security protections directly into compiled code for embedded devices. This...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded $349,079 under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to Stony Brook University for a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: APP-DRIVEN WEB BROWSING: NOVEL RISKS, VULNERABILITIES, AND DEFENSES." The project, taking place from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2026, will analyze security risks inherent in non-browser applications that enable web browsing. Researchers...
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...
New York University received a $499,748 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure on July 15, 2021. The award is part of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) and will fund research to develop techniques for tracing runtime anomalies in code execution. Specifically, the grant will support the development of tools and methods to track anomalies during program execution in order to identify vulnerabilities...
This $194,999 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to enforce expressive security policies using trusted execution environments. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art for building secure systems by automatically placing security-critical application components within secure enclaves, reducing the programming challenges. The work includes developing a...
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...