Project Grant 2444660
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program project grant, awarded on June 1, 2024 for $174,975.00, supports research to develop innovative systems software for confidential computing in distributed cloud services. The key objectives are: (1) extending Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols to enable secure authentication and authorization for computing nodes in a mixed trusted/untrusted environment, and (2) exploring storage...
- This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the University of California, Davis to address security vulnerabilities in cloud computing infrastructure and develop defenses against targeted microarchitectural attacks. Over a four-year period from July 2022 to June 2026, the university will conduct a comprehensive threat analysis of cloud schedulers and investigate software-based and...
- 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 $248,756 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to design secure quantum computing systems. The project focuses on studying security vulnerabilities and developing remediation techniques for both hardware-specific and agnostic side-channel attacks on existing noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers and upcoming fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures. The...
- 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $1.2M Project Grant to Northeastern University from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research to develop next-generation resilient cloud infrastructure to secure scientific cyberinfrastructures including network-attached accelerators. Key focus areas include identifying advanced network-layer attack...
- Yale University was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems on October 1, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2022. The grant was awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under this award, Yale University will conduct...
- The University of Connecticut (UConn) was awarded a $599,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to advance security in trusted execution environment (TEE)-enabled scientific research workflows. The grant aims to protect sensitive scientific data and ensure research integrity in large-scale computational workflows executed on high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. Key innovations include...
- This $175,123 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program is funding the development of new isolation mechanisms for code running on cloud infrastructure. The project, titled "CAREER: COLONY: A Framework for Bespoke Virtual Execution Contexts," aims to ensure both performance and security for programs deployed on shared cloud computing resources. The research will leverage novel operating...
- This federal Project Grant award for $384,182.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), is focused on establishing the foundational scientific theory, security principles, and practices that define the field of Internet of Things (IoT) cloud security. The key objectives are to: Formalize the threats concerning the emerging paradigms of IoT interoperability to conduct novel attacks, and formally verify...
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program awarded a $900,000 Project Grant to Yale University to design better software, study security weaknesses, and create new methods to protect sensitive data in confidential computing environments (CCEs) on public cloud platforms. The research aims to improve the software support for CCEs, which leverage a combination of secure hardware and software to protect application data from untrusted cloud infrastructure. The project will test these solutions in different cloud setups for popular applications like AI training, recommendation systems, and data analysis tools. This research is expected to positively impact the security of cloud computing platforms by addressing the key challenge of securing cloud applications. The award period is from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $900.0k | 7/16/25 |