This $1,722,089 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program aims to develop rigorous, scientific mechanisms to enable resilience in large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS) against various perturbations. The award to Purdue University, effective June 15, 2024 through May 31, 2029, will focus on modeling and understanding the impacts of unintended errors, security attacks, unexpected interactions, and...
This Project Grant award of $328,423 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to enhance the security and resilience of distributed cyber-physical systems (CPS). The University of Florida is the prime awardee and will focus on three key objectives: (1) detecting cyber-attacks and malicious activities using novel algorithms; (2) analyzing the impacts of cyber threats and providing diagnostics; and (3) developing...
This Project Grant award of $226,180, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to enhance the security of cyber-physical systems (CPS) that utilize reinforcement learning, such as autonomous vehicles. The project will develop innovations to achieve safe and secure reinforcement learning, protecting users from system vulnerabilities and systems from attacks. Key focus areas...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to characterize the vulnerabilities of learning-based controllers in networked cyber-physical systems (CPS). The $149,985 award will enable the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to develop real-time reward manipulation schemes, multi-level attack strategies, and data-enabled detection methods to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $199,973 to support planning activities for a large-scale proposal to increase the security and privacy of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPS). The planning project, led by an interdisciplinary team, aims to develop foundational knowledge and tools to understand and defend against the unique risks of...
This $663,264 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at Clemson University aimed at ensuring privacy and truthfulness in self-interested multi-agent cyber-physical systems (CPS). The overarching goal is to develop novel frameworks and technical approaches to simultaneously achieve differential privacy and truthful agent behaviors in distributed multi-agent...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, provides $174,981 to Towson University to develop a secure and trustworthy edge intelligence (EI) framework to advance resilient next-generation cyber-physical systems (CPS). The key objectives of this 2-year project are to: (1) advance system-level co-design across learning, sensing, and communication components in EI frameworks for CPS, (2) develop a...
This $400,601 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop rigorous scientific mechanisms that enable resilience in large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS), with a focus on connected and autonomous transportation systems (CATS). The key research thrusts include: 1) Modeling cyber, physical, and human assets and their interconnections, as well as economic and policy constraints, to...
This $536,733 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at Michigan State University to ensure privacy and truthfulness in self-interested multi-agent cyber-physical systems (CPS). The project aims to develop novel frameworks and technical approaches that simultaneously address privacy preservation and truthful behavior in distributed optimization and Nash equilibrium seeking...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) is for a 2-year planning project to develop a multi-university consortium focused on advancing the state of the art in applied cyber-physical systems (CPS) research. The key activities under this award include: Developing new monitoring and control paradigms for learning, estimation, and control of complex system-of-systems...