The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Forward Edge AI Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The grant funds the development of technology to enhance cybersecurity in the space economy, focusing on creating machine learning algorithms to differentiate between cyber attacks and natural anomalies on small satellites. This project...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $200,000 to San Jose State University Research Foundation to investigate conversational social engineering attacks, known as "vishing", and develop software to detect these attacks in real-time. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award include: Creating two data...
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 in funding to Ai Pow LLC, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business located in College Station, TX. The project aims to develop a hardware-aware AutoML platform to enable efficient deployment of AI models on resource-constrained edge devices for real-time defect detection in...
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the CFDA 47.084 Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, aims to develop a large language model to improve communication between clinical researchers and participants in clinical trials. The goal is to optimize engagement and retention of participants, which can prevent trial failures. The $273,188 project will use cluster analysis of communications data from several...
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) is for the development of an AI-driven platform that personalizes language learning activities for young children with communication delays. The project aims to create an innovative, adaptive solution that combines speech recognition algorithms and machine learning to track and respond to each child's progress, bridging the...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program totaling $100,000.00 was awarded on June 15, 2022 to Texas Tech University to develop a technology platform to automatically measure user susceptibility to social engineering attacks. The platform will quantify individual users' personality traits, demographics, education, and experiences using publicly available information to estimate susceptibility to phishing attacks. This will help...
The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), also known as Stony Brook University, received a $399,767 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems on October 1, 2021 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: DEFENDING AGAINST SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACKS WITH IN-BROWSER AI." The grant supports research and development of in-browser artificial intelligence techniques to defend...
Onsystem Logic, LLC received a $254,421 National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant to develop methods for rendering malware benign. The grant was awarded on June 15, 2021 under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support innovation, creativity, and excellence in engineering research and development. The project aims to improve cybersecurity by exploring techniques for neutralizing malicious software so it no...
The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $399,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant supports the collaborative research project "DEFENDING AGAINST SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACKS WITH IN-BROWSER AI" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The research aims to develop in-browser artificial intelligence techniques to defend against social engineering...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR Phase I Project Grant award of $274,996 to Algoface Inc., dated March 1, 2024, aims to develop a novel AI system called "Face Analyzer/Semantic Search" that bridges descriptive text and facial photos. Unlike conventional facial recognition systems, this technology aims to enable facial analysis and search without requiring a probe photo for comparisons. The key objectives are to construct a comprehensive training dataset, expand computer...