This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences grant, with the CFDA program number 47.075, provides $120,000 in funding to George Mason University to conduct interdisciplinary research on securing off-premise digital services in the presence of strategic incentives. The project aims to analyze the well-functioning of cyberinfrastructure when dealing with incentive issues in cloud and decentralized computing models, in order to enable a more diversified and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded New York University a $309,890 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct research from September 2021 through August 2023 titled "EAGER: SAI: UNDERSTANDING MISPERCEPTIONS OF CYBER RISKS TO MODEL AND SECURE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES." The grant will fund research to contribute to understanding and monitoring resources...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,559,043 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund a series of meetings where researchers will present new results in macroeconomics and financial economics focused on issues affecting the financial stability of the United States. Key areas of focus include market and financial innovations, securities financing, collateral...
This $200,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at Michigan State University to develop data-driven modeling techniques for securing cyber-physical systems. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the two-year award will create automated strategies using reinforcement learning to characterize attacker intent. Researchers will integrate defense approaches combining game theory, reinforcement learning and Bayesian...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $341k project grant to Northeastern University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for research titled "Making Security Work: Vulnerability Disclosure Programs (VDPs) and the Organizational Foundations of Cybersecurity." The two-year project examines how organizations adopt and sustain vulnerability disclosure programs to crowdsource security work from independent researchers. Through qualitative and...
This Project Grant award for $3,065,935 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, MA. The award will fund a series of research meetings and conferences focused on issues affecting the financial stability of the United States, with a specific emphasis on market frictions, financial risks, and economic dynamics. Key areas of research include...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,000 in funding to Arizona State University (ASU) to plan research on socio-technological systems and how they can be designed to better support human wellbeing and security. The project aims to analyze how current socio-technological systems contribute to risk, inequality, and insecurity, and develop approaches to envision and design future systems...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $167,923 will support research to advance mathematical theorems for extreme value and risk measurement in robust intelligence. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), this award will develop new high-dimensional risk measures, risk sharing, and risk aggregation methods for analyzing big data with heavy tails. The research activities will include integrating copula, extreme value theory, and...
This $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research on heterogeneous agent modeling of the personal data economy. With a performance period from August 2021 through July 2023, this award will support the development of models to analyze how individual behaviors and interactions shape markets involving the exchange of personal data. As part of its mission to advance the social and economic sciences, the NSF SBE...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) in the amount of $200,282 provides funding to North Carolina State University to conduct research on understanding and overcoming impediments to high-risk, high-return science. The researchers will develop and analyze mathematical models to examine how scientists balance competing incentives and constraints when pursuing their research programs, with a focus on...