Project Grant 2452883
- This $450,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will fund research to uncover and mitigate security and privacy threats in the mobile virtual private network (VPN) ecosystem. The University of New Mexico will lead this collaborative research effort over a 3-year period from October 2025 to September 2028. The project aims to develop new tools and methods for systematically investigating risks...
- 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...
- 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 (NSF) awarded a $234,347 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan) for the project "Collaborative Research: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: Beyond App-Centric Privacy: Investigating Privacy Ecosystems Among Vulnerable Populations." The project aims to go beyond app-centric approaches to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IMR: MM-1B: PRIVACY-PRESERVING DATA SHARING FOR MOBILE INTERNET MEASUREMENT AND TRAFFIC ANALYTICS" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, doing business as the University of Nebraska, in the amount of $170,000. The project aims to develop new methods for augmenting mobile internet...
- The University of Michigan was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year grant will support the development of a large-scale, longitudinal resource to advance technical and legal understanding of textual privacy information. The University of Michigan will serve as the primary awardee, with the project expected to...
- This $163,132 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports an interdisciplinary research project investigating privacy negotiation behaviors among stakeholders in smart environments. The project team at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) is designing, developing, and deploying an interactive system to collect real-world data on how people manage and negotiate their...
- This $600,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop an anonymous mobile access architecture for next-generation mobile networks. The research aims to enable anti-tracking capabilities while using mobile networks by integrating decentralized identifiers and anonymous verifiable credential schemes into the 5G authentication and key agreement protocol. Key tasks include developing a secure callee discovery...
- This three-year, $225,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to develop security and privacy solutions for 5G and beyond cellular networks. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside, in collaboration with researchers in Japan, will pursue technical tasks to design a heterogeneous data plane framework combining multiple programmable data plane devices for network...
- This $225,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at The George Washington University to develop security and privacy solutions for 5G and beyond cellular networks. Key activities include designing a heterogeneous data plane framework combining multiple programmable data plane devices for network function processing. Most...
This Project Grant award of $125,000 from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to uncover and mitigate security and privacy threats in the mobile virtual private network (VPN) ecosystem. The project, awarded to the Regents of the University of Michigan, aims to develop new tools and methods for systematic large-scale analysis of mobile VPNs, which are widely used by Internet users to maintain online privacy. The research will explore the risks and strengthen the safety and privacy of VPN services, advancing technical solutions needed to assess and mitigate the issues in the complex mobile VPN ecosystem. The award period extends from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $125.0k | 8/5/25 |