Project Grant 2452884
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 $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 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 $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...
- 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...
- This $238,925 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program is supporting the development of advanced privacy protection methods for graph-based intrusion detection systems. The University of California, Irvine is leading this research project to create cryptographic protocols and data partitioning strategies that enable organizations to collectively analyze network traffic data to detect cyber attacks, without...
- This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to improve wireless network security designs. The project aims to (1) create stronger, practical adversary models to understand the limitations of security for Internet of Things (IoT) systems that leverage wireless channel properties, and (2) design new defense strategies to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless network...
- This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant, awarded on July 1, 2024, supports research to address security and privacy challenges in emerging metaverse ecosystems. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: 1) developing innovative defense mechanisms to protect digital mapping and synchronization against adversarial manipulation; 2) creating novel privacy-preserving distributed...
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 in mobile VPN apps used by many people to stay private online. The research will explore current mobile VPN practices, build novel analysis frameworks, and advance the understanding of detection and interference attacks on mobile VPNs. This work is expected to strengthen the safety and privacy of VPN services for internet users. No subawards are planned under this grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $450.0k | 8/5/25 |