Project Grant 2453861
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) awarded a $148,347 project grant to the University of Maine System (UMS) to develop a new framework for microelectronic security and trust. The key elements of the project are: Using reinforcement learning techniques to discover novel attack vectors against logic locking and identify root causes behind successful attacks. Leveraging explainable artificial intelligence...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE, CFDA 47.070) program supports research to address vulnerabilities in the physical security of hardware systems related to side-channel attacks. The $510,336 award to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), provided from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028, aims to develop advanced physical probing models, scalable validation tools, and provably secure design...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program awarded a $420,000 Project Grant to New York University (NYU) for the project "Collaborative Research: SATC: CORE: SMALL: Evaluating the Security Landscape of Machine Learning Enabled Electronic Design Automation". The 3-year project, starting on October 1, 2025, will comprehensively examine the impact of input and training data perturbations and attacks on the quality, performance,...
- This $499,999 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The project aims to develop new, practical solutions to protect microcontroller-based systems from cyberattacks, supporting national priorities in healthcare, energy, transportation, and public safety. Key efforts include leveraging novel microcontroller hardware functionalities for memory management, tracing, and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Oklahoma to conduct research on improving wireless network security designs. The 3-year project aims to: (i) create stronger adversary models to understand the limitations of security in IoT systems leveraging wireless channel properties, and (ii) design new defense strategies to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless network...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant, titled "SHF: SMALL: A COMMUNICATION-CENTRIC VALIDATION FRAMEWORK FOR SYSTEM-ON-CHIP DESIGNS", aims to develop a holistic framework to overcome limitations in pre-silicon verification and post-silicon validation methods for System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. The $599,493 award, effective from January 15, 2025 to December 31, 2027, will enable the University of South Florida to...
- The University of Florida was awarded a $305,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop tools and methods for information flow validation in system-on-chip designs. The three-year award running from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 will support research to create a scientific foundation and comprehensive automated framework of integrated tools to systematically address challenges in...
- The University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research received a $218,784 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program. The award, titled "SAIF: SECURITY ASSURANCE THROUGH AI AND FORMAL APPROACHES FOR SYSTEM-ON-CHIPS", will develop an AI-assisted security verification framework to enhance the security of integrated circuits used in critical applications such as financial services, military, healthcare,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $353,258 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) in Boulder, CO. The grant supports CU's project titled "SECURITY AS A FIRST-CLASS DESIGN CONSTRAINT IN COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE" which aims to develop new abstract methods for reasoning about hardware vulnerabilities and build an evaluation infrastructure that can be integrated into...
- This federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, supports the development of an end-to-end framework for designing, analyzing, and securing fine-grained hardware-based security primitives for resource-constrained embedded devices. The $347,792 award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute aims to enhance the effectiveness of hardware-assisted security solutions, leading to lightweight and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program awarded a $600,000 project grant to the University of Delaware to develop a proactive and intelligent framework for securing system-on-chip (SoC) designs against power side-channel and fault injection attacks. The project aims to shift the research focus from reactive defense to built-in security assurance by integrating advanced cryptographic primitives and game-theoretic methods into the SoC design and synthesis toolchain. This will enable designers to trade-off security, performance, power, and cost during the chip design process. The project is expected to produce new tools and practices for designing secure and high-assurance SoCs to protect critical digital systems across sectors like healthcare, autonomous vehicles, and national infrastructure. The award reflects the NSF's mission and has been deemed worthy of support based on its intellectual merit and broader impacts.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $600.0k | 7/22/25 |