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 $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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $179,055 Project Grant to the University of Virginia under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant supports collaborative research to develop privacy-preserving algorithms for fundamental problems in graph mining and network science. The project aims to create scalable, accurate graph differential privacy algorithms for applications like healthcare, social networks, finance, and computational...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $133,487 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct collaborative research towards developing distributed, secure, and resilient network security protocols and standards for next-generation mobile networks. The key focus areas include creating distributed public-key infrastructure (PKI) and...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $299,619 to the University of Virginia to lay the foundations for differentially private Internet measurement. Specifically, the award supports three main research thrusts. The first will study existing privacy issues in collecting and sharing Internet measurement data and develop an...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $165,200 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: SMALL: HIERARCHICAL FEDERATED LEARNING OVER WIRELESS EDGE NETWORKS: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION." Under this three-year award beginning November 1, 2021, Virginia Tech researchers will analyze...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1.2M Project Grant to the University of Virginia under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to enhance the security and privacy of community cyberinfrastructures (CI) for collaborative research. This 3-year project focuses on developing advanced techniques to secure data management and computation within CI systems, including centralized computing, distributed computing, and data computation. The...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems. The award is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) and will support research into practical private information retrieval from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. Specifically, MIT researchers will develop techniques to advance the security and privacy of data access...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA #47.070) program to the University of Illinois for a 4-year collaborative research project on privacy-preserving machine learning on graph-structured data. The project aims to develop innovative, efficient algorithms for training and updating large-scale graph neural network models while preserving the privacy of sensitive graph data across applications in areas...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $180,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IMR: MM-1B: PRIVACY-PRESERVING DATA SHARING FOR MOBILE INTERNET MEASUREMENT AND TRAFFIC ANALYTICS". The project aims to develop new methods for quality-explainable data synthesis and augmentation, privacy-preserving data sharing, and collaborative and privacy-preserving analysis of internet measurement data. The research will advance understandings of critical issues in next-generation mobile internet measurement with distributed and collaborative intelligence to provide privacy-preserving data sharing and internet traffic analytics. The project will integrate research and education by introducing emerging topics such as 6G wireless systems, data augmentation, and AI/ML models into the curricula at the three collaborating institutions.