Project Grant 2512972

Award Date 10/1/24
Completion Date 9/30/27
Dollars Obligated $152K
Federal Grant Program
47.070
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Boston, MA 02115, USA
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  1. Creating a generic machine learning model that can detect malware across diverse IoT devices and operating systems by constructing a common embedding space for similar functions.

  2. Optimizing the model for efficiency on low-power IoT devices through techniques like model compression and pruning.

  3. Enhancing the robustness of the malware detection approach against advanced attacks that aim to evade detection, such as by exploring large language models for code-style transfer.

  4. Integrating multi-task learning, behavior classification, and a comprehensive IoT malware dataset to provide a scalable, defensive solution.

  5. Sharing open-source tools, benchmarks, and datasets developed through the project to broadly contribute to the IoT security research community.

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