This $248,756 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to design secure quantum computing systems. The project focuses on studying security vulnerabilities and developing remediation techniques for both hardware-specific and agnostic side-channel attacks on existing noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers and upcoming fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures. The...
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of scalable software to realize "data polymorphism" - a novel paradigm that enables fast and adaptable scientific data retrieval with tailored error control. The key products and services to be delivered include: A generic framework to abstract the generation of progressive data representations, allowing for...
This $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a quantum-resistant, cloud-based vault service for secure cryptocurrency key backup and recovery. The project aims to address the technical challenge of cryptographic key management and the security risks posed by the theft of digital assets. Key innovations include the integration of quantum-resistant threshold fully...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, will provide $263,170 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to advance quantum security and computational capabilities. The project aims to construct new forms of quantum pseudorandomness that can hide certain quantum mechanical properties, such as entanglement. This research may enable new types of post-quantum cryptography and testing methods...
This $300,000 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 support research to develop efficient ways to enlarge practical DNA storage capacity by integrating bio-computer technologies. Led by researchers at the University of Minnesota, the interdisciplinary team will investigate approaches to improve the scalability of DNA storage, including identifying more...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $261,304 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to research and develop secure quantum computing systems. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing a novel Quantum Trusted Execution Environment prototype to enable secure and confidential quantum computations, and developing systematic defenses against...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $273,001 federal Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Illinois to develop novel fault-tolerance protocols and storage abstractions for improving the performance of fault-tolerant storage systems. The 5-year project aims to enable the construction of reliable and high-performing storage systems that can support critical applications in modern datacenters without...
This 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), provides $246,388 to the University of Washington to develop cross-layer file systems that span multiple storage technologies including non-volatile memories, solid-state disks, and traditional disk storage. The university researchers will build file storage systems able to reliably store user data at high...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) totaling $580,736 will support research into improving the performance of distributed storage systems without requiring changes to their codebase. The key objectives are to understand the impact of request ordering on the performance of concurrency control and replication, which are critical components of distributed storage systems, and develop novel...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to support the development of a verifiable quantum compiler that integrates formal methods to enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. The $500,000 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028, will fund research to optimize the translation of quantum algorithms into fault-tolerant...