Project Grant 2537760
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $353,258 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for the project "CAREER: SECURITY AS A FIRST-CLASS DESIGN CONSTRAINT IN COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE." The project aims to develop new abstract methods for reasoning about hardware vulnerabilities and an evaluation infrastructure that can be integrated into hardware design tools to incorporate...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Delaware. The 3-year grant, awarded on October 1, 2025, will support research to develop a proactive and intelligent framework for securing system-on-chips (SoCs) against power side-channel and fault injection attacks. The project will leverage reinforcement learning and game theory to model evolving attacker-defender...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Northeastern University a $499,999 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) to develop new practical solutions to protect microcontroller-based systems from cyber threats. The project, titled "SATC: CORE: SMALL: HOLMES: Holistic and Hardware-Assisted Control-Flow Security for Microcontroller Systems," aims to leverage novel microcontroller hardware functionalities...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $612,648 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute to develop new methods for securing embedded software. The awardee will shift security enforcement from developers to compilers using static analysis, runtime instrumentation, and hardware support. Enhancements will enable customization and promote longevity....
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, CFDA 47.070, provides $585,484 to support the development of compiler-assisted security techniques for low-cost embedded systems from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2026. The University of Rochester will produce open-source compiler enhancements, benchmark applications, and educational materials to integrate security protections directly into compiled code for embedded devices. This...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $311,529 Project Grant to Princeton University under the CISE: Core Programs from the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program. The project, titled "CAREER: ENCAPSULATING UNSAFE CODE IN LOW-LEVEL SYSTEMS", seeks to develop strategies and mechanisms to safely utilize legacy software libraries with unsafe programming languages by combining hardware-based and language-based techniques. This will...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $462,473 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) for the "SATC 2.0: RES: ENSURING THE SECURITY OF SAFETY-CRITICAL EMBEDDED SYSTEMS" project. This 4-year project, running from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2029, aims to characterize and automatically discover vulnerabilities in embedded systems used in safety-critical infrastructure, such as vehicle...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program awarded a $442,000 project grant to the University of South Florida (USF) to host an annual 10-week summer program from 2025 to 2027. This REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Site on Hardware Security will train a total of 30 undergraduate students, particularly those from schools with limited research opportunities or underrepresented groups, in computer hardware security. Students...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $222,427 to Purdue University to secure deeply embedded software (DES) systems. The project aims to develop novel software security techniques and tools to address inherent challenges in DES, including diverse hardware/software environments, resource limitations, and legacy code. Key products include: 1) a method for hosting DES on Linux...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER: Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program project grant for $347,792, awarded on August 15, 2025, supports the development of an end-to-end framework for designing, analyzing, and securing fine-grained hardware-assisted security primitives for resource-constrained embedded devices. The goal is to enhance the effectiveness of hardware-based malware detection solutions, leading to lightweight and robust security primitives for embedded platforms used in applications such as automotive, medical, and military systems. The educational plan includes enhancing undergraduate and graduate courses with hands-on hardware security experiences, and developing an educational game to improve K-12 students' understanding of malware. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the awardee, is a prominent private research university with extensive expertise in federal research and development projects across various technological domains.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $347.8k | 8/14/25 |