Project Grant 2543814
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded $424,076 to the University of California Santa Cruz on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for a five-year CAREER project on analog memory leaks and remanence side-channel vulnerabilities in compute-in-memory hardware. The project develops guidelines and mitigations for security vulnerabilities in analog computing systems used in next-generation...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $464,384 to the University of California Santa Cruz on April 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), supporting research on secure and efficient AI infrastructure using Compute Express Link (CXL)-enabled disaggregated shared memory. The project develops secure and scalable abstractions and architectural designs for AI infrastructure that enable large-scale...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Trustees of Boston University $422,683 on May 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a unified analytics software stack for secure computation. The award funds research into software abstractions, intermediate representations, and system architectures that integrate cryptographic techniques (fully homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation)...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Yale University $297,954 on June 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop cryptographic techniques and systems that enable verifiable computation on private data. The project addresses computational integrity and privacy in cloud services and artificial intelligence systems by combining fully homomorphic encryption—which allows servers to compute directly...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Arizona State University $361,774 on June 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop decomposable, feature-rich, accelerated, and extensible confidential computing abstractions for cloud environments. The research advances confidential computing through four innovations: a compiler-driven analysis and validation framework to automate trustworthy isolation...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, $377,003 on January 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop privacy-preserving web services and related educational content. The project develops a cryptographic toolbox enabling internet users to access web services without exposing unencrypted...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program project grant, awarded on June 1, 2024 for $174,975.00, supports research to develop innovative systems software for confidential computing in distributed cloud services. The key objectives are: (1) extending Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols to enable secure authentication and authorization for computing nodes in a mixed trusted/untrusted environment, and (2) exploring storage...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award for $274,988 to Oblivious Labs Inc. will develop the ENCORE oblivious computation framework to enable privacy-preserving computation on sensitive data. The project aims to create fast, easy-to-use techniques for obfuscating access patterns to private data, which can reveal user intentions in applications like contact discovery and database searches. The team will build on their prior...
- This three-year $599,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research into novel methods for computing aggregate statistics on streaming data in a privacy-preserving manner. Specifically, the University of California, Los Angeles will explore efficient algorithms to privately compute telemetry data from user devices sending...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded $347,084 to the University of California, Merced on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to secure and optimize quantum-resilient cryptography for versatile computing architectures. The project addresses the cryptographic challenge posed by advancing quantum computers to banking, healthcare, government services, and cloud platforms by improving the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of California Santa Cruz $369,079 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop scalable oblivious-private computation methods that hide data access patterns from attackers while processing sensitive information at scale—including encrypted data in trusted execution environments on workloads of tens to hundreds of terabytes and beyond. The research addresses a gap in cloud data protection: encryption alone cannot prevent attackers from inferring secrets through observed access patterns even when data is encrypted. The project designs faster, more scalable oblivious primitives for core database operations such as sorting, shuffling, and compaction, combining oblivious algorithms with hardware-based trusted execution to defend against both access-pattern and software side-channel attacks. Successful outcomes are intended to enable secure messaging, privacy-preserving artificial intelligence, confidential cloud databases, and multi-institutional collaboration in healthcare and financial services where hospitals or financial institutions share information to detect rare diseases or fraud without exposing individual records. Work will be performed in Santa Cruz, California, with a period of performance from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2031. The award is classified as a Project Grant, consistent with NSF's CAREER program structure supporting investigator-initiated research.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $369.1k | 7/20/26 |