Project Grant 2555022
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Iowa State University of Science and Technology $315,818 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to establish scientific foundations for testing methods that assess cyber-physical system performance with statistical rigor and consistency. The project addresses repeatability in performance testing of software-intensive and autonomous systems used in...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded University of California Irvine $339,622 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop security and trustworthiness frameworks for collaborative immersive systems that use augmented, virtual, and mixed reality to enable real-time multi-user interaction in shared three-dimensional spaces. The project addresses security and privacy risks unique to...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of Alabama $300,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to model and mitigate reflective backscatter side-channel attacks on consumer and industrial electronics. The project investigates vulnerabilities in everyday devices—keyboards, computer mice, game controllers, and smart home devices—that permit remote eavesdropping through...
- 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 Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Iowa State University of Science and Technology $699,774 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for a project grant on efficient distributed solutions for computational imaging and artificial intelligence. The project develops faster and more communication-efficient methods for solving large-scale data analysis problems in distributed...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of Miami $300,000 on March 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop privacy-preserving and secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems for 5G and beyond wireless networks. The project, executed in collaboration with the German Research Foundation (DFG), addresses dual-use security and privacy challenges inherent in systems that...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Mississippi State University $299,999 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to research reflective backscatter side-channel attacks (REBAC) in consumer and industrial devices. The project establishes a scientific foundation for understanding and defending against REBAC attacks, in which a compact transmitter illuminates a target device while a receiver...
- 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 $171,879 to Montclair State University to develop secure and privacy-preserving augmented reality systems. Over a two-year period from October 2022 through September 2024, the University will work to identify potential sensor injection attacks on augmented reality devices and propose defense algorithms using...
- Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) was awarded a $228,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year grant will support ISU's collaborative research project "Weak Derandomizations in Time and Space Complexity" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The NSF Computer and Information Science and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Iowa State University $455,896 on October 1, 2026, for SPIRE-EIT (Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education – Emerging Interface Technologies), a Research Experiences for Undergraduates site program operating through September 30, 2029. The award funds a ten-week summer program for undergraduate students integrating hands-on research and education in emerging interface technologies....
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Iowa State University of Science and Technology $648,169 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop automated methods for identifying and characterizing hardware side-channel vulnerabilities in augmented and virtual reality systems. The project addresses privacy risks in immersive devices that capture detailed sensor data on users' bodies, movements, and environments. Untrusted applications can infer private information by observing low-level hardware behavior, even when denied direct access to sensitive data. The research team will create a principled framework to systematically identify such hardware side-channels across immersive system components and design practical defenses that mitigate threats without degrading user experience. The work includes developing automated discovery methods for previously underexplored hardware behaviors, demonstrating how an untrusted application can combine seemingly benign side-channel signals to infer sensitive user activity, and evaluating a practical hardening toolkit on real devices. Performance occurs in Ames, Iowa through September 30, 2029. The award supports workforce development in securing next-generation computing platforms and contributes to industry-wide security standards for immersive technologies.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $648.2k | 7/16/26 |