Project Grant 2604733
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $203,206 to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. over a 4-year period from September 2024 to August 2028. The grant funds the development of a new framework for securing hardware intellectual property (IP) against reverse engineering, theft, and piracy threats. The project uses a combination of reinforcement learning...
- 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 $173,000 to the Long Beach Research Foundation of California State University to investigate secure embedded field-programmable gate array (EFPGA) redaction solutions and dynamic key schemes for hardware security and reliability from March 2023 to February 2025. The project aims to develop a comprehensive...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant titled "CAREER: SECURITY-AWARE NEXT GENERATION EMBEDDED HARDWARE DESIGN" (CFDA 47.070) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The $347,792 grant, awarded on August 15, 2025, supports research to develop an end-to-end framework for designing and securing fine-grained hardware primitives to enhance the effectiveness of hardware-assisted security solutions for resource-constrained embedded devices. The research aims to create...
- This Project Grant award, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: SMALL: EVALUATING THE SECURITY LANDSCAPE OF MACHINE LEARNING ENABLED ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION", was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The $180,000 award will support research at Arizona State University (ASU) from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028. The project will comprehensively assess...
- This National Science Foundation project grant provides $100,000 to support research into integrated circuit cloaking against reverse engineering through adversarial machine learning techniques. The University of California, Irvine will utilize the funding over a two-year period ending April 2024 to develop novel integrated circuit cell layouts that cannot be identified through scanning electron microscope images obtained via reverse engineering attempts. Researchers will introduce adversarial...
- 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...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award, with CFDA Number 47.070, provides $600,000.00 in funding to the University of Delaware (UDE) from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028. The project aims to develop a proactive and intelligent framework for securing system-on-chips (SoCs) against power side-channel and fault injection attacks. The research will leverage reinforcement learning and game theory to model evolving...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $249,724 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The objective of this 5-year project, starting January 15, 2025, is to develop an efficient compilation and synthesis flow that can translate high-level programs (e.g., Python) into domain-specific reconfigurable heterogeneous acceleration systems. The project aims to create a framework that combines...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded a $499,058 Project Grant to Stony Brook University to support research titled "SATC: CORE: SMALL: SELECTIVE DATA PROTECTION AGAINST DATA-ORIENTED AND TRANSIENT EXECUTION ATTACKS." The grant period runs from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The funding supports research and development of techniques to protect data and systems against data-oriented and transient execution attacks through...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SHF: MEDIUM: A HARDWARE ACCELERATOR FOR SATISFIABILITY (SAT): OVER 100X SPEEDUP FOR COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS," aims to develop new types of accelerator chips custom-designed for Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $496,820 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on December 15, 2025. The project, titled "SATC: TTP: MEDIUM: HARDWARE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION THROUGH HYBRID ASIC/TRAP INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN," aims to develop a methodology that enables redaction of proprietary or sensitive portions of an electronic circuit prior to fabrication and reinstatement upon receipt of the final product. This approach protects the critical intellectual property from theft and/or malicious modification, addressing the need for high technology-readiness level solutions as the electronics industry has transitioned to a third-party foundry model. The project will focus on transitioning this technology to practice in collaboration with academic institutions, industrial partners, and federal laboratories, while also supporting workforce development. The project is scheduled for completion by November 30, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $496.8k | 12/4/25 |