Project Grant 2607625
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $731,838 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Dallas to develop algorithms and techniques for learning the hidden structure of digital and analog circuits from side-channel measurements. This work aims to advance hardware security and integrity checking by allowing adaptive interaction with circuits to intelligently model arbitrary analog circuit side-channels and utilize non-linear solvers and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station $400,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to accelerate zero-knowledge proof computations through hardware-software co-design. The project develops faster and more energy-efficient computing systems optimized for privacy-preserving cryptographic operations that enable applications including...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded New York University $600,000 on March 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for a U.S.–Ireland research and development partnership developing integrated modeling, analysis, and control frameworks to enhance resilience and safety in industrial control systems under cyber and physical threats. The project, performed in New York, New York, addresses how attacks...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded North Carolina State University $350,000 on August 15, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to design network infrastructures for reliable wide-area control of power systems serving large electronic loads such as AI data centers, crypto mining centers, and high-performance computing centers. The research will develop a massively deployable cyber-physical architecture called the FRELCO...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Arizona State University two hundred thousand dollars on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop unified modeling, analysis, and control frameworks for understanding interactions between data center power-electronic systems and the electric grid. The research establishes reduced-order models characterizing how internal power converters, control loops, and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of Delaware a $600,000 Project Grant (CFDA 47.070: Computer and Information Science and Engineering) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This award supports research and development of verifiable secure hardware design methodologies for System-on-Chips (SOCs) that are resilient against power side-channel and fault injection attacks. The project delivers...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded George Mason University a $280,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research on secure wireless powered backscatter communication for Internet of Things applications. Specifically, the university researchers will develop small, low-cost wireless devices that can communicate securely...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Florida Institute of Technology Inc. $199,865 on July 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to assess physical layer side-channel vulnerabilities in post-quantum cryptographic implementations on embedded microcontrollers and to develop lightweight countermeasures that operate within energy, memory, and processing constraints of real-world resource-constrained devices. The project...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded The University of Alabama in Huntsville $600,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Engineering CAREER program (CFDA 47.041) to develop novel open-source circuits that embed hardware-dependent fingerprints as security features directly within communication waveforms. The project unifies communication systems with hardware security through co-designed circuit topologies that provide optimally detected...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology $350,000 on August 15, 2026, for collaborative research on wide-area control architectures for electric power systems serving large electronic loads including AI data centers, crypto mining centers, and high-performance computing facilities. The project develops optimal control algorithms, termed FRELCO (fast, resilient, load-aware, and cost-optimal), to dampen...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Southern Methodist University $225,312 on October 1, 2025, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop circuit design techniques and a library of energy-recovery design cells for low-power, differential power analysis (DPA)-resistant cryptographic implementations in Internet-of-Things devices. The project addresses the dual challenge of reducing power consumption while protecting against side-channel attacks that extract sensitive information through power consumption analysis. The research objectives include investigating information leakage in energy-recovery circuits and proposing mitigation methodologies; developing a low-energy, DPA-resistant energy-recovery standard cell library and semi-custom design flow for lightweight cryptographic circuits; and investigating power clock generation and distribution with silicon prototyping to evaluate energy dissipation and DPA-resistance of energy-recovery-based crypto circuits. The project will produce a repository of design principles and tools intended to support industry adoption of energy-recovery computing for secure IoT devices. The award includes an educational component that will develop new hardware security courses for undergraduate and graduate students, conduct workshops, and offer internships to Appalachian high-school students and historically underrepresented minorities and first-generation students. Project materials will be made available through a website hosted by the University of Kentucky College of Engineering. Performance of work occurs in Dallas, Texas, with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $225.3k | 1/20/26 |