Project Grant 2616525
- 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...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is funding a collaborative research initiative to develop an automated framework for designing and deploying parallel zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) protocols. The $299,499 award to Northwestern University aims to advance the practical application of ZKP protocols, which allow parties to verify the correctness of a statement without revealing...
- This $449,999.00 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research by Yale University to develop an automated framework for parallelizing and optimizing zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) protocols. ZKP protocols allow a party to prove the correctness of a statement without revealing sensitive information, with applications in areas like blockchain privacy and verifiable computation. The project aims...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), administered through the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, awarded $592,500 to the University of Maryland, College Park, effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028. This collaborative research project addresses the foundational development of Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (NIZK) proofs, a cryptographic technology enabling...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, awarded $300,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) on July 1, 2025, for a collaborative research project scheduled for completion on June 30, 2028. This project focuses on developing foundational programming abstractions and techniques for Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (NIZK)...
- 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 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...
- Federal Project Grant Summary The National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) awarded $1.0M to the University of California Santa Cruz on July 15, 2025, for research in automated hardware accelerator design. The project, titled "SHF: CSR: MEDIUM: PRACTICAL AND EFFICIENT ACCELERATORS WITH HIGH-FREQUENCY CHIPLETS," will deliver three primary products: (1) co-designed deeply pipelined Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) accelerators...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Duke University's Office of Research Administration received a $299,631 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) effective September 15, 2025. This collaborative research project will deliver systematic methodologies and scalable verification techniques for specifying, synthesizing, and verifying heterogeneous...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded North Carolina State University $449,973 on May 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a data-centric trusted execution environment (TEE) for secure cloud computing. The project investigates a new data abstraction layer that allows data to exist and be managed separately from an enclave, addressing current TEE limitations: inefficient inter-enclave...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Duke University $400,000 on September 1, 2026, for collaborative research on zero-knowledge proof acceleration through hardware-software co-design under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The research team will develop hardware and software technologies to accelerate zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs)—cryptographic methods that allow verification of computations or transactions without revealing underlying private information. ZKPs underpin applications including digital currencies, fraud prevention, secure online identity systems, and trustworthy AI. Current software implementations running on conventional processors are too slow and memory-intensive for high-volume financial systems and real-time AI applications. The project will explore processing-in-memory architectures and other optimizations to reduce both processing time and energy consumption, making privacy-preserving cryptographic operations practical for widespread deployment while maintaining flexibility to support evolving standards. Performance is located in Durham, North Carolina. The period of performance runs through August 31, 2030. The award is structured as a project grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $400.0k | 7/30/26 |