Project Grant DESC0024823

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded The HDF Group a $1.5 million Cooperative Agreement under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. This award funds the NSF-SAFE-OSE project, which systematically enhances the safety, security, and privacy (SSP) of the Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5), a critical data management system used across scientific research,...

This $209,368 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to develop trusted, low-overhead tools that enable computation directly on encrypted data. The goal is to accelerate the creation of new capabilities that allow confidential data to be shared with untrusted parties who can extract insights without accessing the unencrypted data. This would increase public trust in modern AI tools and enable data-powered, socially...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded $120,621 to the University of Houston System (operating as University of Houston Clear Lake) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) on June 15, 2025, with a completion date of May 31, 2028. This collaborative research project develops a virtual computational storage system called μ-HDF5 (micro-HDF5) that enables data-driven scientific...

This $194,999 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to enforce expressive security policies using trusted execution environments. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art for building secure systems by automatically placing security-critical application components within secure enclaves, reducing the programming challenges. The work includes developing a...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $173,044 awarded to Hamilton College on July 1, 2022 will support research exploring transparency and access control challenges in life science data sharing. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the two-year project will clarify issues associated with access control when scientists share data through semi-structured interviews and observation. It will also develop and release an open-source software system to...

This Project Grant award of $300,000.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure supports the development of a novel zero-trust and traceable data-sharing infrastructure called WEB3DB. The project aims to address limitations of the current centralized data ecosystem by empowering individuals to control and manage access to their personal health IoT data. Key research outcomes include: (1) novel decentralized identity management and access control...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will provide $237,951 to the University of Washington (UW) to develop methods for making sensitive biomedical data more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) through the creation of open but privacy-preserving synthetic data sets. The goal is to address the "dark data" problem that hinders the development of beneficial AI...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant totaling $599,649 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to Trustees of Indiana University (doing business as Indiana University) for the "SCIPDF: Usable Private Data Federation for Secure Scientific Collaboration" project. This project aims to "democratize" the complex pipeline of Private Data Federations (PDFs), making cutting-edge PDF features accessible to the...

This Project Grant award of $500,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of scalable software to enable "data polymorphism" - a novel paradigm for fast and adaptable scientific data retrieval with reduced data movement costs. The project aims to bridge the gap between the vast amounts of data generated by scientific simulations/instruments and the limited...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at Northeastern University focused on developing doubly efficient Private Information Retrieval (DEPIR) and fully homomorphic encryption for random-access machines. The key goals of the project are to: 1) achieve practical efficiency for DEPIR and fully homomorphic encryption techniques, 2) explore alternative cryptographic...