Project Grant N62909131C197

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $469,999 to Purdue University to continue operating an exceptional Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site. The REU site is dedicated to engaging talented undergraduates from across the nation in research related to cybersecurity, data security, and mobile cloud security. Students will explore cutting-edge issues around securing...

NSF-DFG SATC: CORE: SMALL Grant Award Summary Worcester Polytechnic Institute received a $510,336 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) for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. The project focuses on demonstrating practical provable side-channel security in cryptographic hardware by developing advanced physical probing models, scalable validation...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop an open cloud-based "CTF5G" platform for cybersecurity training and workforce development focused on 5G network security. The key products to be delivered through this 2-year project are: Automating the workflow for setting up 5G network-based...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $150,639 Project Grant to the University of Delaware under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research to develop a plausibly deniable encryption system for mobile devices that is robust against adversaries who can coerce users to reveal encrypted data. Specifically, the university will investigate using existing hardware features like flash translation layers and trust zones to create an...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $1,231,216 provides funding for Borough of Manhattan Community College to establish a pipeline program for students from historically underrepresented groups to gain technical skills in advanced mobile programming with an emphasis on cybersecurity and secure programming. The goal is to address workforce needs in the high-demand field of secure mobile application development in New York City and beyond. Specifically, the grant will support...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1.2M Project Grant to the University of Virginia under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to enhance the security and privacy of community cyberinfrastructures (CI) for collaborative research. This 3-year project focuses on developing advanced techniques to secure data management and computation within CI systems, including centralized computing, distributed computing, and data computation. The...

This $600,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop an anonymous mobile access architecture for next-generation mobile networks. The research aims to enable anti-tracking capabilities while using mobile networks by integrating decentralized identifiers and anonymous verifiable credential schemes into the 5G authentication and key agreement protocol. Key tasks include developing a secure callee discovery...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,995 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to develop novel security approaches for protecting field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) used in cloud computing environments. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to introduce secure operating mechanisms and a security and queue management unit (SQMU) to enable controlled sharing of FPGAs...

This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the University of California, Davis to address security vulnerabilities in cloud computing infrastructure and develop defenses against targeted microarchitectural attacks. Over a four-year period from July 2022 to June 2026, the university will conduct a comprehensive threat analysis of cloud schedulers and investigate software-based and...

This three-year, $225,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to develop security and privacy solutions for 5G and beyond cellular networks. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside, in collaboration with researchers in Japan, will pursue technical tasks to design a heterogeneous data plane framework combining multiple programmable data plane devices for network...