Project Grant STC10018GR29A1

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, awarded a $887,772 Project Grant under CFDA 93.262 Occupational Safety and Health Program to Applied Design Technologies, Inc. in Pullman, Michigan. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will fund the development of the CLEARWORKS PARTICULATE RESPIRATOR over a 2-year period ending on August 31, 2026. The project aims to advance worker safety and health through...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) grant award in the amount of $299,998 to the Dominguez Hills Foundation at California State University, Dominguez Hills supports the development of privacy-preserving anonymization methods for biometric data from clinical and wearable sources. The project aims to create modular and scalable AI-based techniques to sanitize bio-signals and preserve patient privacy while retaining...

Refined Imaging, LLC was awarded a $200,000 cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach federal grant program to develop a secure, printable ink technique for cyber-tracking additive manufactured parts. The company will conduct proof of concept experiments to program 3D printers to modulate material porosity during deposition, resulting in an optically invisible patterned code that can be...

This Project Grant award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Investigations and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.283) provides $399,148 to Inspire RX LLC in Ann Arbor, Michigan to develop a patient-worn negative pressure system to protect healthcare workers from the spread of highly transmissible infectious diseases. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The CDC program supports public health initiatives focused on controlling communicable...

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...

This $149,156 project grant, awarded on October 1, 2023 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, will fund the development of custom hardware accelerators for privacy-preserving image processing using homomorphic encryption. The key products to be delivered include: Hardware accelerators for homomorphic encryption-based noise cancellation and contrast enhancement of images, leveraging numerical approaches for division and min/max...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, provides $250,000 in funding to Arizona State University to develop intelligent anonymization methods for preserving the privacy of clients' bio-signals while retaining data utility for clinical purposes. The key products and services delivered through this 3-year award (10/1/2024 - 9/30/2027) include: 1) Designing reinforcement learning-guided generative...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $134,303 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to investigate and address security challenges in immersive multimedia systems, such as volumetric video, virtual reality, and augmented reality. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) demonstrate that state-of-the-art face authentication systems can be compromised...

This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of advanced, privacy-preserving generative AI models for anonymizing biometric signals. The project aims to create modular and scalable anonymization methods suitable for both clinical and wearable device bio-signals, which can be customized for diverse demographics and health conditions. This will help preserve...

This federal Project Grant award of $912,573 from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867), supports the further development and clinical testing of the ID2 smart eye drop cap monitor device. The ID2 device is designed to accurately track when a patient removes an eye drop bottle cap, wirelessly communicate usage data to researchers, and provide dosage alerts to improve medication adherence for patients with glaucoma and other chronic eye conditions...