Project Grant W911NF2410167

This three-year, $425,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at The Pennsylvania State University to develop provably secure, online learning-based adaptive cyber defenses for real-world servers. The research aims to provide mathematically rigorous guarantees by synthesizing new models integrating machine learning, game theory, and control theory. It will...

This $200,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at Michigan State University to develop data-driven modeling techniques for securing cyber-physical systems. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the two-year award will create automated strategies using reinforcement learning to characterize attacker intent. Researchers will integrate defense approaches combining game theory, reinforcement learning and Bayesian...

This $155,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to enhance the performance of machine learning-based security classifiers by addressing data challenges. The project aims to develop generative AI methods to create synthetic data for network and application security tasks, in order to overcome issues with unbalanced training datasets and evolving cyberthreats. The two-year award to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $299,905 Project Grant to Loyola University of Chicago to develop and evaluate a comprehensive 12-workshop experiential training program to raise awareness among AI practitioners of the cybersecurity and privacy risks associated with building AI-based systems. The project aims to provide knowledge and skills needed to build AI systems that are secure, ethical, and privacy-preserving. The workshop...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of new optimization approaches for machine learning problems. The $600,000 award to the University of Wisconsin-Madison beginning October 1, 2022 will advance optimization algorithms and analysis techniques for convex-concave minimax problems incorporating sparsity or regularity....

This $658,169 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will support the 2022 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigators Meeting hosted by Vanderbilt University from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2023. The meeting is part of the NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program, which takes a socio-technical approach to cybersecurity research across multiple directorates. The $658,169 in funding will cover conference logistics including venue, registration,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating through its Sponsored Projects Administration Division. The 3-year grant, awarded on February 1, 2024, supports research to address open questions in algorithmic game theory and its applications to online markets and platforms. Key research objectives include developing new...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $299,962 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado-Denver. The project aims to develop a gamified education platform centered around story-driven educational hacking games to attract Generation Z to the cybersecurity workforce. The platform will utilize...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to characterize the vulnerabilities of learning-based controllers in networked cyber-physical systems (CPS). The $149,985 award will enable the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to develop real-time reward manipulation schemes, multi-level attack strategies, and data-enabled detection methods to...

This Project Grant award of $300,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund a research project titled "GAMIFIED BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENTS FOR RESPONSIBLE AND SECURE COLLABORATION" at Clemson University. The project aims to create a gamified behavioral experiment to establish baseline rates for security compliance behaviors and understand researchers' decision-making around research security policies. The research will involve...