Recent External Cybersecurity Grants

Recent External Cybersecurity Grants

Below is a list of recent external funding awarded to UCF faculty for cybersecurity education and/or research.

  • National Science Foundation (NSF), CyberCorps Scholarship for Service at the University of Central Florida (Award#2042996, $2,885,353, 02/15/2021 to 01/31/2026). Cliff C. Zou (PI), Yan Solihin (Co-PI), Michael Posey (Co-PI), David Mohaisen (Co-PI), Yao Li (Co-PI).
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), CAREER: Inferring and Securing Software Configurations through Automated Reasoning (Award#1941816, $418,506,  06/01/2020  to  05/31/2025). Paul Gazzillo (PI). ​
  • Defense Adv Res Projects Agency (DARPA), YFA: Tracking Corporate Relationships at Scale with Automated Reasoning (Award#D21AP10111, $395,463,  06/04/2021 to 08/01/2023). Paul Gazzillo (PI).
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), RAPID: Exploring the Cyber Behaviors of Temporary Work-From-Home (TWFH) Employees (Award#2030845, $170,249, 06/01/2020 to 05/31/2021). Michael  Posey (PI).
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Scaling Secure Serverless Computing on Hetergeneous Datacenters (Award#2028836, $300,000, 10/01/2020 to 09/30/2022). Yan  Solihin (PI), Mubarak  Shah (Co-PI).
  • Sophos, Inc., Wifi-based IoT Device Profiling and User Privacy Attack/Defense ($30,000, 01/01/2020 to 12/31/2020). Yan Solihin (PI), Cliff Zou (Co-PI).
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), CRII: SaTC: Bottom-up psychosocial interventions for interpersonal privacy preservation in social media (Award#2053152, $190,600, 04/01/2021 to 03/31/2023). Mary  Amon (PI).
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), Collaborative Research: EAGER: Understanding Privacy Violations of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Online Photo Sharing (Award#2124741, $18,843, 05/15/2021 to 04/30/2022).  Mary  Amon (PI).
  • Lockheed Martin Corp., Cognitive offloading for MUM-T (Award#LMC#MRA20-001-RPP006 , $149,998, 10/2021 to 09/2023) Fiore, S. (PI), Mary Amon (Co-PI), Sukthankar, G. (Co-PI).
  • Army Research Laboratory, Multimethod assessment of attitudinal factors affecting process and performance in HAT (Award#W911NF2120279, $169,999, 09/2021 to 09/2022) Fiore, S. (PI), Amon, M. J. (Co-PI), Wright, J. (PI), Burke, S. (Co-PI).
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, Acceptance and use of wearable technology among hotel housekeepers to promote safety, health, and well-being in the hospitality industry ($7,347, 05/2021 to 04/2022).  Amon, M. J. (Co-PI), Mejia, C. (Co-PI), Shoss, M. (Co-PI), Horan, K. (Co-PI), Vietas, J. (Co-PI), & Kider, J. (Co-PI).
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), NSF Student Travel Grant for 2021 ACM CCS (Award#2140576, $25,000, 10/01/2021 to 09/30/2022). David Mohaisen (PI).
  • Millennium Corporation, Threat Systems Management Office’s (TSMO) Threat Cyberspace Operations Team (TCOT) ($83,215, 02/02/2021 to 08/02/2023). Bruce Caulkins (PI), Cliff Zou (Co-PI).
  • CyberFlorida, Multi-Layer and Systematic Analytics for Securing the Internet-of-Things ($75,000, 08/01/2020 to 06/30/2022). David Mohaisen (PI), My Thai (Co-PI).