Recent External Cybersecurity Grants

Recent External Cybersecurity Grants

Below is a list of external funding awarded to UCF faculty for cybersecurity research in the past 5 years:

NSF CCF-2423813: “Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Toward Understandability and Interpretability for Neural Language Models of Source Code”, $745,197, 01/15/2024 – 09/30/2027 (PI: Kevin Moran)
 
NSF CNS-2312206: “Collaborative Research: CSR: Medium: Scaling Secure Serverless Computing on Heterogeneous Datacenters”, $555,930, 10/01/2023 – 09/30/2027 (PI: Yan Solihin).                 
 
NSF OAC-2320974: “Collaborative Research: Implementation: Medium: Secure, Resilient Cyber-Physical Energy System Workforce Pathways via Data-Centric, Hardware-in-the-Loop Training”, $59,302, 09/15/2023 – 08/31/2027 (PI: Xueqiang Wang)
 
NSF DGE-2042996: "CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Workforce Training and Preparation in Cybersecurity and Privacy", $2,992,771, 02/2021 - 01/2026 (PI: Cliff Zou, Co-PI: Yan Solihin, David Mohaisen, Yao Li)
 
NSF DGE-2325452: “Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Creating Windows Advanced Memory Corruption Attack and Defense Teaching Modules”, $70,000, 08/01/2023 – 09/30/2026 (PI: Cliff Zou)
 
NSF CCF-1955853: “Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Bug Report Management 2.0”, $791,321, 10/01/2020 – 09/30/2025 (PI: Denys Poshyvanyk, Co-PI: Kevin Moran, Oscar Javier) 
 
NSF CCF-1941816: “CAREER: Inferring and Securing Software Configurations through Automated Reasoning”. $434,506 06/2020 – 06/2025 (PI: Paul Gazzillo)
 
Office of Naval Research, “Addressing Cross-PMO and Data-at­Rest Vulnerabilities in Persistent Memory”, $830,097, 01/01/2023 – 12/31/2025 (PI: Yan Solihin)
 
NSF CNS-2235136: “Collaborative Research: CCRI: Planning-C: An Infrastructure and Dataset for Research in Android Testing & Analysis”, $66,250, 05/15/2023 – 10/31/2025 (PI: Wing Lam, Co-PI: Kevin Moran)
 
Intel Corp.: “Exploring Lazy Persistency and its Hardware/Software Support for Non-Volatile Main Memory”, $45,000, 09/05/2018 – 09/04/2025 (PI: Yan Solihin)
 
NSF CCRI-2234909 Collaborative Research: CCRI: Planning-C: A Community for Configurability Open Research and Development (ACCORD) $49,869, 06/01/2023 – 11/30/2024 (PI: Paul Gazzillo).
 
Department of Defense. “Threat Systems Management Offices (TSMO) Threat Cyberspace Operations Team (TCOT)”, $176,330, 02/02/2021 – 11/30/2024 (PI: Bruce Caulkins, Co-PI: Fuzzy Wells, Cliff Zou)
 
NSF CCF-2007246: “SHF: Small: Towards a Holistic Causal Model for Continuous Software Traceability”, $500,000, 10/01/2020 – 09/30/2024 (PI: Denys Poshyvanyk, Co-PI: Kevin Moran, Wing Lam)
 
DARPA Young Faculty Award: “Tracking Corporate Relationships at Scale with Automated Reasoning. $490,927. 06/04/2021– 02/01/2024, (PI: Paul Gazzillo).
 
NSF CNS-2132285: “Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Enabling Data-Driven Security and Safety Analyses for Cyber-Physical Systems”, $382,423, 01/01/2022 – 12/31/2024, (PI: Kevin Moran)
 
Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Republic of the Indonesia: “Adaptive and Robust Neural Network (for Edge Architecture)”, $15,000, 04/03/2024 – 12/31/2024 (PI: Yan Solihin)
 
Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Republic of the Indonesia: “Real-time and Resilient DNN Deployment in Edge System”. $30,000, 2/9/2023 - 1/1/2024 (PI: Yan Solihin)
 
Lockheed Martin Corp. “Investigating the Feasibility of Providing Secure GPU Enclaves”, $95,238, 07/01/2022 - 12/01/2023 (PI: Yan Solihin)
 
Cisco Advanced Security Research Group Award, “Neural-based Code Search and Refactoring”, $50,000, 2022-2023 (PI: Kevin Moran, unrestricted gift)
 
Dragon Testing Ltd. Research Award, “Toward Automated Human-like Testing of Android Apps via Imitation Learning”, $60,000, 2022-2023 (PI: Kevin Moran, co-PI: Wing Lam, unrestricted gift)
 
Advanced Micro Devices Corp. “Secure Execution Environment Design on GPUs”, $50,000, 2022-2024 (PI: Yan Solihin)
 
NSF CNS-2106629: “Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Understanding and Strengthening Memory Security for Non-Volatile Memory”. $349,954, 10/01/2021-09/30/2025, (PI: Yan Solihin)
 
NSF DGE-1915780: "SaTC: EDU: Collaborative: Building a Low-cost and State-of-the-art IoT Security Hands-on Laboratory", $388,175, 10/01/2019-09/30/2023 (PI: Cliff Zou, Co-PI: Yan Solihin, Xinwen Fu).   
 
Office of Naval Research: “Persistent Memory Object Security” (PI: Yan Solihin, $665,909, 12/01/2019 – 11/30/2022)
 
NSF CFF-2028836: “Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Scaling Secure Serverless Computing on Heterogeneous Datacenters” (PI: Yan Solihin, $83,557, 10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022)
 
National Research Foundation (Korea): “Big data approach to analyzing, characterizing, and defending against the distributed denial of service attacks: phase 2”, $704,122, 2020-2022 (PI: David Mohaisen)
 
CyberFlorida: “Multi-Layer and Systematic Analytics for Securing the Internet-of-Things”, $75,000, 2020-2022 (PI: David Mohaisen)
 
US Army PEO STRI: "Supporting the Development of the PCTE", $269,914, 09/28/2019 - 09/27/2022 (PI: Bruce Caulkins, Co-PI: Glenn Martin, Morgan Wang, Cliff Zou)
 
NSF CCF-1840934 SHF: Small: Collaborative Research: Static Analysis Infrastructure for Variability-Aware Bug Detection and Translation of Highly-Configurable Software Systems. $229,087, 10/01/2018 – 09/30/2022 (PI: Paul Gazzillo).
 
Cisco Advanced Security Research Group Award, “Automated Code Review for Measuring and Improving Software Maintainability”, $50,000, 2021-2022 (PI: Kevin Moran, unrestricted gift)
 
NSF CNS-2140576: “NSF Student Travel Grant for 2021 ACM CCS”, $25,000, 10/01/2021 – 09/30/2023 (PI: David Mohaisen)
 
Sophos Inc.: “Wifi-based IoT Device Profiling and User Privacy Attack/Defense” ($30,000, PI: Yan Solihin, Co-PI: Cliff Zou, 01/01/2020 - 12/31/2024)
 
NSF DGE-1723587: "SaTC: EDU: Online Digital Forensics Courses and Labs for Students and Professionals", ($298,955,  PI: Yier Jin; Co-PI: Cliff Zou, 09/01/2017 – 08/31/2020)
 
National Research Foundation (Korea): “Big data approach to analyzing, characterizing, and defending against the distributed denial of service attacks: phase 1”, $1,095,723, 2017-2020 (PI: David Mohaisen)