Grants | Institute of Networking Security and Research

PI, Enabling True Virtual Reality on Mobile Devices, NSF, $300,000, 7/1/2022 – 6/30/2025.
PI, NPU-based Architecture for Accelerating Deep Learning on Mobile Devices, NSF, $500,000, 10/1/2021-9/30/2024.
Co-PI (With La Porta and Araujo), Learning in Agile SDN-based Honeynets, Army Research Lab, $1.5 million. 2020-2023. (This is part of the CRA project).
PI, “Energy-Aware and QoE-Aware Video Streaming on Mobile Devices, NSF, $500,000, 9/1/2018-5/31/2022.
Co-PI (with other 15 people), Collaborative Technology Alliance Network Sciences Communications Network Academic Research Center, Army Research Lab, $35M. 2009-2019.
PI, Resource-Aware Crowdsourcing inWireless Networks, NSF, $503,522, 10/1/2014- 9/30/2017.
PI, Resilient and Efficient Data Access in Cognitive Radio Networks, NSF, $460,762, 10/1/2013-12/31/2016.
PI (With La Porta), Efficient Energy-Aware Web Browsing in Wireless Networks, NSF, $406,000, 9/1/2012-8/31/2015.

PI, Sign-to-Speech: An Edge-IoT Platform and Software Library for Real Time Sign Language Recognition, NSF, $500,000, 3/1/2021 – 2/28/2026
PI, I-Corps:One ring to rule them all: A smartring for finger motion analytics and healthcare applications, NSF, $50,000, 9/1/2023 – 8/31/2024
Co-PI (with other 2 people), SHF: Medium: Exploring an Edge Platform Design Trajectory for Next Generation XR, NSF, $1,200,000, 10/1/2022 – 9/30/2025
PI, CNS Core: Small: Collaborative Research: IoTScope: Sensing Physical Materials via Inexpensive IoT Radios, NSF, $250,000, 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2024
Co-PI (with other 1 person), CNS Core: Medium: When Next Generation Wireless Networks Meet Machine Learning, NSF, $800,000, 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2024
PI, CNS Core: Small: Collaborative Research: A Motion Tracking Library for Sports Analytics, NSF, $250,000, 10/1/2019 – 9/30/2023

Collaborative Technology Alliance Network Sciences Communications Network Academic Research Center, Overall PI and Center Director ARL, $35M, 2009–2018 (renewed in 2014). (Penn State Amount for 9/08–9/16 is $7.7M).
HDTRA1-10-1-0085: State Estimation and Optimal Recovery in networks with Massive Disruption and Cascading Failures, PI (Co-PI: Cao and Swami [US-ARL]), Defense Threat Reduction Agency, (option years added in 2014) $1,650,000, 8/10–5/16.
International Technology Alliance, US Army Research Lab & UK Ministry of Defense, PI, $2.5M, 5/06–5/16. Collaborative Research Alliance, Co-PI (PI: McDaniel), ARL, up to $48M ($600K for La Porta), 2013–2022.

PI, Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Foundations and Scalable Algorithms for Personalized and Collaborative Virtual Reality Over Wireless Networks,NSF,10/1/2021 – 09/30/2025
PI, CAREER: Wireless Collaborative Mixed Reality Networking: Foundations and Algorithms for Joint Communication, Computation, and Learning, NSF, 05/15/2020 – 05/14/2025

Senior Personnel, Convergence Accelerator: Track G: Securely Operating Through 5G Infrastructure – Phase I (NSF/DoD, $750,000, 8/1/2022-7/31/2023)

PI, Inference and Control in Overlay Networks (NSF, $600,000, 10/1/2021-9/30/2025)

PI, Adversarial Network Reconnaissance in Software Defined Networking (NSF, $575,000, 3/15/2020-2/28/2024)

Co-PI, Coupled cAscade Modeling, Prevention, and Recovery (CAMPR): When Graph Theory Meets Trajectory Sensitivity (NSF, $999,000, 9/1/2018-8/31/2023)

PI, Data Reduction for Communication-efficient Machine Learning (ARL – DAIS ITA, $352,209, 1/18/2018-9/14/2021)

PI, Adversarial Network Tomography: Inferring Network State from Manipulated End-to-end Measurements (NSF, $170,000, 10/1/2018-9/30/2021)

Task lead, Network Tomography in Multi-domain Networks (ARL – NIS ITA, $1,500,000, 2013-2016)

Primary researcher, Joint Routing and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing (ARL – NIS ITA, $1,200,000, 2013-2016)

Task lead, Measurement Science in Cloud Computing (NIST, $1,500,000, 2010-2013)

Task lead, Controlled Mobility in Delay-Tolerant Networks (ARL – NIS ITA, $600,000, 2009-2011)

Senior Personnel, ” NSF/DoD Convergence Accelerator (Phase 1) on 5G Security: NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: Combating Vulnerability and Unawareness in 5G Network Security: Signaling and Full-Stack Approach”,NSF,$60,000,2022-2024

PI, “NSF CNS Large: Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Large: Systems and Verifiable Metrics for Sustainable Data Centers”,NSF,$666,385 (Penn State: $206,598.00),2022-2026

PI, “NSF CAREER: Principled Approaches to Securing Next Generation Cellular Networks”,NSF,$557,183,2022-2027

PI, “DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA): Automated Reasoning and Repairing Framework for Systematic Assurance of 5G RAN System”,DARPA,$500,000,2022-2024

Co-PI, “Penn State CSRE: Adoption of “Smart” Agricultural Irrigation Systems: Assessing and Mitigating Cybersecurity Threats to U.SFood, Water, And Energy Reserve. “,CSRE (Penn State),$30,000 (My Share: $10,000), 2022-2024

NSF CNS-1956032: Automatic Software Patching against Microarchitectual Attacks. Co-Principal Investigator. With Danfeng Zhang (PI), Mahumut Kandemir, and Dinghao Wu. $500,000. 2020–2023.
DARPA HR0011-19-C-0073 (Defense Advanced Research Projects Oﬃce): SPARTA—the Secure Parser Toolkit for Assurance. Principal Investigator. Subcontractor to Galois Inc.. My group’s portion: $1,020,327. 2019–2023.
DARPA HR0011-19-C-0106 (Defense Advanced Research Projects Oﬃce): Secure Handling of Isolated Executables without Leaking Data (SHIELD). Principal Investigator. With Trent Jaeger (Co-PI). Subcontractor to Perspecta Labs. Penn state portion: $650,000. 2019–2024.
NSF CNS-1900873: Automated IoT Safety and Security Analysis and Synthesis. Co-Principal Investigator. With Patrick McDaniel (PI). $1,199,869. My group’s portion: $600,000. 2019–2023.
NSF CNS-1801534: Threat-Aware Defense: Evaluating Threats for Continuous Improvement. Co-Principal Investigator. Collaborative research with Trent Jaeger and Matthias Payer. $1,200,000. My group’s portion: $400,000. 2018–2022.
NSF CCF-1723571: Lightweight Abstract Memory Features. Principal Investigator. Collaborative research with Mike Spear and Xiaochen Guo at Lehigh, and Aviral Shrivastava at Arizona State. Jointly supported by NSF and Intel. $2,000,000. My group’s portion: $500,000. 2017–2020.
ONR (Oﬃce of Naval Research) N00014-17-1-2539: Semantics-Directed Binary Reverse Engineering and Transformation Validation. Principal Investigator. $500,000. 2017–2020.
NSF CNS-1408826: Retroﬁtting Software for Defense-in-Depth. Principal Investigator. Collaborative research with Trent Jaeger at Penn State, Vinod Ganapathy at Rutgers, and Christian Skalka at U. of Vermont. $1,200,000. My group’s portion: $300,000. 2014–2018.
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Oﬃce) N6600117C4052: Automatic Generation of Anti-Speciﬁcations from Exploits for Scalable Program Hardening. Principal Investigator. Subcontractor to Virginia Tech. My group’s portion:$190,000. 2017–2018.
AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory) FA8750-14-C-0179: SLICE: Secure Lightweight Cloud Computing Environment. Principal Investigator. Subcontractor to Intelligent Automation Inc.. $30,000. 2014–2015.
NSF CCF-1217710: Reusable Tools for Formal Modeling of Machine Code. Principal Investigator. Collaborative research with Greg Morrisett at Harvard. $477,495. My group’s portion: $258,785. 2012–2015. REU supplement: $16,000.
NSF CAREER CCF-1149211: User-Space Protection Domains for Compositional Information Security. Principal Investigator, NSF, $483,125, 2012–2017.
Google Research Award: A Fully Certiﬁed Native Client Veriﬁer. Principal Investigator. $50,100. 2012–2013.
Google Research Award: Native Client with Trustworthy Veriﬁer and Stronger Security. Principal Investigator. $60,000. 2010–2011.
NSF CCF-0915157: Securing Multilingual Software Systems. Principal Investigator. Collaborative research with Greg Morrisett at Harvard. CCF-0915157. $480,131. My group’s portion: $265,048. 2009–2012. REU supplement: $16,000.
NSF IIS-0854606: Structuring, Reasoning, and Querying in a Very Large Medical Image Database. Principal Investigator. Collaborative Research with Xiaolei Huang and Dan Lopresti at Lehigh, and George Nagy at RPI. $392,000. My group’s portion: $54,464. 2008–2011.

PI, National Science Foundation (NSF), Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS) core program, ‘‘Collaborative Research: Optimized Testing Strategies for Fighting Pandemics: Fundamental Limits and Efficient Algorithms’’.
PI, National Science Foundation (NSF), Computer and Network Systems (CNS) core program, ‘‘Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Timely Computing and Learning over Communication Networks’’.
PI, National Science Foundation (NSF), Computer and Network Systems (CNS) core program, ‘‘CNS Core: Medium: When Next Generation Wireless Networks Meet Machine Learning’’.
PI, National Science Foundation (NSF), Spectrum and Wireless Innovation enabled by Future Technologies (SWIFT) program, ‘‘Learning-Efficient Spectrum Access for No-Sensing Devices in Shared Spectrum’’.
PI, National Science Foundation (NSF) and Intel, Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS) program, ‘‘Dino-RL: A Domain Knowledge Enriched Reinforcement Learning Framework for Wireless Network Optimization’’.
Co-PI, Department of Energy (DOE), ‘‘Machine Learning Approaches to Predicting Induced Seismicity and Imaging Geothermal Reservoir Properties’’, Phase I and Phase II.

Co-PI, SHF: Small: Towards Obfuscation-Resilient Software Plagiarism Detection, CCF-1320605, Project Dates: 8/1/2013 – 7/31/2016, $500,000. Co-PIs: D. Wu and P. Liu.