grants
Funded research, education, and workforce-development projects.
Active Grants at George Mason University
Investigating hardware security vulnerabilities in AI accelerators and developing countermeasures for safe deployment of large foundation models on shared or untrusted hardware.
Investigating cybersecurity threats in connected and autonomous transportation systems, including vehicular network attacks, intrusion detection, and secure design methods; building a shared open-source testbed and training infrastructure for automotive security research.
CyberAI Innovation: Modernizing IoT/Edge Cybersecurity Education for the Embodied AI Era through Experiential Learning and Research
NSFInvestigating cybersecurity and system-design challenges of deploying foundation models on resource-constrained IoT and edge devices in the embodied AI era, including securing unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and robots operating with on-edge intelligence.
CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: EAGLE: Empowering American Government Leadership in Cybersecurity through Education
NSFNSF CyberCorps scholarship-for-service program preparing students for federal cybersecurity roles, supporting scholarships, stipends, and professional development at GMU.
Uncovering GPU microarchitecture-based power side-channel vulnerabilities in AI data center hardware and developing practical hardware countermeasures.
Developing cyber-analog sensing techniques that detect and prevent cyberattacks on power grid and critical energy infrastructure through physical-layer anomaly detection.
ANCHOR: Analog–Cyber Sensing for Secure Energy Infrastructure
4-VACross-institutional research on analog-domain sensing for detecting cyberattacks targeting energy infrastructure, in collaboration with the University of Virginia.
Completed Grants at George Mason University
Securing edge-based multi-robot communication and navigation against adversarial attacks, focusing on resilient coordination in GPS-denied and contested environments.
Developing hardware authentication and watermarking techniques to secure chiplet-based semiconductor supply chains against counterfeiting and hardware Trojans.
Creating RF fingerprinting methods to verify component authenticity in 5G and NextG open radio access networks, addressing open-source supply chain vulnerabilities.
Prior Grants (Morgan State University)
Designing a processor with formally verified instruction-level security properties, providing hardware roots of trust for secure computation in embedded systems.
CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Secure Embedded Systems
NSFScholarship-for-service program at Morgan State University building the next generation of cybersecurity professionals with expertise in secure embedded and hardware systems.
Cyber-Assessment of AI/ML Tools
ARLISAssessing the cybersecurity posture and adversarial robustness of AI/ML tools deployed in intelligence and security contexts.
Secure Autonomous Navigation Under Adversarial Attacks
NSAAnalyzing vulnerabilities in autonomous navigation systems to adversarial attacks and developing secure navigation algorithms for safety-critical platforms.
Specification-Based Anomaly Detection for Embedded Devices
NASADeveloping specification-based anomaly detection techniques for embedded devices deployed in space and mission-critical environments, in collaboration with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
