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Aug 07, 2026 We have won a new NSF grant titled CyberAI Innovation: Modernizing IoT/Edge Cybersecurity Education for the Embodied AI Era through Experiential Learning and Research (Award #2623105)!
Jun 22, 2026 Ph.D. student Yanze Wu has been selected as a DAC Young Fellow at the 63rd Design Automation Conference (DAC 2026). Congratulations Yanze!
May 01, 2026 We have received new funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for two projects: GAIA (GPU Microarchitecture-Based Power Attacks and Countermeasures for AI Data Centers) and CASPER (Cyber-Analog Sensing for Protecting Critical Energy Infrastructure)!
Apr 11, 2026 Our paper titled “LiDAR Spoofing for Compromising SLAM on ROS2 Using Statistical Beam Adjustment & Temporal Modeling” has been accepted to the 2026 IEEE Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (HOST 2026)!
Apr 11, 2026 New paper alert: Yanze Wu’s paper “ATTINA: Spatial Acceleration of Additive NTT for Energy-Efficient zkSNARKs at the Edge” has been accepted at DAC 2026! Congratulations Yanze!
Jul 28, 2025 We have won a new NSF grant: SAGE: Secure Accelerators for Next-Generation Foundation Models (Award #2523805, $275K)! Dr. Arafin is PI on the Mason side.
Jul 08, 2025 We have won a new NSF CyberTraining grant: CyberSTAR: CyberTraining for Secure Transportation and Reliable Autonomy (Award #2519390, $200K)! Dr. Arafin is Lead PI on the Mason side.