Research Projects

Research Projects

Our center is currently supporting the following projects, together with our collaborators.

Projects
  • Split-Trust architecture for strengthening mobile security (2023 - present)
    • Collaborators: UC Irvine
    • The project aims to enhance the security of mobile platforms through minimize the number and complexity of hardware and software components that a smartphone owner needs to trust.
  • NSF Understanding the Impact of Privacy Interventions on the Online Publishing Ecosystem (2023 - present)
    • Collaborators: CMU, Cornell, MTSM @ NJIT
    • This project integrates technical, organizational, behavioral, and economic studies to investigate how the implementation of privacy interventions impacts publishers, their users, and various downstream economic outcomes.
  • gittuf (2023 - present)
    • Collaborators: NYU
    • This project seeks to improve the security of Git, by decentralizing Git security and enabling every user to contribute to collectively enforce a repository’s security.
  • Compliance as a Service (CaSE): A Reflective Approach to Enforcing User Privacy Regulations (2023 - present)
    • Collaborators: UC Irvine, UC Davis
    • This project seeks to enable transforming existing data infrastructures to comply with user data protection legislation and regulations.
  • NSF in-toto (2018 - present)
    • Collaborators: NYU
    • This project seeks to secure the software development and distribution supply chain.
  • The NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (funded by NSF) (2016 - present)
  • Army Research Lab, MACRO: Models for Enabling Continuous Reconfigurability of Secure Missions (2013 - present)
    • Collaborators: Penn State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University, UC Riverside, UC Davis
    • This project seeks to advance the theoretical foundations of cyber science in the context of US Army networks.

Our center has also supported the following past projects since our founding in 2014:

  • NSF Theory and Practice of Cryptosystems Secure Against Subversion (2018 - 2022)
    • Collaborators: UConn, JHU, VCU
    • This project aims to systematically study cryptography against subversion to lay down its scientific foundation, and to leverage architectural tools to harden existing secure protocols.
  • NSF Improving Android Security with Dynamic Slicing (2016 - 2021)
    • Collaborators: UC Riverside
    • This project focuses on dynamic slicing for Android and security applications of slicing.
  • AFRL: B2CSM (2019 - 2020)
    • Collaborators: UTSA
    • This project aims to provide a study and prototype implementation of blockchain based cybersecurity management systems.
  • Google Faculty Research Award (2019 - 2020)
    • Collaborators: VCU, Google
    • This project aims to study secure multiparty computation in the face of malicious implementations.
  • IARPA HECTOR VERONA (2019 - 2020)
    • This project focuses on enabling easy deployment of secure computation.
  • DARPA YFA MARSHAL (2017 - 2020)
    • This project is developing new approaches to port open source libraries to new systems environments.
  • Sloan Foundation REVET (2017 - 2019)
    • Collaborators: MIT, University of Michigan
    • This project is developing a prototype application of advanced cryptography for computing on social science data.
  • DARPA SafeWare PALISADE (2015 - 2019)
    • Collaborators: MIT, UCSD, Raytheon BBN Technologies
    • This project is providing the first-ever implementations of cryptographically secure program obfuscation techniques.
  • DARPA SafeWare OPERA (2015 - 2019)
    • Collaborators: Applied Communication Sciences (ACS) / Vencore Labs, Raytheon BBN Technologies
    • This project has provided the first-ever prototype proof-of-concept applications of cryptographically secure program obfuscation techniques.
  • DARPA Toto (2015 - 2018)
    • This project seeks to secure the software development and distribution supply chain.
    • Collaborator: NYU
  • IARPA RAMPARTS (2016 - 2017)
    • Collaborator: Galois, Inc.
    • This project has provided groundbreaking techniques for applied encrypted computing.

  • NSF CAREER Secure and Reliable Outsourced Storage Systems Using Remote Data Checking (2011 - 2017) 

  • NSF Avatar: Mobile Distributed Computing in the Cloud (2014 - 2018)

  • NSA CAE PARAPET (2015 - 2016)
    • This project has provided first-ever prototypes for cryptographically secure distributed data sharing based on post-quantum encryption
  • DARPA PROCEED (2014 - 2015)
    • Collaborators: Raytheon BBN Technologies, Georgia Tech
    • This project resulted in some of the earliest and most advanced software and hardware implementations of homomorphic encryption.