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)
Our center has also supported the following past projects since our founding in 2014:
- Army Research Lab, MACRO: Models for Enabling Continuous Reconfigurability of Secure Missions (2013 - 2023)
- 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.
- 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.
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NSF CAREER Secure and Reliable Outsourced Storage Systems Using Remote Data Checking (2011 - 2017)
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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.