External Grants

CCSAD Research

Funded Research
Projects

This page lists external grants and funded research projects involving CCS faculty and collaborators.

2026
Starts 03/26

Tracing Deception and Misinformation Heuristics in LLMs via Causal Neural Circuit Discovery

PIs: Marc Langheinrich; Christina Pöpper. Collaborators: Francesco Sovrano; Michele Guerra.

2025
10/25–09/26

Electricity Fraud Detection in the UAE Using Monthly Consumption Patterns

PI: Michail Maniatakos.

09/25–08/26

AI-Powered Tariff Sensitivity and Predictive Resource Planning for Agriculture in the UAE

PI: Michail Maniatakos.

2024
11/24–10/26

Development of Hands-On Labs for Cybersecurity Training of Critical Infrastructure Employees

PI: Michail Maniatakos. Co-PI: Ramesh Karri, NYU Tandon.

07/24–12/25

Robust and Private Outsourced Machine Learning Using Cryptographic and Hardware Guarantees

PI: Michail Maniatakos. Co-PIs: Brent Kang, KAIST; Chinmay Hegde, NYU Tandon.

2023
10/23–06/24

Collaborative Learning Framework for the Integration of Clinical AI across Healthcare Facilities

Lead PI: Farah Shamout. Co-PI: Michail Maniatakos.

2022
12/22–11/25

Logic Locking for Zero Trust RISC-V System

PI: Ozgur Sinanoglu.

2022–2023

Transparent Security: Bringing to Life a Security Testing Platform for the 5G Radio Link

PI: Christina Pöpper.

01/22–12/26

VRI on Sustainability (Energy)

Lead PI: Sunil Kumar. Co-PI: Michail Maniatakos. Subcontract from Khalifa University of Science and Technology.

2021
01/21–07/24

TREBUCHET: Data Protection in Virtual Environments

PI: Michail Maniatakos. Co-PI: Brandon Reagan. Subcontract from Duality Technologies.

2021–2022

Multi-Modal Security Testing Platform for 5G User Equipment

PI: Christina Pöpper. Collaborators: Evangelos Bitsikas; David Rupprecht; Thorsten Holz.

2020
06/20–03/23

AISS Logic Locking

PIs: Ozgur Sinanoglu, NYU; Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Texas A&M; Yiorgos Makris, UT Dallas.

06/20–06/21

Embedded Security Challenge: An Education Initiative Focusing on Cybersecurity

PI: Michail Maniatakos. Co-PI: Ramesh Karri.

01/20–12/22

Cross-Layer Approaches for 5G Security

PI: Christina Pöpper.

2019
01/19–12/20

Cyber-Security Testbed for Smart-City Power Grid

PI: Michail Maniatakos. Co-PI: Ahmed Al Durra, Khalifa University.

2018
09/18–08/21

Provably Secure Scan Locking for Obfuscation of Test and Configuration Data

PI: Ozgur Sinanoglu.

06/18–12/19

ECLIPSE: Efficient Cross-Layered IP Protection SchemE

PIs: Ozgur Sinanoglu, NYU; Farinaz Koushanfar, UC San Diego; Yiorgos Makris, UT Dallas; Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Texas A&M.

11/18–08/19

Building Secure Systems for Aviation, Navigation, and Networked Infrastructures

PI: Christina Pöpper.

09/18–08/19

Covert Data Exfiltration from Internet-of-Things Devices

PI: Michail Maniatakos.

2017
10/17–09/18

Active Learning Based Learning Modules in Cyber Security

PI: Nasir Memon. Co-PI: Michail Maniatakos.

07/17–06/18

Programmable Logic Challenge: A Red Team–Blue Team Stress Test for State-of-the-Art PLC Defense

PI: Michail Maniatakos.

A Trust and Observation System for Communication Security in Aviation

PI: Christina Pöpper. Co-PI: Hoda AlKhzaimi.

2016
04/16–03/18

Provably Secure and Trustworthy Electronics

Investigators: Siddharth Garg; Ozgur Sinanoglu.

05/16–04/18

Low Power, Secure-By-Design Medical SoCs

PI: Ozgur Sinanoglu. Co-PI: Hani Saleh, KUSTAR.

08/16–07/20

TIGR: Threat Intelligence for Grid Recovery

PI: Ramesh Karri. Co-PIs: Michail Maniatakos; Farshad Khorrami. Subcontract from SRI.

09/16–04/18

Instrumentation for Vulnerability Assessment of Industrial Control Systems

PI: Michail Maniatakos. Co-PIs: Ramesh Karri; Farshad Khorrami.

2015
01/15–12/17

Security and Test Implications of NEMS

PI: Ozgur Sinanoglu. Co-PIs: Ramesh Karri; Davood Shahrjerdi.

06/15–05/18

Investigations Into IC Camouflaging

PI: Ozgur Sinanoglu. Co-PI: Ramesh Karri.

06/15–05/19

TwinLab on Hardware Security and Trust

PI: Ozgur Sinanoglu. Co-PI: Michail Maniatakos.

09/15–08/18

Belling the CAD: Towards Security-Centric Electronic System Level Design

PI: Ramesh Karri. Co-PI: Ozgur Sinanoglu.

09/15–08/19

Firmware Emulation Platform for Smart-Grid Devices

PI: Michail Maniatakos. Co-PI: Brendan Dolan-Gavitt.

04/15–05/19

Towards Automatic Vulnerability Assessment of Industrial Control Systems

PI: Michail Maniatakos. Co-PIs: Ramesh Karri; Farshad Khorrami.

09/15–08/16

Smart-Grid Extensions for Micro-Grids: Stability, Security and Privacy Challenges

PIs: Ahmed Al Durra; S. M. Muyeen. Co-PI: Michail Maniatakos.

2014
01/14–12/15

Platform Profiling in Legacy and Modern Control and Monitoring Systems

PI: Michail Maniatakos. Co-PI: Ramesh Karri.

2013
07/13–06/16

Hardware Security and Trust for Low Power Wireless SOC Nodes

PI: Ozgur Sinanoglu. Co-PI: Ramesh Karri.

09/13–08/16

Adapting Test Principles for VLSI Trust

PI: Ozgur Sinanoglu. Co-PI: Ramesh Karri.

09/13–08/15

Workload and Behavior Cognizant Cross-Layer Methodology for Low-Power Microprocessor Architectures

PI: Michail Maniatakos.

2012
09/12–08/14

Adaptive Test Strategies for Minimum Energy Electronic Systems

PI: Ozgur Sinanoglu. Co-PI: Sule Ozev, Arizona State University.