Center for Cryptology and Information Security Grants

• Post-Quantum Cryptographic Protocols with Advanced Functionalities
  5/15/2026 - 4/30/2029 
  PI: Edoardo Persichetti, Co-PI(s): Veronika Kuchta, Jason LeGrow
  Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
  
  
• CyberCorps Scholarship for Service
  3/1/2024 - 2/28/2029 
  PI: Hari Kalva,  Co-PI(s): Nancy Romance, Hanqi Zhuang, Nataliia Neshenko, Francesco Sica
  Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
  
  
• CAREER: Concrete Hardness in Lattice-based Cryptography
  5/15/2021 - 4/30/2026
  PI: Shi Bai
  Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
  
  
• AMS Young Scholars Program Award 2025 (CryptoTeens in South Florida)
  3/27/2025 - 10/15/2025
  PI: Veronika Kuchta
  Funding Agency: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
  
  
• Crytographic Hardness of Module Lattices
  10/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
  PI: Shi Bai
  Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
  
  
• Young CryptograpHers Summer Camp
  5/3/2024 - 5/31/2025
  PI: Veronika Kuchta
  Funding Agency: Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
  
  
• Young Scholars Program Award 2024 (Young CryptograpHers Summer Camp)
  3/21/2024 - 3/31/2025
  PI: Edoardo Persichetti
  Funding Agency: American Mathematical Society
  
  
• Exploring Innovative Approaches for Post-Quantum Authentication
  9/16/2022 - 9/16/2024
  PI: Edoardo Persichetti
  Funding Agency: National Security Agency (NSA)
  
  
• CAREERS in Cybersecurity: Coalescing All Resources for Engagement, Enrollment, and Readiness of Students in Cybersecurity
  7/1/2022 - 8/15/2023
  PI: Nancy Romance, Co-PI: Hari Kalva, Nataliia Neshenko, Edoardo Persichetti, Stella Batalama
  Funding Agency: State of Florida
  
  
• Determining Cryptographic Security Margins in the Presence of Quantum Computing
  9/1/2020 - 8/31/2022
  PI: Rainer Steinwandt, Edoardo Persichetti
  Funding Agency: National Security Agency (NSA)
  
  
• Secure and Efficient Solutions for Post-Quantum Cryptography for Codes with Compact Representations 7/1/2019 - 6/30/2022
  PI: Edoardo Persichetti
  Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
  
  
• Lattice Algorithms for Post-Quantum Cryptography
  12/15/2018 - 12/14/2021
  PI: Shi Bai, Co-PI: Rainer Steinwandt
  Funding Agency: NIST
  
  
• A Platform for the Evaluation of Post-Quantum Primitives
  12/15/2018 - 12/14/2020
  PI: Edoardo Persichetti, Co-PIs: Shi Bai, Koray Karabina, Rainer Steinwandt
  Funding Agency: NIST
  
  
• Emerging Side-Channel Resistant and Resource-Friendly Elliptic Curve Algorithms and Architectures
   5/1/2017 - 4/30/2020
  PI: Reza Azarderakhsh, Co-PI: Koray Karabina
  Funding Agency: US Army
  
  
• Studie Entwicklungsstand Quantencomputer / Study development of the quantum computer
  1/10/2017 - 1/9/2020
  PI: Rainer Steinwandt
  Funding Agency: Saarland University (GER)/ German Federal Office for Information Security
  
  
• Privacy-Aware Wearable-Assisted Continuous Authentication Framework
  8/15/2017 - 7/31/2019
  PI: Koray Karabina
  Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
  
  
• Development of a Blockchain Oriented Security Class
  7/01/2018 - 12/31/2019
  PI: Koray Karabina
  Funding Agency: Cyber Florida
  
  
• Secure Communication in the Quantum Era
  Approved  Mar 2018
  Co-Director US: Rainer Steinwandt
  Funding Agency: NATO SPS
  
  
• Online Modules for Emerging Topics in Cryptography
  PI: Jean-François Biasse (USF), Co-PI: Rainer Steinwandt
  
  
• Young CryptograpHERS: a Cybersecurity Summer Camp for K-12 Girls
  PI: Edoardo Persichetti, Co-PI(s): Shi Bai and Rainer Steinwandt