Ongoing Funded Projects

  1. “SFS: Cyber-Centric Multidisciplinary Security Workforce Development,” NSF, $4,634,626, PI, 08/01/2019 – 07/31/2024
  2. “Securing Cognitive Edge Computing for Healthcare,” DoEd, PI, $767,400, 10/01/2018 – 09/31/2021
  3. “Application-Specific Asynchronous Deep Learning IC Design for Ultra-Low Power,” NSF, PI, $199,976, 09/01/2020 – 08/31/2023
  4. “Multilevel Cybersecurity for Photovoltaic Systems,” DOE, co-PI, $4,591,035, 04/01/2020 – 03/31/2023
  5. “Asynchronous Polymorphic Secure IPs,” DARPA, PI, $599,586, 05/01/2020 – 04/30/2024
  6. “MRI: Acquisition of High-Temperature Semiconductor Processing Equipment to Support Research and Education in Power, Energy and Material Sciences,” NSF, co-PI, $580,292, 08/01/2020 – 07/31/2023
  7. “Hardware-in-the-loop and Remotely-Accessible/Configurable/Programmable Internet of Things (IoT) Testbeds,” NSF, PI, $350,599, 08/01/2020 – 07/31/2023
  8. “Bespoke Asynchronous Silicon-Accelerated LWE Intrinsics via Software/Hardware Codesign (BASALISC),” DARPA subcontract through Galois, PI, $360,000, 02/01/2021 – 07/31/2024
  9. “Building Research Infrastructure and Workforce in Edge AI,” NSF, PI, $800,219, 08/01/2022 – 07/31/2026
  10. “Cyber Scholarship Program (CySP) at University of Arkansas,” NSA, PI, $68,460

Past Funded Projects

  1. “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Integratable, Composable and Evolvable Cybersecurity in Energy Delivery Systems,” DOE, $15,290,588, Associate Director for Technology Integration, 10/01-2015 – 12/31/2021
  2. “GOALI: Extreme Environment Microcontrollers,” NSF, $349,198, PI, 09/01/2016 – 08/31/2021
  3. “Novel Temperature Sensors and Wireless Telemetry for Active Condition Monitoring,” DOE, co-PI, $473,940, 09/01/2017 – 07/31/2021
  4. “RESULTS: Reverse Engineering Solutions on Ubiquitous Logic for Trustworthiness and Security,” NSF, PI, $349,351, 08/01/2017 – 07/31/2021
  5. “Development of a dual 250kW power inverter system for heavy equipment and other high volume transportation applications,” DOE, co-PI, $2,705,416, 01/01/2018 – 09/30/2021
  6. “ARES PUF,” Radiance Technologies, Inc., PI, $530,000, 11/20/2018 – 08/21/2021
  7. “Real-Time Fault Detection in Access Control Rules Using Logic Circuits,” NIST, co-PI, $79,980, 09/01/2020 – 02/28/2022
  8. “Multi-Key Crypto Module Enabled by Asynchronous Polymorphic Circuits,” AFRL subcontract through Nanomatronix, PI, $16,479, 04/15/2021 – 07/14/2021
  9. “Efficient Neuromorphic Processor Design for Autonomous Space Operation,” NASA subcontract through Nanomatronix, PI, $25,151, 08/31/2020 – 02/28/2021
  10. “Robust Ensemble Generation from Distilled Feature Transforms (REG-DFT),” DARPA, PI, $74,759, 09/01/2019 – 03/31/2021
  11. “Student Cross-Training Opportunities for Combining Food aand Cybersecurity into an Academic Food  Systems Education Program,” USDA, co-PI, $149,890, 03/01/2018 – 02/28/2021
  12. “Structural Checking for Ensuring Root-of-Trust,” MIT Lincoln Lab, PI, $74,999, 11/15/2018 – 11/14/2019
  13. “Enabling Proactive Mitigation of Environmental Stress in Crops and Efficient Use of Resource through In-Plant Sensing,” University of Arkansas, PI, $179,498, 09/25/2017 – 03/24/2020
  14. “Access Control Frameworks for Distributed Processing Systems and Access Control Policy Tool Enhancement,” NIST, $49,999, co-PI, 08/01/2017 – 07/31/2018
  15. “Asynchronous CNN Test Chip,” Otureo Technology Company, PI, $31,705, 03/01/2017 – 02/28/2018
  16. “NCL Circuit Design, Test, and Characterization for Wide-Voltage Ranges,” Eta Compute, PI, $33,274, 07/15/2016 – 07/14/2017
  17. “PaDSP: A Parallel Asynchronous Digital Signal Processing Architecture for Energy Efficiency, Performance, and Scalability,” DARPA, $589,370, PI, 02/24/2014 – 02/23/2018
  18. “Asynchronous A/D Converter for In Situ Instruments Operating under Extreme Environments,” NASA, $500,000, PI, 11/01/2013 – 10/31/2016
  19.  “Application Specific Data Acquisition Using High Temperature Silicon Carbide CMOS,” NSF, $200,000, co-PI, 05/01/2015 – 10/31/2016
  20.  “Academic Collaboration for Cybersecurity of Energy Delivery Systems Research and Development for the Energy Sector,” DOE, $15,290,588, Associate Director, 10/10/2015 – 09/30/2020
  21. “Access Control for Distributed Systems with ADPT (Access Control Policy Tool) Adaption,” NIST, $50,000, co-PI, 01/01/2016 – 12/31/2016
  22. “ADAPT: an Adaptive Delay-insensitive Asynchronous PlaTform for energy efficiency across wide dynamic ranges,” NSF, $300,000, PI, 08/2012 – 07/2016
  23. “Security Rule Check: A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Security of Integrated Circuits,” SRC, $100,000, co-PI, 01/01/2015 – 12/31/2015
  24. “Silicon Carbide Integrated Circuits for Ultra-high Efficiency Power Electronics,” NSF, $600,000, co-PI, 09/2012 – 08/2015
  25. “Ultra-Low Power Delay-Insensitive Asynchronous Circuits,” Semiconductor Research Corporation, $294,000, PI, 03/01/2011 – 07/31/2015
  26. “Access Control Policy Verification Mechanism Comparison and NIST Access Control Policy Tool (ACPT) Enhancement,” NIST, $50,000, co-PI, 05/01/2014 – 04/30/2015
  27. “Side-Channel-Proof Circuit Design for Hardware Security,” ARO, $50,000, PI, 08/01/2014 – 05/31/2015
  28. “Structural Checking for Trust in Silicon IP,” DOD SBIR Phase I subcontract through Radiance Technologies, Inc., $50,000, PI, 05/05/2014 – 11/04/2014
  29. “TRIPCORE: Pre-Fab Software Suite for Malicious Hardware Trojan Detection,” Radiance Technologies, Inc., PI, $49,964, 05/01/2014 – 11/01/2014
  30. “Asynchronous and Mixed-Signal IC Design and CAD for Next Generation Ultra-Low Power Computing and Communication Systems for Medical, Mobile, and Sensor Network Applications,” DoEd GAANN Program, $514,512, co-PI, 08/15/2009 – 08/14/2013
  31. “DIMFA: Digital IP Malicious Functionality Analysis Tool,” DARPA, $250,300, PI, 03/2011 – 05/2013
  32. “NCL Chip Packaging and Testing,“ Air Force Research Lab through Microelectronics Research and Development Corporation, $43,007, PI, 09/2011 – 06/2012
  33. “SCL Cell Library Development,“ NanoWatt Design, LLC., $12,709, co-PI, 07/2011 – 01/2012
  34. “Low-Power Radiation-Hardened Delay-Insensitive Asynchronous Microcontroller Technology Capable of Operating in Extreme Temperature Environments,” NASA SBIR Phase I subcontract from Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc., $29,150, PI, 02/2011 – 09/2011
  35. “Development of an Ultra-Low Power IC Design and Packaging Technique to Provide a Variety of Critical Anti-Tamper Safeguards,” Air Force SBIR Phase I subcontract from Space Photonics Inc., $33,303, PI, 01/22/2011 – 10/21/2011
  36. “Comparison of Synchronous and Asynchronous Digital Circuits under Extreme Temperatures,” State of Arkansas Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program, $4,000, PI, 01/01/2011 – 12/31/2011
  37. “Fingerprinting RFID Tags with Transfer-of-Ownership Capabilities,” NSF, $199,968, co-PI, 09/01/2010 – 08/31/2012
  38. “Integrating Asynchronous Digital Design into the Undergraduate Computer Engineering Curriculum throughout the Nation,” NSF, $499,999, co-PI, 08/01/2007 – 07/31/2012
  39. “Side-Channel-Proof Embedded Processors with Integrated Multi-Layer Protection,” NSF, $200,000, PI, 09/01/2009 – 08/31/2011
  40. “Investigation of Partitioning Algorithms for 3-D Delay-Insensitive Circuits,” State of Arkansas Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program, $2,650, PI, 01/01/2010 – 05/31/2010
  41. “DIMLOG: Ultra-Low Power Delay-Insensitive Asynchronous Circuits,” DARPA, $305,326, PI, 09/30/2008 – 03/31/2010
  42. “Side-Channel Attack Mitigation for Integrated Circuits,” State of Arkansas Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program, $2,650, PI, 01/01/2009 – 12/31/2009
  43. “RFID Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) for Nation-Wide Engineering Education,” NSF, $149,073, co-PI, 01/01/2008 – 12/31/2009
  44. “SEU/SEL Resistant Ultra-Low Power Asynchronous Processor Design for Low-Temperature Applications,” NASA SBIR Phase I subcontract from Space Photonics Inc., $33,317, PI, 01/22/2009 – 07/21/2009
  45. “A Synchronous Timer Module for an Asynchronous 8051 Microcontroller,” State of Arkansas Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program, $2,650, PI, 01/01/2008 – 05/31/2008
  46. “Towards Trustable Embedded Systems: Hardware Threat Modeling for Integrated Circuits,” Army Research Office, $49,928, PI, 01/01/2008 – 09/30/2008
  47. “DDRS: Distributed Detection and Recognition System,” Navy SBIR Phase I subcontract from FastVDO LLC., $14,999, PI, 07/01/2007 – 01/31/2008
  48. “Anti-Counterfeiting RFID Tags,” NSF, $243,819, co-PI, 08/01/2007 – 07/31/2009
  49. “Delay-Insensitive ALU Design for Wide Temperature,” University of Arkansas, $13,200, PI, 04/15/2007 – 04/14/2008
  50. “DC-Motor Drive Encompassing SiGe Asynchronous Control Electronics for Ultra-Wide Temperature (-230°C to +130°C),” NASA SBIR Phase II subcontract from Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc., $205,443, PI, 12/01/2006 – 11/30/2008
  51. “DC-Motor Drive Encompassing SiGe Asynchronous Control Electronics for Ultra-Wide Temperature (-230°C to +130°C),” NASA SBIR Phase I subcontract from Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc., $20,877, PI, 01/01/2006 – 06/30/2006