Fundings

PI: Ziming Zhao, Co-PI: Aanjhan Ranganathan. Amazon Research Award. Understanding How LLMs Hack: Interpretable Vulnerability Detection and Remediation. 2025 - 2026.

PI: Ziming Zhao, Co-PI: Engin Kirda. NSF. SaTC: CORE: Small: HOLMES: Holistic and Hardware-assisted Control-Flow Security for Microcontroller Systems. 2025 - 2028.

Lead PI: Ziming Zhao, Co-PIs: Matilde Sanchez-Pena, Hongxin Hu, Jinjun Xiong. NSF. Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Enhancing IoT Software and System Security Education with Student-centered Pedagogy and Next Generation Capture-the-Flag Platform. 2024 - 2027.

Lead PI: Matt Wright. Site PI: Ziming Zhao. NSF. Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership: Detecting Heterogeneous Malware for Internet-of-Things Systems. 2024 - 2027.

PI: Ziming Zhao. NSF. CAREER: SaTC: Rethinking Trusted Execution Environments for Embedded and IoT Systems. 2023 - 2028.

PI: Ziming Zhao, Co-PIs: Hongxin Hu, Shambhu Upadhyaya. NCAE. HACF: Building High Assurance Containers Using FPGA. 2022 - 2024.

PI: Hongxin Hu, Co-PIs: Maria Rodriguez, Yini Zhang, Ziming Zhao, and Si-wei Lyu. NSF. Collaborative Research: SAI-R: Integrative Cyberinfrastructure for Enhancing and Accelerating Online Abuse Research. 2022 - 2025.

PI: Hongxin Hu, Co-PI: Ziming Zhao. Amazon Research Award. Explaining Learning-based Intrusion Detection Systems for Active Intrusion Responses. 2022 - 2023.

PI: Ziming Zhao. NSF. CRII: SaTC: Securing Internet of Things Against Cache-based Attacks. 2020 - 2023.

PI: Hanif Rahbari, Co-PI: Ziming Zhao. DoD. VSER - Vehicle Security Education and Research. 2019 - 2020.

PI: Gail-Joon Ahn, Co-PIs: Stephen Yau, Adam Doupé, Ziming Zhao, Ruoyu Wang. NSF. Arizona Cyber Defense Scholarship. 2017 - 2025.