FUNDING

Research Grants

“Elements: Data: Sustaining Modern Infrastructure For Political News Sources"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: January 2020-December 2022
Amount: $588,032
(Investigator: Khan)

“Reducing the Burden of Road Traffic-Associated Mortality using Mobile Technology"
Funding Organization: UT Southwestern/National Institute of Health (UTSW/NIH)
Date: July 2019-June 2021
Amount: $142,816
(Investigator: Khan, Kim)

“SATC: EDU: Curriculum Development for Secure Blockchain Technologies"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: September 2019-August 2022
Amount: $499,595
(Investigator: Khan)

“REU Site: Software Safety and Reliability: Research and Application"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: February 2018-January 2021
Amount: $359,995
(Investigator: Khan, Wong)

“MRI: Development of An Instrument for Secure Cyber Physical Systems Analytics"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: September 2018-August 2021
Amount: $601,797
(Investigator: Khan, Kantarcioglu)

“SFS Capacity Building in Security of Software Defined Networks"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: September 2018-August 2021
Amount: $497,000
(Investigator: Khan, Sarac)

“ATD: Statistical detection of new patterns and potential threats in geospatial sequences of social and political events"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: September 2017-August 2021
Amount: $299,862
(Investigator: Latifur R. Khan)

“UTD SFS Renewal: Growing a Cybersecurity Community thru SFS Scholarship Program at UTD"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: September 2014-August 2020
Amount: $4288,355
(PI: Khan, Sarac)

“Phase II IUCRC University of Texas at Dallas: Center for Security and Software Engineering (S2ERC)"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: August 2018-July 2020
Amount: $200,000
(PI: Khan, Wong)

“Collaborative Research: ATD: Statistical Detection of New Patterns and Potential Threats in Geospatial Sequences of Social and Political Events"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: September 2017-August 2020
Amount: $100,000
(PI: Latifur R. Khan, Patrick T. Brandt)

“Secure and Privacy Preserving Big Data Analytics Curriculum Development "
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: September 2017-August 2020
Amount: $499,992
(PI: Khan, Thuraisingham)

“Big Data Driven Advanced Data Science Course Curriculum Development"
Funding Organization: National Security Agency (NSA)
Date: August 2018-August 2019
Amount: $287,329
(PI: Khan)

“Robust Machine Learning for Cyber Operations"
Funding Organization: National Security Agency (NSA)
Date: August 2018-August 2019
Amount: $248,187
(PI: Khan, Kantarcioglu)

“Hands on Experiences in CyberSecurity: Curriculum Development for Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities Using Secure Big Data Analytics"
Funding Organization: National Security Agency (NSA)
Date: October 2017-September 2019
Amount: $237,088
(PI: Latifur R. Khan)

“A Secure Data Processing Infrastructure for Research and Education in IoT, SCADA and SGX Systems"
Funding Organization: AFOSR DURIP
Date: June 2018-June 2019
Amount: $250,000
(PI: Khan, Thuraisingham)

“Modernizing Political Event Data for Big Data Social Science Research"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: September 2015-August 2019
Amount: $1,497,358
(PI: Latifur R. Khan, Patrick T. Brandt)

"Technology Trend Detection & Recommendation"
Funding Organization: HPE
Date: June 2017
Amount: $25,000
(PI: Latifur Khan)

"Situational Awareness of Topic Drift and Birth-Death in Cyber"
Funding Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, DOE
Date: Sept 2012-August 2015
Amount: $160K (UT Dallas share)
(PI: Latifur Khan)

“Multi-Stream Data Analytics”
Funding Organization: IBM TJ Watson Research Grant
Date: 2016
Amount: $30,000 (gift)
(PI:Latifur Khan)

"Collaborative Research: Privacy-Enhanced Secure Data Provenance"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: Sept 2011 - July 2016
Amount: $ 912,068.00
(PI: Murat Kantarcioglu, Co-PI: Bhavani Thuraisingham; Senior Personnel: Latifur Khan)

"Semantic Approach to Behavior based IDS and Its Applications"
Funding Organization: MINI MURI: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Date: July 2012 - June 2016
Amount: $965,758
(PI: Bhavani Thuraisingham, Co-PI: Latifur Khan, Kevin Hamlen, Zhiqiang Lin)

"Secure Sensor Semantic Web and Information Fusion"
Funding Organization: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Date: 2009 - 2014
Amount: $1.55 million
(PI: Latifur Khan from 2011 - 2014, Co-PI from 2009 - 2011; Bhavani Thuraisingham, PI from 2009 - 2011, Co-PI from 2011 - 2014; Co-PI: Murat Kantarcioglu)

"TC: Small: Collaborative: Protocols for Privacy-Preserving Scalable Record Matching and Ontology Alignment"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: Sept 2010 - July 2013
Amount: $259,674
(PI: Murat Kantarcioglu, Co-PI: Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham)

"Reactively Adaptive Malware: Attacks and Defenses"
Funding Organization: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Date: March 2010 - Feb. 2013
Amount: $ 450,000
(PI: Kevin Hamlen, Co-PI: Latifur Khan)

"Assured Information Sharing"
Funding Organization: Department of Defense/ Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Date: 2008 - 2012
Amount: $2.2 million
(PI: Bhavani Thuraisingham, Co-PI: Latifur Khan, Murat Kantarcioglu)

"Adaptive Malware Detection over Evolving Malwares: Attacks and Defenses"
Funding Organization: US Army, in collaboration with UTEP
Date: June 2011 - July 2012
Amount: UTD amount $235K
(PI: Latifur Khan, Co-PI: Kevin Hamlen)

"Secure Grid/Cloud Information Management"
Funding Organization: Department of Defense
Date: 2008 - 2012
Amount: $2.2 million
(PI: Bhavani Thuraisingham, Co-PI: Latifur Khan, Murat Kantarcioglu)

"Malicious Behavior Pattern Extrapolation"
Funding Organization: Raytheon
Date: April 2011 - June 2012
Amount: $100,000
(PI: Latifur Khan)

"Event Cube: An Organized Approach for Mining and Understanding Anomalous Aviation Events"
Funding Organization: NASA
Date: Jan. 2008 - May 2011
Amount: $360,000
(PI: Latifur Khan, Co-PI: Vincent Ng)

"Scalability Issue for Large CDR Dataset"
Funding Organization: Tektronix
Amount: $35,000 (gift)
(PI: Latifur Khan)

"Spatio-Temporal Pattern Mining for Multi-Jurisdiction Multi-Temporal Activity Datasets"
Funding Organization: NGA University Research Initiatives (NURI)
Date: September 2007 - August 2011
Amount: $150,000
(PI: Latifur Khan, Co-PI: Bhavani Thuraisingham)

"Ontology Matching and Mapping"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation
Date: September 2007 - August 2009
Amount: $212,000
(PI: Latifur Khan, Co-PI: Bhavani Thuraisingham)

"CT-T: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A Semantic Framework for Policy Specification and Enforcement in a Need to Share Environment"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation
Date: September 2007 - August 2009
Amount: $590,000
(PI: Bhavani Thuraisingham, Co-PI: Latifur Khan, Murat Kantarcioglu; Latifur Khan contributed equally with the PI and second Co-PI: This is a 3-way 33%-33%-33% collaboration between the PI and Co-PIs)

"Design and Development of Semantic Web and Data Mining Technologies for Geospatial Data"
Funding Organization: Raytheon
Date: June 2006 - Nov. 2009
Amount: $400,000
(PI: Bhavani Thuraisingham, Co-PI: Latifur Khan)

"Information Operations Across Infospheres"
Funding Organization: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Date: January 2006 - December 2008
Amount: $300,006
(PI: Bhavani Thuraisingham, Co-PI: Latifur Khan)

"Prototype Geospatial Data Integration Framework for Police Blotter Crime Analysis"
Funding Organization: RaytheonRaytheon
Date: June 2006 - Nov. 2009
Amount: $400,000
(PI: Bhavani Thuraisingham, Co-PI: Latifur Khan)

"Mining Traffic Traces of Firewall to Discover and Optimize Policy Rules Anomalies"
Funding Organization: Texas Enterprise Fund- CISCO Systems Match
Date: May 2005 - May 2006
Amount: $33,300

"Feature Extraction for Finding Images/Video"
Funding Organization: Nokia Research Center, Irving, Texas
Date: June, 2005 to November, 2005
Amount: $30,000 (gift)
(PI: Latifur Khan)

"Developing Advanced Middleware for Convergence of IT and Telecommunications"
Funding Organization: Alcatel USA
Date: January 2004, - January 2005
Amount: $227,500
(PI: Farokh Bastani, Co-PI: G. R. Dattatreya, Latifur Khan, and I-Ling Yen)

"A Distributed Component Repository for Rapid Synthesis of Adaptive Real-Time Systems"
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation
Date: Sept. 2001 - Aug. 2004
Amount: $499,866
(PI: I-Ling Yen, Co-PI: Farokh Bastani, Latifur Khan and Edwin Sha)