Research

Externally Funded Projects

Active

• NSF
  CAREER: Distributed Differential Privacy via Secure Multiparty Computation

  CAREER (Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace) · CNS-2238442 · 2023–2028 · $548,929 · UVM PI: Joseph Near
• NSF
  A Novel Mechanism for Effective and Accountable Communication of Differential Privacy through Multi-Stakeholder Research

  SaTC: CORE: Small · CNS-2336550 · 2024–2027 · $599,994 · UVM PIs: Yuanyuan Feng, Joseph Near
• NSF
  A Contextual Integrity Approach for Privacy Reasoning Regarding Performance Tracking Technologies in US College Athletics

  CRII: SaTC · CNS-2348294 · 2024–2026 · $175,000 · UVM PI: Yuanyuan Feng
• DARPA
  TOPSPIN: Tools for Proving Security and Performance of Instances of Weird Networks

  Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND2) · 2025–2027 · UVM PIs: Christian Skalka, Joseph Near
• DARPA
  SALSA: Securing Antiquated Languages via Program Synthesis and Human Assistance

  Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) · 2022–2026 · UVM PI: Joseph Near
• IARPA
  VOXLET: Vocal Obfuscation eXpert Language Encoding Technology

  Anonymous Real-Time Speech (ARTS) · UVM PI: Joseph Near · Real-time speech anonymization with differential privacy guarantees; with Galois, GE Aerospace, and North Point Defense.
• NOAA
  Advancing Snow Observation Systems to Improve Operational Streamflow Prediction Capabilities

  Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH) · AWD00001596 (NOAA NA22NWS4320003) · 2023–present · UVM project lead: Christian Skalka · IoT sensing and embedded machine learning that classifies precipitation phase from acoustic data; with the University of Utah, and staffed largely by UVM undergraduates.
• AHA
  Digital Advertisements for Inclusive Trial Accrual (DAITA)

  IMPACT Strategically Focused Research Network · 2022–2026 · $832,828 · UVM co-investigator: Yuanyuan Feng · $271,000 of the UVM total supports Feng's lab.
• Face the Fight
  Business Partnerships to Prevent Veteran Suicide: Increasing Uptake of Discounted Firearm Secure Storage Devices Through Online Advertising

  2026–2027 · $108,000 · UVM co-investigator: Yuanyuan Feng

Past

• NSF
  Applications to Cryptography of the Construction of Curves from Modular Invariants

  Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace / EPSCoR co-funding · DMS-1802323 · 2018–2022 · $201,849 · UVM PI: Christelle Vincent
• NSF
  A New Approach to Federated Network Security (Proof Carrying Network Code)

  SaTC: CORE: Small: Collaborative · CNS-1718083 · 2017–2022 · $212,872 · UVM PI: Christian Skalka · Collaborative with Cornell and RIT.
• NSF
  Retrofitting Software for Defense-in-Depth (STRATA)

  TWC: Medium: Collaborative · CNS-1408801 · 2014–2019 · $299,243 · UVM PI: Christian Skalka
• NSF
  Testing a responsible innovation approach for integrating precision agriculture technologies with future farm workers and work

  Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF-RL) · 2022–2023 · UVM senior personnel: Joseph Near
• FACE Fdn.
  Effective constructions of genus 3 CM curves and applications to cryptography

  Thomas Jefferson Fund · 2018–2022 · UVM co-PI: Christelle Vincent
• DARPA
  Helio: Program Synthesis for Efficient, Privacy-Preserving Distributed Computation

  Brandeis · 2015–2020 · UVM PI: Joseph Near
• DARPA
  Wizkit: Wide-Scale Zero-Knowledge Interpreter Toolkit

  SIEVE · 2020–2024 · UVM PI: Joseph Near
• DARPA
  CLAMPED: Collaborative Learning Architecture with Mathematical Privacy over Embedded Data

  CSL · 2020–2022 · UVM PI: Joseph Near
• DOE
  TRIFECTA

  Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) · 2022–2023 · UVM PI: Joseph Near
• CRREL
  AVATAR

  2021–2025 · UVM co-investigators: Christian Skalka, Joseph Near
• Threat Stack
  Detecting Security Events in System Logs

  Industry research partnership · 2019–2020 · $100,000 · UVM investigators: Christian Skalka, Joseph Near · Funded a postdoctoral fellowship; produced the 2021 DTRAP paper on host-based intrusion detection.
• Amazon
  Provable Fairness for Deep Learning via Automatic Differentiation

  Amazon Research Award · 2020–2021 · UVM PI: Joseph Near
• Amazon
  Amazon Partnership Pilot: Fairness in AI

  Amazon Research Partnership · 2021–2022 · UVM PI: Joseph Near

Conference and travel support

Awards that fund conferences, summer schools and research travel rather than a research project. Current and past.

• Simons Fdn.
  Travel support for research in arithmetic geometry

  Travel Support for Mathematicians · 2023–2028 · UVM PI: Christelle Vincent · Current support for Vincent's and her students' research.
• NSF
  Connecticut Summer School in Number Theory 2026

  Conference grant · 2026–2027 · UVM co-PI: Christelle Vincent · Held by the University of Connecticut.
• NSA
  Connecticut Summer School in Number Theory

  Conference grant · 2026–2027 · UVM co-PI: Christelle Vincent
• NSF
  Canadian Number Theory Association Meeting 2018

  Conference grant · DMS-1822468 · 2018–2019 · $16,000 · UVM PI: Christelle Vincent
• NSF
  CTNT 2020: Connecticut Summer School and Conference in Number Theory

  Conference grant · DMS-2004166 · 2020–2023 · $34,993 · UVM co-PI: Christelle Vincent · Held by the University of Connecticut.
• NSF
  Connecticut Summer School in Number Theory 2024

  Conference grant · DMS-2402637 · 2024–2025 · $29,967 · UVM co-PI: Christelle Vincent · Held by the University of Connecticut.
• NSA
  Connecticut Summer School in Number Theory

  Conference grant · 2020–2023 · UVM co-PI: Christelle Vincent
• NSA
  Connecticut Summer School in Number Theory

  Conference grant · 2024–2025 · UVM co-PI: Christelle Vincent