Grants

  • Software Cruising for System Security, Dinghao Wu (PI) and Peng Liu, National Science Foundation (NSF) CNS-1223710, $499,745, 2012-2016.
  • Towards Secure Lean Software, Dinghao Wu (PI) and Peng Liu, Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-13-1-0175, $423,520, 2013-2017.
  • Towards Obfuscation-Resilient Software Plagiarism Detection, Sencun Zhu, Dinghao Wu (Co-PI), and Peng Liu, National Science Foundation (NSF) CCF-1320605, $500,000, 2013-2017.
  • Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster for Energy Efficient Buildings (GPIC, later renamed as The Consortium for Building Energy Innovation, CBEI), Dinghao Wu (Co-PI), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), DE-EE0004261, $129 million, 2011-2016.
  • A Model Checking Approach to Counter-acting of the Dynamics of Infection Propagation over Networks, Dinghao Wu (PI), Vasant Honavar, and John Yen, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, $9,499.00, 2014-2015.
  • An Intelligent Adaptive Network Defense Architecture. Dinghao Wu (PI). The Penn State Fund for Innovation, $73,556.00, 2015-2016.
  • Secure Lean Binary Code, Dinghao Wu (PI) and Peng Liu, Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-16-1-2265, $504,930, 2016-2020.
  • Reverse Engineering Based Software Diversification for Cyber Fault Tolerance, Dinghao Wu (PI), Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-16-1-2912, $509,378, 2016-2020.
  • CAREER: Advanced Trace-oriented Binary Code Analysis, Dinghao Wu (PI), National Science Foundation (NSF) CNS-1652790, $494,703, 2017-2022.
  • A New Direction for Software Reverse Engineering and Binary Code Retrofitting, Dinghao Wu (PI), Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-17-1-2894, $3,568,941, 2017-2022.
  • NVIDIA GPU Grant. Two Titan Xp GPU. 2018-19.
  • Workshop on Forming an Ecosystem around Software Transformationa, Dinghao Wu (PI), Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-18-1-2895, $10,000, 2018-2020.
  • Turning Attacks into Protection: Social Media Privacy Protection Using Adversarial Attacks, Dinghao Wu (PI), Center for Security Research and Education (CSRE) Open Topic Seed Grant Award, The Pennsylvania State University, $30,197, 2020-2021.
  • Scalable Near-Real-Time Identification and Characterization of Malware Behaviors Using Darknet Data, Ben Hanrahan, Vasant Honavar, Peng Liu, Dinghao Wu (Co-PI), and John Yen (PI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) S&T Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE), Arizona State University, Award Agreement number: ASUB00000367, $499,690 ($249,914 awarded so far), 2019-2021.
  • Automatic Software Patching against Microarchitectual Attacks, Danfeng Zhang (PI), Mahmut T. Kandemir, Gang Tan, and Dinghao Wu (Co-PI), National Science Foundation (NSF) CNS-1956032, $500,000, 2020-2023.
  • Understanding the Soundness of Control-flow Integrity, Hong Hu and Dinghao Wu. College
    seed grant, Penn State University, $55,000, 2021-2022.
  • A Community Research Infrastructure for Integrated AI-Enabled Malware and Network Data Analytics, John Yen (PI), Vasant Honavar, Dinghao Wu (Co-PI), Michael Kallitsis, and Forough Ghahramani. National Science Foundation (NSF) CNS-2213794, $99,424, 2022-2023.
  • NSF REU Supplement: An Interface for Binary Code Analysis, Dinghao Wu (PI). National Science Foundation (NSF) CNS-1652790, $14,400, 2022-2023.
  • Robot Firmware Semantic Recovery and Vulnerability Discovery, Taegyu Kim and Dinghao Wu. College seed grant, Penn State University, $33,000, 2023-2024.
  • DISCOVER: Digital Twin for Security and Code Verification, Farshad Khorrami (PI), Ramesh Karri, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Michael Locasto, Mikhail Falkovich, Dinghao Wu, and Jian Huang. US Department of Energy (DOE), Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER). $4,808,792, (PSU subcontract, PI: Dinghao Wu, $519,859), 2024-2027.