October 8, 2015
This week the National Science Foundation announced its research grants for Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC). The NSF singled out three largest, multi-institution awards for special mention. Every one of those has a Principal Investigator who's an alumnus of, or current faculty in, Princeton Computer Science.
The project "The Science and Applications of Crypto-Currency" has PIs including Professor Emin Gun Sirer of Cornell University, who received his Bachelor's degree from Princeton CS in 1993.
The project "Internet-Wide Vulnerability Measurement, Assessment and Notification" has PIs including Professor Alex Halderman of Michigan, who received his PhD from Princeton CS in 2009.
The project "Towards a Science of Censorship Resistance" has PIs including Professor Nick Feamster of Princeton University.
Other current PIs of continuing NSF SaTC awards include these Princeton CS alumni: Brent Waters*04, Nadia Heninger*11, Dan Wallach*99, Xinming Ou*05, Xinming Ou (too), Dinghao Wu*05, David Wagner, Limin Jia*08, Lujo Bauer, Angelos Keromytis, Gang Tan*05, and Dan Boneh*96.
There's a lot of NSF-funded computer-security research going on at Princeton as well, by these current Princeton faculty: Prateek Mittal, Prateek Mittal (too), Ruby Lee, Arvind Narayanan, Arvind Naryanan (too), Zeev Dvir, Niraj Jha, Mike Freedman, David August.