Research Grants

  1. Software Cruising for System Security, Dinghao Wu (PI) and Peng Liu, National Science Foundation (NSF) CNS-1223710, $499,745, 2012-2016.
  2. Towards Secure Lean Software, Dinghao Wu (PI) and Peng Liu, Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-13-1-0175, $423,520, 2013-2017.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. An Intelligent Adaptive Network Defense Architecture. Dinghao Wu (PI). The Penn State Fund for Innovation, $73,556, 2015-2016.
  7. Secure Lean Binary Code, Dinghao Wu (PI) and Peng Liu, Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-16-1-2265, $504,930, 2016-2020.
  8. 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.
  9. CAREER: Advanced Trace-oriented Binary Code Analysis, Dinghao Wu (PI), National Science Foundation (NSF) CNS-1652790, $494,703, 2017-2022.
  10. 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.
  11. NVIDIA GPU Grant. Two Titan Xp GPU. 2018-19.
  12. Benchmarking, Detecting, and Diagnosing Real-World Performance Problems, Linhai Song and Dinghao Wu. College seed grant, Penn State University, $85,500, 2018-2019.
  13. Workshop on Forming an Ecosystem around Software Transformation, Dinghao Wu (PI), Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-18-1-2895, $10,000, 2018-2020.
  14. 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.
  15. 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, 2019-2021.
  16. 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.
  17. Understanding the Soundness of Control-flow Integrity, Hong Hu and Dinghao Wu. College seed grant, Penn State University, $55,000, 2021-2022.
  18. 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.
  19. NSF REU Supplement: An Interface for Binary Code Analysis, Dinghao Wu (PI). National Science Foundation (NSF) CNS-1652790, $14,400, 2022-2023.
  20. Robot Firmware Semantic Recovery and Vulnerability Discovery, Taegyu Kim and Dinghao Wu. College seed grant, Penn State University, $33,000, 2023-2024.