Cybersecurity & Privacy Research Underway
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Current Research Projects
A sampling of research projects underway now is listed below. Cybersecurity and privacy research at Georgia State University spans several labs and centers devoted to academic and applied work supported by several government agencies and private industry.
Security Awareness
SaTC: EDU: Fire and ICE: Raising Security Awareness through Experiential Learning Activities for Building Trustworthy Deep Learning-based Applications
Principal Investigator: Zhipeng Cai
Co-PIs: Yingshu Li and Wei li
Funded: $500 K
End Date: July 2026
Distributed Learning
CCSS: Distributed Swarm Learning for Internet of Things at the Edge
Principal Investigator: Zhi Tian
Co-PIs: Yue Wang
Funded: $400K
End Date: December 2025
Reinforcement Learning
Lightweight Model Based on Feature Point Extraction and Reinforcement Learning
Principal Investigator: Zhipeng Cai
Co-PIs: Yingshu Li
Funded: $75 K
End Date: December 2029
Signal Processing
CIF: Small: Signal Processing and Learning for NOMA Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Systems
Principal Investigator: Yue Wang
Co-PIs:
Funded: $320 K
End Date: December 2024
Metaverse
IUSE: EDU: Innovative and Inclusive Undergraduate XR Engineering Education to Cultivate Future Metaverse Workforce
Principal Investigator: Yingshu Li
Co-PIs: Zhipeng Cai
Funded: $400K
End Date: September 2026
Immersive Videos
NeTS: Small: A Privacy-Aware Human-Centered QoE Assessment Framework for Immersive Videos
Principal Investigator: Wei Li
Co-PIs: Yingshu Li
Funded: $600 K
End Date: April 2027
Secure AI
Secure Classified Analytics in the Cloud with Homomorphic Encryption
Principal Investigator: Daniel Takabi
Co-PIs: ---
Funded: $750 K
End Date: August 2025
Cybersecurity + AI
Principal Investigator: Daniel Takabi
Co-PIs: Zhipeng Cai, Anu Bourgeois, Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Dmitry Zhdanov
Funded: $3.92 M
End Date: January 2027
Trustworthy AI
Principal Investigator: Daniel Takabi
Co-PIs: Zhipeng Cai
Funded: $500 K
End Date: August 2025
Private AI
Principal Investigator: Daniel Takabi
Co-PIs: Min Kyu Kim
Funded: $400 K
End Date: May 2024
Private Deep Learning
Principal Investigator: Daniel Takabi
Co-PIs: ---
Funded: $200 K
End Date: December 2022
Cyber Deception
Principal Investigator: Daniel Takabi
Co-PIs: ---
Funded: $516 K
End Date: August 2023
Social Networks Privacy
Principal Investigator: Zhipeng Cai
Co-PIs: ---
Funded: $1.1 M
End Date: August 2022
Dark Web Analysis
Open source intelligence in online stolen data markets
Principal Investigator: Marie Ouellet
Co-PIs: David Maimon, Yubao Wu
Funded: $350 K
End Date: December 2022
Smart Cities
Principal Investigator: Yingshu Li
Co-PI: Zhipeng Cai
Funded: $1.1 M
End Date: December 2021
Threat Detection
Principal Investigator: Xiaojing Ye
Co-PIs: ---
Funded: $208 K
End Date: August 2023
Data Science Security
Principal Investigator: Daniel Takabi
Co-PIs: ---
Funded: $500 K
End Date: June 2023
Virtualization Security
Principal Investigator: Zhipeng Cai
Co-PIs: Yi Pan, Wei Li
Funded: $480 K
End Date: June 2023
Mobile Security
Principal Investigator: Zhipeng Cai
Co-PI: Yingshu Li
Funded: $500 K
End Date: August 2022
IoT Security
Cyber Security Sensory Data Collection Methods for Internet of Things
Principal Investigator: Yingshu Li
Co-PIs: ---
Funded: $5 K
End Date: December 2020
Crowdsourcing Trust
Trust Mechanisms for Crowdsourcing Systems in Mobile Social Networks
Principal Investigator: Yingshu Li
Co-PIs: ---
Funded: $37 K
End Date: December 2020
Smart Data Trading
A Framework for Smart Data Trading Platform
Principal Investigator: Zhipeng Cai
Co-PI: Yingshu Li, Wei Li
Funded: $200 K
End Date: December 2026
Critical Infrastructure
Principal Investigator: Xiaojing Ye
Funded: $200 K
End Date: August 2020
Wireless Sensing
Principal Investigator: Ashwin Ashok
Funded: $200 K
End Date: September 2023