External Grants:

Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Tools (ArtIT) for Cyber Hardening of Power Grids
Department of Energy (DOE); Award ID: DE-CR0000024
Role: Lead PI; Scholarship Amount: $2,000,000; Scholarship Period: October 2022 – September 2025

Intelligent Detection and Mitigation of Hardware and Firmware Attacks for Resilient Unmanned Aircraft Systems
National Security Agency (NSA); Award ID: H98230-22-1-0327
Role: Lead PI; Scholarship Amount: $750,000; Scholarship Period: September 2022 – August 2025

Formal Model-assisted Reinforcement Learning-based Threat Analysis for Advanced IoT Systems
Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL); Award ID: SA1003202209EXT0597
Role: PI/Fellowship; Scholarship Amount: $8,000; Scholarship Period: October 2022 – December 2022

Threat Characteristics Analysis and Multi-Sensor Fusion-based Detection for Advanced IoT Systems
Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL); Award ID: SA10032022060519
Role: PI/Fellowship; Scholarship Amount: $18,287; Scholarship Period: June 2022 – August 2022

Consortium for Research and Education in Power and Energy Systems (CREPES) for Sustainable STEM Workforce
Department of Energy (DOE); Award ID: DE-NA0004016
Role: Co-PI; Scholarship Amount: $3,000,000; Scholarship Period: October 2021 – September 2024

Automated Risk Detection and Mitigation of Devices and Apps in Smart Settings
National Security Agency (NSA)
Role: Co-PI; Scholarship Amount: $750,000; Scholarship Period: October 2021 – September 2024

I-Corps: Smart Healthcare System Threat Analyzer
National Science Foundation (NSF); Award ID: CNS 2138301
Role: PI (Single); Scholarship Amount: $50,000; Scholarship Period: July 2021 – January 2022

REU Supplement on CRII: CPS: Noninvasive Security Analysis for Smart Grid Energy Management System
National Science Foundation (NSF); Award ID: CNS 1929183
Role: PI (Single); Scholarship Amount: $21,000; Scholarship Period: June 2020 – April 2022

Identification, and Mitigation of Coordinated Attacks on Distributed Energy Management
Center for Advanced Power Engineering Research (CAPER), UNC Charlotte; Award ID: CAPER DM-02
Role: Independent Contractor/PI; Scholarship Amount: $20,000; Scholarship Period: July 2019 – June 2021

ARO Travel Grant Support for ACM WiSec 2019 Conference
Army Research Office; Award Number: 75187-CS-CF
Role: PI; Scholarship Amount: $10,000 | Scholarship Period: April 2019 – March 2020 | .

CRII: CPS: Noninvasive Security Analysis for Smart Grid Energy Management System
National Science Foundation (NSF); Award ID: CNS 1929183 (Transferred, Previously 1657302)
Role: PI (Single); Scholarship Amount: $130,132.00; Scholarship Period: January 2019 – April 2022

Toward Designing Trajectory of a UAV Swarm for k-Resilient Surveillance and Data Collection 
Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL); Award ID: IICA2018-EXT-021
Role: PI/Independent Contractor; Scholarship Amount: $10,000; Scholarship Period: September 2018 – October 2018

Proactive Resiliency Threat Detection and Mitigation for Dependable Internet of Things 
Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL); Award ID: ICA2018-VFRP-023
Role: PI/Fellowship; Scholarship Amount: $18,130; Scholarship Period: June 2018 – August 2018

CRII: CPS: Noninvasive Security Analysis for Smart Grid Energy Management System
National Science Foundation (NSF); Award ID: CNS 1657302) [Transferred to FIU, CNS 1929183]
Role: PI (Single); Scholarship Amount: $174,973; Scholarship Period: May 2017 – April 2019

REU Site: Secure and Privacy-Preserving Cyber-Physical Systems
National Science Foundation (NSF), Research Experiences for Undergraduates  (REU) | Award ID: CNS 1560434
Role: Senior Personnel; Investigators: Mohamed Mahmoud (PI) and Syed Hasan (Co-PI)
Scholarship Amount: $359,972; Scholarship Period: March 2016 – February 2018

Tennessee Cybercorps: A Hybrid Program in Cybersecurity
National Science Foundation (NSF), Scholarship for Service (SFS); Award ID: DGE 1565562
Role: Co-PI; Scholarship Amount: $5,058,652; Scholarship Period: January 2016 – December 2020