I have participated in 40 sponsored projects, of which 24 as Principal Investigator (PI), with a total funding of $14,216,193 and a personal share of $4,367,611.
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40NCAE-C Regional Hubs and Economic Assessment National Center
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI)
Sponsor: Coastline College / National Security Agency (NSA)
Project Budget: $156,861
Personal Share: 100% ($156,861)
Performance Period: August 24, 2026 through September 30, 2026 -
392026 Global Scale-Up Campus 'Incheon Univ. X'
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI)
Sponsor: Mason Korea Industry-University Collaboration Foundation (MK IUCF)
Project Budget: $40,000
Personal Share: 100% ($40,000)
Performance Period: August 20, 2026 through November 30, 2026 -
38POSE: Conference: A Community-Wide Convening to Grow Secure Open-Source Ecosystems in the Era of AI
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Songqing Chen (Co-PI)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Project Budget: $438,568
Personal Share: 60% ($263,141)
Performance Period: July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 -
37Building the Healthcare Cybersecurity Workforce
Investigators: Sanchari Das (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (VIPA)
Project Budget: $100,000
Personal Share: 30% ($22,500)
Performance Period: June 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 -
36ISEAI Membership
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI)
Sponsor: NewPush
Project Budget: $25,000
Personal Share: 100% ($25,000)
Performance Period: December 1, 2025 through November 30, 2026 -
35Cyber Service Academy
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI)
Sponsor: Department of Defense (DoD)
Project Budget: $260,550
Personal Share: 100% ($260,550)
Performance Period: 08 15, 2025 through 08 14, 2030 -
34AI-Driven Defensive Cyber through Integrated Zero Trust
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI)
Sponsor: Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (VIPA)
Project Budget: $74,995
Personal Share: 100% ($74,995)
Performance Period: 05 21, 2026 through 06 30, 2026 -
332024-2025 George Mason University Cybersecurity Scholarship Program
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Sushil Jajodia (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Department of Defense (DoD)
Project Budget: $87,833
Personal Share: 50% ($43,917)
Performance Period: August 15, 2024 through August 14, 2025 -
32Establishing a Partnership for Increasing Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation of Low-Income Information Technology Students in the National Capital Region
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Mihai Boicu (Co-PI), Ozlem Uzuner (Co-PI), Ioulia Rytikova (Co-PI), Zhisheng Yan (Co-PI)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Project Budget: $99,999
Personal Share: 20% ($20,000)
Performance Period: March 15, 2024 through February 28, 2025 -
31DoD Cybersecurity Scholarship Program
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Sushil Jajodia (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Department of Defense (DoD)
Project Budget: $87,625
Personal Share: 50% ($43,813)
Performance Period: September 6, 2023 through December 5, 2024 -
30Automated and Robust Multi-source Metadata Traffic Analysis for Cyber Threats Detection and Mitigation
Investigators: Kun Sun (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI), Jianli Pan (Co-PI)
Sponsor: National Security Agency (NSA)
Project Budget: $750,000.00
Personal Share: 33% ($250,000)
Performance Period: September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025 -
29DoD Cybersecurity Scholarship Program
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Sushil Jajodia (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Department of Defense (DoD)
Project Budget: $219,636
Personal Share: 50% ($109,818)
Performance Period: September 8, 2022 through December 8, 2023 -
28Preparing Virginia’s Workforce to Secure the Nation’s Election Infrastructure
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI)
Sponsor: Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (VIPA)
Project Budget: $99,985
Personal Share: 100% ($99,985)
Performance Period: June 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023 -
27Type I: George Mason University Innovation Site
Investigators: Ali Andalibi (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI), David Lattanzi (Co-PI), Gisele Stolz (Co-PI)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Project Budget: $590,069
Personal Share: 25% ($147,517)
Performance Period: October 15, 2017 through September 30, 2024 -
26VA-CNIP: A Coalition for the Virginia Cyber Navigator Internship Program
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Khondkar Islam (Co-PI)
Sponsor: University of Virginia / Department of Defense (DoD)
Project Budget: $209,997.00
Personal Share: 50% ($104,999)
Performance Period: September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024 -
25DoD Cybersecurity Scholarship Program
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Sushil Jajodia (Co-PI), Ioulia Rytikova (Co-PI), Khondkar Islam (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Department of Defense (DoD)
Project Budget: $175,806
Personal Share: 25% ($43,952)
Performance Period: August 19, 2021 through November 18, 2022 -
24A study on authentication usability of biometric-based multi-factor mechanisms
Investigators: Emanuela Marasco (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Virginia Research Investment Fund (VRIF)
Project Budget: $50,000.00
Personal Share: 50% ($25,000)
Performance Period: June 15, 2021 through May 31, 2022 -
23Cyber Knowledge Management for Weapon Systems / Phase II
Investigators: Sushil Jajodia (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. / US Air Force
Project Budget: $225,000
Personal Share: 50% ($112,500)
Performance Period: November 1, 2020 through September 19, 2023 -
22DoD Cybersecurity Scholarship Program
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Sushil Jajodia (Co-PI), Ioulia Rytikova (Co-PI), Khondkar Islam (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Department of Defense (DoD)
Project Budget: $131,593
Personal Share: 25% ($32,898)
Performance Period: September 2, 2020 through December 31, 2021 -
21Decentralized Cryptographic Security for Everyone
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Foteini Baldimtsi (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Hushmesh Inc.
Project Budget: $50,000
Personal Share: 50% ($25,000)
Performance Period: July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 -
20Cyber Knowledge Management for Weapon Systems
Investigators: Sushil Jajodia (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. / US Air Force
Project Budget: $44,975.00
Personal Share: 50% ($22,488)
Performance Period: August 1, 2019 through April 20, 2020 -
19DoD Cybersecurity Scholarship Program
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Sushil Jajodia (Co-PI), Ioulia Rytikova (Co-PI), Khondkar Islam (Co-PI)
Sponsor: National Security Agency (NSA)
Project Budget: $152,994
Personal Share: 25% ($38,249)
Performance Period: August 28, 2019 through November 27, 2020 -
18Cyber Security Applied Research and Experimentation Partner
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Sushil Jajodia (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Perspecta Labs / Army Research Lab
Project Budget: $50,006
Personal Share: 50% ($25,003)
Performance Period: November 13, 2018 through September 27, 2019 -
17SCIBORG: Secure Configurations for the IoT Based on Optimization and Reasoning on Graphs
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI)
Sponsor: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)/ DARPA
Project Budget: $490,000
Personal Share: 100% ($490,000)
Performance Period: July 1, 2018 through March 27, 2022 -
16Phase II IUCRC George Mason University: Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation CCAA
Investigators: Sushil Jajodia (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI), Rajesh Ganesan (Co-PI), Emanuela Marasco (Co-PI), Kun Sun (Co-PI)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Project Budget: $649,120
Personal Share: 20% ($129,824)
Performance Period: September 1, 2018 through August 31, 2024 -
15DoD Cybersecurity Scholarship Program
Investigators: Sushil Jajodia (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI), Ioulia Rytikova (Co-PI), Khondkar Islam (Co-PI)
Sponsor: National Security Agency (NSA)
Project Budget: $159,612
Personal Share: 25% ($39,903)
Performance Period: August 1, 2018 through July 31, 2019 -
14DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program
Investigators: Sushil Jajodia (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI), Ioulia Rytikova (Co-PI)
Sponsor: National Security Agency (NSA)
Project Budget: $63,112
Personal Share: 33.33% ($21,035)
Performance Period: September 14, 2017 through September 13, 2018 -
13Visiting Scientist: A Framework for Evaluating Botnet Detection Strategies
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI)
Sponsor: Vencore Labs / Army Research Office (ARO)
Project Budget: $10,000
Personal Share: 100% ($10,000)
Performance Period: July 18, 2016 through August 26, 2016 -
12Classroom to Makers Week (C2MW)
Investigators: Viviana Maggioni (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI), Colin Reagle (Co-PI), Elizabeth Schmidt (Co-PI), Mahesh Joshi (Co-PI), Nathalia Peixoto (Co-PI), Mihai Boicu (Co-PI)
Sponsor: VentureWell
Project Budget: $32,332
Personal Share: 20% ($6,466)
Performance Period: March 1, 2015 through August 31, 2018 -
11STTR: Effective CSA Assessment and Training
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Sushil Jajodia (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Sandia Research Corporation / Army Research Office (ARO)
Project Budget: $120,000
Personal Share: 50% ($60,000)
Performance Period: October 1, 2014 through June 30, 2016 -
10Cybersecurity Engineering of Transportation Systems
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI)
Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Corporation
Project Budget: $7,000
Personal Share: 100% ($7,000)
Performance Period: October 1, 2014 through May 31, 2015 -
09Extra-Curricular Activities to support Educational Programs in Information Technology Entrepreneurship
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Mihai Boicu (Co-PI)
Sponsor: National VentureWell
Project Budget: $23,355
Personal Share: 50% ($11,678)
Performance Period: August 1, 2014 through December 31, 2017 -
08ACM CCS 2013-2015 Student Travel Support
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI)
Sponsor: Army Research Office
Project Budget: $30,000
Personal Share: 100%
Performance Period: June 1, 2013 through May 31, 2016 -
07E-Mow: Biomass-Powered Robot Harvester
Investigators: Massimiliano Albanese (PI)
Sponsor: VentureWell
Project Budget: $23,000
Personal Share: 100%
Performance Period: July 1, 2014 through July 31, 2016 -
06Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense: Building the Scientific Foundations
Investigators: Sushil Jajodia (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Army Research Office (ARO)
Project Budget: $7,254,652
Personal Share: 50% ($1,083,369)
Performance Period: September 1, 2013 through September 30, 2021 -
05An Infrastructure for Deploying and Testing Comprehensive Cyber Situational Awareness Solutions
Investigators: Sushil Jajodia (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI), Kun Sun (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Army Research Office (ARO)
Project Budget: $197,839
Personal Share: 33.33% ($65,940)
Performance Period: August 1, 2013 through July 31, 2015 -
04A Laboratory for Moving Target Defense Using Mutable Virtualized Large-Scale Network Containers
Investigators: Sushil Jajodia (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI), Kun Sun (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Project Budget: $396,698
Personal Share: 33.33% ($132,219)
Performance Period: July 31, 2013 through July 30, 2015 -
03STTR: Cyber Warfare Simulation Environment
Investigators: Sushil Jajodia (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Sandia Research Corporation / Army Research Office (ARO)
Project Budget: $24,884
Personal Share: 50% ($12,442)
Performance Period: May 1, 2013 through October 31, 2013 -
02Modeling and Analysis of Moving Target Defense Mechanisms in MANET
Investigators: Kun Sun (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI)
Sponsor: University of Washington / Army Research Office (ARO)
Project Budget: $250,000
Personal Share: 30% ($75,000)
Performance Period: August 28, 2012 through December 31, 2014 -
01Mission-Centric Operations within Vulnerable Networks
Investigators: Sushil Jajodia (PI), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-PI)
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Project Budget: $363,097
Personal Share: 50% ($181,549)
Performance Period: July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2015