2025 External Funding
"Targeted Infusion Project: Infusing Data Science into the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum", Year 4 Renewal.
- Funding: $
- Funding Agency: NSF HBCU-UP
- PI: Dr. Hinds
" FLAIR: Preparing Future Leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning”. Awarded January 2025
- Funding: $700,000
- Funding Agency: Department of Energy, RENEW,
- PI: Dr. Claude Turner/ Dr. Kingsley Nwosu
"Assertive Programming to Instill Resilience and Excellence"
- Funding: $150,000
- Funding Agency: Lockheed: ASPIRE Retention Initiative
- CoPI: Dr. Felicia Doswell
2024 External Funding
“CAP: AI-SECURE: Expanding the Responsible AI and Cybersecurity Nexus at Norfolk State University through Research, CurriculumDevelopment and Training,” Awarded October 2024
- Funding: $399,999.
- Funding Agency: NSF, ExpandAI
- PI: Claude Turner
“Empowering NSU Quantum Computing Research and Education: High-Performance QKD Algorithms for IBM Quantum Computing”, October 2024
- Funding: $100,000
- Funding Agency: IBM-HBCU Quantum Center Seed Award
- PI: Dr. Hu
“Establishing a Research Framework to Foster Digital Capital Among Adolescents for Safe and Secure Online Habitus,” Awarded: October 2024
- Funding: $516,302
- Funding Agency: NSF: Excellence in Research
- CoPI: Dr. Claude Turner
2023 External Funding
National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE) – Collaborative Grant Scholarship Program, DoD
- Funding: $175,000
- Funding Agency: DOD
- PI: Dr. Cheryl Hinds
Collaborative Research: CUE-T: HBCU Learning Community-based Intervention in Computing Grant; Submission Contributors: Collaborative Grant; Acquired: August 15, 2023 – Present
- Funding: $290,372.30
- Funding Agency:
- PI: Dr. Thorna Humphries, Felicia Doswell (co-PI)
2022 External Funding
"Targeted Infusion Project: Infusing Data Science into the CS Curriculum".
- Funding: $399,287
- Funding Agency: NSF HBCU-UP
- PI: Dr. Cheryl Hinds
“VICEROY - Consortium of Cybersecurity Research and Advanced Training of ROTC Students (CREATORS) Virtual Institute” Duration: March 11, 2022 – August 10, 2024,
- Funding: $275,000
- Funding Agency: Griffiss Institute
- PI: Dr. Hu
“NSU Quantum Computing Curriculum, Faculty, Workforce, and Research Proposal Development Project”, Duration: July 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023
- Funding: $149,754
- Funding Agency: IBM-HBCU Quantum Center
- PI: Dr. Hu
“SBIR Phase II: Digital Media Synchronization, Performance and Urban Education Enhancement”, ThinkLive! Duration: June 22, 2022 – May 23, 2023,
- Funding: $105,000
- Funding Agency:
- PI: Dr. Hu
“Preparing Future Leaders and Movers in Engineering and Computer Science,” Awarded October 2022,
- Funding: $1,499,883
- Funding Agency: NSF: S-STEM
- PI: Claude Turner
2021 External Funding
“Developing Deep Learning Techniques for Classifying Advanced Malwares”, July 2021.
- Funding: $
- Funding Agency: Nvidia Academic Hardware Grant Program
- PI: Dr. Hu
"Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: RPEP: SaTC: HBCU Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity (AI-CyS)" Research Partnership; Duration: 2021-2025
- Funding: $1M
- Funding Agency:
- PI: Drs. Felicia Doswell
2020 External Funding
“Developing Deep Learning Machine Learning Techniques for Classifying Advanced Malwares” Duration: June 1, 2020 - June 30, 2022
- Funding: $100,000
- Funding Agency: Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) Fellowship
- PI: Dr. Hu
“Fostering an Environment that Produces Developers of Next-Generation
Secure Cyber Applications” Awarded October 2020,
- Funding $200,000
- Funding Agency: Microsoft
- CoPI: Dr. Claude Turner, Jonathan Graham, Cheryl Hinds, Isaac Osunmakinde
Excellence in Research – The Impact of Cybersecurity Policies on Employees’ Efficiency and Performance Predictability: A Sociology of Organization Analysis. Awarded: 6/25/2020
- Funding: $499,919
- Funding Agency: NSF
- Co-PIs Claude Turner
“Parallel and Distributed Computing", Tech Talent Software Engineering Initiative: Course Development; Funding Duration: June 2020 – July 2020
- Funding: $10,000
- Funding Agency:
- PI: Dr. Felicia Doswell
"HBCU-C2 Coding and Creativity Center Initiative", Funding Duration: 2020-2021
- Funding Amount: $89,682.35
- Funding Agency: Apple Inc. and Tennessee State University Equipment Grant
- PI: Dr. Felicia Doswell CoPI: Dr Thorna Humphries, Dr. Aurelia Williams
2019 External Funding
“Renewal of the Cyber Service Training and Education SFS Scholarship Program at Norfolk State University”.
- Proposal submitted on February 4, 2019.
- Requested funding: $2,444,276.
- PI: Dr. Jonathan Graham. Status: under review.
“Cyber Service Training and Education SFS Scholarship Program at Norfolk State University”.
- Supplemental award: $190,747. February 2019.
- PI: Dr. Jonathan Graham.
FY19 DoD HBCU/MI Equipment Program (BAA #W911NF-18-S-0006): “Enhancing Cybersecurity Research and Experimentation Infrastructure with Graphics Processing Units”.
- Proposal submitted on 16 August 2018.
- Requested funding: $599,498.51, 2019-2020.
- PI: Dr. George Hsieh.
NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme: “Blockchain Empowered Cyber-Threat Information Exchange”.
- Proposal submitted on 1 February 2018.
- Program Director: Dr. Sachin Shetty.
- Co-Director at NSU: Dr. George Hsieh.
NSA: “DoD Cybersecurity Scholarship Program Capacity Building”.
- Award: $72,000, 2018-2019.
- PI: Dr. Cheryl Hinds.
NSA Investment in Expansion of CAE-C Education Programs: “Targeted Virtual Machine Laboratories”.
- Award: $163,353, 2017-2018.
- PI: Dr. Cheryl Hinds.
NSA: “DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program Capacity Building”.
- Award: $66,316, 2017-2018.
- PI: Dr. Cheryl Hinds.
NSA: “DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program Basic Recruitment”,
- Award: $37,070, 2017-2018.
- PI: Dr. Cheryl Hinds.
AFRL Minority Leaders Research Collaboration Program: “Knowledge-elicitation protocols for scenario development: ethical and human elements of decision-making in cyberspace”.
- Award: $38,000, 2018.
- PI: Dr. Mary Ann Hoppa.
NSF: “Cyber Service Education and Training at Norfolk State University”.
- Award: $209,443, 2017-2018.
- PI: Dr. Jonathan Graham.
DHS: “COE in Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis (CINA)”.
- Subaward: $50,000, 2017-2018.
- PI: Dr. Jonathan Graham.
- Primary award went to George Mason University in 2017 with a $3.85M grant for its first operating year in a 10-year grant period.
FY16 DoD HBCU/MI Equipment Program (BAA #W911NF-15-R-0025): "Enhancing Cybersecurity Research and Experimentation Infrastructure".
- Award: $499,570, 2016-2017.
- PI: Dr. George Hsieh.
NSF: “Security Pedagogy Across the Curriculum: A Model to Integrate Cybersecurity into the Social Sciences”.
- Award: $399,974, 2016-2019.
- PI: Dr. Carlene Turner, Department of Sociology.
NSF: “CyberCorps Scholarship for Service for NSU/TCC Partnership”.
- Award: $144,626, 2016-2019.
- PI: Dr. Jonathan Graham.
NSA/NSF: “GenCyber summer camp at NSU”.
- Award: $78,406, 2016.
- PI: Dr. Cheryl Hinds