Undergraduate and Graduate Student Opportunities
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All Crypto and Cypbersecurity students!
SFISSA Cybersecurity Conference, Hack The Flag (HTF), and Chili Cookoff, taking place September 18-19, 2026, at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC).
Conference Information
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Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Science Social!
For Undergraduates Students:
Dr. Eric Shaw Excellence in Science Undergraduate Research Poster Competition.
Thursday, October 22, 2026 | 10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. | SE-43 Science building first floor
Eligibility for participation:
1. Degree-seeking Schmidt College of Science undergraduate students, and
2. FAU High School students conducting research under the mentorship of Schmidt College of Science faculty.
Deadline to Apply to Compete to October 7, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.
58th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, 8/15/26-9/30/27
PI: Frederick Hoffman
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Amount Awarded $17,364
Post-Quantum Cryptographic Protocols with Advanced Functionalities, 5/15/26-4/30/29
PI: Edoardo Persichetti, Co-Pi: Veronika Kuchta
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded $399,964
CyberCorps Scholarship for Service, 3/1/24-2/28/29
Co-PI: Francesco Sica
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded $2,872,208
56th (and 57th) Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, 2/15/25-9/30/26
PI: Frederick Hoffman
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Amount Awarded $21,200
Identifiability Investigation of Multiscale Infectious Disease Models, 9/27/23-7/31/26
PI: Necibe Tuncer
Funding Agency: Virginia Tech / NIH
Amount Awarded: $185,003
Fine Structures in Hamiltonian Systems, 7/1/23-6/30/26
PI: Jason Mireles-James
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $299,717
CAREER: Concrete Hardness in Lattice-based Cryptography, 5/15/21-4/30/26
PI: Shi Bai
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $500,675
UM - Multicultural Community Dementia Screening, 5/1/21-1/31/26
PI: Lun-Ching Chang
Funding Agency: University of Miami
Amount Awarded: $284,581
AMS Young Scholars Program Award 2025 (CryptoTeens in South Florida), 3/27/25-10/15/25
PI: Veronika Kuchta
Funding Agency: American Mathematical Society
Amount Awarded: $5,000
CAREERS in Cybersecurity: Coalescing All Resources for Engagement, Enrollment, and Readiness of Students in Cybersecurity, 7/1/22-8/15/23
Co-PI: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: State of Florida
Amount Awarded: $838,483
Exploring Innovative Approaches for Post-Quantum Authentication, 9/16/22-9/16/24
PI: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: National Security Agency (NSA)
Amount Awarded: $298,989
CISE-ANR: CNS Core: Small: Crytographic Hardness of Module Lattices, 10/1/21-9/30/25
PI: Shi Bai
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $246,337
Probabilistic and External Problems of Real and Complex Polynomials, 9/1/20-8/31/25
PI: Erik Lundberg
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation
Amount Awarded: $42,000
Young CryptograpHers Summer Camp, 5/3/24-5/31/25
PI: Veronika Kuchta
Funding Agency: Mathematical Association of America
Amount Awarded: $6,000
Young Scholars Program Award 2024 (Young CryptograpHers Summer Camp), 3/21/24-3/31/25
PI: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: American Mathematical Society
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Longitudinal Associations Between Neighborhood Greenspace and Brain Aging in Cognitively Normal Older Adults, 4/15/23-1/15/25
PI: Lun-Ching Chang
Funding Agency: University of Miami / NIH
Amount Awarded: $10,905.82
Collaborative Research: Modeling the Opiod and HIV Epidemics, 8/1/20-7/31/23
PI: Necibe Tuncer
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $99,997
Southeastern Internatioanl Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing. 9/1/21-8/31/22
PI: Frederick Hoffman
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Amount Awareded $40,286
UM - Impact of COVID on VCID Outcomes in a Multicultural Rural Population - Admin Supp (COVID 19), 9/1/21-8/31/22
PI: Lun-Ching Cahng
Funding Agency: University of Miami / NIH
Amount Awarded: $30,095
NSF - Conference on Combinatorics, Computing, Group Theory, and Applications 2022, 7/2/22-6/30/23
PI: Daniela Nikolova
Funding Agence: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $49,138
Determining Cryptographic Security Margins in the Presence of Quantum Computing, 9/1/20-8/31/22
PI: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: National Security Agency (NCAE-C)
Amount Awarded: $161,091
Secure and Efficient Solutions for Post-Quantum Cryptography for Codes with Compact Representations, 7/1/19-6/30/22
PI: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $499,946
Validated Computational Methods in Global Analysis and Application to Celestial Mechanics, 8/15/18-7/31/21
PI: Jason Mireles-James
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $131,975
A Combinatorial and Topological Framework for Deriving Dynamics from Data, 5/15/18-4/30/21
PI: William Kalies
Funding Agency: College of William & Mary/Army Research Office
Amount Awarded: $228,620
Emerging Side-Channel Resistant and Resource-Friendly Elliptic Curve Algorithms and Architectures, 5/1/17 - 4/30/20
PI: Reza Azarderakhsh / Co-PI: Koray Karabina
Funding Agency: US Army
Amount Awarded to Date: $30,870 ($392,493 anticipated)
Studie Entwicklungsstand Quantencomputer/Study development of quantum computer, 1/10/17 - 1/9/20
PI: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: Saarland University (GER) / German Federal Office for Information Security
Amount Awarded: $120,779
Privacy-Aware Wearable-Assisted Continuous Authentication Framework, 8/15/17 - 7/31/19
PI: Koray Karabina
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $142,280
Quantum Technology, High-Speed Encryption and Global Analysis of Networks, 2/12/15 - 2/11/18
PI: Rainer Steinwandt and Warner Miller
Funding Agency: US Air Force Research Laboratory
Amount Awarded: $392,482
Linking Within-Host and Between-Host Infectious Disease Dynamics, 9/15/15 - 8/31/18
PI: Necibe Tuncer
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $92,517
A Degeneration Problem Invariant Subspaces
, 9/1/12 - 8/31/18
PI: Marcus Schmidmeier
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation
Amount Awarded: $35,000
Travel Funds for the Conference on "Complex Functions, Operators, Partial Differential Equations, and Applications in Mathematical Physics," 1/1/17-12/31/17
PI: Erik Lundberg
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $9,743
Sobolev Inequalities and Isoperimetry, 7/1/11 - 8/31/17
PI: Mario Milman
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation
Amount Awarded: $35,000
Standards Mapped Graduate Education & Mentoring, 8/1/04 - 7/31/12
PI: Dr. Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Co-PI: Dr. Richard Voss
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $4,454,964
Pattern Exploration: Integrating Math and Science for the Middle School, 5/1/99 - 10/31/04
PI: Dr. Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Co-PI: Dr. Richard Voss
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $2,138,013
Secure Telecommunication Networks: Two Cryptology Projects, 9/1/04 - 12/31/05
PI: Dr. Spyros Magliveras
Funding Agency: Pragmatics/DOD
Amount Awarded: $306,644
Mulitscale Analysis of Nonlinear Systems, 9/1/05 - 02/28/10
PI: Dr. William Kalies
Funding Agency: Department of Energy
Amount Awarded: $284,003
CAREER: Practical Leakage Resilience: Provable Side-Channel Resistance for Embedded Systems, 1/15/11 - 12/31/15
Transfer to WPI as of 8/13/12
PI: Dr. Thomas Eisenbarth
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $219,631
Secure Telecommunications, 9/16/05 - 12/31/06
PI: Dr. Spyros Magliveras
Funding Agency: Pragmatics/DOD
Amount Awarded: $165,000
Study of Nonlinear Infinite Dimensional Systems, 7/1/05 - 6/30/09
PI: Dr. William Kalies
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $161,219
Pervasive Computing - Security in a GIG Architecture, 1/10/08 - 1/9/09
PI: Dr. Spyros Magliveras
Co-PI: Dr. Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: Pragmatics/Department of Defense
Amount Awarded: $132,000
EAGER: Small-Scale Quantum Circuits with Applications in Cryptanalysis, 1/1/11 - 12/31/12
PI: Dr. Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $110,534
Nonlinear Control Analysis & Design, 6/1/05 - 06/30/10
PI: Dr. Yuan Wang
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $88,620
Characterization on Stability Properties for Nonlinear Systems, 7/15/00 - 6/30/04
PI: Dr. Yuan Wang
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $80,939
MSE/CS Magnet Programs at Suncoast High School, 8/17/10 - 5/7/11
PI: Dr. William Mech
Funding Agency: The School Board of Palm Beach County
Amount Awarded: $60,000
MSE/CS Magnet Programs at Suncoast High School, 8/20/09 - 5/15/10
PI: Dr. William Mech
Funding Agency: Palm Beach School District
Amount Awarded: $60,000
MSE/CS Magnet Programs at Suncoast High School, 8/18/08 - 5/15/09
PI: Dr. William Mech
Funding Agency: Palm Beach School District
Amount Awarded: $60,000
PurigeN98 Research Project, 5/1/08 - 4/30/09
PI: Dr. Hongwei Long
Funding Agency: N2 Revolution
Amount Awarded: $45,651
Computational Intersection Theory for Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems
, 8/1/14 - 6/30/16
PI: Jason Mireles-James
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Transferred to FAU: $45,564
Secure Implementation of Post-quantum Cryptography, 11/1/13 - 10/31/16
PI: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Amount Awarded: $38,140
Forty-Sixth and Forty-Seventh Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing
, 8/14/14 - 8/13/16
PI: Frederick Hoffman; Co-PI: Stephen Locke
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Amount Awarded: $33,994
Avian Influenza: Modeling, Analysis and Implications for Control, 8/1/14 - 8/31/16
PI: Necibe Tuncer
Funding Agency: University of Florida/National Science Foundation
Amount Transferred to FAU: $25,130
Thirty-sixth Southeastern International Conference, 11/24/04 - 5/23/06
PI: Dr. Frederick Hoffman
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Amount Awarded: $18,500
International Workshop on Concentration, Functional Inequalities & Isoperimetry, 10/1/09 - 9/30/10
PI: Dr. Mario Milman
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $16,000
Thirty-fifth Southeastern International Conference, 12/11/03 - 6/10/05
PI: Dr. Frederick Hoffman
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Amount Awarded: $12,500
Thirty-fourth Southeastern International Conference, 8/27/02 - 8/26/03
PI: Dr. Frederick Hoffman
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Amount Awarded: $12,500
Thirty-third Southeastern International Conference, 3/4/02 - 9/30/03
PI: Dr. Frederick Hoffman
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Amount Awarded: $12,500
Thirty-eighth Southeastern International Conference, 12/20/06 - 12/19/07
PI: Dr. Frederick Hoffman
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Amount Awarded: $12,000
Thirty-seventh Southeastern International Conference, 2/27/06 - 2/26/07
PI: Dr. Frederick Hoffman
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Amount Awarded: $12,000
Workshop on Constructive Mathematics, 9/1/09 - 8/31/10
PI: Dr. Robert Lubarsky
Co-PI: Dr. Fred Richman
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $11,400
MAMLS 2012, 9/16/11 - 1/15/12
PI: Dr. Robert Lubarsky
Funding Agency: Research Foundation CUNY
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Serre Duality for Systems of Submodules, 10/1/08 - 12/31/08
PI: Dr. Markus Schmidmeier
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $9,300
Travel Support for the Weekend Algebra Conference, 7/1/03 - 6/30/04
PI: Dr. Lee Klingler
Co-PI: Dr. Markus Schmidmeier
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Awarded: $9,000
Study of US Math Teacher Prep: US TEDS-M Initiative, 1/1/08 - 7/31/09
PI: Ms. Emily Ann Cimillo
Funding Agency: Michigan State University
Amount Awarded: $8,790
Algebraic Side Channel Analysis, 6/1/11 - 5/31/12
PI: Dr. Thomas Eisenbarth
Funding Agency: Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Amount Awarded: $5,000
Updated on 6/20/25
