Awarded Grants & Sponsorship

The Cyber Innovation Lab is profoundly grateful to the federal agencies, foundations, and academic institutions that fund our critical research in cybersecurity and innovative computing.

Calculus to Careers: Scholarships Targeting Academically Rising STEM Students

$1,997,219.00

Role Broome, J. H. (PI), Rahimi, N. (Supporting), et al.

Sponsor National Science Foundation

Duration July 2025 - June 2031

INtegrated Cyber Instructor Training Ecosystem (IN-CITE)

$1,512,000.00

Role Jones, H. L. (PI), Rahimi, N. (Co-PI), Martinez Cruz, J. N. (Co-PI)

Sponsor Department of Labor

Duration May 2024 - May 2027

AI-RISE (AI Research & Innovation for Skilled Employment)

$1,240,000.00

Role Lee, S. B. (PI), Rahimi, N. (Co-PI)

Sponsor Mississippi Major Economic Impact Authority/Amazon

Duration 2026 - 2029

Maritime Cyber4Work: Building Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

$153,048.00

Role Lee, S. B. (PI), Rahimi, N. (Co-PI)

Sponsor National Institute of Standards & Technology

Duration 2025 - Present

Louis Stokes Mississippi Alliance for Minority Participation (LSMAMP) Pathways Alliance

$75,716.00

Role CO-PI (Rahimi, N.)

Sponsor National Science Foundation (Federal)

Duration October 2023 - May 2024

Tiny Vision Language Models for Real-Time Remote Sensing

$51,700.00

Role PI (Rahimi, N.)

Sponsor NASA-EPSCoR

Duration January 2026 - Present

Computing Research Center

$32,000.00

Role PI (Rahimi, N.)

Sponsor Jimmy A. Payne Foundation

Duration August 2024 - July 2025

A Novel Secure Structured Hierarchical Blockchain Infrastructure

$13,664.18

Role PI (Rahimi, N.)

Sponsor Information Technology at Southeast Missouri State University

Duration January 2019

A Novel Design for Secure Blockchain as an Anti-Censorship Architecture

$9,000.00

Role PI (Rahimi, N.)

Sponsor College of Applied Sciences & Arts - SIU

Duration August 2020

New Online Course Development - Intro to Machine Learning with Applications in Cybersecurity

$5,500.00

Role PI (Rahimi, N.)

Sponsor Center for Teaching Excellence at SIU

Duration May 2020

New Online Course Development - Introduction to Software Security

$5,500.00

Role PI (Rahimi, N.)

Sponsor Center for Teaching Excellence at SIU

Duration May 2020

Studying the Landscape of Internet Censorship and Anti-Censorship in Middle East

$5,000.00

Role PI (Rahimi, N.)

Sponsor Middle Eastern Studies at Missouri State University

Duration June 2019

SecureBrainNet: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Framework for Brain-Computer Interfaces

$4,500.00

Role PI (Rahimi, N.)

Sponsor USM Proposal Development Funding

Duration May 2025 - Present

Summer Grant for the Improvement of Instruction Award

$3,300.00

Role PI (Rahimi, S.)

Sponsor University of Southern Mississippi

Duration Summer 2025