EAGER: Collaborative: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberphysical Microfluidic Systems

该项目的总体目标是确保网络物理微流体系统（CPMS）的安全性和可靠性。微流体系统是处理小体积流体的设备，通常与传感器和智能控制算法等“网络”元素相结合，以提高性能和可靠性。CPMS是在网络安全问题猖獗的时代成长起来的，新颖的安全和信任解决方案是当前的需求。安全可靠的CPMS将通过三个中心研究任务来实现：1)分析安全威胁、动机、攻击面及其对研究领域、行业和社会的影响；2)开发新的架构、协议、硬件和算法来预防、检测和减轻这些威胁；3)在实验台上验证开发的方法，并暴露在生化水平上出现的微妙问题。小型化、低成本、安全可靠的CPMS将是革命性的。在学术界，该计划将促进硬件设计、计算机辅助设计、分子生物学和安全等多学科的研究和教育。在工业方面，通过保护知识产权和推动最终用户采用，将促进增长和投资。对于社会而言，考虑到安全的CPMS设计应该有助于建立信任。本研究收集的数据将通过出版物和公共门户网站（如GitHub和https://sites.google.com/a/tamu.edu/security-of-microfluidic-biochips/.This）传播，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

This project's overarching goal is to ensure the security and trustworthiness of cyber-physical microfluidic systems (CPMS). Microfluidic systems are devices that handle small volumes of fluids and are usually coupled with "cyber" elements such as sensors and intelligent control algorithms to improve performance and reliability. CPMS are coming of age in an era of rampant cybersecurity issues, and novel security and trust solutions are the need of the hour. Secure and trustworthy CPMS will be realized through three central research tasks: 1) analyzing security threats, motivations, attack surfaces, and their consequences for the research landscape, industry, and society; 2) developing novel architectures, protocols, hardware, and algorithms to prevent, detect, and mitigate these threats; and 3) experiments on the benchtop to validate the developed approaches and to expose subtle issues that arise at the biochemical level. Miniaturized, low-cost CPMS that are also secure and trustworthy will be revolutionary. In academia, this project will foster multi-disciplinary research and education for students of hardware design, computer-aided design, molecular biology, and security. In industry, growth and investment will be fostered by protecting intellectual property and providing an impetus for adoption by end users. For society, CPMS designed with security in mind should help in establishing trust. The data collected in this research will be disseminated through publications and public portals, such as GitHub and https://sites.google.com/a/tamu.edu/security-of-microfluidic-biochips/.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.