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控系统(CPMS)的安全性和可信性。微流控系统是处理少量流体的设备，通常与传感器和智能控制算法等“网络”元件相结合，以提高性能和可靠性。CPMS是在网络安全问题猖獗的时代到来的，新的安全和信任解决方案是当务之急。安全和值得信赖的CPMS将通过三项中心研究任务实现：1)分析安全威胁、动机、攻击面及其对研究环境、行业和社会的影响；2)开发新的架构、协议、硬件和算法以预防、检测和缓解这些威胁；以及3)在台式机上进行实验，以验证开发的方法并揭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，这个项目将为学生培养硬件设计、计算机辅助设计、分子生物学和安全方面的多学科研究和教育。在工业方面，将通过保护知识产权和推动终端用户采用来促进增长和投资。对于社会来说，考虑到安全的CPMS应该有助于建立信任。这项研究收集的数据将通过出版物和公共门户网站传播，如GitHub和https://sites.google.com/a/tamu.edu/security-of-microfluidic-biochips/.This奖项反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.