Ying Cai Awarded Grant from AFRL

Dr. Ying Cai, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded a $236,977 grant from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for his research on developing Authentication Data Structures (ADS) for rank-aware queries. The duration of the project is two years.

Dr. Cai and his students will develop Authentication Data Structures that allow cloud users to verify the correctness of rank-aware query results provided by a potentially untrusted cloud without relying on a Trusted Third Party or special security chip. The ADS will be built by resource-constrained data owners, while being able to support a broader category of rank-aware queries.