{"id":1046,"date":"2026-07-21T11:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:43:59","slug":"1-2m-nsf-award-for-privacy-preserving-cloud-analytics-testbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/2026\/07\/21\/1-2m-nsf-award-for-privacy-preserving-cloud-analytics-testbed\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.2M NSF Award for Privacy-Preserving Cloud Analytics Testbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PI <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/mayank-varia\/\">Mayank Varia<\/a> and co-PIs <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/191\/\">Vasiliki Kalavri<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/john-liagouris\/\">John Liagouris<\/a> received <span>3-year, $1.2M <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/show-award?AWD_ID=2613424\">award<\/a> from the NSF Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The project focuses on developing <strong>an open-source software platform to enable the deployment of privacy-preserving scientific workflows across both open and commercial cloud infrastructures<\/strong>. To achieve this, the team is building the Open Privacy-preserving Analytics Lab (OPAL)\u2014a platform designed to provide comprehensive data protection at rest, in transit, and, most crucially, during use. By leveraging advanced privacy-enhancing technologies like cryptographically secure multiparty computation and trusted execution environments (TEEs), OPAL will serve as both a testbed for organizations to evaluate these tools and an automated orchestration engine for real-world, multi-cloud deployments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PI Mayank Varia and co-PIs Vasiliki Kalavri and John Liagouris received 3-year, $1.2M award from the NSF Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program! The project focuses on developing an open-source software platform to enable the deployment of privacy-preserving scientific workflows across both open and commercial cloud infrastructures. To achieve this, the team is building the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}