Funded Projects

Active Grants

Sole PI of "EAGER: SaTC: Sweaty Digits: Bridging Chemistry and AI-Empowered Imaging for Secure and Trustworthy Human Identity Verification" - Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Emanuela Marasco (Principal Investigator), July 2023 - June 2025.

Completed Projects

Co-PI of "Phase II IUCRC George Mason University: Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation CCAA" - Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF): Sushil Jajodia (Principal Investigator), Rajesh Ganesan (Co-Principal Investigator), Kun Sun (Co-Principal Investigator), Massimiliano Albanese (Co-Principal Investigator), Emanuela Marasco (Co-Principal Investigator), Sept. 2018 – Aug. 2024.

Sole PI of "Protecting Smartphones from Fingerphoto Spoofing via Deep Fusion of Color Spaces" - Funded by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI): Emanuela Marasco (Principal Investigator), July 2022 - June 2023.

Co-PI of "Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate Assessment and Evidence Interpretation" - Funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ): Larry Tang (Principal Investigator), Christopher Saunders (Co-Principal Investigator), Emanuela Marasco (Co-Principal Investigator), January 2020 - April 2023.

PI of "A Study on Authentication Usability of Biometric-based Multi-factor Mechanisms" - Funded by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI): Emanuela Marasco (Principal Investigator) and Massimiliano Albanese (Co-Principal Investigator), July 2021 - June 2022.