The University of Maine has been awarded $400,000 as part of a $1.2 million collaborative research project titled “KIPPER: A Scalable Learning-Guided Hardware IP Protection Platform,” funded by the National Science Foundation under its Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace initiative.  The project, led by Prabuddha Chakraborty, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMaine, is read more New NSF-backed research addressing threat of security breaches in semiconductor design