{"id":23633,"date":"2026-07-30T13:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=23633"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:09:23","slug":"varia-kalavri-and-liagouris-secure-1-2m-nsf-cici-award-for-privacy-preserving-cloud-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2026\/07\/30\/varia-kalavri-and-liagouris-secure-1-2m-nsf-cici-award-for-privacy-preserving-cloud-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Varia, Kalavri, and Liagouris Secure $1.2M NSF CICI Award for Privacy-Preserving Cloud Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Principal Investigator Associate Professor Mayank Varia from BU&#8217;s Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, Assistant Professors Vasiliki Kalavri and John Liagouris have secured a $1.2M three-year NSF award to develop Open Privacy-preserving Analytics Lab (OPAL)\u2014a platform designed to provide comprehensive data protection at rest, in transit, and, most crucially, during use. This collaboration is a perfect example of BU\u2019s unique strengths and our capacity to push the state of the art in convergent research. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Principal Investigator Associate Professor Mayank Varia from BU&#8217;s Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, Assistant Professors Vasiliki Kalavri and John Liagouris have secured a $1.2M three-year NSF award to develop Open Privacy-preserving Analytics Lab (OPAL)\u2014a platform designed to provide comprehensive data protection at rest, in transit, and, most crucially, during use. This collaboration is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23634,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633\/revisions\/23634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}