Academic Research & Community Outreach
Accelerating Security Innovation
Collaboration with the research community through academic investment and partnerships is critical for fueling new ways of thinking to address current and future security threats.
Our relationships with leading security research institutions allow us to work with top talent across a range of programs including -
Direct investment in sponsored research, awards and recognition programs, community outreach, and mentorship/internships.
Sponsored Research
Intel invests directly in proactive security research, collaborating with leading institutions and academic researchers in areas of mutual interest.
Resilient Architectures and Robust Electronics
Academic researchers from 10 leading universities were selected for this center focused on developing new capabilities to help increase the reliability and security of Intel® hardware and software, including the security of Intel® silicon integrated circuits, with all research being made public to the general semiconductor industry.
Scalable Assurance
This program solicited proposals aimed at enabling product security assurance to be performed with greater effectiveness; increase automation and intelligence of deployed tools to assist users without deep security expertise; and support the “shift left” paradigm that focuses on finding and fixing problems as early as possible within the design life-cycle.
Private AI Collaborative Research Institute
Intel launched this collaborative effort that is working with nine universities worldwide to advance and develop technologies in privacy and trust for decentralized AI. Research will address secure, trusted, and decentralized analytics, and compute at the edge to liberate data from silos, protect privacy and security, and maintain efficiency.
Intel Collaborative Research Institutes - Safe Automated Vehicles
This partnership looks to accelerate the design, prototype, and publication of research, and validate ideas in real-world scenarios. The focus is practical innovations that have potential to enhance security and resilience of real-world systems.
Crypto Frontiers Research Center
A collaboration with world-renowned cryptographers to create cryptography technologies for the next generation of computing and beyond, with a focus on solutions for hardware and software that require more sophisticated security features such as computations over encrypted data, long-term security solutions, and secure data sharing.
Side Channel Academic Program
Proactive security research with institutions worldwide inspired by speculative execution side channel (transient execution attack) vulnerabilities. The program focuses on mitigations, potential attack vectors, and software-based mitigations. Findings have been rolled into current products and are informing future designs.
Rewarding Academic Excellence
Hardware Security Academic Award
This award fosters research into solutions, tools, and methodologies to address fundamental security challenges and enhance the industry’s ability to deliver more secure and trustworthy foundational technologies.
Academic Leadership Awards
The award recognizes the significant impact on shaping international cyber security research, particularly in hardware-based security, and transferring knowledge and insights to academic and industrial security community.
Outstanding Researcher Awards
Honoring exceptional contributions made through university-sponsored research based on factors such as: fundamental insights, technical difficulty, effective collaboration, and industry relevance.
Rising Stars Faculty Awards
Recognizes community members doing exceptional work and facilitates long-term collaborative relationships with senior technical leaders at Intel.
Community Outreach
Hands-on experience in secure development
Investing in thriving, diverse security communities
Academic Mentoring
Intel coordinates Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Programs, partnering with leading academic institutions to provide hands-on guidance to help students gain experience in security and privacy research. REUs also build a more diverse and inclusive talent pipeline.
Project Circuit Breaker
In addition to academic initiatives, Intel is also investing in research through this extension of our Bug Bounty program, bringing together a community of elite security researchers to work with Intel product and security teams through live hacking events.