Title: “High Level Synthesis – Some Challenging Problems”
Speaker: Professor George A. Constantinides, Imperial College London
Date and Time: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
Location: Engineering Hall 2430
Hosts: Professor Nikil Dutt
Ahmed Eltawil won the 2016 Commercialization Award Showcase, which encourages commercialization of innovations from all fields of research and stimulates entrepreneurship at UCI. His mission is to create technology for enhancing the efficiency and capabilities of telecommunication systems. Professor Eltawil has founded a new company, Lextrum, to further advance this technology, develop strategic partnerships, and perform large scale field testing.
Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science Gene Tsudik has been elected a member of The Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea), the organization dedicated to the “advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages in the aforesaid subjects in Europe,” according to the organization’s website.
September 13, 2016
9AM – 6PM
1517 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, University of California, Irvine
Register at: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma/haptics_workshop.html
The Center for Embedded Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems (CECS), jointly with the Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games (IVECG) anticipates one full-time Associate Project Scientist position to become available in the area of Applied Cryptography and Embedded Systems (IoT) Security. Specific topics include: secure bootstrapping; secure updates, and remote attestation. This position requires the applicant to have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and extensive experience with, and knowledge of: secure hardware, cryptography, FPGA prototyping, networking, and distributed/secure algorithms. Salary will be commensurate with qualification and experience.
Interested applicants should respond by applying through UCI’s Recruit website:
Highlights:
Kurdahi and Nassar Receive ASP-DAC Best Paper Award
Al Faruque and Vatapavar Receive DATE Best Paper Award
CECS Seminar Series Highlights
Visitor Profile: Yi Li
Title: “Area/speed tradeoffs in a retargetable FPGA-optimized processor core”
Speaker: Marko Zec, University of Zagreb
Date and Time: Friday, July 15, 2016 at 11:00am
Location: CECS Conference Room
Host: Professor Daniel Gajski
The UC Irvine Office of Research has announced the awardees of the Research Seed Funding Program and four CECS faculty are among the recipients. Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque was awarded for his proposal titled “Critical Infrastructure Forensics (CIF)”, Prof. Zoran Nenadic for his proposal titled “An Implantable Brain-computer Interface System For Restoring Lower Extremity Movement And Sensation After Neural Injuries”, Prof. Ahmed Eltawil for his proposal titled “Self-interference Cancellation In Full-duplex System”, and Prof. Jeffrey Krichmar for his proposal titled “A Nueromorphic Robot That Interacts With People Through Tactile Sensing And Bi-directional Learning”.
Congratulation to you all!
Assistant Professor Marco Levorato won the 2016 Hellman Fellow award at UCI. This award helps promising junior faculty realize their full scientific and academic potential.
“I am truly honored to be the recipient of the Hellman Award, my objective is to facilitate the inclusion of citizens as the central component of city administration and systems. The fellowship will be used to develop a new link between citizens, technology and citywide services.”
“Fundamentals of Millimeter-Wave Frequency Generation and Synthesis in Silicon”, Presented by Payam Heydari
This webinar is free and open to all SSCS members.
Tue, May 31, 2016 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PDT
The Center for Embedded Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems (CECS), jointly with the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, anticipates the availability of an assistant project scientist position. The position involves performing research on algorithms with applications to networking, the Internet, and computer security and privacy, as well as analysis and visualization of software artifacts. A background in algorithm design and analysis would be desirable.
Interested applicants should respond by applying through UCI’s Recruit website: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF03392
Title: “Adaptive Design: Tackling Variability Challenges in VLSI Circuits”
Speaker: Prof. Mingoo Seok, Columbia University, New York, NY
Date and Time: Friday, April 22, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Hall 2430
Hosts: Professor Payam Heydari
Title: “Towards Computer-Aided Design of Electrical Energy Systems: Challenges and Solutions”
Speaker: Prof. Massimo Poncino, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Date and Time: Friday, April 22, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Hall 2430
Hosts: Professor Mohammad Al Faruque
CECS member and EECS Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque has recently received three awards recognizing his contributions to research and teaching excellence. These awards include:
EECS Professor of the Year 2015-16 Award
Distinguished Poster Award in the Network and Distributed System Security 2016 Symposium
Design Automation & Test in Europe (DATE 2016) Best Paper Award
