CECS Seminar
Title: Intermittent Learning on Harvested Energy
Speaker: Shahriar Nirjon, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date and Time: Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 9:00 a.m.
Location: Zoom; https://uci.zoom.us/j/98141353349
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Facebook Awards Research Gift to Dutt and Maity
Facebook awarded an $80,000 research gift to Prof. Dutt and PhD student Biswadip Maity on studying hyperscale datacenter platform power management for applying lessons learned from their earlier research on mobile/embedded energy-efficient and power-aware runtime management policies to hyperscale datacenters. Facebook decided to leverage prior successes from Prof. Dutt’s research group (DRG) on self-aware energy-efficient and power-aware runtime management of mobile and embedded systems. Maity is developing adaptive, reflective energy-efficient resource managers for emerging data-centric applications. “I am extremely grateful for this research gift, and I’m excited to make Facebook datacenters more energy-efficient for billions of everyday users,” Maity said.
New Faculty Member – Bryan Donyanavard
Bryan Donyanavard is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at San Diego State University. He received his BS and MS in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and his PhD in Computer Science from UC Irvine. He previously spent time as a researcher at TU Munich and Ericsson. He has spent time as an engineer at National Security Technologies, Oracle, and Google. Prof. Donyanavard’s research revolves around self-aware computing systems: he works to enable resource-constrained systems to make intelligent self-management decisions at runtime, typically for high-performance cyber-physical applications. Welcome to CECS Prof. Donyanavard!
New Faculty Member – Mohsen Imani
Mohsen Imani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UC Irvine. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. Prof. Imani’s research has been recognized with several awards, including the Bernard and Sophia Gordon Engineering Leadership Award and the Powell Fellowship Award. He has also received the Best Doctorate Research from UCSD and several best paper nomination awards at multiple top conferences including Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) in 2020 and International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) in 2020. Welcome to CECS Prof. Imani!
Luke Chen Wins Graduate Student Fellowship Award
CECS graduate student Luke Chen received the 2021 John and Joanna Duffy Graduate Student Fellowship, a prestigious fellowship from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. The fellowship supports Masters of Science students who help provide a sense of inclusion in graduate programs. It covers student fees and tuition, allowing the student to devote more time to research and learning. The student will participate in community outreach activities and receive mentorship. Luke Chen is an M.Sc. Student working in Prof. Al Faruque’s Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems Lab. Luke’s research area of focus is currently Embedded Systems – mHealth System. Congrats Luke!
Career Chat with Dan Cregg

As the Chief Research Officer of Insteon, Dan Cregg leads the advancement of Insteon’s technology and rapidly evolving product line. He is one of the primary developers of Insteon’s dual-band technology that was introduced in 2005. Since then, Insteon technology has been integrated into hundreds of products, bringing the Internet of Things to the mainstream.
Cregg is a veteran in the home automation industry with over two (more…)
Career Chat with Judit Giró Benet
Judit Giró Benet, Co-Founder of The Blue Box and Junior Specialist in CECS. She joined MECPS, a joint Engineering-ICS program at UCI as a Balsells Fellow in 2019 and developed the Blue Box for her MECPS capstone project. Judit has just been named winner of the James Dyson International Award for her work on the Blue Box, an early breast cancer detection kit. She joined Prof. Fadi Kurdahi’s research group in CECS as a junior researcher seeking to solidify this technology and bring it to the market through a startup company.
Faculty Position at HKUST

A new position has opened up at the Guangzhou campus in mainland China. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is looking for strong candidates in all areas related to EDA, architecture, system, and circuit. If you are interested, please read more about the position and apply here: Apply Here!
ESWEEK 2020 Tutorial by Prof. Rainer Doemer
CECS Professor Rainer Doemer created and presented a tutorial titled “Out-of-order Parallel Simulation of SystemC Models using the RISC Framework” during ESWEEK 2020. This tutorial is featured on the ESWEEK page, which can be accessed here: https://esweek.org/tutorials/#tutorial3.
Professor Doemer has published his ESWEEK tutorial on his homepage, which can be accessed here under “Project Videos”: https://www.cecs.uci.edu/~doemer/risc.html#videos
In Memoriam of Wolfgang Rosenstiel
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Dean of the Faculty of Science at University of Tübingen, Germany, and Professor for Computer Science, passed away August 19, 2020.
Wolfgang Rosenstiel has been an outstanding leader and researcher in Embedded Computer Systems, a wonderful colleague, a true friend, and also frequent visitor at the Center for Embedded and Cyber-physical Systems here at UC Irvine. We will greatly miss him.
Reference: Orbituary at University of Tübingen (in German language): here
Professor Al Faruque and Sujit Rokka Chhetri Publish Book
CECS Prof
essor Al Faruque, along with his graduate student Sujit Rokka Chhetri, has published a book titled “Data-Driven Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems using Side-Channel Analysis”.
The book provides a new perspective on modeling cyber-physical systems (CPS), using a data-driven approach. It covers the use of state-of-the-art machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms for modeling various aspects of CPS, as well as other AI models.
Congratulations, Professor Al Faruque and Sujit Rokka Chhetri!
Neftali Watkinson Among Winners of UCI Endowment Scholarships

CECS Graduate Student Neftali Watkinson is among the winners of the UCI Graduate Division 2019-2020 Endowment Fellowships and Scholarships. He won the Miguel Velez Scholarship, which is a prestigious award given to those who demonstrate outstanding past academic achievement as well as future promise.
Congratulations, Neftali!
CECS Seminar

Title: “Answering Multi-Dimensional Analytical Queries under Local Differential Privacy”
Speaker: Tianhao Wang, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University
Date and Time: Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.
Location: Engineering Hall 2430
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Daniel Gajski and Lukai Cai Win ESWEEK Test of Time Award
Daniel Gajski (Prof. Emeritus) and Lukai Cai (former PhD student, now at Qualcomm, San Diego) have been awarded the Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK) Test of Time Award 2019 for their paper, “Transaction Level Modeling: An Overview”, which was originally published at the International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS) in 2003.
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