Announcements

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

CECS Professor 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!

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!

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 (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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Title: “Energy-Aware Data Center Management: Monitoring Trends and Insights via Machine Learning”

Speaker: Hayk Shoukourian, Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at LMUM, Munich, Germany

Date and Time: Friday, November 15 at 11:00 a.m.

Location: Donald Bren Hall 3011

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Proclaimed as “Art Come Alive”,  At the Venice, Biennale, UCI professors Nicolau(left) and Veidenbaum(right) stand next to a composite of Nicolae Ceausescu.When asked “Who are you?”, Nothing happens. Not at first. “I was Ceausescu,” the painting suddenly responds, “secretary of the party and president of our country. You should have known that.” Now Ceausescu, or at least a digital composite of him, is “alive” again and answers questions from visitors who pass through the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, Italy. To read more about this event, click here.

Fifth-generation cellular networks and devices are still in the earliest stages of launching across the world, but research on the next generation — 6G — is already underway. Today, researchers at the University of California, Irvine’s Nanoscale Communication Integrated Circuits Labs announced that they’ve created a tiny radio chip that can send and receive data in the 100GHz frequency range, which is expected to be the basis for future 6G communications standards. To read more about this project, click here.

Title:”Scalable Set-based Analysis for Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems”

Speaker: Stanley Bak, Security Consultant of Safe Sky Analytics working with the FAA and Air Force.

Date and Time: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.

Location: Engineering Hall 2430

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The research group in Computer Engineering (https://www.tec.ee.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, https://www.ethz.ch) has an opening for a post-doctoral fellow.

This position is devoted to scientific research in the area of embedded information processing, in particular for applications in mobile systems, internet of things, cyberphysical systems or sensor networks. The research is driven by our installations at several field sites in high alpine regions (permafrost research and early warning) as well as air pollution monitoring.

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Title: “Safety Verification and Training for Learning-enabled Cyber-Physical Systems”

Speaker: Jyotirmoy Vinay Deshmukh, Assistant Professor in the Viterbi School of Engineering at University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Date and Time: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.

Location: Donald Bren Hall 4011

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CECS Professor Rainer Doemer has been selected as a Deans’ Honoree for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. This award is selected based on campus wide nominations from peers, colleagues, and students.

Professor Rainer Doemer is loved by both students and faculty alike, and this award portrays that to this award’s nominees. Over 300 lecturers and TAs have received this award.

Congratulations, Professor Rainer Doemer!

Title: “Poly-Logarithmic Side Channel Rank Estimation via Exponential Sampling”

Speaker: Liron David, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University

Date and Time: Tuesday, March 12 at 10:00 a.m.

Location: Engineering Hall 5204

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CECS Professor Mohammad al Faruque, along with a group of graduate students (Arnav Malawade, John Chaput, and Sina Faezi), discovered that it is possible to record subtle sounds of a DNA synthesis machine, then reverse-engineering whatever genetic materials the machine is making. In other words, it is possible to hack such a machine by listening to it. Faruque’s accomplishments are featured in the New York Times and Wired. To read more, please see here (Wired), here (NY Times) or here (IEEE).

Last month, Intelligence 2025, the sixth annual UC Irvine/Tel Aviv University workshop, took place in Tel Aviv, Israel. This year’s event was dedicated to artificial intelligence and smart systems. Since these two fields will have a large impact on people around the world within the next several years, workshop organizers believe that these will help being a higher quality of life to those in developed and under-developed nations. To read more about this event, click here.