On September 27, 2025, the Worldwide Alumni Association of American University of Beirut (WAAAUB) Orange County Chapter hosted a memorable dinner to honor CECS director Professor Fadi Kurdahi with the WAAAUB Orange County Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award. The event recognized Prof. Kurdahi's remarkable contributions to education and mentorship since he received his Bachelor of Engineering […]
Prof. Fadi Kurdahi was promoted to Distinguished Professor with joint appointment under the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science. A Distinguished Professor is the university’s highest academic title and a reflection of outstanding leadership, deep commitment to education, and lasting impact in the field. Congratulations, […]
At the 3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec ‘25), PhD student Fayzah Alshammari presented “CPExploiter: from Cyber to Physical: Understanding the End-to-End Physical Attack Capability of Cyber-Attacks on Robotic Vehicles.” Alshammari’s paper expresses that previous research focuses on vulnerability discovery without understanding the end-to-end impact of robotic vehicle cyber-attacks. Her demo uses […]
On June 6, CECS Director and Professor Fadi Kurdahi received the Faculty Service Award at the 2025 Spring Faculty Awards. As director of CECS and founder of our Master of Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems (MECPS) program, Prof. Kurdahi made outstanding service contributions to the department of school and to advance our mission of education, research, […]
CECS Founder Professor Emeritus Daniel Gajski is a leader in the areas of embedded systems, design, and specification languages. He became an IEEE fellow in 1994 for his work in VLSD, CAD tools, and system level design methodology. In 2010, Prof. Gajski received the European Design and Automation Association Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing his outstanding […]
PhD student Jinyao Xu, who’s under the guidance of Professor Ian Harris, has been awarded to attend the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025 in San Francisco this June as its Young Fellow. Along with sponsored conference registration, the Young Fellow Program provided Jinyao with a travel grant and exclusive sessions for poster presentation, special program, […]
Next year, Associate Professor Quoc-Viet Dang will travel to Vietnam as a Fulbright Scholar to collaborate with Vietnam National University in Hanoi at the University of Engineering and Technology school (VNU-UET). Prof. Dang is one of the four UCI faculties to become a US Fulbright Scholar for the 2025-26 school year. AT VNU-UET, Prof. Dang […]
CECS PhD alumnus Mohanad Odema was selected as one of 38 graduate students to join the Machine Learning (ML) and Systems Rising Stars 2025 cohort. The MLCommons ML and Systems Rising Stars is an initiative of recently graduated PhD students to foster research and career growth, enable collaborations, and discuss career opportunities among rising generations […]
Assistant Professor Mohsen Imani was recently awarded $398,000 by the Office of Naval Research for project title, “DURIP Integrating AI and Intelligent Sensing for Advanced Naval Operations.” This sponsor award will support Prof. Imani and his lab with data processing equipment during the 1-year contract period.
Assistant Professor Sitao Huang was recognized with Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NFS). The CAREER Program supports early-career faculty with potential to serve as role models and lifelong leaders in research and education. NFS’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundation awarded Prof. Huang $650,000 for his project “CAREER: High-Level […]
Associate Professor of Neurology An Do leads a collaboration project between UCI and USC to combine systems engineering and steam cell research to treat damaged brain regions from strokes or other neurological problems. Do and team hope to apply advanced biofabrication and steam cell to construct 3D neural networks and encourage brain repairment. For their […]
With autonomous vehicle on the rise, Assistant Professor Alfred Chen and Professor Mohammad Al Faruque have shown that these vehicles, like self-driving cars and autonomous drones, can be hijacked and tricked into dangerous driving. Prof. Chen and Prof. Al Faruque are leading a team to discover end-to-end security vulnerabilities in any cyber-physical system. Their project […]