University of Florida’s (UF) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has inducted Professor and Vice Chancellor for Research Pramod Khargonekar into their Hall of Fame. As an alumnus of UF, Prof. Khargonekar demonstrated institutional leadership, a long-term commitment to UF’s engineering program, and impactful research and inventions in the field of electrical or computer engineering. […]
Assistant Professor Marco Levorato won Beall Applied Innovation Center’s 2023 UCI Early Career/Emerging Innovator of Year Award. The award recognizes Prof. Levorato’s efforts to “drive innovative research into socially and commercially important applications.” Prof. Levorato’s research focuses on balancing data transfer security and cost for mobile AI applications. Along with the Beall Applied Innovation Center, […]
At the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS ‘24), PhD student Fayzah Alshammari received Best Technical Poster Award for paper “On the Cyber-Physical Security of Commercial Indoor Delivery Robot Systems.” Alshammari’s research aimed to improve security through analysis on systems in real-world commercial settings. Alshammari is under the advisory of Professor Alfred Chen.
A groundbreaking project by Professor Jeff Krichmar and the Neurorobotics Lab explored methods to bring primary consciousness into machines using Gerald Edelman’s Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. Following the theory, which suggests that consciousness emerges through interactions among neuronal groups, similar to the process of natural selection, Prof. Krichmar and team aimed to mimic […]
On Friday December 9, 2023, MECPS hosted the annual end-of-year symposium to showcase the capstone projects of the MECPS graduating students as well as projects from the first year cohort. This year, three teams tied for second and one team won first place for the Best Project Award. First Place Winner: Brain Padilla, Gabriel Rizko, […]
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded Assistant Professor Mohsen Imani with the Young Investigator Award. Prof. Imani, who also was also honored with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Young Faculty Award, is a pioneer in research on hyper-dimensional computing as a neuro-symbolic AI technique. Him and his lab investigate the intersection of neuroscience, AI, […]
Prof. Yasser Shoukry and team were awarded $2 million over four years by the Smart and Connected Communities and the National Science Foundation for their project “Community-Driven Design of Fair Urban Air Mobility Transportation Management Systems.” Prof. Shoukry and team will investigate and design durable Urban Air Mobility (UAM) infrastructures to help traffic congestion that […]
Prof. Sang-Woo Jun explores the possibility of improving system efficient without sacrificing performance in his co-authored paper “GraFBoost: Using Accelerated Flash Storage for External Graph Analytics.” His paper from five years ago explained that using a solid-state drive instead of dynamic RAM for I/O intensive graph analytics can cut cost and power usage by four […]
Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque received $378K in award over three years for his project “Adaptive and Efficient Perception for Autonomous Ground Vehicle Operating in Highly Stochastic Environments under Sensing Uncertainties”. With the funding from the U.S. Army Automotive Research Center, Prof. Al Faruque and his team will study the computational constraints and sensor fusion methods […]
Assistant Professor QV Dang received Excellence in Digital Learning from UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation to recognize his demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching at UCI. Congrats Prof. Dang!
Assistant Professor Rozhin Yasaei won 2nd Best Paper Award at Women in Cyber Security Conference 2023 with paper titled: “Attack and Fault Detection in the Internet of Things using Graph Neural Networks.” Congrats Prof. Yasaei!
Trier Mortlock won Best Student Poster Award from the Automotive Research Center (ARC) Program Review for project title: “Adaptive and Efficient Perception for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Operating in Highly Stochastic Environments under Sensing Uncertainties.” Congrats Mortlock!