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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231202
DTSTAMP:20251113T230240Z
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SUMMARY:Shoukry’s UAM Project Awarded 2M
DESCRIPTION: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 will not discriminate or reinforce socioeconomic inequality.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/shoukrys-uam-project-awarded-2m/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231202
DTSTAMP:20251113T230627Z
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SUMMARY:Imani Received Young Investigator Award
DESCRIPTION: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\, and embedded systems. With this award\, Prof. Imani will also receive a fund of &750K over three years for his brilliant effort.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/imani-received-young-investigator-award/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231209T090000
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DTSTAMP:20251113T212440Z
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SUMMARY:MECPS Symposium 2023 Winners
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFirst Place Winner:\nBrain Padilla\, Gabriel Rizko\, and Andre Alain Tabourian – “Power\, Communication\, and Control using NFC and WPT” \nSecond Place Winners:\nJeet Shah\, Rushabh Patel\, and Vandit Patel – “Autonomous UAV swarm for Extensive Surveillance”\nJan Wojtkowski and Joe Huang – “AR Assistant”\nArjun Sivakumar\, Bhumil Depani\, and Ricky Bevan – “AGNI—Autonomous Ground Navigation Initiative”
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/mecps-symposium-2023-winners/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB)
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240302
DTSTAMP:20251113T230929Z
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SUMMARY:Krichmar’s Research with AI Featured on Medium
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFollowing 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 the evolutionary development of consciousness in artificial intelligence. The Neurorobotics Lab have initiated environments that simulate neuronal group selections\, creating AI that can recognize its environment\, make predictions\, and learn from interactions without human intervention. \nProf. Krichmar and team’s dictation and achievements were featured on popular article platform Medium.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/krichmars-research-with-ai-featured-on-medium/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240302
DTSTAMP:20251113T231149Z
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SUMMARY:NDSS’24 Best Technical Poster Award
DESCRIPTION: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. \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/ndss24-best-technical-poster-award/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240430
DTSTAMP:20251113T232149Z
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UID:16600-1714348800-1714435199@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Levorato Wins Emerging Innovator of Year Award
DESCRIPTION: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\, Prof. Levorato is working on distributing his findings for real world applications. \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/levorato-wins-emerging-innovator-of-year-award/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240602
DTSTAMP:20251113T231952Z
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SUMMARY:Khargonekar Inducted into UF Hall of Fame
DESCRIPTION: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. His theories and research are recognized to be one of the greatest theoretical achievements in the control systems field.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/khargonekar-inducted-into-uf-hall-of-fame/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241202
DTSTAMP:20251113T232535Z
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SUMMARY:Chen\, Al Faruque Awarded for Research in Autonomous Security
DESCRIPTION: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 is part of the Faithful Integration\, Reverse-engineering\, and Emulation (FIRE) program\, backed by a three-year fund of $15 million from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/chen-al-faruque-awarded-for-research-in-autonomous-security/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241201
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SUMMARY:Do Awarded $2M for Intelligent Biocomputing
DESCRIPTION: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 efforts\, NSF granted them $2 million in funding over 4 years. \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/do-awarded-2m-for-intelligent-biocomputing/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250302
DTSTAMP:20251113T232737Z
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SUMMARY:Huang Receives NSF Faculty Early Career Award
DESCRIPTION: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 Synthesis and Compilation for Domain-Specific Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Systems”. \nAs the complexity and diversity of modern computing workloads grow rapidly\, existing computer systems with homogeneous processors or accelerators show critical limitations in computing these complex workloads. This creates the incentive to create the next generation of heterogeneous hardware acceleration systems with diverse processors and accelerators\, such as CPUs\, GPUs\, DSPs\, and FPGAs. \nProf. Huang’s project will develop an efficient complication and synthesis flow from high-level program\, such as Python\, to domain-specific reconfigurable heterogeneous acceleration systems.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/huang-receives-nsf-faculty-early-career-award/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250302
DTSTAMP:20251113T232827Z
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UID:16618-1740787200-1740873599@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Office of Naval Research Sponsor Award for Imani
DESCRIPTION: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. \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/office-of-naval-research-sponsor-award-for-imani/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250302
DTSTAMP:20251113T232909Z
CREATED:20251113T232909Z
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UID:16622-1740787200-1740873599@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Odema Selected as ML and System Rising Stars
DESCRIPTION: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 of researchers at intersections of ML and systems.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/odema-selected-as-ml-and-system-rising-stars/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250602
DTSTAMP:20251113T233115Z
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UID:16626-1748736000-1748822399@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Dang to Travel to Vietnam as Fulbright Scholar
DESCRIPTION: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 will work with administrators\, teach courses in system software or embedded systems\, and conduct joint research projects. \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/dang-to-travel-to-vietnam-as-fulbright-scholar/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250602
DTSTAMP:20251113T233328Z
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UID:16635-1748736000-1748822399@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Xu Joins DAC25 Young Fellow Program
DESCRIPTION: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\, and labs. \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/xu-joins-dac25-young-fellow-program/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250602
DTSTAMP:20251113T233408Z
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UID:16639-1748736000-1748822399@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Gajski Ranked Top Scholar
DESCRIPTION: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 contributions to the state of the art in electronics design and automation. In 2024\, Prof. Gajski was ranked top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide and top 20 scholar in the area of systems design.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/gajski-ranked-top-scholar/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250607
DTSTAMP:20251113T233254Z
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SUMMARY:Kurdahi Receives Engineering Faculty Service Award
DESCRIPTION: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\, and outreach. Prof. Kurdahi also partake in many activities aimed at promoting participation and opportunity from under-represented minorities in IoT. \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/kurdahi-receives-engineering-faculty-service-award/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250721
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250722
DTSTAMP:20251113T234224Z
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SUMMARY:Alshammari Won Best Demo at USENIX Security Symposium
DESCRIPTION: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 VEI scenarios and automates escalation discovery via UAV-specific parameters to expose physical failure. CPExploiter won the Best Demo Award at VehicleSec ‘25. \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/alshammari-won-best-demo-at-usenix-security-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250902
DTSTAMP:20251113T234035Z
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SUMMARY:Kurdahi Promoted to Distinguished Professor
DESCRIPTION: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\, Prof. Kurdahi! \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/kurdahi-promoted-to-distinguished-professor/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250928
DTSTAMP:20251113T234331Z
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UID:16520-1758931200-1759017599@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Fadi Kurdahi Honored at WAAAUB Orange County Chapter Annual Dinner
DESCRIPTION: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 at AUB in 1981. As he accepted the award\, Prof. Kurdahi urged alumni to invest in one another’s futures: “Support one another\, host interns\, be mentors. Together\, we can create a network of AUB alumni who uplift one another and future generations.” \nCongratulations Prof. Kurdahi!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/prof-fadi-kurdahi-honored-at-waaaub-orange-county-chapter-annual-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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