• Efficient and Robust Defense against Query-based Black-box Attacks

    EH 2430 Engineering Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

    DATE/TIME: Monday, May 19, 11:00am
    SPEAKER: Shaofei Li, Ph.D. @ Peking University
    In this talk, I will present our novel approach, Query Provenance Analysis (QPA), for defending against query-based black-box attacks robustly (against both non-adaptive and adaptive attacks) and efficiently (in real-time).

  • TEE-Shielded LLM Partition – Efficiently Protect Model Security on User Devices

    EH 2430 Engineering Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

    DATE/TIME: Monday, May 19, 11:00am
    SPEAKER: Ziqi Zhang, Postdoc Researcher @ University of Illinois Urbane-Champaign
    In this talk, I will introduce recent work on TEE-based LLM protection (TSLP) on the user devices: TEESlice (S&P24) and ArrowCloak (Security25 revision).

  • Confidential Computing and Trusted Execution Environment: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future

    EH 2430 Engineering Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

    DATE/TIME: Monday, June 9, 11:00am
    SPEAKER: Mengyuan Li, Professor @ USC
    I will share my insights into two real-world vulnerabilities we uncovered within commercial Confidential Computing systems, along with our joint efforts with CPU manufacturers to address these issues in the latest server-grade CPUs.

  • Unleashing Multi-GPU Computing to the Next-Level

    EH 2430 Engineering Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

    DATE/TIME: Wednesday, October 15, 2:00pm
    SPEAKER: Dr. Xulong Tang
    I will discuss novel techniques such as lightweight invalidations for page translation, short-circuiting page table walks, and multi-instance GPU (MIG) reconfiguration strategies that collectively deliver substantial performance and efficiency gains to overcome these bottlenecks and unleash the full potential of multi-GPU computing.

  • Autonomy on a Budget: Enabling Intelligent Monitoring Through Low-Cost Embedded Systems

    EH 2430 Engineering Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

    DATE/TIME: Tuesday, November 4, 2:00pm
    SPEAKER: Dr. Prabha Sundaravadivel
    This talk presents recent advances in low-cost embedded autonomy, where edge AI, sensor fusion, and adaptive control enable real-time decision-making within compact, power-efficient platforms.

  • GOAL: An Industrially Validated Global Optimization Framework for Advanced Macro Placement in Semiconductor Design

    EH 2430 Engineering Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

    DATE/TIME: Friday, February 13, 10:30am
    SPEAKER: Jooyoung Lee
    This talk presents a solution to build on a dedicated combinatorial-optimization engine that directly models the search space rather than relying on proxy rewards, advancing AI that can reliably solve the hardest optimization problems in semiconductor design and beyond.

  • The Brave New (Quantum) World

    ISEB 1310

    Title: The Brave New (Quantum) World Speaker: Dr. Anupam Chattopadhyay Date and Time: Thursday, July 23, 10:00am Location: ISEB 1310 Abstract: Major advances across all the design stack of Quantum […]

  • From Domain-Specific Accelerators to Spatial Architecture Exploration

    ISEB 1310

    Title: From Domain-Specific Accelerators to Spatial Architecture Exploration Speaker: Dr. Jongeun Lee Date and Time: Thursday, July 30, 10:30am Location: ISEB 1310 Abstract: Emerging scientific and machine learning workloads increasingly […]

  • Perception/Control Co-Design for Autonomous Vehicles

    EH 2430 Engineering Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

    Title: Perception/Control Co-Design for Autonomous Vehicles Speaker: Dr. Marilyn Wolf, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Date and Time: Monday, November 9, 2:00 pm Location: EH 2430 Abstract: Perception is a […]