DATE/TIME: Wednesday, May 1st, 11:00am
SPEAKER: Prof. Yun Eric Liang, Peking University
As Moore’s law is approaching to the end, designing specialized hardware accelerator along with the software that map the applications onto the specialized hardware is a promising solution. However, the hardware is very difficult to design and optimize due to the low-level programming and huge design space.
DATE/TIME: Thursday, May 23rd, 10:00am
SPEAKER: Prof. Michail (Mihalis) Maniatakos, NYU Abu Dhabi
In this seminar, we will shed light to the security landscape of modern ICS, dissecting firmware from the dominant vendors and motivating the need of employing appropriate vulnerability assessment tools.
DATE/TIME: Thursday, October 17th, 3:00pm
SPEAKER: Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, ETH Zürich
The exponential growth of genomic data poses unprecedented challenges in genomics and metagenomic applications. These applications suffer from significant data movement overheads from the storage system. To fundamentally address these overheads, we make a case for storage-centric computing.
DATE/TIME: Friday, October 18th, 2:00pm
SPEAKER: Prof. Lawrence Rauchwerger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
In this presentation we outline a framework that leverages in-silico simulation to establish an engineering testbed with the ultimate goal of learning to harness neural in-vitro systems for computational purposes.
DATE/TIME: Wednesday, March 12, 2:00pm
SPEAKER: Prof. Yu Bai, Intelligent Computing Research Lab @ CSU
This talk explores the challenges and innovations in optimizing AI efficiency, bridging algorithmic advancements and hardware design to enhance performance from inference to training.
DATE/TIME: Monday, April 21, 11:00am
SPEAKER: Yicheng Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate @ UC Riverside
To improve the performance and efficiency of modern computing systems, architects increasingly adopt heterogeneous designs that tightly integrate specialized accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs. In this talk, I will present my research efforts to uncover and mitigate security vulnerabilities in these heterogeneous platforms.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.