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 […]
Name: Dongjoo Seo Chair: Prof. Nikil Dutt Date: June 10, 2025 Time: 9:00 AM Location: DBH 3011 Committee: Prof. Tony Givargis, Prof. Sang-Woo Jun Title: Full-Stack Resource Management for Predictable and Scalable Autonomous Vehicle Pipelines Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on tightly coupled perception, planning, and control pipelines that demand both high throughput and deterministic […]
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.
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 […]
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, 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: Wednesday, May 14, 11:00am
SPEAKER: Mariam Rakka
In-memory computing (IMC) offers a promising alternative by enabling computation directly within memory arrays. This dissertation presents novel architectural and algorithmic strategies to accelerate machine learning inference using IMC.
CPS-IoT Week is the premier event on Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet-of-Things. It brings together four top conferences, HSCC, ICCPS, SenSys, and RTAS, multiple workshops, tutorials, and competitions. This year, CECS is thrilled to host CPS-IoT Week 2025 at the UC Irvine Student Center between May 6-9, 2025!
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.