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: 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.
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 […]
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, […]
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).