Events

Assistant Professor Yasser Shoukry won IEEE Early Career Award for demonstrated outstanding contributions to the field of cyber-physical systems in the early stage of his career. Congrats Prof. Shoukry!

Professor Ahmed Eltawil was awarded Innovator of the Year Award by the Henry Samueli School of Engineering for his journey of innovation to commercialization of full duplex technology is a successful example of entrepreneurship based on “Made at UCI’ technology. Congrats Prof. Eltawil!

Assistant Professor Ardalan Amiri Sani won the ICS Dean’s Mid-Career Award for Research to recognize his innovative research, exemplar service, student mentorship and exceptional teaching skills. Congrats Prof. Sani!

Professor Mohammad Al Faruque Received Distinguished Lecturer Nomination by the IEEE Central Dredging Association for promoting the field of electronic design automation to the scientific community and the public at large. Congrats Prof. Al Faruque!

Assistant Professor Rozhin Yasaei became the President of Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) UCI chapter for her promotion of women’s participation in the field of Cyber Security. Congrats prof. Yasaei!

Assistant Professor Zhou Li received Early CAREER Award for his outstanding research on internet system security, specifically data-driven security analytics, side-channel analysis and Internet of Things (IoT) security. Congrats Prof. Li!

Hamid Nejatollahi and Assistant Professor Mohsen Imani reached Best Paper Award Finalist at Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2020 for research paper titled, “CryptPIM:  In-memory Acceleration for Lattice-based Crytographic Hardware”. Congrats Nejatollahi and Imani!

Professor Fadi Kurdahi and Judit Giro Benet won the International Design Award and The James Dyson Award for biomedical device innovation of the Blue Box, a breast cancer detection system. Congrats Prof. Kurdahi and Benet!

Hamid Nejatollahi reached Best Paper Award Finalist at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2020 for research paper titled, “Exploring Energy Efficient Quantum-resistant Signal Processing Using Array Processors”. Congrats Nejatollahi!

Assistant Professor Mohsen Imani and Chuangtao Chen reached Best Paper Finalist at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2020 for research paper titled, “Optimally Approximated and Unbaised Floating-Point Multiplier with Runtime Configurability.” Congrats Chen and Imani!

Assistant Professor Zhou Li and Chaoyi Lu won the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) Award for research paper titled, “An End-to-End, Large-Scale Measurement of DNS-over-Encryption: How Far Have We Come?” Congrats Prof. Li and Lu!

Researcher Yeseong Kim and Assistant Professor Mohsen Imani Reached Best Paper Finalist at IEEE/ACM Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference 2020 for research paper “GenieHD: Efficient DNA Pattern Matching Accelerator Using Hyperdimensional Computing.” Congrats Kim and Prof. Imani!