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.
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.
Name: Vivek Govindasamy Chair: Prof. Rainer Doemer Date: March 11, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM Location: EH 3206 (CECS Conference Room) Committee: Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque, Prof. Ian Harris Title: Modeling and Evaluation of a Cache-less Grid of Processing Cells Abstract: Modern processors experience memory contention when the speed of their computational units exceeds the rate […]
CECS PhD alumnus Mohanad Odema was selected as one of 38 graduate students to join the Machine Learning (ML) and Systems Rising Stars 2025 cohort. The MLCommons ML and Systems Rising Stars is an initiative of recently graduated PhD students to foster research and career growth, enable collaborations, and discuss career opportunities among rising generations […]
Assistant Professor Mohsen Imani was recently awarded $398,000 by the Office of Naval Research for project title, “DURIP Integrating AI and Intelligent Sensing for Advanced Naval Operations.” This sponsor award will support Prof. Imani and his lab with data processing equipment during the 1-year contract period.
Assistant Professor Sitao Huang was recognized with Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NFS). The CAREER Program supports early-career faculty with potential to serve as role models and lifelong leaders in research and education. NFS’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundation awarded Prof. Huang $650,000 for his project “CAREER: High-Level […]
Name: Jiacen Xu Chair: Prof. Zhou Li Date: February 24, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Zoom Committee: Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque, Prof. Yanning Shen Title: Navigating Cybersecurity in the AI Era: Strategies and Defense Mechanisms Abstract: The rise of AI has dramatically reshaped the cybersecurity landscape, introducing both advanced cyber threats and innovative defense mechanisms. […]