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: 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.
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).
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]