• Odema Selected as ML and System Rising Stars

    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 […]

  • Modeling and Evaluation of a Cache-less Grid of Processing Cells

    EH 3206 Engineering Hall University of California, Irve, Irvine, CA, United States

    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 […]

  • Optimizing AI Performance: Bridging Algorithmic and Hardware Innovations from Inference to Training

    ISEB 1200 Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building University of California, Irve, Irvine, CA, United States

    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.

  • Security in Heterogeneous Systems

    EH 2430 Engineering Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

    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.

  • Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (CPS-IoT) Week 2025

    Student Center 311 W Peltason Dr, Irvine, CA, United States

    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!

  • In-Memory Computing to Accelerate Machine Learning

    EH 2430 Engineering Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

    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.

  • Efficient and Robust Defense against Query-based Black-box Attacks

    EH 2430 Engineering Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

    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).

  • TEE-Shielded LLM Partition – Efficiently Protect Model Security on User Devices

    EH 2430 Engineering Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

    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).

  • Dang to Travel to Vietnam as Fulbright Scholar

    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 […]

  • Xu Joins DAC25 Young Fellow Program

    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 […]

  • Gajski Ranked Top Scholar

    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 […]