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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221017
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221022
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SUMMARY:2022 Wolfgang Hillen Summer School
DESCRIPTION:Event: 2022 Wolfgang Hillen Summer School\, supported by BaCaTeC\nDate: October 17th-21st\, 2022 \nLocation: UCI \nView Details
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/2022-wolfgang-hillen-summer-school/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T170000
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SUMMARY:Rozhin Yasaei Received iREDEFINE Fellowship 2022
DESCRIPTION:Assistant Professor Rozhin Yasaei received iREDEFINE Fellowship 2022 at the iREDEFINE ECE Workshop for her academic achievement as a woman and underrepresented minorities. Congrats Yasaei!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/rozhin-yasaei-received-iredefine-fellowship-2022/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
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UID:15808-1667203200-1667235600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Yasser Shoukry Won Category Winner Award
DESCRIPTION:Assistant Professor Yasser Shoukry won Category Winner Award at the International Verification of Neural Networks Competition 2022 for the top performing tool in the tllverifybench Benchmark of the VNN competition. Congrats Shoukry!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/yasser-shoukry-won-category-winner-award/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
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UID:15812-1667203200-1667235600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Ping-Xiang Chen Received J. Yang & Family Foundation Fellowship
DESCRIPTION:Ping-Xiang Chen received J. Yang & Family Foundation Fellowship for Chen’s work on building novel self-award and adaptive computing frameworks that support the efficiency\, reliability and scalability of autonomous systems. Congrats!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/ping-xiang-chen-received-j-yang-family-foundation-fellowship/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T170000
DTSTAMP:20231031T193444Z
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UID:15816-1667203200-1667235600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Mohammad Al Faruque Named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
DESCRIPTION:Professor Mohammad Al Faruque was named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for promoting the field of electronic design automation to the scientific community and the public at large. Congrats Prof. Al Faruque!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/mohammad-al-faruque-named-ieee-distinguished-lecturer/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T170000
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UID:15820-1667203200-1667235600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Daniel Gajski Named Croatian Extraordinary Scientist
DESCRIPTION:Professor Daniel Gajski was named Croatian Extraordinary Scientist. Book titled “Croatian Extraordinary Scientists” features a chapter dedicated to Emeritus Prof. Gajski for his contributions to the embedded systems and computer science.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/daniel-gajski-named-croatian-extraordinary-scientist/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T170000
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SUMMARY:Rozhin Yasaei Named 2022 Rising Star in EECS
DESCRIPTION:Assistant Professor Rozhin Yasaei was named 2022 Rising Star in EECS. Launched in 2012 by MIT\, Rising Stars in EECS is an intensive workshop for graduate students and postdocs with historically marginalized or underrepresented genders who are interested in pursuing academic careers in electrical engineering & computer science\, and AI. Congrats Yasaei!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/rozhin-yasaei-named-2022-rising-star-in-eecs/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T170000
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UID:15828-1667203200-1667235600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Payam Heydari Won Distinguished Educator Award
DESCRIPTION:Professor Payam Heydari received the Distinguished Educator Award by the IEEE Society for his outstanding achievements as an educator\, mentor and role model for microwave engineers and engineering students. Congrats Prof. Heydari!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/payam-heydari-won-distinguished-educator-award/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T170000
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UID:15832-1667203200-1667235600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Qi Alfred Chen Received CAREER Award
DESCRIPTION:Assistant Professor Qi Alfred Chen received CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his research on securing the AI stack in autonomous CPS under physical layer attacks. Congrats Prof. Chen!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/qi-alfred-chen-received-career-award/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
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UID:15836-1667203200-1667235600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Payam Heydari Named NAI Fellow
DESCRIPTION:Professor Payam Heydari was named a National Academy of Inventor Fellow for being a prolific creator of cutting-edge microelectronics technologies. Congrats Prof. Heydari!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/payam-heydari-named-nai-fellow/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
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UID:15840-1667203200-1667235600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Anomadarshi Barua Won Distinguished Paper Award at ACSAC 2022
DESCRIPTION:Assistant Professor Anomadarshi Barua won Distinguished Paper Award at Annual Computer Security applications Conference (ACSAC) 2022 for project title: “Bayesian Estimation Based .bss Imposter Attack on Industrial Control Systems.” Congrats Prof. Barua!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/anomadarshi-barua-won-distinguished-paper-award-at-acsac-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
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UID:15844-1667203200-1667235600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Panyang Chen Won MECPS Best Project Award
DESCRIPTION:Panyang Chen won MECPS Best Project Award at the MECPS Symposium for project title: “Edith Wearable Device.” Congrats Chen and team!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/panyang-chen-won-mecps-best-project-award/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T170000
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UID:15849-1667203200-1667235600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Sina Shahhosseini Won Best Paper Award at ISQED 2022
DESCRIPTION:Sina Shahhosseini won Best Paper Award at 2022 International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) for project title: “Hybrid Learning for Orchestrating Deep Learning Inference in Multi-user Edge-cloud Networks.” Congrats Shahhosseini!
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/sina-shahhosseini-won-best-paper-award-at-isqed-2022/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221103T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221103T160000
DTSTAMP:20231011T032352Z
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SUMMARY:"Programmability\, Scalability\, and Security for Reconfigurable Computing in the Cloud"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Deming Chen\, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)\nDate and Time: Thursday\, November 3rd\, 3:00 pm \nLocation: EH 2430 or Zoom Link \nAbstract:  \nReconfigurable Computing uses FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) as an alternative to microprocessors to enable high-performance and low-energy customized computing. It is becoming a mainstream technology as evident by Intel’s $16.7B acquisition of Altera in 2015 and AMD’s $49B acquisition of Xilinx in 2022. However\, challenges remain in terms of FPGA programmability\, scalability\, and security before reconfigurable computing makes a transformative impact in the computing world\, especially in the cloud. In this talk\, Dr. Chen will present some new concepts and research results that demonstrate initial promises to overcome these challenges\, including shared virtual memory system for computing with FPGAs\, scalable high-level synthesis for FPGA programming\, and trusted execution environment with accelerators. These results are developed within the AMD-Xilinx Center of Excellence and the Hybrid-Cloud Thrust of the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute at UIUC. \nBio:  \nDeming Chen is the Abel Bliss Professor of the Grainger College of Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His current research interests include reconfigurable computing\, hybrid cloud\, system-level design methodologies\, machine learning and acceleration\, and hardware security. He has published more than 250 research papers\, received ten Best Paper Awards and one ACM/SIGDA TCFPGA Hall-of-Fame Paper Award\, and given more than 140 invited talks. He is an IEEE Fellow\, an ACM Distinguished Speaker\, and the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS). He is the Director of the AMD-Xilinx Center of Excellence and the Hybrid-Cloud Thrust Co-Lead of the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute at UIUC. He has been involved in several startup companies\, such as AutoESL and Inspirit IoT. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department of UCLA in 2005. \nHosted By: Prof. Sitao Huang \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/programmability-scalability-and-security-for-reconfigurable-computing-in-the-cloud/
LOCATION:EH 2430\, Engineering Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars at CECS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221209T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221209T133000
DTSTAMP:20240320T140910Z
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UID:14148-1670576400-1670592600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:2022 MECPS Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Event: MECPS Symposium 2022\nDate: Friday\, December 9\, 2022 \nTime: 9:00am – 1:30pm \nLocation: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) \nView Details
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/2022-mecps-symposium/
LOCATION:ISEB Auditorium\, Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230119
DTSTAMP:20251113T231424Z
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UID:16591-1674000000-1674086399@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:HiPEAC ‘23 Paper Award
DESCRIPTION:The Steering Committee of the European Network on High Performance\, Edge\, and Cloud Computing (HiPEAC) has awarded Paper Award for the paper “Map-and-conquer: Energy-efficient mapping of dynamic neural nets onto heterogeneous MPSoCs” by CECS students Halima Bouzidi and Mohanad Odema\, guided by Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque. \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/hipeac-23-paper-award/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T120000
DTSTAMP:20231011T032352Z
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UID:14149-1674126000-1674129600@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:"Self-Aware Polymorphic Architecture (SAPA) Systems"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Michel Kinsy\, Arizona State University (ASU)\nDate and Time: Thursday\, January 19th\, 11:00am \nLocation: EH 2430 \nAbstract: \nIn this talk\, we introduce our Self-Aware Polymorphic Architecture (SAPA) design approach to support emerging context-aware applications and mitigate the programming challenges caused by the ever-increasing complexity and heterogeneity of high-performance computing systems. Through the SAPA design\, we examine the salient software-hardware features of adaptive computing systems that allow for (1) the dynamic allocation of computing resources depending on program needs (e.g.\, the amount of parallelism in the program) and (2) automatic approximation to meet program and system goals (e.g.\, execution time budget\, power constraints\, security\, and computation resiliency) without the programming complexity of current multicore and manycore systems. The proposed polymorphic computer architecture framework applies machine learning algorithms and control theory techniques to the application execution based on information collected about the system runtime performance trade-offs. It has heterogeneous reconfigurable cores with fast hardware-level migration capability\, self-organizing memory structures and hierarchies\, an adaptive application-aware network-on-chip\, and a built-in hardware layer for dynamic\, autonomous resource management. Our prototyped architecture performs extremely well on a large pool of applications. \nBio: \nMichel A. Kinsy is the director of the ASU Secure\, Trusted\, and Assured Microelectronics (STAM) Center. He is an Associate Professor in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Dr. Kinsy focuses his research on secure computer architecture\, hardware-level security\, and efficient hardware design and implementation of post-quantum cryptography systems. Before joining the ASU faculty\, Dr. Kinsy was an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU) where he also served as the Associate Director of the Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center (TAMC2). He also held faculty positions at Boston University and University of Oregon. From 2013 to 2014\, he was a fully cleared Member of the Technical Staff at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Dr. Kinsy is an MIT Presidential Fellow and an Inaugural Skip Ellis Career Award recipient. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2013 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). \nHosted By: Fadi Kurdahi \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/self-aware-polymorphic-architecture-sapa-systems/
LOCATION:EH 2430\, Engineering Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars at CECS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T150000
DTSTAMP:20231011T032353Z
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UID:14150-1674741600-1674745200@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:"Complex Systems Engineering Theory is a Scientific Theory"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Eric Feron\, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)\nDate and Time: Thursday\, January 26th\, 2:00pm \nLocation: EH 2430 \nAbstract: \nComplex systems engineering and associated challenges become increasingly important for the well-being and safety of our society of humans. Motivated by this formidable push towards ever more complex systems of all sizes\, spectacular failures\, and decades of questioning in a variety of contexts and endeavors\, this talk presents a theory of complex systems engineering that is\, as a scientific theory in which an engineered system can be seen as a validated scientific hypothesis arising from a convergent mix of mathematical and validated experimental constructs. In its simplest form\, it is a manufactured\, validated scientific hypothesis arising from a mathematical theorem similar to those found in theoretical physics. The talk begins with the scientific hypothesis underlying this theory\, and arguments in favor of it are displayed\, as well as some of its practical consequences in terms of complex system design and future research. Then\, a limited set of experiments is presented to try and invalidate the theory by confronting it to existing educational programs in systems engineering in the United States of America. Concurrent with these invalidation efforts\, this talk also argues that there is a serious and growing lack of education in mathematics and/or engineering ecience in most\, if not all\, systems engineering programs. Such weaknesses challenge the industrial value of all corporate or government institutions in the pursuit of complex engineered systems excellence. \nBio: \nEric Feron is a Professor of Biological\, Electrical (main)\, Computer\, and Mechanical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology\, where he co-directs the Robotics\, Intelligent Systems\, and Control laboratory (RISClab). Prior to that or concurrently\, Eric Feron has had appointments with Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile\, France; the Georgia Institute of Technology\, USA; the Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace\, Sup’Aéro campus\, France; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, USA; and the Office National d’Etudes et Recherches Aérospatiales\, France. Eric Feron trained as a naval officer of the watch on nuclear submarines (France)\, and as a private pilot (USA). Feron’s research focuses on leveraging his knowledge and contributions to control theory\, computer science\, and optimization to address problems having to do with autonomy\, robotic agility\, transportation\, and other complex systems-level challenges. Feron’s work includes analytical and experimental activities and it has supported the training of dozens of doctoral\, master and undergraduate students. Eric Feron relaxes by operating sailboats of all sizes with his wife Christine-Marie\, including Casa del Mar\, their off-shore bluewater cruiser. \nHosted By: Fadi Kurdahi \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/complex-systems-engineering-theory-is-a-scientific-theory/
LOCATION:EH 2429\, Engineering Hall University of California\, Irve\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars at CECS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T113000
DTSTAMP:20231011T032408Z
CREATED:20231011T032408Z
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UID:14152-1677061800-1677065400@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Online Learning for Orchestrating Deep Learning Inference at Edge
DESCRIPTION:Name: Sina Shahhosseini \nChair: Nikil Dutt \nDate: February 22\, 2023 \nTime: 10:30 AM \nLocation: 2011 DBH \nCommittee: Amir Rahmani\, Fadi Kurdahi \nTitle:  Online Learning for Orchestrating Deep Learning Inference at Edge \nAbstract:  \nDeep-learning-based intelligent services have become prevalent in cyber-physical applications including smart cities and health-care. Resource-constrained end-devices must be carefully managed in order to meet the latency and energy requirements of computationally-intensive deep learning services. Collaborative end-edge-cloud computing for deep learning provides a range of performance and efficiency that can address application requirements through computation offloading. The decision to offload computation is a communication-computation co-optimization problem that varies with both system parameters (e.g.\, network condition) and workload characteristics. On the other hand\, deep learning model optimization provides another source of tradeoff between latency and model accuracy. An end-to-end decision-making solution that considers such computation-communication problem is required to synergistically find the optimal offloading policy and model for deep learning services. To this end\, we propose a reinforcement-learning-based computation offloading solution that learns optimal offloading policy considering deep learning model selection techniques to minimize response time while providing sufficient accuracy. In addition\, we present a Hybrid Learning approach that reduces the number of interactions with the system environment by combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning. We demonstrate the efficacy of our strategies through experimental comparison with state-of-the-art RL-based inference orchestration. \nShort Bio: \nSina Shahhosseini received his B.S. and M.S degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran and Sharif University of Technology\, in 2013 and 2015\, respectively. Since Fall 2016\, he has been working towards his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering at University of California\, Irvine\, with a focus on the application of reinforcement learning for task orchestration in computer systems. He interned with Cruise in the summer of 2022 as a Machine Learning Engineer Intern\, where he worked on optimizing Machine Learning frameworks for autonomous vehicles.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/online-learning-for-orchestrating-deep-learning-inference-at-edge/
LOCATION:DBH 2011\, Donald Bren Hall University of California\, Irve\, Irvine\, CA\, 92617\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD Defenses
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T150000
DTSTAMP:20231011T032353Z
CREATED:20231011T032353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231011T032353Z
UID:14151-1678111200-1678114800@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:“Perception and Computational Efficiency for Autonomous Vehicles”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Marilyn Wolf\nDate and Time: Monday\, March 6th\, 2:00pm \nLocation: EH 2430 \nAbstract:   \nPerception is a critical computational task in autonomous vehicles.  Autonomous vehicles place stringent and somewhat conflicting demands on perception systems: high accuracy\, low latency\, and performance on limited computational resources.  The conflict between these requirements is particularly acute in the case of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) but is also true of ground vehicles.  This talk will describe two related efforts to improve and manage efficiency in perception for autonomous vehicles. Work with Krishna Muuva and Justin Bradley of UNL looks at UAV-UAV tracking.  We show that tracking performance saturates above a given level of perceptual accuracy.  Work with Deep Samal and Saibal Mukhopodhyay of Georgia Tech compares the results of multiple evaluators to improve the accuracy of LIDAR tracking. \nBiography: \nMarilyn Wolf is Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and Director of the School of Computing at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.  She received her BS\, MS\, and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1980\, 1981\, and 1984\, respectively.  She was with AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1984 to 1989.  She was on the faculty of Princeton University from 1989 to 2007 and was Farmer Distinguished Chair at Georgia Tech from 2007 to 2019.   Her research interests include cyber-physical systems\, embedded computing\, embedded video and computer vision\, and VLSI systems. She has received the IEEE Kirchmayer Graduate Education Award\, the IEEE Computer Society Goode Memorial Award\, the  ASEE Terman Award\, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Education Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM and an IEEE Computer Society Golden Core member. \nHosted By: Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/perception-and-computational-efficiency-for-autonomous-vehicles/
LOCATION:EH 2430\, Engineering Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars at CECS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T160000
DTSTAMP:20231011T032408Z
CREATED:20231011T032408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231011T032408Z
UID:14154-1682521200-1682524800@www.cecs.uci.edu
SUMMARY:"Intuitive\, Interoperable\, Intelligent – A Look into Current Automation Engineering Research"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Gustavo Quiros\nDate and Time: Wednesday\, April 26th\, 3:00pm \nLocation: EH 2430 \nAbstract:   \nIntuitive\, Interoperable\, Intelligent – The future of automation engineering will embrace these basic characteristics to continuously reduce the effort and expertise required by engineers to implement industrial automation solutions while increasing the flexibility and the capabilities of engineering tools. This talk will give an overview of several research activities in the area of industrial automation engineering\, showing how they aim to realize these three basic characteristics\, and provides a vision for automation engineering in the near future. \nBiography: \nDr. Gustavo Quiros A. is a Research and Technology Manager at Siemens Technology. He specializes in industrial automation engineering\, programming languages and software engineering. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica\, a M.Sc. degree in Software Systems Engineering and a Dr.rer.nat. degree in Process Control Engineering from RWTH Aachen University. He obtained summa cum laude and the Borchers-Badge of RWTH Aachen University for his doctoral dissertation “Model-based Decentralized Automatic Management of Product Flow Paths in Processing Plants”. He also obtained the NAMUR Award “Process Automation” 2010 from the User Association of Automation Technology in Process Industries.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/intuitive-interoperable-intelligent-a-look-into-current-automation-engineering-research/
LOCATION:EH 2430\, Engineering Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars at CECS
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SUMMARY:Cross-Layer Attacks and Defenses in the Cyber-Physical System (CPS)
DESCRIPTION:Name: Anomadarshi Barua\nChair: Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque \nDate: May 1\, 2023 \nTime: 12 PM – 2 PM \nLocation: EH 2430-Harut Barsamian \nCommittee: Pramod P Khargonekar\, Zhou Li \nTitle: Cross-Layer Attacks and Defenses in the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) \nAbstract: \nHave you ever wondered how simple music can leak deadly pathogens from a bio-safety lab? Have you ever considered how an industrial robotic arm can be compromised from a cloud infrastructure? Have you ever imagined an attacker could use a magnetic field to shut down a weak microgrid?  If the above questions excite you\, please attend my PhD oral defense\, where my research answers the above questions with a practical demonstration of CPS attacks on industry-used infrastructure. With this seminar\, the audience will gain a deep insight into how hardware/software interaction in CPS’s cross-layer can open a “Pandora’s Box” of unknown threats that can come from very unconventional ways. \nMy research sits at the intersection of hardware and software cross-layers in CPSs\, exploring how interactions of cyber and physical components can affect the safety and controllability of closed-loop control from sensing to actuation. Most attacks on CPSs can be propagated from the physical domain to the cyber domain or vice-versa and hence\, can be termed cross-layer attacks. To understand these cross-layer attacks\, a very different set of methodologies and tools is needed. My research talks about how these tools can be made. Moreover\, the seminar will show how cross-layer vulnerabilities can be handled using new hardware/software co-design approaches to detect\, contain and isolate threats in CPSs. \nShort Bio: \nAnomadarshi Barua is a Ph.D. candidate studying Computer Engineering at the University of California Irvine. He received his M.S. degree in Embedded Computing Systems jointly at the University of Southampton (UoS) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2016. Now\, He is working under the supervision of Professor Al Faruque in the Autonomous and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems (AICPS) Lab. His current research focuses on the system-level design of embedded and Cyber-Physical-Systems (CPSs) with a special interest in CPS security\, low-power design\, and computer microarchitecture. He publishes in the security conferences like ACM CCS\, USENIX\, ACSAC\, RAID\, HOST\, and CHES and system conferences like ICCPS and ICCAD. He also has worked in several industries in North America and Europe\, such as Intel Corporation (USA)\, Solidigm (USA)\, Nordic Semiconductor (Norway)\, and IDEAS (Norway). In his leisure time\, he likes to travel to new places and go for hiking.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/cross-layer-attacks-and-defenses-in-the-cyber-physical-system-cps/
LOCATION:EH 2430\, Engineering Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD Defenses
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SUMMARY:Context-Aware and Energy-Efficient Autonomous Systems
DESCRIPTION:Name: Arnav Malawade\nChair: Mohammad Al Faruque \nDate: May 5\, 2023 \nTime: 3:30 PM \nLocation: ISEB 1200 \nCommittee: Marco Levorato\, Yasser Shoukry \nTitle:  Context-Aware and Energy-Efficient Autonomous Systems \nAbstract: \nAutonomous systems (AS) are beginning to play a more significant role in modern society. AS include robotic systems that perceive and react to changes in their environment\, such as aerial drones\, ground/aquatic robots\, and consumer autonomous vehicles (AVs)\, among others. Breakthroughs in deep learning and increased consumer interest in ubiquitous autonomy have fueled recent advances in perception\, modeling\, and control algorithms. However\, these advances come with rising energy costs. Modern AS require large deep-learning (DL) models to perceive the environment and safely detect and avoid objects. The computational demands of these models significantly increase the hardware requirements of the complete system\, such that modern AV systems can require several kilowatts of power to enable autonomy\, reducing range and utility. These impacts affect most AS since AVs\, ground robots\, and drones are typically edge devices that operate in energy-constrained environments. \nThe need for large\, complex DL models is primarily driven by the fact that\, in the real world\, challenging and unpredictable scenarios can occur and must be modeled appropriately by the AS. However\, existing approaches are exceedingly cautious\, preferring to execute a large\, inefficient model even in typical scenarios just in case a difficult edge case arises. This approach to autonomy hinders both the utility of existing AS and the broad-scale adoption of AS. Instead\, an AS should be able to understand the context of its surrounding environment and adapt its model to fit each situation. \nThis dissertation explores methods for developing context-aware AS to improve perception and prediction performance\, reduce energy consumption\, and enable adaptation to dynamic environments. Three different perspectives are studied: (i) scene-graph embedding approaches are proposed and evaluated for improved semantic understanding and state estimation; (ii) methods for implementing split ML models for dynamic\, resource-efficient computation offloading from edge to cloud within real-time latency constraints are studied; and (iii) context-aware\, dynamic ML perception models that jointly optimize performance and energy efficiency are studied from an algorithmic and system-wide optimization perspective. Overall\, the results show that context-aware models achieve state-of-the-art performance across applications\, and dynamic architectures conditioned on context can help resolve the energy-performance trade-off by enabling the joint optimization of these objectives. \nShort Bio: \nArnav Malawade is a PhD Candidate in Computer Engineering and works in the Autonomous and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems (AICPS) Lab under the supervision of Professor Mohammad Al Faruque. He received his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and his M.S. in Computer Engineering at UC Irvine in 2018 and 2021\, respectively. He was a Doctorate Intern at HRL Laboratories in 2022. His research interests include autonomous driving\, graph-based perception\, dynamic neural networks\, and smart manufacturing.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/context-aware-and-energy-efficient-autonomous-systems/
LOCATION:ISEB 1200\, Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building University of California\, Irve\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD Defenses
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SUMMARY:Graph Learning for Robust Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems
DESCRIPTION:Name: Shih-Yuan Yu\nChair: Mohammad Al Faruque \nDate: May 22\, 2023 \nTime: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM \nLocation: EH 2430 \nCommittee: Pramod Khargonekar\, Yanning Shen \nTitle: Graph Learning for Robust Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems \nAbstract: \nSince the appearance of microprocessors\, miscellaneous categories of computer systems\, including Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems (ECPS)\, have become an integral part of our modern society. In contrast to general-purpose computers\, an ECPS is a computing system designed to perform a dedicated or narrow range of functions with minimal human intervention. Today\, the advanced standards in device networking\, ubiquitous access to the Internet\, miniaturization of processors\, and reduced power consumption have taken this field to the next level. However\, despite these technological growths\, designing a robust ECPS remains an open research challenge where the goal is to achieve better functionalities\, encompass complex\, uncertain\, and changing environments\, and ensure system security. Minor failures on ECPS may cause severe collapses or cyberattacks\, impeding progress toward increasing automation and modernizing our computing environments. \nTo achieve robustness\, this dissertation studies the embedding of Computational Intelligence (CI) into emerging Graph Learning (GL) technologies. The CI paradigms mimic the nature of humans\, aiming at solving complex problems and exhibiting a cognitive ability to learn or adapt to new situations to generalize\, abstract\, discover\, and associate. As a prerequisite of this research direction\, Machine Learning (ML) has become increasingly ubiquitous\, with existing works exploring various fields\, from self-driving vehicles\, facial recognition systems\, and real-time language translation to security surveillance\, innovative home applications\, and health monitoring. However\, conventional ML algorithms typically require appropriate vectorized representations crafted by domain experts to accomplish the desired goals. Graph-structured data have imposed unprecedented challenges on ML due to their inherent complexity. Unlike text\, audio\, and images\, graphs are embedded in an irregular dimension\, making some essential operations of ML inapplicable. GL has attracted much attention to new research ideas in several fields. To date\, many researchers have proven the usefulness of GL in social computing\, information retrieval\, computer vision\, bioinformatics\, economics\, and e-commerce. However\, its applications in subfields of ECPS still need to be explored. \nIn this dissertation\, we will cover GL applications for ECPS in robust Integrated Circuit (IC) design analysis for hardware security\, robust binary analysis for enabling software security\, and ultimately how GL brings the scene-understanding capabilities of autonomous driving systems to the next level. In IC design analysis (Chapter 2)\, we explore how GL can be leveraged to resolve challenging problems in hardware security. We propose HW2VEC and demonstrate how it can be utilized for Hardware Trojan (HT) detection and Intellectual Property (IP) piracy detection. Next\, in the binary analysis (Chapter 3)\, we demonstrate how a more advanced GL methodology\, called CFG2VEC\, can reverse-engineer the semantic source-level information lost during the compilation process\, thus making the binary software patching tasks more efficient. Then\, we describe our novel methodology\, SG2VEC\, to enhance autonomous driving systems’ scene understanding capabilities (Chapter 4). To enable this cognitive capability\, we propose to use scene-graph to encode the surrounding traffic participants and a pipeline of spatiotemporal scene-graph embedding networks to process scene-graphs and learn toward goals. During the courses of these projects\, we have developed many research tools to confront the technical challenges (mentioned in Appendices). \nShort Bio: \nShih-Yuan Yu is a 5-th year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Engineering and works in the Autonomous and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems lab under the supervision of Professor Mohammad Al Faruque. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Information Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 2014. Before his Ph.D.\, Shih-Yuan worked as a software engineer at MediaTek for 4+ years. During his Ph.D.\, he interned at TuSimple (an autonomous driving company) and Siemens (industrial-academia collaborated projects). During his Ph.D.\, he has published 20+ papers in conferences and journals. His interests are making embedded cyber-physical systems more robust with data-driven methodologies enabled by graph learning.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/graph-learning-for-robust-embedded-and-cyber-physical-systems/
LOCATION:EH 2430\, Engineering Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD Defenses
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SUMMARY:Reasoning About Emergent Behaviors at Runtime
DESCRIPTION:Name: Caio Batista de Melo\nChair: Nikil Dutt \nDate: May 23\, 2023 \nTime: 2:00 PM \nLocation: DBH 4011 \nCommittee: Fadi Kurdahi\, Tony Givargis \nTitle: Reasoning About Emergent Behaviors at Runtime \nAbstract: \nAs Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) become more common in the market\, the development of new technologies and solutions for them advances quickly. However\, there still are safety concerns regarding the increasing presence of AVs on public roads. For example\, the Cali- fornia Department of Motor Vehicles reported an approximate average of 3 disengagement events for each AV under test in 2021 and 1 event for every 1\,500 driven miles. Considering that a vehicle drives\, on average\, 15\,000 miles per year\, an AV would have ten such incidents annually. With this in mind\, work needs to be done to enable AVs to handle unexpected sit- uations (i.e.\, emergent behaviors) that can arise while driving\, increasing the safety for both humans and AVs on the road. This dissertation discusses possible approaches to improve the detection and reasoning of emergent behaviors at runtime. \nFirst\, it describes SAFER\, a framework to monitor individual systems using runtime verifica- tion alongside machine learning anomaly detection to detect emergent behaviors at runtime. SAFER achieves an average F1-score of 83% over four different example systems\, showcas- ing its efficacy to be on par with related work while being applicable to different classes of applications. Next\, it discusses DRIVE\, a framework for monitoring collective systems that can work together to find global anomalies that affect collective safety by identifying violations in local properties. Throughout a state-of-the-art inspired truck platooning case study\, DRIVE can detect all safety property violations\, with most queries resolved under 1 ms and a maximum latency of 11 ms per query\, demonstrating its promise. Lastly\, it presents LOCoCAT\, a low-overhead framework for emergent behavior reasoning to classify anomaly types based on vehicular data. LOCoCAT achieves an F1-score of up to 99.16% within the first 50 ms of the anomaly\, allowing the system to react quickly. These three techniques can be combined to allow future AVs to operate more safely on the road. \nShort Bio: \nCaio Batista del Melo is a Ph.D. candidate at the Computer Science Department of the University of California\, Irvine\, where he works with Prof. Nikil Dutt on the Information Processing Factory project. His research focuses on emergent behaviors and fault detection of systems. From a big-picture view\, he explored how we can enable self-driving vehicles to detect unexpected situations and decide how to best react to them. Prior to joining UCI\, he attended the University of Brasília\, in Brazil\, where he got a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Computer Science. While at UnB\, he worked with Prof. Genaína Rodrigues researching dependable distributed systems\, more specifically\, implied scenarios.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/reasoning-about-emergent-behaviors-at-runtime/
LOCATION:DBH 4011\, Donald Bren Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92617\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD Defenses
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SUMMARY:Integrating Machine Learning for Enhanced Cross-Layer Security and Reliability in Hardware and Cyber-Physical Systems
DESCRIPTION:Name: Rozhin Yasaei\nChair: Mohammad Al Faruque \nDate: May 24\, 2023 \nTime: 3:00 PM \nLocation: EH 2430-Harut Barsamian \nCommittee: Fadi Kurdahi\, Zhou Li \nTitle: Integrating Machine Learning for Enhanced Cross-Layer Security and Reliability in Hardware and Cyber-Physical Systems \nAbstract: \nThis Ph.D. thesis presents a comprehensive investigation into addressing security and reliability challenges in hardware design and cyber-physical systems. The research leverages advanced techniques such as Graph Neural Networks (GNN) and machine learning to develop novel methodologies for anomaly detection\, hardware Trojan detection\, IP piracy detection\, and cross-layer security analysis.\nThe thesis focuses on hardware security\, specifically Hardware Trojan (HT) detection. A golden reference-free approach\, GNN4TJ\, is proposed for detecting HTs at the Register Transfer Level (RTL). By modeling hardware designs as graphs and employing GNN\, GNN4TJ achieves high recall rates for identifying both known and unknown HTs. \nMoving to the IoT domain\, the thesis addresses security challenges in IoT systems through the development of adaptive anomaly detection methods. IoT-CAD utilizes IoT sensor data and fog computing to ensure data integrity and detect anomalous incidents. The proposed methodology incorporates sensor association algorithms\, LSTM neural networks\, and Gaussian estimation for real-time anomaly detection. The thesis further extends the research to multi-modal data fusion\, where the integration of sensor and communication data using GNN enables improved anomaly detection\, source identification\, and recovery in IoT systems. \nIn addition\, the thesis explores the security aspect of wearable devices. A machine learning-based approach is proposed to detect anomalies in wearable devices that rely on NFC protocols. By leveraging system context and sensor correlations\, the methodology achieves high accuracy in detecting anomalies from multiple wearable sensors.\nFurthermore\, the thesis delves into IP piracy detection\, introducing a novel methodology that utilizes GNN to assess circuit similarities and detect IP piracy. The proposed approach proves effective in detecting IP piracy even in the presence of obfuscation techniques\, providing a robust solution for protecting intellectual properties. \nOverall\, this thesis showcases the application of advanced techniques such as GNN and machine learning in enhancing security and reliability in hardware design\, IoT systems\, and wearable devices. The proposed methodologies for anomaly detection\, hardware Trojan detection\, IP piracy detection\, and cross-layer security analysis contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art in ensuring the integrity and security of critical systems in the digital era. \nShort Bio: \nRozhin Yasaei is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California Irvine\, studying computer engineering under Professor Mohammad Al Faruque. She received her M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the University of California Irvine in 2021 and her B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Sharif University of technology in 2018. Her research interests lie in applied machine learning for embedded and cyber-physical systems security. She develops new methodologies that bring principles and techniques from machine learning\, such as graph neural networks\, to cross-layer system security. Rozhin conducts research that spans the areas of hardware\, embedded systems\, and cyber-physical systems while maintaining relevance to security and reliability. \nRozhin was selected for UC Irvine’s pedagogical fellowship in 2021 and\, through one year of training\, received a teaching excellence certificate and the qualification to design and implement a 3-day training program for incoming graduate students to prepare them for teaching assistance. Furthermore\, she received the Rising Stars in EECS Award in 2022\, the iREDEFINE Professional Development Award in 2022\, UCI UROP Research Discovery Fellowship in 2022\, UCI Henry Samueli Endowed Scholarship in 2018\, and several scholarships from different conferences. \nRozhin is devoted to promoting diversity and inclusion and supporting her fellow collages\, especially the underrepresented population in STEM\, by actively volunteering for panels\, workshops\, and conferences with similar visions and serving the community. She has been the president of the UCI chapter of the Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) organization since 2021 to foster women’s participation in this field. Qualified with mentoring excellence certificate\, she has been selected by several programs at UCI to mentor undergraduate and graduate students.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/integrating-machine-learning-for-enhanced-cross-layer-security-and-reliability-in-hardware-and-cyber-physical-systems/
LOCATION:EH 2430\, Engineering Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD Defenses
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SUMMARY:Self-aware Memory Management for Emerging Energy-Efficient Architectures
DESCRIPTION:Name: Biswadip (Deep) Maity \nChair: Nikil Dutt \nDate: July 6\, 2023 \nTime: 9:00 AM \nLocation: DBH 3011 \nCommittee: Fadi Kurdahi\, Nalini Venkatasubramanian \nTitle: Self-aware Memory Management for Emerging Energy-Efficient Architectures \nAbstract: \nThe ever-increasing demands of data-intensive applications have presented significant challenges in memory performance and energy efficiency. Traditional approaches to memory management\, relying on workload-specific optimizations and static memory configurations\, have become inadequate in addressing the dynamic nature of modern computing systems. Inspired by principles from psychology and neuroscience\, computational self-awareness aims to develop intelligent systems capable of learning from past experiences\, reasoning about their current state\, and making informed decisions at runtime. My research investigates the application of computational self-awareness in memory management\, with a specific focus on understanding the impact of different degrees of self-awareness within the memory subsystem. By applying self-awareness principles to memory management\, we show that it is possible to create an energy-efficient memory subsystem that adapts to changing workloads and optimizes memory usage across various architectures and layers of the system abstraction. \nShort Bio: \nBiswadip Maity is a Ph.D. candidate at the Computer Science department of University of California\, Irvine. Previously\, he was a Software Engineer at Microsoft. His research is in the area of runtime resource allocation and power management for data-centric architectures with a special focus on self-aware embedded systems\, memory systems\, system software and architecture for heterogeneous systems. He is a member of the Dutt Research Group working with Prof. Nikil Dutt. His work spans across resource-constrained microcontrollers\, IoT systems and Cloud computing performance (in collaboration with Facebook). Biswadip Maity is a Charpak Scholar\, a DAAD Scholar\, and a recipient of a Facebook Research Grant.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/self-aware-memory-management-for-emerging-energy-efficient-architectures/
LOCATION:DBH 3011\, Donald Bren Hall University of California\, Irve\, Irvine\, CA\, 92617\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD Defenses
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SUMMARY:"Requirements and Applications of  Cloud-based Services within the Automotive Edge"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Dr. Achim Rettberg\nDate and Time: Friday\, July 14th\, 10:00am \nLocation: EH 2430 \nAbstract: \nThe architectures in today’s vehicles are usually still based on decentralized or domain-centric architecture concepts that place a strong focus on individual control units. New applications and services\, which may only be used or required temporarily\, are very difficult to implement with these vehicle architectures. This applies in particular when external data sources and services are also involved\, e.g. a bidirectional exchange of information between vehicles and their infrastructure. The dynamic adaptation to new circumstances\, such as the availability of new data sources or the use of specific vehicle functions by third-party applications\, is hardly or not at all feasible here. These concepts are being investigated in the GAIA-X4AGEDA joint research project\, which aims to develop a software architecture in the edge device vehicle that makes use of the concepts of the cloud initiative “GAIA-X” and “by-design” data-driven applications and the dynamic adaptation of a vehicle with its functions over the entire life cycle of the vehicle. The modeling of this approach with digital twins plays a central role here\, on the one hand to be able to show early statements about characteristics such as real time etc. and on the other hand to make predictions about the state of the system \nBiography: \nProf. Dr. Achim Rettberg works since December 2017 as Professor for Human Machine Interface Technologies at University of Applied Science Hamm/Lippstadt. Previously\, he worked since end of 2014 for HELLA as Methodology expert and for inventing a PhD program. Furthermore\, he is still extraordinary Professor at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. He received his M.S. (Dipl.-Inform.) in computer science and economics in 1997 and his Ph. D. (Dr. rer. nat.) degree in 2006 from the University of Paderborn\, Germany\, where he studied computer science and economics. He worked from 2007 until 2008 as Post-Doc at C-LAB and managed EU-Projects. In 2008 he became professor of complex integrated systems/embedded systems at the Computer Science department at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Prof. Rettberg is founder and General Chair of the International Embedded Systems Symposium (IESS). He is chair of the IFIP working group 10.2 for Embedded Systems still April 2012 and chair of IFIP TC 10  Computer Systems Technology since October 2019. Since September 2022 he is member of the IFIP board. His general research interests are real-time systems and HW/SW architectures. His current focus lies on design methods\, optimization for embedded systems and architectures\, and for human machine interface technologies for embedded devices. \nHosted By: Nikil Dutt
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/requirements-and-applications-of-cloud-based-services-within-the-automotive-edge/
LOCATION:EH 2430\, Engineering Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars at CECS
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SUMMARY:"An Integrated Environment for Modeling and Deploying Digital Twins"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Charles Steinmetz\nDate and Time: Friday\, July 14th\, 11:00am \nLocation: EH 2430 \nAbstract: \nThe Digital Twin (DT) has been the focus of researchers from academia and industry in the last few years. It is one of the key enablers of the current and next industrial revolutions\, such as Industry 4.0\, Industry 5.0\, and Metaverse. The idea of digitalizing real-world “things” can bring many benefits since it can allow monitoring\, simulation\, predictions\, optimizations and so on. However\, representing real-world systems can be complex\, since assets might have several ways of being represented and several stakeholders with different experiences might be involved. Also\, keeping models updated with the current state of the system can also be challenging. In this context\, this thesis proposes an environment that integrates all these perspectives in a common language that different stakeholders can use\, covering different system levels from the device level up to process and workflow levels. To support the creating of semantic DT models\, a methodology has been proposed\, starting from the identification of the real-world assets\, creating the semantic models and linking external ones\, and ending with the deployment of the system. Furthermore\, a 4-layers architecture is presented to help designers to identify the responsibilities of each part of the system. Use cases related with a simulated industrial plant and in the automotive area have been developed to demonstrate the proposed approach.\nBiography: \nCharles Steinmetz received the B.S. degree in Information Systems from the Franciscan University (UFN)\, Santa Maria\, Brazil\, in 2015\, and the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)\, Porto Alegre\, Brazil\, in 2018. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science with the University of Oldenburg\, Oldenburg\, Germany. He also works as Research Assistant at the University of Applied Science Hamm-Lippstadt\, Lippstadt\, Germany. His research interests are Internet of Things\, Digital Twins\, semantic models and industry 4.0.\nHosted By: Nikil Dutt
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/an-integrated-environment-for-modeling-and-deploying-digital-twins/
LOCATION:EH 2430\, Engineering Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars at CECS
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SUMMARY:"Capstone: A Capability-based Foundation for Trustless Secure Memory Access"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jason Zhijingcheng Yu\nDate and Time: Monday\, August 7th\, 11:00 am \nLocation: EH 2430 \nAbstract: \nCapability-based memory isolation is a promising new architectural primitive. Software can access lowlevel memory only via capability handles rather than raw pointers\, which provides a natural interface to enforce security restrictions. Existing architectural capability designs such as CHERI provide spatial safety but fail to extend to other memory models that security-sensitive software designs may desire. In this paper\, we propose Capstone\, a more expressive architectural capability design that supports multiple existing memory isolation models in a trustless setup\, i.e.\, without relying on trusted software components. We show how Capstone is well-suited for environments where privilege boundaries are fluid (dynamically extensible)\, memory sharing/delegation are desired both temporally and spatially\, and where such needs are to be balanced with availability concerns. Capstone can also be implemented efficiently. We present an implementation sketch and through evaluation show that its overhead is below 50% in common use cases. We also prototype a functional emulator for Capstone and use it to demonstrate the runnable implementations of six real-world memory models without trusted software components: three types of enclave-based TEEs\, a thread scheduler\, a memory allocator\, and Rust-style memory safety—all within the interface of Capstone.\nBiography: \nJason Zhijingcheng Yu is a 4th-year PhD student working with Prof Prateek Saxena at the School of Computing\, National University of Singapore (NUS). He works on operating system and architectural security\, with a focus on trusted computing and capability-based security in architectures. His first-authored work has been published at venues including ACM CCS 2021\, USENIX Security 2022\, and USENIX Security 2023. Homepage: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~yuz1996/\nHosted By: Zhou Li
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/capstone-a-capability-based-foundation-for-trustless-secure-memory-access/
LOCATION:EH 2430\, Engineering Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars at CECS
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