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 […]
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 […]
On September 27, 2025, the Worldwide Alumni Association of American University of Beirut (WAAAUB) Orange County Chapter hosted a memorable dinner to honor CECS director Professor Fadi Kurdahi with the […]
DATE/TIME: Wednesday, October 15, 2:00pm
SPEAKER: Dr. Xulong Tang
I will discuss novel techniques such as lightweight invalidations for page translation, short-circuiting page table walks, and multi-instance GPU (MIG) reconfiguration strategies that collectively deliver substantial performance and efficiency gains to overcome these bottlenecks and unleash the full potential of multi-GPU computing.
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, November 4, 2:00pm
SPEAKER: Dr. Prabha Sundaravadivel
This talk presents recent advances in low-cost embedded autonomy, where edge AI, sensor fusion, and adaptive control enable real-time decision-making within compact, power-efficient platforms.
DATE/TIME: Friday, February 13, 10:30am
SPEAKER: Jooyoung Lee
This talk presents a solution to build on a dedicated combinatorial-optimization engine that directly models the search space rather than relying on proxy rewards, advancing AI that can reliably solve the hardest optimization problems in semiconductor design and beyond.
Name: Yutong Wang Chair: Prof. Rainer Doemer Date: March 2, 2026 Time: 1:00 PM Location: EH 3206 Committee: Prof. Brian Demsky, Prof. Zhou Li Title: A Pareto-Optimal Compiler for Mapping […]
Name: Yonatan Gizachew Achamyeleh Chair: Mohammad Al Faruque Member: Zhou Li Member: Yasser Shoukry Date: 05/18/2026 Time: 01:00 PM PT Location: ISEB 1010 Title: Securing Cyber-Physical Systems: From Sensor-Layer Attacks to Firmware Binary Analysis […]