Kurdahi Receives Engineering Faculty Service Award
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 […]
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 […]
Name: Danny Abraham Chair: Prof. Nikil Dutt Date: June 8, 2026 Time: 10:00 AM Location: DBH 4011 Committee: Prof. Fadi Kurdahi, Prof. Mohsen Imani Title: Adaptive Sparsity for Efficient and […]