With autonomous vehicle on the rise, Assistant Professor Alfred Chen and Professor Mohammad Al Faruque have shown that these vehicles, like self-driving cars and autonomous drones, can be hijacked and […]
Associate Professor of Neurology An Do leads a collaboration project between UCI and USC to combine systems engineering and steam cell research to treat damaged brain regions from strokes or […]
Name: Jiacen Xu Chair: Prof. Zhou Li Date: February 24, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Zoom Committee: Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque, Prof. Yanning Shen Title: Navigating Cybersecurity in the AI […]
Assistant Professor Sitao Huang was recognized with Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NFS). The CAREER Program supports early-career faculty with potential to serve as […]
Assistant Professor Mohsen Imani was recently awarded $398,000 by the Office of Naval Research for project title, “DURIP Integrating AI and Intelligent Sensing for Advanced Naval Operations.” This sponsor award […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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).