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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231201
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SUMMARY:Al Faruque Awarded 378K for Autonomous Vehicle Project
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque received $378K in award over three years for his project “Adaptive and Efficient Perception for Autonomous Ground Vehicle Operating in Highly Stochastic Environments under Sensing Uncertainties”. With the funding from the U.S. Army Automotive Research Center\, Prof. Al Faruque and his team will study the computational constraints and sensor fusion methods to better military autonomous vehicle on uncertain roads. \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/al-faruque-awarded-378k-for-autonomous-vehicle-project/
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CATEGORIES:Awards
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SUMMARY:Jun’s Paper Appears on 25-year Retrospective Edition of ISCA’23
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Sang-Woo Jun explores the possibility of improving system efficient without sacrificing performance in his co-authored paper “GraFBoost: Using Accelerated Flash Storage for External Graph Analytics.” His paper from five years ago explained that using a solid-state drive instead of dynamic RAM for I/O intensive graph analytics can cut cost and power usage by four fold without significant loss of performance. \nFor his extraordinary discovery\, Prof. Jun’s work was selected as one of the 98 papers to appear on the 25-year retrospective edition of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2023). \n 
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/juns-paper-appears-on-25-year-retrospective-edition-of-isca23/
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CATEGORIES:Awards
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SUMMARY:Shoukry’s UAM Project Awarded 2M
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Yasser Shoukry and team were awarded $2 million over four years by the Smart and Connected Communities and the National Science Foundation for their project “Community-Driven Design of Fair Urban Air Mobility Transportation Management Systems.” Prof. Shoukry and team will investigate and design durable Urban Air Mobility (UAM) infrastructures to help traffic congestion that will not discriminate or reinforce socioeconomic inequality.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/shoukrys-uam-project-awarded-2m/
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CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231201
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SUMMARY:Imani Received Young Investigator Award
DESCRIPTION:The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded Assistant Professor Mohsen Imani with the Young Investigator Award. Prof. Imani\, who also was also honored with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Young Faculty Award\, is a pioneer in research on hyper-dimensional computing as a neuro-symbolic AI technique. Him and his lab investigate the intersection of neuroscience\, AI\, and embedded systems. With this award\, Prof. Imani will also receive a fund of &750K over three years for his brilliant effort.
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/imani-received-young-investigator-award/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231207T143000
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SUMMARY:Systematic Security Analysis of Cellular Network Specifications and Implementations
DESCRIPTION:Title: Systematic Security Analysis of Cellular Network Specifications and Implementations \nSpeaker: Dr. Imtiaz Karim \nDate and Time: Thursday\, December 7th\, 2:30 pm \nLocation: EH 2430 \nAbstract: \nCellular networks are the bedrock of modern communication. The recent deployment of the 5G has generated further enthusiasm and opportunities in both academia and industry\, because of its promise of enabling\ninnovative applications\, such as autonomous vehicles\, industrial IoT\, and augmented reality. Therefore\, the security of cellular network protocols is critical. In this talk\, I will elaborate on the critical challenges of ensuring cellular\nnetwork security and move on to the research we are doing to enhance the resilience of the networks. I will detail our developed techniques for both white-box and black-box analysis of cellular implementations. On the whole\, using\nthese approaches we have found 24 critical issues in both commercial and open-source implementations. Lastly\, I will talk about our recent work SPEC5G\, the first-ever public 5G dataset for NLP research\, and discuss how using\nSPEC5G and state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) we are detecting inconsistencies in the cellular protocol specifications. \nBiography: \nImtiaz Karim is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University working with Prof. Elisa Bertino. He received his Ph.D. degree from the same department in Spring\n2023. His research interests lie in analyzing the security and privacy of wireless communication protocols (e.g.\, 4G\, 5G\, Bluetooth\, VoWiFi\, vehicular\, WiFi\, and IoT)\, their implementations\, networked systems\, and mobile\ncomputing. His research has led to several changes in the design of 4G and 5G cellular standards\, and commercial implementations. He has been inducted into the GSMA Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame\nthree times and has received numerous bug bounties\, CVDs\, and CVEs. He received the best paper award at ACSAC 2019\, and the best paper award nomination at ICDCS 2021. For outstanding security research\, he has\nreceived the Maurice H. Halstead Memorial Award and the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Award from Purdue University in 2020 and 2022 respectively. He worked as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon (Summer 2021)\nand a Security Researcher Intern at Intel (Summer 2020\, 2019). \nHosted By: Zhou Li \nMore Information
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/systematic-security-analysis-of-cellular-network-specifications-and-implementations/
LOCATION:EH 2430\, Engineering Hall\, University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars at CECS
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SUMMARY:2023 MECPS Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Event: MECPS Symposium 2023\nDate: Friday\, December 8\, 2022 \nTime: 9:00am – 1:30pm \nLocation: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) \nView Details
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/2023-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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SUMMARY:MECPS Symposium 2023 Winners
DESCRIPTION:On Friday December 9\, 2023\, MECPS hosted the annual end-of-year symposium to showcase the capstone projects of the MECPS graduating students as well as projects from the first year cohort. This year\, three teams tied for second and one team won first place for the Best Project Award. \nFirst Place Winner:\nBrain Padilla\, Gabriel Rizko\, and Andre Alain Tabourian – “Power\, Communication\, and Control using NFC and WPT” \nSecond Place Winners:\nJeet Shah\, Rushabh Patel\, and Vandit Patel – “Autonomous UAV swarm for Extensive Surveillance”\nJan Wojtkowski and Joe Huang – “AR Assistant”\nArjun Sivakumar\, Bhumil Depani\, and Ricky Bevan – “AGNI—Autonomous Ground Navigation Initiative”
URL:https://www.cecs.uci.edu/event/mecps-symposium-2023-winners/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB)
CATEGORIES:Awards
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