Faculty

Quoc-Viet Dang is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching with the University of California, Irvine (UCI). His current research involves e-learning, data analysis, autonomous vehicle racing, cyber-physical systems, and generally making the world a better place. For details about research and teaching, visit https://www.cecs.uci.edu/~qpdang/

Professor Doemer’s current research projects are: RISC: Parallel SystemC Simulation on Many-Core Computer Architectures, A New Parallel Programming Model for Many-Core Computers. His ongoing project is
System-on-Chip Environment (SCE).

Salma Elmalaki received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018, where she was affiliated with the Networked and Embedded Systems Lab. She received her B.Sc. degree (with distinction and honors) in computer and systems engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2008. Between August 2018 and August 2019, Elmalaki was a computational methods engineer at Janelia Research Campus (HHMI). Before pursuing her Ph.D. at UCLA, she spent three years as an R&D engineer in the embedded systems industry. Elmalaki is the recipient of the Microsoft Research Fellowship (2016-2018), the Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) in 2015, the Best Community Paper Award from the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) in 2015, and was selected as a Grace Hopper Scholar to celebrate women in computing in 2016. She joined the UC Irvine Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in October 2019.

Sang-Woo Jun is currently an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of California, Irvine. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018), and he earned his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University (2010). His current research interests are innovative system architectures for low-cost high-performance computing. Professor Sang-Woo Jun’s two prominent tools right now are Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) and reconfigurable hardware accelerators. To read more about Sang-Woo Jun, see https://www.ics.uci.edu/~swjun/.

Sitao Huang received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2021. He received his B.Eng. degree in electronics engineering at Tsinghua University in 2014, and his M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017. His research interests include highly efficient hardware acceleration, programming language and synthesis flow for hardware systems and optimization of heterogenous systems. He is a recipient of 2019 Sundaram Seshu International Student Fellowship and 2018 Rambus Computer Engineering Fellowship. His research has won several awards, including the Best Paper Nomination at ASP-DAC 2021, the Student Innovation Award at the 2018 IEEE HPEC Graph Challenge, and the first place at DAC 2019 System Design Contest.

Tony Givargis is a professor and Chair in the Department of Computer Science. Prof Givargis has written 4 books and holds 13 patents. His current projects include: DesignSciCPS, Synthesis of Time-Controllable Digital Mockups of Physical Systems, and XGRID: A Many-Core Embedded Platform with a Programmable Communication Fabric.

Yasser Shoukry is an Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD from UCLA working under the supervision of Prof. Paulo Tabuada (CyPhy Lab) and Prof. Mani Srivastava (NESL Lab). He previously received his B.Sc. degree in computer engineering at Ain Shams University in 2007, with distinction and honors. He also received his M.Sc. degree in computer engineering at Ain Shams University in 2010 under supervision of Prof. Sherif Hammad and Prof. Watheq El-Kharashi.

Zhou Li is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington in 2014. His current research interests lie in data-driven security analytics, internet measurement, side-channel analysis, and IoT security. To read more about Zhou Li, see https://engineering.uci.edu/users/zhou-li.