Professor Imani works in the Department of Computer Science at UC Irvine. He is also a director of the Bio-Inspired Architecture and Systems (BIASLab). The group is working on a wide range of practical problems in the area of bio-inspired computing, machine learning, computer architecture, and embedded systems. BIASLab’s research goal is to design a real-time, robust system to cover a wide range of learning and cognitive computing tasks. Check out the GitLab here and Prof. Imani’s website here.
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.
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.
Qi Alfred Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research interest is network and systems security, and the major research theme is addressing security challenges through systematic problem analysis and mitigation. His research has discovered and mitigated security problems in systems such as next-generation transportation systems, smartphone OSes, network protocols, DNS, GUI systems and access control systems. Currently, his focus has been in smart systems and IoT, including transportation and autonomous vehicle systems. His work has high impact in both academic and industry with over 10 top-tier conference papers, a DHS US-CERT alert, multiple CVEs, and over 50 news articles by major news media such as Fortune and BBC News. Alfred received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2018. To read more about his research, see https://www.ics.uci.edu/~alfchen/
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/.
