Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems Lab

Our paper “A Fly on the Wall – Exploiting Acoustic Side-Channels in Differential Pressure Sensors“ has been accepted to the 2024 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC24). Congratulations Yonatan.

This is the first collaborative paper with Prof. Kwon. CONGRATULATIONS Odema and Luke.

Our paper “Adaptive Data Fusion for State Estimation and Control of Power Grids Under Attack” has been accepted to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IEEE TII’24), 2024. Congratulations, Trier. IEEE TII has an impact factor of

This is the first collaborative paper with the group from the Department of Computers and Informatics, Technical University of Kosˇice, Slovakia

Our paper “SMORE: Similarity-Based Hyperdimensional Domain Adaptation for Multi-Sensor Time Series Classification” has been accepted to the 61st IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’24), 2024. Congratulations Junyao

Our paper “CASTNet: A Context-Aware, Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Motion Prediction Ensemble for Autonomous Driving” has been accepted to be published in the ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (ACM TCPS). Congratulations, Trier, Arnav, and Kohei.

Our paper “Rampo:  A CEGAR-based Integration of Binary Code Analysis and System Falsification for Cyber-Kinetic Vulnerability Detection” has been accepted to the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS’24). Congratulations Kohei

The Steering Committee of the HiPEAC European Network on High Performance, Edge, and Cloud Computing has awarded a HiPEAC 2023 Paper Award for the paper “Map-and-conquer: Energy-efficient mapping of dynamic neural nets onto heterogeneous MPSoCs.” Congratulations Halima and Odema.

Our paper “TileChain: A Blockchain-Based Framework for Security Service Management for Vehicular Communications” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT’24, Impact Factor 6.8), 2024

Our paper ” LLM4PLC: Harnessing Large Language Models for Verifiable Programming of PLCs in Industrial Control Systems” has been accepted to the International Conference on Software Engineering – Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE SEIP’24), 2024. Congratulations Mo Fakih, Rahul, and

Our collaborative paper “ ERUDITE: Human-in-the-Loop IoT for an Adaptive Personalized Learning System” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE IoT Journal (impact factor 9.936).

Our paper “IoT-GRAF: IoT Graph Learning-based Anomaly and Intrusion Detection through Multi-modal Data Fusion” has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE’24), 2024. Congratulations, Rozhin and Yasamin.

Our paper “RS2G: Data-Driven Scene-Graph Extraction and Embedding for Robust Autonomous Perception and Scenario Understanding” has been accepted to the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV’24). Congratulations Junyao and Arnav. WACV is a premier international computer vision

Our paper “PrivyNAS: Privacy-aware Neural Architecture Search for Split Computing in Edge-Cloud Systems “ has been accepted to be published in the IEEE IoT Journal (impact factor 9.936). Congratulations Odema.

Our paper has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD’23), San Francesco, CA, November 2023. Congratulations Junyao and Luke.

Our paper “MaGNAS: A Mapping-Aware Graph Neural Architectural Search Framework for Heterogeneous MPSoC Deployment” has been accepted to the ACM/IEEE Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES’23), 2023 (the paper appeared in the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing

Congratulations Rozhin. She will start as a tenure track assistant professor in the summer of 2023.

Congratulations Louis. His thesis title is Graph Learning for Robust Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems. Louis will start as a Staff Engineer at MediaTek Inc starting June 2023.

Our collaborative paper with Prof. Sitao Huang has been accepted to the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED’23), 2023. Congratulations Arnav and the team

Ph.D. candidate Trier Mortlock, supervised by Prof. Al Faruque won first place in the Best Student Poster competition at the 29th Automotive Research Center Program Review for the project titled “Adaptive and Efficient Perception for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Operating in

Our paper “Data-driven Energy-efficient Adaptive Sampling Using Deep Reinforcement Learning ” has been accepted to be published in the ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare. Congratulations Berken and Luke.

Congratulations Arnav. Wait for his decision.

Congratulations Anomo. Anomo will begin his career as a tenure-track assistant professor at George Mason University.

ARC (https://arc.engin.umich.edu): The Automotive Research Center (ARC) is a University-based U.S. Army Center of Excellence for modeling and simulation of military and civilian ground systems. It represents the key basic research partner of the U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)

Granted Date March 28th 2023

Our paper “Stress Detection using Context-Aware Sensor Fusion from Wearable Devices” has been accepted to be published in the IEEE IoT Journal (impact factor 9.936). Congratulations Nafiul and Trier.

 Her poster title was ” Attack and Fault Detection in the Internet of Things using Graph Neural Networks.”

Our Paper “MagHop: Magnetic Spectrum Hopping for Securing Voltage and Current Magnetic Sensors“ has been accepted to IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST’23), 2023. Congratulations Anomo

Our paper “SEO: Safety-Aware Energy Optimization Framework for Multi-Sensor Neural Controllers at the Edge“ has been accepted to the 60th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’23), 2023. Congratulations Odema

Our paper “Map-and-Conquer: Energy-Efficient Mapping of Dynamic Neural Nets onto Heterogeneous MPSoCs“ has been accepted to the 60th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’23), 2023. Congratulations Odema and Halima

Congratulations Nafiul. Nafiul will start his post-Ph.D. career as a Senior Research Engineer at Samsung Research.

Our paper “[ICCPS 2023] Accepted Paper: EnergyShield: Provably-Safe Offloading of Neural Network Controllers for Energy Efficiency“ has been accepted to the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS’23). Congratulations Odema

Our paper “CFG2VEC: Hierarchical Graph Neural Network for Cross-Architectural Software Reverse Engineering” has been accepted to the International Conference on Software Engineering – Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE SEIP’23), 2023. Congratulations Louis

Project Title: “Edith Wearable Device”, Congratulations to the team led by Prof. Al Faruque – Panyang Chen, Hanyong Liu, Haoran Liu, Yunxuan Shi, Haozhong Tan, and Xiao Wang

Congratulation Anomo!!!!!

Our DATE 2023 paper is nominated for the best paper award. Fingers crossed!

Our paper “[DATE 2023] Accepted Paper: HADAS: Hardware-Aware Dynamic Neural Architecture Search for Edge Performance Scaling“ has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE’23). This is a collaborative paper with Prof. Smail Nair and

Our paper “TESTUDO: Collaborative Intelligence for Latency-Critical Autonomous Systems” has been accepted to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (IEEE TCAD’22), 2022. Congratulations Odema and Luke.

For more information: https://risingstars.utexas.edu

Our special session proposal “Addressing Sensor Security through Hardware/Software Co-design” has been accepted to the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided  Design (ICCAD’22). Our group decided to submit a companion paper for this special session. Prof. Al Faruque and Prof. Wolf

Our paper “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Spreading Deadly Pathogens Under the Disguise of Popular Music“ has been accepted to the 2022 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’22). Congratulations Anomo and Yonatan.

Our paper “Romanus: Robust Task Offloading in Modular Multi-Sensor Autonomous Driving Systems” has been accepted to the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided  Design (ICCAD’22). Congratulations, Luke and Odema.

Our paper “PreMSat: Preventing Magnetic Saturation Attack on Hall Sensors“ has been accepted to the Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2022 issue 4  (TCHES 2022) and will be presented at the annual Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded

Our paper “HALC: A Real-time In-sensor Defense against the Magnetic Spoofing Attack on Hall Sensors” has been accepted to the 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID 2022). Congratulations Anomo.

Our paper “Golden Reference-Free Hardware Trojan Localization using Graph Convolutional Network“ has been accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration System (IEEE TVLSI’22), 2022. Congratulations Rozhin, and Sina.

Our paper “Neural Contextual Bandits Based Dynamic Sensor Selection for Low-Power Body-Area Networks” has been accepted to the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED’22). Congratulations Berken and Luke.

Our paper “Hardware Trojan Detection using Graph Neural Networks“ has been accepted to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (IEEE TCAD’22), 2022. Congratulations Rozhin, Luke, and Louis.

Our paper “Template Matching Based Early Exit CNN for Energy-efficient Myocardial Infarction Detection on Low-power Wearable Devices” has been accepted to the ACM Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/UBICOMP ’22), 2022. Congratulations Nafiul, Berken,

Our paper “SELF-CARE: Selective Fusion with Context-Aware Low-Power Edge Computing for Stress Detection” has been accepted to the IEEE 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS’22). Congratulations Nafiul and Trier.

Our paper “Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Enable Automated Characterization of the Positive and Negative Dielectrophoretic Ranges of Applied Frequency” has been accepted to the journal Micromachines. Congratulations Louis. This is the collaborative work with Prof. Lawrence Kulinsky’s group from the MAE department.

Our paper “EcoFusion: Energy-Aware Adaptive Sensor Fusion for Efficient Autonomous Vehicle Perception” has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’22). Congratulations Arnav and Trier.

 iREDEFINE fellows participate in Impact: Redefining Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty (iREDEFINE ECE), an NSF-funded workshop designed to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities (URMs) among the faculty in ECE departments.

Co-PI on this proposal is Prof. Marco Levorato.

Find the patent here: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ef/4b/7f/bfef7ebb26f8c7/US11122425.pdf

Our paper “roadscene2vec: A Tool for Extracting and Embedding Road Scene-Graphs“ has been accepted to be published in the Knowledge-Based Systems (impact factor 8.038). Congratulations Arnav and Louis.

Our paper “HydraFusion: Context-Aware Selective Sensor Fusion for Robust and Efficient Autonomous Vehicle Perception“ has been accepted to the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS’22), Milan, Italy, May 2022. Congratulations Arnav and Trier.

Our paper “Spatio-Temporal Scene-Graph Embedding for Autonomous Vehicle Collision Prediction“ has been accepted to be published in the IEEE IoT Journal (impact factor 9.936). Congratulations Arnav and Louis.

Our paper “AHAR: Adaptive CNN for Energy-efficient Human Activity Recognition in Low-power Edge Devices“ has been accepted to be published in the IEEE IoT Journal (impact factor 9.936). Congratulations Nafiul.

Our paper “Energy-Efficient Real-Time Heart Monitoring on Edge-Fog-Cloud Internet-of-Medical-Things” has been accepted to be published in the IEEE IoT Journal (impact factor 9.936). Congratulations Berken.

Congratulations Jiang, Sujit, and Sina. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/17/7d/fe/ff82981675efc8/US11178166.pdf

The PF Program is a highly regarded “preparing future faculty” program; selection is competitive, based on a record of excellent teaching, promising scholarship, and service to the University, department, and the disciplines’ professional community.

Rozhin Yasaei is the president of the Women in CyberSecurity organization (WiCyS) -UCI chapter for 2021-2022.

Our paper titled “Graph Learning for Cognitive Digital Twins in Manufacturing Systems” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (impact factor 7.691). Congratulations Trier and Louis. This is a collaborative work with Prof. Professor

Submit your paper to ICCPS 2022.

Our lab is funded through DOE institute CyMaii to work in the manufacturing area.

To work on the manufacturing systems security.

Gift funding from Cisco to work on the Manufacturing system’s security.

This is a single PI proposal. We are funded to develop algorithmic solutions for cyber-physical transportation systems in California.

Kohei got his Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Waseda University, Japan, and his M.Sc. degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan. His research area will be Autonomous Systems.

Our paper titled “Stealing Neural Network Structure through Remote FPGA Side-channel Analysis” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (impact factor 6.211). Congratulations Yicheng.

Our paper “Establishing Digital Recognition and Identification of Microscopic Objects for Implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guided Microassembly“ has been accepted to the World Congress of Micro- and Nano- Manufacturing (WCMNM’21), 2021. Congratulations Louis. This is an NSF funded collaborative

Our paper “Single-Channel EEG Based Arousal Level Estimation Using Multitaper Spectrum Estimation at Low-Power Wearable Devices“ has been accepted to the 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’21), 2021. Congratulations Berken.

Our paper “Energy-efficient Blood Pressure Monitoring based on Single-site Photoplethysmogram on Wearable Devices“ has been accepted to the 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’21), 2021. Congratulations Berken.

Our paper “Feature Augmented Hybrid CNN for Stress Recognition Using Wrist-based Photoplethysmography Sensor“ has been accepted to the 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’21), 2021. Congratulations Nafiul.

Our paper “SAGE: A Split-Architecture Methodology for Efficient End-to-End Autonomous Vehicle Control“ has been accepted to the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS’21). Congratulations Arnav and Odema.

Our paper “EExNAS: Early-Exit Neural Architecture Search Solutions for Low-Power Wearable Devices” has been accepted to the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED’21). Congratulations Odema.

Data -Driven Modeling and Analysis for Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems

Our paper titled “Scene-Graph Augmented Direct Perception for Risk Assessment in Autonomous Vehicle Systems“ has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (impact factor 5.744). Congratulations Louis and Arnav. Other co-authors for the paper are Deepan

For details about this fellowship see: https://oai.tech.uci.edu/john-and-joanna-duffy-graduate-student-fellowship/ Many Congratulation Luke.

Our paper titled “Attack Modeling Methodology and Taxonomy for Intelligent Transportation Systems” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (impact factor 5.744). Congratulations Anthony.

Our new patent may be found here: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/eb/49/af/af8f194624530f/US10903992.pdf

https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/c0z9-1p30

Our paper titled “Neuroscience-Inspired Algorithms for the Predictive Maintenance of Manufacturing Systems“ has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics (impact factor 9.112). Congratulations Arnav. Other co-authors for the paper are Deepan, Prof. Khargonekar, and undergraduate student

Data: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/9fwb-8978

Our paper “GNN4IP: Graph Neural Network for Hardware Intellectual Property Piracy Detection” has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’21). Congratulations Rozhin Yasaei and Shih-Yuan Yu (Louis).

Our paper “LENS: Layer Distribution Enabled Neural Architecture Search in Edge-Cloud Hierarchies” has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’21). Congratulations Odema, Nafiul, and Berken.

Our paper titled “Pykg2vec: A Python Library for Knowledge Graph Embedding” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Machine Learning Research (impact factor 4.091). Congratulations Louis.

Our paper titled “Brain-Inspired Golden Chip Free Hardware Trojan Detection” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (impact factor 6.211). Congratulations Sina, Rozhin, and Anomo.

This is an invited paper. Other authors of this paper are Prof. Salma Elmalaki from EECS, Prof. Sara Stern-Nezer from the Department of Neurology, and Prof. Jack Lin from the Department of Neurology/ Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology/ Department of

Our Book Chapter has been included in the  Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security, and Privacy, published by Springer.

Security Modeling and Analysis for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Our invited vision paper “Cognitive Digital Twin for Manufacturing Systems” has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE’21). The paper is written together with Prof. Pramod P. Khargonekar and Dr. Deepan Muthirayan. Ph.D. student Shih-Yuan

Our paper “GNN4TJ: Graph Neural Networks for Hardware Trojan Detection at Register Transfer Level” has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE’21). Congratulations Rozhin Yasaei and Shih-Yuan Yu (Louis)

Our paper “HTnet: Transfer Learning for Golden Chip-Free Hardware Trojan Detection” has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE’21). Congratulations Sina Faezi and Rozhin Yasaei

Our paper “Wireless Qi-powered, Multinodal and Multisensory Body Area Network for Mobile Health” has been accepted to be published in the IEEE IoT Journal (impact factor 9.515).

Our paper titled “Hierarchical Temporal Memory based One-pass Learning for Real-Time Anomaly Detection and Simultaneous Data Prediction in Smart Gridseneration for Intelligent Transportation Systems” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (impact factor 6.404).

See the conference program here: https://cse.buet.ac.bd/nsyss2020/speakers/

Find it here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06435. Congratulations to Shih-Yuan (Louis) and Arnav.

The seminar will be organized by the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). For details of this lecture series see: https://www.cybercrime.fau.de/research-training-group-2475-cybercrime-and-forensic-computing/

The Seminar will be organized by the Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet-of-Things (CCI) (http://cci.usc.edu/) and the Ming Hsiesh Institute of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Join my talk.

Our paper special session paper “Special Session: Noninvasive Sensor-Spoofing Attacks on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems” has been accepted to the 38th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2020). Congratulations Anomadarshi Barua.

Our paper “Energy-Aware Design Methodology for Myocardial Infarction Detection on Low-Power Wearable Devices” has been accepted to IEEE/ACM 26th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2021). Congratulations Odema and Nafiul.

Energywire (E&E Publications): https://www.eenews.net/energywire/stories/1063712291?t=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eenews.net%2Fstories%2F1063712291 SC Medeia: https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/is-the-electric-grid-closer-to-a-devastating-cyberattack-that-could-mean-lights-out/ Helpnet Security: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/08/20/disrupt-power-grid-coffee-cup/ Solar Power: https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/08/uci-researchers-expose-vulnerability-solar-inverters Solar Industry Magazine: https://solarindustrymag.com/uci-researchers-exploit-solar-inverter-vulnerability UCI News: https://news.uci.edu/2020/08/18/uci-cyber-physical-security-researchers-highlight-vulnerability-of-solar-inverters/

Other Guest Editors are Vanessa Chen, Carnegie Mellon University and Fadi Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine. Find more information here: https://dl.acm.org/journal/jetc/cfp_RF

Checkout here: https://sbmicro.org.br/chip-in-the-fields/Program Keynote Title: Cross-Layer Security of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems

We are participating in this DARPA project. Our other collaborators are: Siemens (lead), Carnegie Mellon University, John Hopkins University, and BAE systems.

Submit your paper to ICCPS 2021: http://iccps.acm.org/2021/

We received a NIH grant with Prof. Peter Tseng at UCI and Shiva Sharareh from Reokover Inc. Grant Number: 1R41DA049615-01A1 and FAIN: R41DA049615

Submit your CPS/IoT related paper to the following track E5 “Design modeling and verification for embedded and cyber-physical systems”

Joint the workshop: https://sites.google.com/gapp.nthu.edu.tw/dac-ecw20/home

We received an NSF supplement to our existing NSF DNA manufacturing related proposal. We are exploring HTM-based technologies for predictive maintenance technologies for cyber-physical manufacturing systems in this supplementary funding.

We received this Caltrans Grant from building parking assistance technologies for traditional and autonomous vehicles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/us/california-today-dna-hacking.html (California Today, Jill Cowan)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicabaron/2019/02/27/sound-waves-are-being-hacked-for-everything-from-ad-targeting-to-bioterrorism/#6b1e9ee015ef (Jessica Baron)

https://communications.uci.edu/magazine/2016/winter/ahead-of-their-time.html

http://www.newsweek.com/stealing-3d-printer-designs-sound-433147 (Eric Smille)

http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-0330-printing-hack-20160329-story.html (Daily Pilot – Alex Checn)

http://www.sciencealert.com/anyone-can-steal-3d-printed-products-by-just-listening-to-the-sounds-the-printer-makes

http://science.orf.at/stories/2768355/ and http://oe1.orf.at/programm/433856

http://cacm.acm.org/news/199406-bad-vibrations-uci-researchers-find-security-breach-in-3d-printing-process/fulltext

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6282/132 (Mara Hvistendahl)

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/04/why_you_should_worry_about_printer_security.html (Josephine Wolff)

https://news.uci.edu/research/bad-vibrations-uci-researchers-find-security-breach-in-3-d-printing-process/

http://www.calit2.uci.edu/about-calit2/itemdetail.aspx?cguid=bcc8112a-0d70-445f-8afd-4c1c1ce11565

http://news.uci.edu/pressreleases/6-junior-faculty-members-named-2015-16-uci-hellman-fellows/