The Principal Investigator

Professor Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Full Professor and IEEE CEDA Distinguished Lecturer
Director Samueli School of Engineering Autonomous Systems Initiatives
and Associate Chair, EECS
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Department of Computer Science (Courtesy Appointment)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Courtesy Appointment)
University of California, Irvine

Biography

Mohammad Al Faruque is currently with the University of California Irvine (UCI), where he is a full professor and directs the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab. He has been nominated as the IEEE CEDA Distinguished Lecturer for 2022-2023. Prof. Al Faruque also directs the Samueli School of Engineering Autonomous Systems Initiatives and serves as the EECS department’s associate chair. Prof. Al Faruque received the School of Engineering Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research 2019, the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems Early-Career Award 2018, and the IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award 2016. He also received the  UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Early-Career Faculty Award for Research 2017 and the School of Engineering Early-Career Faculty Award for Research 2017. He was an Emulex Career Development Chair from October 2012 until July 2015. Before, he was with Siemens Corporate Research and Technology in Princeton, NJ.

His current research is focused on the system-level design of Internet-of-Things (IoT), Embedded Systems, and Cyber-Physical-Systems (CPS) with special interests in design automation methodologies, data-driven modeling techniques, including machine learning for design, CPS security, etc. His work involves novel hardware and software design for various CPS application areas, including mobile health (mHealth), Industry 4.0 (manufacturing), smart-grid, and autonomous vehicles.

Prof. Al Faruque received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2002 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Aachen Technical University (RWTH Aachen) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany in 2004 and 2009, respectively. During his M.Sc., he was advised by Rainer Leupers at RWTH Aachen; during his Ph.D., he was advised by Jörg Henkel at KIT.

Prof. Al Faruque received the 2022 ACSAC Best Paper Award, the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award 2016 from the Edison Foundation, the 2016 DATE Best Paper Award, the 2015 DAC Best Paper Award, the 2009 IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award, the 2016 NDSS Distinguished Poster Award, the 2008 HiPEAC Paper Award, the 2015 Hellman Fellow Award, the 2015 Kane Kim Fellowship Award, the 2023 DATE Best Paper Award Nomination, the 2017 ICCAD Best Paper Award Nomination, the 2017 DAC Best Paper Award Nomination, the 2012 DATE Best IP Award Nomination, the 2005 DAC Best Paper Award Nomination, the EECS Professor of the year 2015-16 Award, and the 2015 UCI Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research. Besides 150+ IEEE/ACM publications in the premier journals and conferences, Prof. Al Faruque holds 12 US patents. Prof. Al Faruque has published 2 books in the area of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems.

Prof. Al Faruque served as the Program Co-Chair in the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems in 2021 (ICCPS’21), the Program Co-Chair of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Networking, Systems, and Security (NSysS’21), the General Co-Chair for the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems 2022 (ICCPS’22), and the Program Chair of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS’22 and CODES+ISSS’23). 

Prof. Al Faruque is the General Chair of the IEEE/ACM CPS-IoT Week 2025 (https://cps-iot-week2025.ics.uci.edu)

Prof. Al Faruque is the associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems (TCAD), ACM Transactions on Design Automation on Electronics and Systems, and  IEEE Design & Test. He is an IEEE senior member and an ACM senior member.


Current Postdocs

Halima Bouzidi

Postdoctoral Scholar

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/halimabouzidi
Email: hbouzidi@uci.edu
Webpage: https://halimabouzidi.github.io/

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from the Higher National School of Computer Science (ESI ex INI), Algeria
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from the Higher National School of Computer Science (ESI ex INI), Algeria
Graduate (Ph.D.) degree from the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France (UPHF), France
Research areas: CPS Security, Design Automation, Edge-AI, Trustworthy-AI


Current Ph.D. Students

Mboutidem Mkpong

Ph.D. Student

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mboutidem-mkpong/
Email: mkpongm@uci.edu

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Hampton University
Research areas: Autonomy and Controls, Machine Learning, Security of Autonomous Systems in robotics

David Martin

Ph.D. Student

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davidmartin28
Email: davidrm3@uci.edu

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Brigham Young University
Research areas: Autonomy, Machine Learning, Controls

Yasamin Moghaddas

Ph.D. Student

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasamin-moghaddas-5aa2921b5
Email: ymoghadd@uci.edu

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from UC Irvine
Research areas: Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Security

Junyao Wang

Ph.D. Student

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/junyao–wang
Email: junyaow4@uci.edu
Webpage: https://sites.uci.edu/junyaowang/

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)  
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Research areas: Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems

Mohammad Habib Fakih

Ph.D. Student

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamad-fakih-2852b114a/
Email: mhfakih@uci.edu

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) in Computer Engineering from the American University Beirut, Lebanon
Research areas: Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Security

Yonatan Gizachew

Ph.D. Student

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonatan-gizachew-achamyeleh-47310414a/
Email: yachamye@uci.edu

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from UC Irvine
Research areas: Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Security

Luke Chen

Ph.D. Student

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-chen-b97b98122/
Email: panwangc@uci.edu

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from UC Irvine
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from UC Irvine
Research areas: Embedded Systems – HW/SW Co-design

Kohei Tsujio

Ph.D. Student

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kohei-tsujio-06969a16a/
Email: ktsujio@uci.edu

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Waseda University, Japan  
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan
Research areas: Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Security


Alumni – Ph.D. Students

Mohanad Odema

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mohanad-odema/
Email: modema@uci.edu

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from the Ain Shams University, Egypt
Graduate (MSc) degree from Ain Shams University, Egypt
Research areas: Health IoT, Edge-AI, Network Architecture Search
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Hardware/Software Co-design Methodologies for Efficient AI Systems and Applications
Graduation Year: Summer 2024
First Job: Senior Data Scientist at Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

Trier Mortlock

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trier-mortlock-439a36102/

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from the University of California, Berkeley, CA 
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from UC Irvine
Research areas: Sensor Fusion, Applied Machine Learning for CPS, CPS Security
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Multi-Sensor Data Fusion and Machine Learning for Adaptive Autonomous Systems
Graduation Year: Summer 2024
First Job: Data Scientist & Spacecraft Systems Engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Rozhin Yasaei

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rozhin-yasaei/
Email: ryasaei@uci.edu
Webpage: sites.uci.edu/rozhinyasaei/

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from the Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from UC Irvine
Research areas: Applied Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems, Hardware Security, IoT Security
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Graph Neural Network for Integrated Circuits and Cyber-Physical Systems Security
Graduation Year: Spring 2023
First Job: Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona

Shi-Yuan Yu

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shih-yuan-yu/

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Graduate (M.Sc.) from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan  
Research areas: Data-Driven Modeling for CPS
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Graph Learning for Robust Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems
Graduation Year: Spring 2023
First Job: Senior Staff Engineer at MediaTek

Arnav Valbhav Malawade

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnav-malawade/
Email: malawada@uci.edu
Webpage: sites.uci.edu/arnavmalawade/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from UC Irvine 
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from UC Irvine
Research areas: Smart Grid Security, Battery Security, Biological Additive Manufacturing Security
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Algorithms for Autonomous System Design
Graduation Year: Spring 2023
First Job: Sr. Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Volkswagen of America, Inc

Anomodarshi Barua

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anomadarshi-barua-304018ab
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree jointly from the University of Southampton, UK, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Research areas: Embedded and Cyber-Physical System Security, Computer Microarchitecture, Digital Signal Processing
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Cross-Layer Security in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs)
Graduation Year: Spring 2023
First Job: Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the George Mason University (GMU)

Nafiul Rashid

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nafiul-rashid-b53039aa/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from from the Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh
Research areas: Health IoT, Edge-AI
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Efficient Digital Health Solutions Using Wearable Devices
Graduation Year: Winter 2023
First Job: Senior Research Engineer at Samsung Research

Sina Faezi

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sina-faezi/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from the Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from UC Irvine
Research areas: Data-Driven Modeling for CPS
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Data-Driven Modeling and Analysis for Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems
Graduation Year: Fall 2021
First Job: Principal Data Scientists, Skyworks

Anthony B Lopez

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lopezanthony/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from the University of California, San Diego, CA
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from UC Irvine
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Security Modeling and Analysis for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Graduation Year: Fall 2020
First Job: Senior Engineer, Qualcomm

Sujit Rokka Chhetri

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sujito/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from the Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from UC Irvine
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Data-Driven Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems using Side-Channel Analysis
Graduation Year: Spring 2018
First Job: Staff Data Scientist at the Palo Alto Networks

Korosh Vatanparvar

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kvatan/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from the Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from UC Irvine
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Reliability and Energy Efficient Battery-Powered Cyber-Physical Systems
Graduation Year: Spring 2017
First Job: Senior Scientist at Samsung Research

Jiang Wan

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jiang-wan-6104873b/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from UC Irvine
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Modeling and Co-Design of Multi-domain Cyber-Physical Systems
Graduation Year: Spring 2017
First Job: Senior ASIC Digital Design Engineer at Synopsys

Haeseung Lee

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/haeseunglee-uci/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from Arizona State University
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Reliability and Timing Aware GPU Management on Embedded Systems
Graduation Year: Spring 2016
First Job: Senior Software Verification Engineer at Xilinx


Current M.Sc. Students

Cheng-Ju Wu

M.Sc. Student

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheng-ju-wu-a73857264
Email: cwu30@uci.edu

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) degree from National Defense University
Research areas: Autonomy, Machine Learning, Controls

Avinash Kadiyala

M.Sc. Student

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avinash-kadiyala/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Area: Security

Yang Xiang

M.Sc. Student

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yang-xiang-a5a896249
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from University of California, Irvine
Research Area: Security

Yun-Ping Hsiao

M.Sc. Student

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yun-ping-hsiao-9b6797273/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from  National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Research Area: Security


Alumni – M.Sc. Students

Rahul Dharmaji

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rdharmaji/
Undergraduate(B.Sc.) from University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Area: Security

Ashley Sayuri Masuda

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-masuda-441790240/
Undergraduate (B.Sc) from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
Research area:
Security
First Job:
Embedded Systems Engineer, Boeing Corp.

Tyler Zhang

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerjzhang/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Indiana University
Research areas: Embedded Systems
First Job: Firmware Engineer, Apple Inc.

Berken Utku Demirel

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/berken-utku-demirel-3267b1175/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Middle East Technical University, Turkey 
Research areas: Mobile Health, Edge-AI
First Job: PhD student, ETH Zurich

Yicheng Zhang

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yichez16/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Sichuan University, China  
Graduation Year: Spring 2021
Research areas: CPS and Hardware Security
First Job: PhD student at UC Riverside

Islam Abdelsalam Bayoumy 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/islam-abdelsalam-26923527/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Graduation Year: Spring 2021
Research areas: CPS and Hardware Security
First Job: Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly known as Facebook Inc.)

Kelvin Phan

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kelvin-phan-ms-computer-engineer/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from UC Irvine
Graduation Year: Fall 2019
First Job: Software Engineer at Metronome Software LLC

Ahmet Salih Aksakal

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ahmet-salih-aksakal-4bb0a2177/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey
Graduation Year: Fall 2019
First Job: Software Engineer at the Amazon Corporation

Felix Hernandez Ansuategui

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/felix-hernandez-ansuategui/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain
Graduation Year: Fall 2019
First Job: Big Data Engineer at the at Sistemas, Spain

Salam Zantout

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/salamzantout/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Graduation Year: Spring 2017
First Job: Researcher at the Aerospace Corporation

Xiaohong Li (Iris)

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/xiaohong-iris-li-9b17aab7/
Undergraduate (B.Sc.) from Nanjing University of Post Telecommunications (NJUPT), China (Rank 3/104)
Graduate (M.Sc.) degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (Rank 10/55)
Graduation Year: Spring 2017
First Job: R&D Engineer at Synopsys Inc.


Current Undergraduate Students

  • Redford Fox Hudson: UCI; Project: Data Fusion using Graph Learning; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2023 – Present
  • Joshua Hyunki Kim: UCI; Project: Architecture Agnostic Binary Analysis Using GNN; Undergraduate Researcher: Winter 2023 – Present
  • Gabriel E. Garcia: UCI; Project: Architecture Agnostic Binary Analysis Using GNN, Side Channel Attacks; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2023 – Present

Current K-12 Students


Current International Visitors


Alumni – Visitors, Graduate & Undergraduate Students, and K-12 Students

  • Patrick LiUCI; Project: Architecture Agnostic Binary Analysis Using GNN; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2022-Winter 2023.
  • Chonghan WangUC Davis; Project: Architecture Agnostic Binary Analysis Using GNN; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2022-Fall 2022.
  • Chih-Yuan TingUCI; Project: Industrial Control Systems, PLC Binary Analysis; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2022-Winter 2023.
  • Mboutidem MkpongHampton College; Project: Cyber-Physical Systems Security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2023.
  • Harsh ThomareUCI; Project: Side Channel Attacks; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2022 – Spring 2023.
  • Lelin PanZhejiang University; Project: Industrial Control Systems; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2012 – Spring 2023.
  • Yasamin Moghaddas: UCI; Project: Graph Convolution Network in IoT security; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2021-2022.
  • Louis Le Coeur: Tel Aviv University; Project: Graph Neural Network for High-Level Synthesis Design Automation; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall
  • 2021.
  • Zhenjie Jiang: Tel Aviv University; Project: Graph Neural Network for High-Level Synthesis Design Automation; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2021.
  • Sebastien Lajeunesse-DeGroot: UCI; Project: Autonomous Vehicle Perception, including risk detection, collision prediction, end-to-end control, and energy/latency optimization; Undergraduate Researcher: Winter 2021.
  • Harsimrat Kaeley: UCI; Project: Autonomous Vehicle Perception, including risk detection, collision prediction, scene-graph extraction, and explainability; Undergraduate Researcher: Winter 2021.
  • Anurag Karra: UCI; Project: Autonomous Vehicle Perception, including risk detection, collision prediction, scene-graph extraction, and explainability; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2021.
  • Xianzhang (Sam) Li: UCI; Project: Data-driven Modeling for Manufacturing System Security; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2021.
  • Omar Samiullah: UCI; Project: CarSim testbed development for autonomous vehicle research; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2021.
  • Kyle Ming Zhang: UCI; Project: MINDSIGHT Making Intelligible Decompiled Source by Imposing Homomorphic Transform; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2021.
  • Ian Marc Cumming: UCI; Project: Graph Convolution Network for healthcare applications; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2021.
  • Xiangbo (Barry) Gao: UCI; Project: Autonomous Vehicle Perception, including scene-graph extraction and data-driven spatio-temporal graph modeling; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2022.
  • Louis Le CoeurTEL AVIV University; Project: Graph neural networks for high-level synthesis; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2021.
  • Zhenjie JiangTEL AVIV University; Project: Graph neural networks for high-level synthesis; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2021
  • Arushi AroraUCI; Project: Graph neural networks for hardware security; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2021.
  • Humza Muhammad Khan: UCI; Project: Deep Neural Networks for Low-Power Embedded Devices; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2021.
  • Yunhe ShaoUCI; Project: Graph neural networks for hardware security; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2020 – Winter 2021.
  • William Anda YangUCI; Project: Graph neural networks for hardware security; Undergraduate Researcher: Winter 2021.
  • Tommy NguyenUCI; Project: Data-driven modeling on cyber-physical additive manufacturing; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2020 – Spring 2021.
  • Yufan JiangUCI; Project: MINDSIGHT Making Intelligible Decompiled Source by Imposing Homomorphic Transforms; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2020.
  • Yizhao Shi: Undergraduate student from the Chongqing University, China; Project: mHealth; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2021.
  • Haozhe Song: Undergraduate student from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2021.
  • Brandon Hsu: UCI; Project: Autonomous Vehicle Perception, including risk detection, collision prediction, scene-graph extraction, explainability, and multimodal sensing; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2020 – Spring 2021.
  • Ken Tran: UCI; Project: Physical-layer key generation for secure V2X communication; Undergraduate Researcher: Winter 2019 – Winter 2020.
  • Aung Myat Thu: UCI; Project: Data-driven modeling of DL code analysis; Autonomous vehicle; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2019 – Spring 2020.
  • Emily Sing Yen LamUCI; Project: Data-driven modeling of cyber-physical additive manufacturing; autonomous driving; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2019 until Spring 2020.
  • Nathan Darius CostaUCI; Project: Data-driven modeling on cyber-physical additive manufacturing; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2019 – Spring 2020.
  • Ahmed DIDOUHPh.D. student from the Polytechnic University of the Hauts-de-France -UPHF-, Valenciennes, France; Project: Securing smart transportation systems; Visiting Graduate Researcher: May 2019 – July 2019.
  • Soheyb RIBOUHPh.D. student from the Polytechnic University of the Hauts-de-France -UPHF-, Valenciennes, France; Project: 802.11p and cellular technology (4G, 5G) based channel estimation in vehicular communications; Visiting Graduate Researcher: May 2019 – July 2019.
  • Shunsuke NegoroMSc student from the Ritsumeikan University, Japan; Project: V2X security; Visiting Graduate Researcher: June 2018 – January 2019.
  • Kendus Tisdale-JeffriesAlabama A & M University through UC-HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)  program; Project: Hardware security; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2019.
  • Derek Duy NguyenUCI; Project: Smart parking; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2019 – Spring 2020.
  • Preston Avery RogersUCI; Project: mHealth and V2X security; Undergraduate Researcher: Winter 2017 – Summer 2019.
  • Zainab Faryal KhanUCI; Project: Autonomous vehicle; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2017 – Summer 2018.
  • Hamza Ahmed KhanUCI; Project: Autonomous vehicle; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2017 – Summer 2018.
  • Gaurav VenkateshUCI; Project: Battery instrumentation; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2017 – Summer 2018.
  • Matthew Evan FootittUCI; Project: Battery instrumentation; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2016 – Spring 2017.
  • Edwin CordonUCI; Project: Embedded systems security; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2013 – Spring 2014.
  • Quan Quoc Minh ChauUCI; Project: Automation-as-a-service; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2014.
  • Irvin HuangUCI; Project: GridMat; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2013.
  • Ruidi PengUndergraduate student from the Southern University of Science and Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2020.
  • Ruomeng FanUndergraduate student from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2020.
  • Sarah ZhouUndergraduate student from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2020.
  • Shanzhao Wang: Undergraduate student from the Southeast University, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2020.
  • Yuhan Qin: Undergraduate student from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2020.
  • Zhenyu Wu: Undergraduate student from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2020.
  • Peizhao LiUndergraduate student from the Dalian University of Technology, China; Project: IoT Security – SDR & GNU radio on USRP board exploration; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2019.
  • Chen ChenUndergraduate student from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2019.
  • Yang MiaoUndergraduate student from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Project: IoT security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2019.
  • Yuze WangUndergraduate student from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Project: Hardware security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2018.
  • Zhihai DaiUndergraduate student from the Southern University of Science and Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2018.
  • Zeyu Zhang: Undergraduate student from the Dalian University of Technology, China; Project: Manufacturing; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2018.
  • Yuliang ZhuUndergraduate student from the Dalian University of Technology, China; Project: V2X security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2018.
  • Yaru NiuUndergraduate student from the South China University of Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2018.
  • Yicheng ZhangUndergraduate student from the Sichuan University, China; Project: Hardware security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2017.
  • Jiahao FuUndergraduate student from the Sichuan University, China; Project: Manufacturing security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2017.
  • Jiazhi, LiUndergraduate student from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Project: Manufacturing security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2017.
  • Wenlin YaoUndergraduate student from the Dalian University of Technology, China; Project: H.264 for GPGPU; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2014.
  • Tom KhanK-12 student from University High School; Project: What you see is what you eat; K-12 Student: Summer 2018.
  • Labiba SalehK-12 student from University High School; Project: Embedded systems; K-12 Student: Summer 2015.
  • Tahmid KhanK-12 student from University High School; Project: Embedded systems; K-12 Student: Summer 2014.
  • Aurik SarkerK-12 student from Oxford Academy in Cypress, CA; Project: Embedded systems; K-12 Student: Summer 2013.