- ACSAC 2022 Best Paper Award: “Bayesimposter: Bayesian estimation based. bss imposter attack on industrial control systems”
Prof. Al Faruque and his student, Anomadarshi Barua have received the best paper award at ACSAC 2022 (38th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference), one of the top security conferences. For more information about ACSAC visit https://www.acsac.org/2022/
- Prof. Al Faruque is the recipient of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research 2018-19
This is the highest award from the school of engineering for a mid-career faculty. Prof. Al Faruque received it for his research contribution in the area of embedded and cyber-physical systems security.
- Prof. Al Faruque is the recipient of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems Early-Career Award 2018
The IEEE TCCPS Early-Career Award (http://www.ieee-cps.org/doc/award/early_career_rev04.pdf) recognizes a junior researcher from either academia or industry who has demonstrated outstanding contributions to the field of cyber-physical system (CPS) in the early stage of his/her career development. Every year, only one person receives this award worldwide.
- Prof. Al Faruque is the recipient of the UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Early-Career Faculty Award for Research 2017-18
This is the highest award from the UCI. Prof. Al Faruque received it for his research contribution in the area of embedded systems.
- Prof. Al Faruque is the recipient of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering Early-Career Faculty Award for Research 2016-17
This is the highest award from the school of engineering. Prof. Al Faruque received it for his research contribution in the area of embedded systems.
- Prof. Al Faruque is the recipient of the IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award 2016
IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award (http://ieee-ceda.org/awards/ernest-s-kuh-early-career) honors an individual who has made innovative and substantial technical contributions to the area of Electronic Design Automation in the early stages of his or her career. Prof. Al Faruque is selected as the recipient of this very competitive award and will be presented with it at ICCAD 2016.
- Prof. Al Faruque is the recipient of the Thomas Edison Patent Award 2016
Patent: “Network as automation platform for collaborative E-car charging at the residential premises” US8957634 B2
Each year the Research & Development Council of New Jersey (http://www.rdnj.org/awards-recognitions/) honors the winners of the Thomas Edison Patent Awards at its annual Edison Patent Awards Ceremony & Reception in the IMAX Theater of the Liberty Science Center. Prof. Al Faruque is selected as the recipient of this very prestigious award for his innovation.
- Prof. Al Faruque is the recipient of the EECS Professor of the Year 2015-16 Award
Prof. Al Faruque has received the EECS Professor of the Year 2015-16 Award by the Engineering Student Council (ESC). The award was announced during the National Engineers Week (EWeek) 2016. For more information about the E-Week 2016 award please visit http://engineering.uci.edu/news/2016/3/samueli-school-celebrates-e-week
- DATE Best Paper Award 2016
Paper: “OTEM: Optimized Thermal and Energy Management for Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage in Electric Vehicles“
CECS member and EECS Professor Mohammad Al Faruque and his student, Korosh Vatanparvar have received the best paper award at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) held in Dresden. DATE is one of the most prestigious conferences in the embedded systems and VLSI/CAD areas. This year DATE received over 800 submissions of which ~20% were accepted. Prof. Al Faruque is one of the few individuals worldwide who has received the best paper awards in all the top three CAD conferences (DATE 2016, DAC 2015, and ICCAD 2009). For more information about DATE visit http://www.date-conference.com/
- NDSS Distinguished Poster Award 2016
Poster: “Exploiting Acoustic Side-Channel for Attack on Additive Manufacturing Systems“
CECS member and EECS Professor Mohammad Al Faruque and his student, Sujit Rokka Chhetri have received the distinguished poster award at the Internet Society the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) held in San Diego. NDSS is one of the most prestigious conferences in the security area. For more information about NDSS visit http://www.internetsociety.org/events/ndss-symposium-2016
- Prof. Al Faruque received competitive Kane Kim Collaborative Fellowship Award for 2015-2016
- Prof. Al Faruque received the prestigious Hellman Fellowship Award for 2015-2016
- DAC Best Paper Award 2015
Paper: “Battery Lifetime-Aware Automotive Climate Control for Electric Vehicles“
EECS Professor Mohammad Al Faruque and his student, Korosh Vatanparvar have received the best paper award at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) held in San Francesco. DAC is the oldest and most prestigious conference in the field of very-large-scale integration (VLSI) and computer-aided design (CAD) received more than 800 submissions, from which only 162 papers were accepted. For more information about DAC visit https://dac.com
- Prof. Al Faruque received 2015 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research
- Undergraduate student of our group Quan received the prestigious 2015 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
- Prof. Al Faruque has been selected as UROP Faculty Mentor of the Month, May 2015
- Graduate student Hsinchung Chen (Andrew) received Broadcom Foundation Fellowship 2015 (PI: Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque and Co-PI Prof. Pai Chou)
- Graduate students from our lab Jiang Wan and Haeseung Lee received the Richard Newton Young Fellow award at DAC 2014
- Prof. Al Faruque is selected as the Emulex Career Development Chair for 2012 -2015
- Prof. Al Faruque received the best IP award nomination for DATE 2012
- Prof. Al Faruque received the IEEE/ACM WILLIAM J. MCCALLA ICCAD Best Paper Award 2009
Paper: “TAPE: Thermal-Aware Agent-Based Power Economy for Multi/Many-Core Architectures“
- Prof. Al Faruque received HiPEAC Paper Award, 2008
- Prof. Al Faruque received best paper award nomination for DAC, 2005
- Prof. Al Faruque received RWTH masters scholarship, for class performance, 2003
Research Grants and Fundings
Co-PI, “SENPAI: Strategic Exploration, Navigation, and Patching of Abstracted Integrations for Cyber-Physical Systems,” DARPA, Broad Agency Announcement Faithful Integrated Reverse-Engineering and Exploitation (FIRE), 2024- 2027
Single-PI, “Leveraging Large Language Models to Automate Verifiable Program Synthesis for Industrial Control Systems,” Siemens Corporation, 2024-2024
Co-PI, “From Coordination to Collaboration: Machine Learning for Group Cognition and Control in Multi-Agent Systems,” Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), 2024- 2027
PI, “Adaptive and Efficient Perception for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Operating in Highly Stochastic Environments under Sensing Uncertainties,” U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center (US Army), 2024- 2025
PI, “Making Intelligible Decompiled Source by Imposing Homomorphic Transforms (MINDSIGHT),” DARPA (Funding Opportunity Title: Assured Micropatching (AMP)), 2023- 2024
Single-PI, “Exploring sensor threats and vulnerabilities in intelligent traffic controllers,” UCITS, 2023- 2024
Single-PI, “Leveraging Large Language Models to Automate Verifiable Program Synthesis for Industrial Control Systems,” Siemens Corporation, 2023-2023
Co-PI, “The Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII),” BP 3 – 2023-2024
PI, “Adaptive and Efficient Perception for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Operating in Highly Stochastic Environments under Sensing Uncertainties,” U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center (US Army), 2023- 2024
Co-PI, “Monitoring challenged neonates using wearable technology,” NIH, 2022- 2023
Single-PI, “Resilient Internet of Things,” Mexico Graduate Research and Education Program (MGREP), 2022-2023
Single-PI, “Code Analysis Tools for Brown-field Automation Engineering Systems,” Siemens Corporation, 2022-2022
Contributing Researcher, “The Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII),” BP 2 – 2022-2023
PI, “SHF: Small: A Design Automation Methodology for Flexible Real-Time Computing based on Split and Early Exit Neural Models,” (NSF), 2022- 2025
Single-PI, “A Secure Integrated Corridor Management System Associating Connected Vehicles with Smart Park and Ride Services” Statewide Transportation Research Program (STRP), 2021- 2022
Single-PI, “GL4ENEMY: Graph Learning based Process ID Fingerprinting for Defending Insider Threats in a Manufacturing System “, Cisco Systems Inc, 2021-2022
Single-PI, “Tool Provenance for Automation Engineering Systems“, Siemens Corporation, 2021-2021
PI, “SARE: In-Sensor Hardware-Software Co-design Methodology of the Hall Effect Sensors to Prevent and Contain the EMI Spoofing Attacks in the Analog-RF Systems” (NSF), 2020- 2022
Co-PI, “HEAL Initiative: Americas Startups and Small Businesses Build Technologies to Stop the Opioid Epidemic” NIH (Funding Opportunity Title: R41/R42 – Clinical Trial Optional), 2020- 2021
PI, “Making Intelligible Decompiled Source by Imposing Homomorphic Transforms (MINDSIGHT)” DARPA (Funding Opportunity Title: Assured Micropatching (AMP)), 2020- 2023
Single-PI, In response to “Dear Colleague Letter: Data Science Activities for the Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Communities” (NSF), 2020- 2021
Single-PI, “Software and Hardware Systems for Autonomous Smart Parking Accommodating both Traditional and Autonomous Vehicles” (US DOT), 2020- 2021
PI, “Cross-Domain and Cross-Layer Safety and Security for Internet of Connected Autonomous Vehicles”, SSOE MERI Seed Fund, 2020-2021
PI, “Security for Manufacturing Cyber-Physical Systems”, Broadcom Foundation, 2019-2020
Single-PI, “REU Supplement: Secure Cyber-Physical DNA Manufacturing for Life Science Applications and Ultra-long-term Data Storage” (NSF), 2017- 2020
Co-PI: “GAANN – Secure Cyber-physical Systems for Smart Manufacturing” (DOEd – Department of Education), 2018- 2021
PI, “Physical Layer Key Generation Protocol for Secure V2X Communication Architecture in the Era of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles” (POPGrants), 2018- 2019.
PI, “DeepLCC – Deep Learning Code Curation” (DARPA), November 2018- April 2020
UCI-PI: “CPS: TTP Option: Medium: Collaborative Research: Low-Cost, High-Throughput, Cyber-Physical Synthesis of Encrypted DNA“, National Science Foundation (NSF), October 2017 – September 2020
Co-PI: “UC-National Lab Center for Electricity Distribution Cyber Security” (Total Budget: $3,750,000, UCI portion – $900,000), University of California Office of the President, 2018-2021
Cash Gift, Thanks to Rockwell Collins
PI: “Hardware Trojan Detection and Localization through Digital Twin of the Integrated Circuits“, ONR, Awarded. September 2017 – September 2020
PI: “Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems for Creating and Updating the Digital Twin“, Siemens Corporation, July 2017 – September 2017
Cash Gift, Thanks to Hyundai
PI: “Secure & Resilient Functional Modeling for Navy Cyber-Physical Systems“, ONR, October 2016 – September 2019
Co-PI: “Multi-Scale Analysis and Control of Smart Energy Systems“, National Science Foundation (NSF), September 2016 – August 2018
PI: “Cybermanufacturing: Defending Side Channel Attacks in Cyber-Physical Additive Layer Manufacturing System“, National Science Foundation (NSF), October 2015 – September 2017
PI: “Simulation Test Bed for Neighborhood Level Electric Vehicle Charge Control Algorithm“, Department of Energy (DOE), March 2013 – September 2013
PI: “Towards Secured Societal-Scale Cyber-Physical Transportation System“, Hellman Foundation, July 2015 – September 2016
PI: “Physical Security Vulnerability for Additive Layer Manufacturing“, Siemens Corporation, July 2015 – September 2015
PI : “Securing Wireless Communication in IoT Applications Via Physics-based Techniques“, Broadcom Foundation, 2016
PI : “M2M-Tracking: Collaborative Localization using M2M-Assisted Particle Filter“, Broadcom Foundation, Co-PI: Pai Chou, 2015
PI: “Secure and Robust Functional Modeling Compiler for Cyber-physical Systems“, Siemens Corporation, July 2014 – September 2014
PI: “Critical Infrastructure Forensics (CIF)“, Seed Funding Awards, July 2016 – September 2017
PI: “Defense Against Power Side Channel Attacks in Cyber-Physical Additive Layer Manufacturing Systems“, Kane Kim Collaborative Fellowship, October 2015 – July 2016 (awarded) Co-PIs: K. Smedley and M. Green
Co-PI: “Towards Modeling the Water-Energy Nexus to Enable Effective IoT Proliferation”, Interdisciplinary Innovation Initiative (I3), July 2015 – September 2016 (awarded), PIs: Fadi Kurdahi (EECS), Soroosh Sorooshian (CEE), Ahmed Eltawil (EECS), Amir AghaKouchak (CEE), Mohamad Al Faruque (EECS)
PI: “Research Award“, CORCL, July 2016 – September 2016
PI: “Research Award“, UCInspire, July 2016 – September 2017
PI: “Battery Lifetime-Aware Cyber-Physical Electric Vehicle Driving Management“, CORCL Single Investigator Innovation Grant
PI : “2014-2015 Research and Travel Award“, CORCL
PI: “Parallelization of the H.264 on GPU architecture“, ENGSURF fellowship, June 2014 – August 2014
PI: “Desktop computing infrastructure: cash support “, FDCI, February 2013-September 2013
PI: “Emulex Career Development Chair“, Emulex, October 2012 – September 2015
PI: “Advanced Integrated Cyber-Physical Systems Lab“, Internal funding (not detailed)
Hardware and Software Platform Donation
SCADE academic license