People

The Principal Investigator

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.

• Faculty member of the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
• Faculty member (courtesy appointment) of the Department of Computer Science (CS)
• Faculty member (courtesy appointment) of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Founding faculty member of the Master of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems (MECPS)
• Faculty advisor of the UCI Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute
• Member of the Center for Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems (CECS)
• Research thrust leader for the design & control for manufacturing of the Design and Manufacturing Innovation (DMI) Institute
• Member of the Networked Systems Program
• Associated faculty of the Institute of Transportation Studies

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Current Postdocs

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Current Ph.D. Students

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Alumni – Ph.D. Students

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Current M.Sc. Students

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Alumni – M.Sc. Students

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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

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Current K-12 Students

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Current International Visitors

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

• Patrick Li: UCI; Project: Architecture Agnostic Binary Analysis Using GNN; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2022-Winter 2023.

• Chonghan Wang: UC Davis; Project: Architecture Agnostic Binary Analysis Using GNN; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2022-Fall 2022.

• Chih-Yuan Ting: UCI; Project: Industrial Control Systems, PLC Binary Analysis; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2022-Winter 2023.

• Mboutidem Mkpong: Hampton College; Project: Cyber-Physical Systems Security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2023.

• Harsh Thomare: UCI; Project: Side Channel Attacks; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2022 – Spring 2023.

• Lelin Pan: Zhejiang 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 Coeur: TEL AVIV University; Project: Graph neural networks for high-level synthesis; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2021.
• Zhenjie Jiang: TEL AVIV University; Project: Graph neural networks for high-level synthesis; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2021
• Arushi Arora: UCI; 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 Shao: UCI; Project: Graph neural networks for hardware security; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2020 – Winter 2021.

• William Anda Yang: UCI; Project: Graph neural networks for hardware security; Undergraduate Researcher: Winter 2021.

• Tommy Nguyen: UCI; Project: Data-driven modeling on cyber-physical additive manufacturing; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2020 – Spring 2021.

• Yufan Jiang: UCI; 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 Lam: UCI; Project: Data-driven modeling of cyber-physical additive manufacturing; autonomous driving; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2019 until Spring 2020.

• Nathan Darius Costa: UCI; Project: Data-driven modeling on cyber-physical additive manufacturing; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2019 – Spring 2020.

• Ahmed DIDOUH: Ph.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 RIBOUH: Ph.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 Negoro: MSc student from the Ritsumeikan University, Japan; Project: V2X security; Visiting Graduate Researcher: June 2018 – January 2019.

• Kendus Tisdale-Jeffries: Alabama A & M University through UC-HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)  program; Project: Hardware security; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2019.

• Derek Duy Nguyen: UCI; Project: Smart parking; Undergraduate Researcher: Spring 2019 – Spring 2020.

• Preston Avery Rogers: UCI; Project: mHealth and V2X security; Undergraduate Researcher: Winter 2017 – Summer 2019.

• Zainab Faryal Khan: UCI; Project: Autonomous vehicle; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2017 – Summer 2018.

• Hamza Ahmed Khan: UCI; Project: Autonomous vehicle; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2017 – Summer 2018.

• Gaurav Venkatesh: UCI; Project: Battery instrumentation; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2017 – Summer 2018.

• Matthew Evan Footitt: UCI; Project: Battery instrumentation; Undergraduate Researcher: Fall 2016 – Spring 2017.

• Edwin Cordon: UCI; Project: Embedded systems security; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2013 – Spring 2014.

• Quan Quoc Minh Chau: UCI; Project: Automation-as-a-service; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2014.

• Irvin Huang: UCI; Project: GridMat; Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2013.

• Ruidi Peng: Undergraduate student from the Southern University of Science and Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2020.

• Ruomeng Fan: Undergraduate student from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2020.

• Sarah Zhou: Undergraduate 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 Li: Undergraduate student from the Dalian University of Technology, China; Project: IoT Security – SDR & GNU radio on USRP board exploration; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2019.

• Chen Chen: Undergraduate student from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2019.

• Yang Miao: Undergraduate student from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Project: IoT security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2019.

• Yuze Wang: Undergraduate student from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Project: Hardware security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2018.

• Zhihai Dai: Undergraduate 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 Zhu: Undergraduate student from the Dalian University of Technology, China; Project: V2X security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2018.

• Yaru Niu: Undergraduate student from the South China University of Technology, China; Project: mHealth; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2018.

• Yicheng Zhang: Undergraduate student from the Sichuan University, China; Project: Hardware security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2017.

• Jiahao Fu: Undergraduate student from the Sichuan University, China; Project: Manufacturing security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2017.

• Jiazhi, Li: Undergraduate student from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Project: Manufacturing security; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2017.

• Wenlin Yao: Undergraduate student from the Dalian University of Technology, China; Project: H.264 for GPGPU; Visiting Undergraduate Researcher: Summer 2014.

• Tom Khan: K-12 student from University High School; Project: What you see is what you eat; K-12 Student: Summer 2018.

• Labiba Saleh: K-12 student from University High School; Project: Embedded systems; K-12 Student: Summer 2015.

• Tahmid Khan: K-12 student from University High School; Project: Embedded systems; K-12 Student: Summer 2014.

• Aurik Sarker: K-12 student from Oxford Academy in Cypress, CA; Project: Embedded systems; K-12 Student: Summer 2013.