Faculty

Kwon is an assistant professor in the EECS department at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Before he joined UCI, he was a research scientist at Meta’s (formerly Facebook) Reality Labs. He works on deep learning accelerators with flexible dataflow and mappings based on data- and communication-centric approaches. Kwon earned his doctorate in computer science and while at Georgia Tech, he developed a flexible deep neural network accelerator called MAERI and an open-source infrastructure for modeling dataflows within deep learning accelerators called MAESTRO. His thesis was recognized with an honorable mention at the 2021 Outstanding Dissertation Award competition of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture/IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Computer Architecture. He is co-author of a book on computer architecture and has published 25 peer-reviewed articles.

Marco Levorato is an Associate Professor at University of California, Irvine. His research interests are: Real-Time distributed computing in wireless systems, Wireless systems for AI and AI for wireless systems, and IoT and Healthcare. He has received 8 awards and has 9 current projects.

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.

Kwei-Jay Lin is a Professor Emeritus, and is interested in Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, and specifically, the development of efficient, flexible and accountable services on the web. He is involved in two major research efforts at UCI: LLAMA and QCWS. The LLAMA (inteLLigent Accountability Middleware Architecture) project is a powerful, effective, and efficient SOA middleware framework to support service process composition, run-time monitoring, problem analysis, and continual process reconfiguration and optimization. It includes the infrastructure to continuously monitor services within an active service workflow, and dynamically adapt by reconfiguring those problematic or underperforming services.

Parallel programs, especially those with truly critical time (speed) requirements, are difficult to design. The process is extremely error-prone, tedious and time-consuming. The first goal of Dr. Nicolau’s work is to design and implement a system of program transformations that support the semi-automatic (and eventually fully-automatic) exploitation of substantially all the parallelism available in a given program.

Amir Rahmani is a Professor of Nursing and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and a computer scientist by training. He is also the Associate Director of the UCI Institute for Future Health, a university-wide organized research unit (ORU) focusing on personal health empowerment. He lead the multi-disciplinary HealthSciTech Group at UCI. Prior to joining UCI as a faculty, he was an EU Marie Curie Global Fellow in the Computer Science Department of University of California, Irvine, USA and in the Institute of Computer Technology of TU Wien, Vienna, Austria. He is also an adjunct professor (Docent) in embedded parallel and distributed computing in the Department of Computing of University of Turku, Turku, Finland. 

Yasser Shoukry is an Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD from UCLA working under the supervision of Prof. Paulo Tabuada (CyPhy Lab) and Prof. Mani Srivastava (NESL Lab). He previously received his B.Sc. degree in computer engineering at Ain Shams University in 2007, with distinction and honors. He also received his M.Sc. degree in computer engineering at Ain Shams University in 2010 under supervision of Prof. Sherif Hammad and Prof. Watheq El-Kharashi.

Ardalan Amiri Sani is currently as Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He directs the Trustworthy Systems Lab (TrussLab) where the research focuses on building trustworthy systems. Sani’s projects are often at the intersection of mobile computing, security, and operating systems. Since joining UCI, he has received the NSF CAREER Award, Google’s Android Security and PrIvacy REsearch (ASPIRE) Award, and UCI ICS Dean’s Mid-Career Award for Research.