Professor Harris’ research interests include the design of secure hardware/software systems, and the application of Natural Language Understanding to security and design. Current projects include the detection of phone-based social engineering attacks, formalization of natural language specifications, and the development of a cyber test range to evaluate the security of IoT systems. Professor Harris serves as Associate Editor for ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. Professor Harris Also serves on the technical program committees of several conferences including the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference.
Tony Givargis is a professor and Chair in the Department of Computer Science. Prof Givargis has written 4 books and holds 13 patents. His current projects include: DesignSciCPS, Synthesis of Time-Controllable Digital Mockups of Physical Systems, and XGRID: A Many-Core Embedded Platform with a Programmable Communication Fabric.
Daniel Gajski is particularly interested in requirements and specifications of embedded systems and the design process that leads from an executable specification to the final manufacturable blueprint. In order to study the design process, his group is developing new specification languages and modeling guidelines, as well as simulation, synthesis, and verification tools. In order to obtain efficient specifications and design models, they are taxonomizing models of computations, platform architectures and design styles. In order to develop efficient CAD tools, they are studying synthesis algorithms for systems, architectures, processors, controllers, datapaths, and other intellectual properties (IPs). Their further goal is to build proof-of-concept tools and prove our methodology for different application domains and tools on extensive industrial-strength examples.
The current research interests of Dr. Ahmed are in the general area of low-power digital circuit and signal processing architectures with an emphasis on mobile systems. He is affiliated with both the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing (CPCC) and the Center for Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems (CECS) at the University of California, Irvine.
Professor Nikil Dutt’s research interests includes: Architectures and Compilers for Embedded Systems, Memory architecture exploration for Systems-on-Chip, System specification techniques, Software/Hardware synthesis, analysis and verification, Architectural exploration for SOC and domain-specific problems, Low-power/low-energy analysis and design techniques, Hardware/software interfaces for distributed embedded systems, Electronic Design Automation, and Brain-inspired computing and architectures.
