November 2006
Goodrich awarded IEEE Technical Achievement Award
Michael
GoodrichComputer science professor Michael Goodrich has been awarded the 2006 Technical Achievement Award from IEEE.
The award cites his "outstanding contributions to the design of parallel and distributed algorithms for fundamental combinatorial and geometric problems".
Goodrich was also recently elected elected a Distinguished Scientist of The Association for Computing Machinery.
Goodrich's research is directed at the design of high-performance algorithms and data structures for solving large-scale problems surrounding the increased demands of computer graphics, information visualization, scientific data analysis, information assurance and security, and the Internet.
Suda receives $1.35 million in NSF and NICT funding
Tatsuya
SudaProfessor of computer science Tatsuya Suda has received grants totaling more the $1.35 million for his research in molecular communication aimed at creating a communication system for biological nano machines to communicate.
The first grant of $100,000 from the National Science Foundation's Nanoscale Exploratory Research program (NSF-NER) supports Suda's research entitled Exploratory Research in Molecular Communication between Nanomachines.
Two additional grants from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) will support his research project entitled Molecular Communication: Exploratory Research to Integrate Bio Technology.
Suda's research explores the possibility of molecular communication
as a solution for communication between nanomachines.Nanomachines are artificial or biological nano-scale devices that perform simple computation, sensing, or actuation.
Molecular communication provides a mechanism for nanomachines to communicate over a short distance (adjacent nanomachines to tens of micrometers) using molecules as a communication carrier.
His other research interests include computer networks and distributed computing systems, high speed networks, next generation Internet, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Model) networks, object-oriented distributed systems and multimedia applications.
For more information on molecular communication, visit netresearch.ics.uci.edu/mc/index.html.
For more information on Professor Suda, visit netresearch.ics.uci.edu.
October 2006
Baldi and Dutt named Chancellor's Professors
Pierre
Baldi
Nikil
DuttPierre Baldi and Nikil Dutt, professors of computer science, have been awarded the title of Chancellor’s Professor, effective Wednesday, Nov. 1.
The title is conferred for a five-year renewable term and recognizes scholars who have demonstrated unusual academic merit and whose continued promise for scholarly achievement makes them of exceptional value to the university.
Baldi's research areas include: bioinformatics, computational biology probabilistic modeling and machine learning. He is also the director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics.
Dutt's research areas include compilers, architectures and computer-aided design, with a specific focus on the exploration, evaluation and design of domain-specific embedded systems that span research issues in hardware, software, networked, and ubiquitous systems.
Goodrich elected Distinguished Scientist of ACM
Michael
GoodrichMichael Goodrich, professor of computer science, has been elected a Distinguished Scientist of The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's leading professional association for computer scientists.
Distinguished Member status is a rare honor one step above Senior Member and is awarded only to those who have made significant impact on the computing field.
Altogether, ACM selected only 50 Distinguished
Members, Scientists and Engineers from around the world.Goodrich's research is directed at the design of high-performance algorithms and data structures for solving large-scale problems surrounding the increased demands of computer graphics, information visualization, scientific data analysis, informationassurance and security, and the Internet.
To view the list of 2006 ACM Distinguished Members, and for information on selection criteria, visit http://distinguished.acm.org.
Franz elected Distinguished Member of ACM
Michael
FranzMichael Franz, professor of computer science, has been elected a Distinguished Member of The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's leading professional association for computer scientists.
Altogether, ACM selected only 50 Distinguished
Members, Scientists and Engineers from around the world.Distinguished Member status is a rare honor one step above Senior Member and is awarded only to those who have made significant impact on the computing field.
Franz was elevated to senior member status in IEEE last month.
To view the list of 2006 ACM Distinguished Members, and for information on selection criteria, visit http://distinguished.acm.org.
El Zarki appointed Cor Wit Chair
Magda
El ZarkiMagda El Zarki, professor of computer science, has been appointed Cor Wit Chair at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Established in 2003 by the Cor Wit Foundation, the Cor Wit chair is awarded annually to international researchers in the field of telecommunications and informatics who focus on research questions at the interface of technology and society.
Recipients are invited to work in the Telecommunications Department of the Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) at Delft University of Technology.
El Zarki's main research area is networking with particular emphasis on Multimedia and Wireless Systems and she also heads the Video over IP group in the Bren School.
El Zarki is also a member of the IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery and Sigma Xi, is editor of several journals in the telecommunications area and is actively involved in many international conferences.
Student and professor win IEEE conference Best Paper Award
Computer science Ph.D.
candidate Love Singhal, (l)
accepts the Best Paper Award
at the 2006 IEEE International
Conference on Field
Programmable Logic
and Applications.Love Singhal, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, and professor of computer science Eli Bozorgzadeh received the Best Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL'06) that took place in Madrid, Spain, August 28-30 2006.
The awarded paper is titled "Multi-layer Floorplanning on a Sequence of Reconfigurable Designs".
The dynamic partial reconfigurability of programmable devices such as FPGAs is characterized by their ability to reconfigure subsets of their logic and routing resources at runtime.
This intrinsic dynamic reconfiguration results in accommodation of complex and dense designs, on-fly adaptivity, and design modification.
In this paper, a new multi-layer sequence-pair-based floorplanner is proposed for a given sequence of reconfigurable designs. In the experiments, compared to a traditional sequential floorplanner, the new floorplanner removes infeasibility in many designs, and provide faster timing closure.
FPL is the largest conference on programmable logic which encompasses a wide range of research area on FPGAs, including applications, novel system architectures and CAD tools, embedded processors, dynamic reconfiguration, etc.
The acceptance rate in FPL 2006 was 28 percent, out of 307 submissions.
Baldi awarded $45,000 gift from Microsoft
Pierre
BaldiMicrosoft Research has awarded computer science professor Pierre Baldi an unrestricted gift of $45,000.
The award will be used to support Machine Learning research in the Baldi group and help develop the new upcoming Bren School Center for Machine Learning and Data Mining.
An interdisciplinary researcher, Baldi is the director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics at the Bren School.
Baldi's research focuses on several areas including artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, bioinformatics and communication networks.
Projects in his group include understanding and predicting protein structures, analyzing and modeling gene expression data and regulatory networks, developing a computer GO player, analyzing and designing communication networks (Internet, Ultra Wide Band Radio), and quantifying information.
Franz elected senior member of IEEE
Michael
FranzProfessor of computer science Michael Franz has been elected a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology.
Senior Member status is a rare honor attained by fewer than eight percent of IEEE's 367,000 members.
It is conferred only on those who have outstanding research achievements and who have performed great service to the scientific community.
September 2006
Yang receives NSF awards to improve Internet architecture
Xiaowei
YangXiaowei Yang, assistant professor of computer science, is the recipient of two NSF awards to study ways to improve Internet architecutre.
The first award, provides $300,000 to NeTS FIND: An Internet Architecture For User Controlled Routes. The project will attempt to develop an Internet architecture that enables users or their end-systems to select the paths their packets take through the network.
Such user-controlled routes are desirable for both economic and technical reasons.
Economically, user-controlled routes are a key factor in maintaining the competitiveness of the ISP marketplace, just as long-distance carrier selection has had a lasting impact on telephony.
Technically, user-controlled routes provide a fundamental means for improving the performance and reliability of network communications.
The second project, awarded $200,000 and entitled a CT-ER: A DoS-Resistant Internet Architecture, funds research to design and evaluate an Internet architecture that is resistant to Denial-of-Service (DoS) flooding attacks of any scale.
DoS attacks have become an increasing threat to the reliability of the Internet. These attacks are capable of knocking any user, site, and server right off the Internet.
This research targets the root cause of the DoS flooding problem: the network's inability to intelligently handle overload.When DoS attacks occur, the network drops legitimate traffic and attack traffic alike, leading to heavy losses of legitimate traffic.
Yang's research area is in networked and distributed systems, with an emphasis on protocol and architecture design, performance analysis, modeling, and measurement.
August 2006Franz receives $400,000 NSF grant for Trusted Computing
Michael
FranzComputer Science professor Michael Franz has received a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research project entitled MLS-VM: Design and Implementation of a Next-Generation Information-Centric Target Platform for Trusted Internet Computing.
Franz is also the lead principal investigator in an NSF Information Technology Research grant for $2 million, and he received $312,000 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, as well as a $300,000 NSF grant for Virtual-Machine Techniques.
More information is available at Franz's faculty profile.
Tsudik receives Fulbright Scholar Award
Gene
TsudikGene Tsudik, professor of computer science has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and research at the University of Rome, Italy during the 2006-07 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Tsudik, also the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies of the Bren School will lecture and conduct research on the privacy in computing and networking. Tsudik's primary interests lie in computer/network security and applied cryptography.
Much of his recent work is in secure group communication, in particular, group key agreement, group signatures and group access control. He also is interested in database security and public key cryptography. learn more »
Professor to chair IEEE SecureComm'06 in Baltimore
Gene
TsudikAssociate Dean Gene Tsudik will be chairing the technical program at the second annual IEEE International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm) later this month.
SecureComm brings together security and privacy experts in academia, industry and government as well as practitioners, standards developers and policy makers. SecureComm also serves as a venue for learning about state-of-the-art security and privacy research.
Presentations reporting on cutting-edge research results are supplemented by panels on controversial issues and invited talks on timely and important topics.
Tsudik's primary interests lie in computer/network security and applied cryptography.
Much of his recent work is in secure group communication, in particular, group key agreement, group signatures and group access control.
He also is interested in database security and public key cryptography.
Outstanding faculty and graduate student awards announced
Sharad
MehrotraSharad Mehrotra, professor of computer science, was recently awarded the 2005-06 Bren School Outstanding Mentor Award. Mehrotra was nominated by eight of his Ph.D. students.
In addition, the following students were recognized with 2005-06 Bren School awards:
Outstanding TA Award ($250 and plaque)
has been awarded to ICS PhD students
Michael Sirivianos
Bryan SemaanDissertation Fellowship
Jianlin Cheng
Emily Navarro
Nitesh Saxena
Robert Mateescu
Radu CorneaDissertation Award
Girish Suryanarayana
Ilya Issenin
John Augustine
(Jonathan) Zheng Sun
July 2006
Franz receives NSF grant for Virtual-Machine Techniques
Michael Franz, associate professor of computer science, has received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.Michael
FranzFranz received the grant in Computer Systems Research for his project, “Virtual-Machine Techniques for Resource-Constrained Devices: Reconciling Reliability with Reusability and Low Development Costs in the Embedded Systems Space.”
Franz also is the lead principal investigator in an NSF Information Technology Research grant for $2 million, and he received $312,000 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Researchers 'text mine' the New York Times, demonstrating evolution of topic modeling
Padhraic
SmythDavid Newman, a computer scientist, and computer science professor Padhraic Smyth, Mark Steyvers and Chaitanya Chemudugunta performed what a team of dedicated and bleary-eyed newspaper librarians would need months to do, by using an up-and-coming technology to complete in hours a complex topic analysis of 330,000 stories published primarily by The New York Times.
The demonstration is significant because it is one of the earliest showing that an extremely efficient, yet very complicated, technology called text mining is on the brink of becoming a tool useful to more than highly trained computer programmers and homeland security experts. learn more »
June 2006
Franz receives NSF grant for Virtual-Machine Techniques
Michael Franz, associate professor of computer science, has received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.Michael
FranzFranz received the grant in Computer Systems Research for his project, “Virtual-Machine Techniques for Resource-Constrained Devices: Reconciling Reliability with Reusability and Low Development Costs in the Embedded Systems Space.”
Franz also is the lead principal investigator in an NSF Information Technology Research grant for $2 million, and he received $312,000 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency.
May 2006
Professor receives IEEE Outstanding Service Award
Tatsuya
SudaComputer science professor Tatsuya Suda recently received the IEEE Communications Society 2006 Outstanding Service Awards at the INFOCOM 2006 conference in Barcelona.
The award is given annually to an international member of the IEEE Communications Society for their continued service to the discipline.
Suda's research is in computer networks and distributed computing systems; his interests span the entire spectrum from the design and performance evalulation of these systems to their actual implementation.
His current research focuses on applications of biological principles and large complex system principles onto networks, high speed networks, next generation Internet, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Model) networks, object-oriented distributed systems, and multimedia applications.
April 2006
Scherson elected Senior Member of IEEE
Professor of computer science Isaac Scherson has been elected a Senior Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), a professional organization of Electrical and Computer Engineers and Computer Scientists.
Isaac
SchersonSenior Member status is a rare honor that only eight percent of the 320,000 IEEE members hold and is conferred only on those who have outstanding research achievements and who have performed great service to the scientific community.
Scherson's research interests fall in the general areas of parallel computer architecture and applications of concurrent computation.
His work on interconnection networks for massively parallel systems involves the development of cost-effective high performance networks capable of supporting thousands or millions of processing elements.
In addition, Scherson is applying the results of his seminal networks research to Intelligent Networks on Chip for Embedded Systems.
Researchers determine how plants decide where to position their leaves and flowers
Eric
MjolsnessComputer Science professor Eric Mjolsness and his colleague Elliot Meyerowitz at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have released a study titled An auxin-driven polarized transport model for phyllotaxis through the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The team, also consisting of Henrik Jonsson of Lund University in Sweden, Marcus G. Heisler and Bruce E. Shapiro of Caltech, demonstrates how plant cells, with purely local information about their nearest neighbors' internal concentration of a plant hormone, can generate a global pattern. Biologists have tackled this question since they started wondering about the development of multicellular organisms and all experimental information shows that this mirrors real plant development. learn more »
Givargis wins ACM TODAES Best Paper Award
The Editorial Board of ACM TODAES has selected assistant professor of computer science Tony Givargis' paper, entitled Zero cost indexing for improved processor cache performance, for the the ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) 2006 Best Paper Award.
Tony
GivargisGivargis will recieve the award, which comes with a $1,000 check and a plaque, during the opening ceremony of the 43rd Design Automation Conference which will be held this July in San Francisco.
February 2006
Student and professors win Best Paper Award
Fifth year Ph.D. candidate in computer science Jun Lu and professors of computer science Lichun Bao and Tatsuya Suda received the best paper award at the 2005 IFIP International Conference on Embedded And Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2005). The conference was held in Nagasaki, Japan, December 6 - 9, 2005.
Computer science candidate
Jun Lu, (r) receives his Best
Paper Award at the 2005 IFIP
International Conference on
Embedded And Ubiquitous
Computing.The EUC 2005 is a major conference specializing in embedded systems and ubiquitous computing with 30 technical paper sessions, 3 panel sessions and 5 workshops. Two best papers were awarded among 330+ paper submissions.
The paper, titled Coverage-Aware Sensor Engagement in Dense Sensor Networks, proposed a novel coverage maintenance scheme for sensor networks, which considerably improves the energy efficiency and reduces the computation and communication costs to maintain the required coverage degree in a dense sensor network.
Jun Lu's research is on sensor networks and ad hoc networks, he received his BECS and MSCS from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively and worked for Lucent Technologies as a software engineer before entering the Bren School Ph.D. program.
Student and professor win Best Paper Award
Fourth year Ph.D. candidate in computer science Sudeep Pasricha and professor of computer science, Nikil Dutt received the Best Paper Award at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) that took place in Yokohama, Japan January 24 - 27, 2006.
Professor Nikil Dutt, (left) and
computer science Ph.D.
candidate Sudeep Pasricha
(middle) receive their Best
Paper Award.The paper, titled Constraint-driven Bus Matrix Synthesis for MPSoC, proposes novel techniques to reduce the cost and development time of communication architectures for high performance electronic systems used in the next generation electronic devices such as mobile phones, video game consoles and high-speed networking equipment.
January 2006
Professors win Best Paper Award
A paper written by professors of computer science Magda El Zarki, Nikil Dutt and Nalini Venkatasubramanian has been awarded the Best Paper Award, 1st Place Winner at the 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference that took place in Las Vegas January 8-10, 2006.
Magda El
ZarkiThe paper titled Backlight Optimization Scheme for Video Playback on Mobile Devices, examined ways to create substantial energy savings by dynamically adapting backlight intensity levels on lowpower portable devices like the Compaq iPAQ.
