Farinaz Koushanfar


Siavouche Nemat-Nasser Endowed Chair and Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering at UCSD

Founding Co-Director

Center for Machine-Intelligence, Computing and Security

Other Center Affiliations

NSF Trust-Hub (Co-PI), NSF TILOS AI Institute

Member of the Editorial Board

The Proceedings of the IEEE

Research

Secure and efficient computing, Co-optimization and customization of massive AI models, Robust safe AI, Hardware/system security, Supply chain management and intellectual property (IP) protection (Watermarking, tracing, attestation), AI-based optimization,  Cryptographically secure privacy-preserving computing (a.k.a., secure multi-party computation or MPC), Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs)

Fellow of ACM, IEEE, National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and the Kavli Foundation of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)