Farinaz Koushanfar


Professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

Director

Adaptive Computing and Embedded Systems (ACES) Lab

Founding Co-Director

Center for Machine-Integrated Computing and Security (MICS)

Research

- Robust Automated and Adaptive Learning

- Security and Privacy

- Holistic Co-Design and Optimization of Data / Algorithm / Software (/Hardware)

- Cryptographically Secure Privacy-Preserving Computing

- Robust Distributed and Federated Learning

Photo Credit: Alex Matthews/UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute

Research

My research interests are focused on development of scalable and efficient machine learning algorithms on resource-constrained platforms. In my research group, we enable realization of end-to-end frameworks that address robustness and real-world practicality. The research directions can be broadly categorized into the following topics:

  • Robust Automated and Adaptive Learning

  • Security and Privacy

  • Holistic Co-Design and Optimization of Data / Algorithm / SW (/HW)

  • Cryptographically Secure Privacy-Preserving Computing

  • Robust Distributed and Federated Learning

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News

I'm giving the IEEE CEDA Keynote at ICCAD 2022

I'm giving the Keynote talk at IEEE AsianHOST 2022

I chaired the program for NDSS 2022 (together with my wonderful co-chair Wenyuan Xu)!

Congratulations to ACES Lab Post-doc, Dr. Zahra Ghodsi, who will join Purdue ECE as an Assistant Professor in 2023.

My (single-author) paper on provably secure hardware obfuscation published in IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security 2012 is among the 7 papers selected this year for TOP PICKS in Hardware and Embedded Systems Security all times!

Our MICS center had it's official launch Summit in October 2018! Go MICS!

Contact

Farinaz Koushanfar, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego (UCSD)

E-mail: farinaz (at) ucsd (dot) edu

Office: Room 6401, Jacobs Hall (EBU-1)

Address:

9500 Gilman Dr., MC-0407

La Jolla, CA 92093


Administrator: Ms. Wyn Hughes

Office: Jacobs Hall, Room 2904

Phone: (858) 534-3294

E-mail: whughes (at) ucsd (dot) edu