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
- Embedded Computing Systems
- Security and Privacy
- Automated and Adaptive Computing
- Big Data Analytics
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:
- Security and Privacy for data-intensive computing
- Massive data analytics and deep learning on constrained settings and on edge devices
- Hardware Software Co-design for Machine Learning Applications on Embedded Systems
News
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!
My student , Mohammad Ghasemzadeh, won the 2018 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2018. Congratulations Mohammad!
Our paper "ReBNet: Residual Binarized Neural Network" (by Ghasemzadeh, Samragh and Koushanfar) received the Best Paper Award at the FCCM 2018 Conference. Congratulations to our intelligent and hardworking students!
ACES lab members and collaborator received the ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award for the ICCAD 2008 paper, "Lightweight Secure PUFs" (by Majzoobi, Koushanfar and Potkonjak)
ACES lab's Dr. Bita Rouhani, has successfully defended her PhD thesis and is now a Research Scientist with Microsoft Research working on project BrainWave and other influential data analytics projects.
Wayne Burleson, Kevin Fu and I co-organize the CCC/CRA Workshop on Leadership in Embedded Security, in conjunction with USENIX SEC 2018! Stay tuned for the report!
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