Dear International Students in the US, Does the US really deserve you?

UC president statement: “International students provide unique contributions that enrich our campuses and their perspectives ensure that we continue to be a leading academic force around the world" UCR Computer Science and Engineering stands in support of our international students universityofcalifornia.edu/content/statem…

The application for the 2021 Congressional Innovation Fellowship is now open! We’re looking for applicants who are eager to influence technology policy at the highest level. Read more about the program and find our application at the link below. techcongress.io/blog/2020/20/7…

I am also curious. It takes me 4-6 hours to write a high quality review for a paper between reading/re-reading, thinking and writing the review. Is it possible to dedicate a month to a single PC? Perhaps I am just inefficient ;-)

Congratulations Hoda Naghibijouybari! Look forward to hear about your successes at School of Computing, Binghamton University

Israel applies an oppressive, separate and unequal regime on Palestinians. There is only one word for this: Apartheid. Watch Omar Baddar عمر بدّار break it down (Full video here: bit.ly/33ZB5ol -- 👈 Watch & Subscribe).

This paper was accepted to appear in ASPLOS . Congratulations, Amira!

How does an approximate multiplier design act as a defense against adversarial attacks? Defensive Approximation: Securing CNNs using Approximate Computing asplos-conference.org/abstracts/aspl… Amira Guesmi @ihstein Nael Abu-Ghazaleh #ASPLOS21 #AdversarialML #Approximation

Let’s check in with Prof. Dmitry Ponomarev about the state of hardware security research in early 2021. sigarch.org/architecture-a…

UCR Computer Science and Engineering is searching for multiple open-rank faculty positions in many areas including #machinelearning, #NLP, #robotics, #AI, #Graphics, #Visualization, Augmented/Virtual Reality #ARVR, and #Bioinformatics.

ECE Department at UC Riverside has multiple open rank faculty positions in the areas of Robotics and Biomedical+Computational Imaging. More info. ece.ucr.edu/employment UCR ECE UCR Computer Science and Engineering UCR Bourns College of Engineering

We are very excited to welcome Ming Wang, a new UCR Computer Science and Engineering faculty. His lab is actively recruiting undergraduates and graduate students so if you're interested in bioinformatics and understanding the chemical space around us, check out the opportunities: cs.ucr.edu/~mingxunw/oppo…

Great work by Yicheng Zhang and Carter Slocum, and a fun collaboration with Jiasi Chen

Proud to have a chance to present with a group of researchers in security to discuss LLM vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks, see you at ACL 24! Tutorial details: llm-vulnerability.github.io Nael Abu-Ghazaleh Erfan Shayegani MD ABDULLAH AL MAMUN

🎉 Honored to receive the Best Paper Award at #SoCalNLP2023 with Erfan Shayegani & Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (3/150+ submissions)! Our paper proposes a compositional attack across text-image modality for jailbreak that only requires white-box access to the vision encoder. 🧵1/4

#AI breaking bad? 💻Computer Science & Engineering's Yue Dong @ NeurIPS 2023& Nael Abu-Ghazaleh w/PhD student Erfan Shayegani identified an AI programming flaw that allows bad actors to bypass safeguards & ask for instructions for making bombs or manufacturing drugs. bit.ly/49n7rs1 #UCRBCOE

Congratulations, Ahmed, Sakib and Xuanpeng!

Happy to share one paper to be presented this week in USENIX Security "That Doesn't Go There: Attacks on Shared State in Multi-User Augmented Reality Applications". Work done with Carter Slocum, Erfan Shayegani , Pedram Zaree, Jiasi Chen, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh. Talk is on 08/15 at 10:45 am.

🚨Thrilled to share that our paper "𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿-𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀" was accepted to #ICML 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 as 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁