People

Yasser Shoukry

Associate Professor

yshoukry@uci.edu
Office: 4207 Engineering Hall
Lab: 4111 Engineering Hall
949-824-8147

Mahmoud ElFar (elfarm@uci.edu)

Postdoctorate Associate (2023-current)

PhD in Computer Engineering, Duke University
BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Ain Shams University

Ulices Santa Cruz Leal (usantacr@uci.edu)

PhD Candidate, EECS (2020-current)

MSc in Astronautics and Space Engineering, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
BSc in Mechatronics Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico

Kohei Tsujio (ktsujio@uci.edu)

PhD Candidate, EECS (2021-current), Co-advised with Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque

MSc in Creative Informatics, University of Tokyo, Japan
BSc in Electronic and Physical Systems, Waseda University, Japan

Goli Vaisi (gvaisi@uci.edu)

PhD Student, EECS (2021-current)

MSc in Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
BSc in Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Jaejeong Park (jaejeonp@uci.edu)

PhD Student, EECS (2023-current)

MS in Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
BS in Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

James Ferlez (2019-2023)

Current Position: DARPA Innovation Fellow

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland
MS in Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
BS in Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Wael Fatnassi (2019-2024)

Dissertation: Formal Verification of AI-Controlled Cyber-Physical Systems using Polynomial Approximations: Constraints Solvers, Model Checkers, and Applications

First Employment: HRL Labs

PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UCI, 2024
MS in Electrical Engineering, the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
BSc in Telecommunications Engineering, Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia

Haitham Khedr (2018-2023)

Dissertation: Formal Verification of Neural Network Properties: Algorithms and Applications

First Employment: Meta

PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UCI, 2023
MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California Irvine
BSc in Computer Engineering, Ain Shams University

Xiaowu Sun (2017-2022)

Dissertation: Safe Learning and Verification of Neural Network Controllers for Autonomous Systems

First Employment: Uber technologies.

PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UCI, 2022
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
MS in Physics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
BSc in Physics, Nanjing University, China

Momina Sajid (msajid@uci.edu)

MS Student, EECS (2019-2023)

Thesis: Model Extraction Attack Against Reinforcement Learning Based Controllers

BSc in Mechatronics and Control Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Pakistan

Rohitkrishna Nambiar

MS Student, Robotics (2018 – 2019)

First employment: Computer Vision / Machine Learning Engineer at Osmo, Mountain View, CA

Dhruv Turakhia

MS Student, ECE, UMD (2018 – 2019)

First employment: Engineer II – Systems at Hughes Network Systems LLC, Germantown, MD

Deshvir Malik

MS Student, ECE, UMD (2018 – 2019)

First employment: Software developer at Hughes Network Systems LLC, Germantown, MD

Debbie Tsai

MS Student, CS, UCLA (2016 – 2018)

Thesis: Towards a Socially Responsible Smart City: Tools for Smarter Community Service

First employment: Software Engineer at Microsoft, Mountain View, CA

Ismail Bayoumi

BS Student, EECS, UCI (2021 – 2022)

Shayan Kargari Hajiabadi

BS Student, EE (2018 – 2019)

First employment: Ph.D. student, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan

Ramasai Tadepalli

BS Student, ECE, UMD (2018 – 2019)

First employment: Software Engineer at Synthetic Minds, Palo Alto, CA

Matthew Melhorn

BS Student, ECE, UMD (2018)

First employment: Research Engineer, SRI International, Arlington, VA

Furqan Chattha

BS Student, Computer Engineering, UMD (2019)

First employment: Satellite Software Engineer, Intelsat, McLean, VA

Dylan Jade Kao

BS Student, EECS, UCI (2020-2021)

Nathan Cayago Bernardo

BS Student, EECS, UCI (UCI Summer Research Program – SURF 2020, 2020-2021)