Lee Swindlehurst – EECS Department Chair

A. LEE SWINDLEHURST received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1991. From 1986-1990, he was employed at ESL, Inc., of Sunnyvale, CA, where he was involved in the design of algorithms and architectures for several radar and sonar signal processing systems. He was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University from 1990-2007, where he was a Full Professor and served as Department Chair from 2003-2006. During 1996-1997, he held a joint appointment as a visiting scholar at both Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, and at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. From 2006-07, he was on leave working as Vice President of Research for ArrayComm LLC in San Jose, California. He is currently a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California Irvine (UCI), a former Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCI, and a former Hans Fischer Senior Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Technical University of Munich….

Aparna Chandramowlishwaran – Faculty Sponsor

Aparna is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Irvine. Her research is in the area of high-performance computing and she leads the HPC Forge research lab. She received my Ph.D in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2013 in the HPC Garage. Prior to joining UCI, she was a research scientist at MIT CSAIL, where she worked on the X-Stack (exascale software stack) project….

EECS Social Hour (Dec. 2nd, 2022)

For the first time, GEECS will host the EECS Social Hour event for PhD students, faculty, and staff on Dec. 2nd, 2022. Game Night will follow from 6-8pm as always. See flyer below:…

Quarterly Social (Fall 2022)

GEECS hosted our first social event for the Fall 2022 quarter at ISEB 4th floor patio. It was a smashing success, where up to 77 MS/PhD students came together to welcome new incoming graduate students….

Fall 2022 Events

Check out our planned events for the Fall 2022 Quarter, which includes Social and Professional Development events. Please RSVP!…

End of the Year GEECS Game Night

We are hosting our end of the year social event this Friday: GEECS Game Night! Come and enjoy board games and snacks with your colleagues. This event is open to both Masters and PhD students in EECS, so invite your friends in the department as well. Date: June 3rd, 2022 (Friday), 6:00 – 9:00 PM PSTWhere: Engineering…

Beverly Abadines Quon

Beverly Quon

Beverly is a fifth year computer engineering PhD candidate and member of PASCAL. Her research explores data driven approaches and emerging feature stores to improve resiliency for systems with many machine learning models….

Hieu Le – Web Content Manager

Hieu Le received his B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering at UC Irvine. He joined Athina Markopoulou’s research group as a PhD Computer Engineering student in Fall 2018. His research interests include ads & tracking and privacy within the web, mobile, and IoT space. Before joining Athina’s research group, Hieu Le’s industry experience included work relating to government contracts, high traffic sites, and technical consulting for UCI. …