Danyu’s research interests include security and privacy, with focus on differential privacy and LLM-driven security application….
Danyu Sun – Event Coordinator
Category: Leadership
David Martin – Secondary Representative
David researches applications of machine learning and control theory to autonomous systems, robotics, and multiagent teams….
Mohamed Benomar – Primary Representative
Mohamed’s research focuses on biomedical devices, bioelectronics, embedded systems, sensors, and microfabrication….
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. …
Floranne Ellington – Professional Development Representative
Floranne is an innovative, hard-working Computer Engineering Graduate student pursuing her PhD degree in Computer Engineering. She is currently a graduate research student in the HERO Lab in the Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine. Her research focuses are in embedded systems and machine learning analysis applications to medical devices. She is striving for a future career in machine learning….
Joann Chen – Treasurer
Joann Chen is a third-year Ph.D. student in the EECS department advised by Dr. Zhou Li. Her research interests center around Differential Privacy (DP), privacy-enhancing technologies, and privacy in machine learning. She has experience in working on differentially private DNS resolution, DP for data stream release, differentially private resource allocator, and quantifying privacy risks in machine learning….
Nathan Furman – Student Department Liaison
Nathaniel Furman is a current researcher and learner at the University of California, Irvine working towards a Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering with an expected graduation year of 2025. He is working in optical devices with slow light applications and lasers. …
Beverly Abadines Quon – Secondary Representative
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….
Robert Marosi – Primary Representative
Robert’s research studies electron beam devices, traveling wave tubes amplifiers and oscillators, and waveguide mode dispersion engineering….