J. Xu, Y. Luo, and I. G. Harris, 'Efficient Digital Signature Security Enhancement for Remote Keyless Entry System', International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), October 2025.
Z. Yang and I. G. Harris, 'LogLLaMA: Transformer-based log anomaly detection with LLaMA', International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, June 2025.
S. Hashemitaheri and I. G. Harris, 'Enhancing Non-English Conversational Agents Using Synthetic Data Generation', Workshop on Generative AI for Smart and Connected Health (GenAI4SCH), June 2025.
S. Rahman and I. G. Harris, 'Summary the Savior: Harmful Keyword and Query-based Summarization for LLM Jailbreak Defense', Workshop on Trustworthy NLP (TrustNLP 2025), May 2025.
T. Giyahchi, C. Pechmann and I. Harris, 'Empathetic Reflective Response Generation: Towards Conversation Models for Online Mental Health Support', International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), December 2024.
J. Xu, D. Abraham and I. G. Harris, 'Run-Time ROP Attack Detection on Embedded Devices Using Side Channel Power Analysis', IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, December 2024.
J. Zhao, Y. Song, S. Liu, I. G. Harris, and S. A. Jyothi, 'LinguaLinked: Distributed large language model inference on mobile devices', Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), August 2024.
J. Kim, A. Derakhshan and I. G. Harris, 'Robust safety classifier against jailbreaking attacks: Adversarial prompt shield', Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), June 2024.
D. Yao, J. Zhang, I. G. Harris, and M. Carlsson, 'Fuzzllm: A novel and universal fuzzing framework for proactively discovering jailbreak vulnerabilities in large language models', IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), April 2024.
Research Experience
Research experience in embedded system security, distributed inference and training of large language models (LLMs), security of LLMs, and hate and toxic speech mitigation.
Education
BS in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego.
Background
Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Irvine. Research interests include natural language processing and hardware security.
Miscellany
Teaches online courses through Coursera, including An Introduction to Programming the Internet of Things (IOT) Specialization and Programming with Google Go Specialization.