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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Simin Chen graduated in Summer 2024 and joined Columbia University as a post-doc research scientist.
Multiple papers on enabling and optimizing autonomous robotic systems driven by reinforcement learning and LLM have been accepted by RTSS/IROS/CoLLAs/arXiv.
A recent (2023) set of research works on understanding and enhancing robustness of machine learning-driven autonomous systems have been accepted by CVPR/ECCV/ACL/ICLR/ISSTA.
Junfeng Guo graduated in Summer 2023 and joined the University of Maryland at College Park as a post-doc research scientist.
A recent (2022) set of research works on optimizing and/or testing machine learning-driven autonomous embedded and real-time systems have been accepted by RTSS/ICSE/FSE/ASE/ICLR/CVPR/ECCV.
Soroush Bateni graduated in Spring 2022 and joined UC Berkeley as a post-doc research scientist.
Our NeuOS paper has been accepted to USENIX ATC'20!
Two papers on generating realistic adversarial examples for misleading autonomous steering and adaptive neural nets, respectively, have been accepted to CVPR 2020!
Two papers on physical-world testing of autonomous driving systems and detecting GPGPU CUDA synchronization bugs, respectively, have been accepted to ICSE 2020!
Zheng Dong has graduated and joined Wayne State University Computer Science Department as a tenure-track assistant professor.
Our paper titled 'PIFA: An Intelligent Phase Identification and Frequency Adjustment Framework for Time-Sensitive Mobile Computing' has been accepted to the 25th RTAS (RTAS 2019).
I have graduated my second PhD student, Husheng Zhou. Congratulations, Husheng!
Our paper titled 'Diagnosing Vehicles with Automotive Batteries' has been accepted to the 25th MobiCom (MobiCom 2019).
Two papers have been accepted to the 39th RTSS (RTSS 2018): ApNet (exploring approximation potential of DNN for timing predictability), and PredJoule (a timing-predictable energy optimization framework for DNN-driven autonomous systems). Congrats to Soroush Bateni for getting two first-authored papers accepted by RTSS 2018!
Our paper 'DeepRoad: GAN-based Metamorphic Testing and Input Validation Framework for Autonomous Driving Systems' has been accepted to the 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2018).
Research Experience
Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, and Cooperating Faculty in Computer Science and Engineering.
Background
Passionate about designing and implementing timing-predictable, resource-efficient, and robust autonomous embedded and real-time systems, with a focus on robotics and autonomous vehicles. Recent projects conduct highly inter-disciplinary research intersecting systems, machine learning, and robotics.
Miscellany
Interested in working with self-motivated students who strive for research excellence. In the past, students in our group have had excellent academic and industry job placements.