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Tianyu Zhao wins first place in the GEECS Annual Technology Showcase 2025 (GEECSANTS)

GEECSANTS is a celebration of graduate student research, innovation, and community within the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department at UCI.
Tyler’s research spans the general area of ethical AI, focusing on fairness in human-in-the-loop CPS and fairness alignment of LLM.

Diana Romero and Mahmoud Srewa showcased their research and celebrated Tyler’s award.

Salma serves as a panelist in HumanSys’25

HumanSys was held at UCI as part of the CPS-IoT’25 week. The panel session focused on the challenges and future of human-centered sensing, cyber-physical systems, and human-in-the-loop AI for health and well-being.

Two new papers accepted in HumanSys’25

Congratulations to Diana, Tyler, and Mahmoud for accepting their papers at HumanSys’25.

Papers are available:

Diana presenting her MoCoMR work.
Mahmoud presenting his PluralLLM work.



Salma organized a workshop during the 2025 NSF CPS PI meeting on Human-in-the-Loop CPS in the Era of Human-AI Alignment: Impact and Future Direction

This workshop addresses critical challenges in Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) by focusing on human-AI alignment. We will explore three key gaps: (1) Formalizing Alignment Concepts: Developing rigorous frameworks for defining and measuring crucial aspects like trustworthiness, transparency, explainability, fairness, and sustainability. (2) Limitations in Sociotechnical Approaches: Evaluating current sociotechnical methods and identifying their shortcomings in achieving effective human-AI collaboration. (3) Assessing Societal Impact: Analyzing the broad impact of advancements in human-AI collaboration on large-scale CPS. The workshop features invited talks from leading experts and a panel followed by interactive roundtable discussions designed to foster brainstorming and collaborative solutions. Join us in contributing to the future of aligned and beneficial human-AI integration in CPS.

https://cps-vo.org/group/cps-pimtg25/miniworkshops

Newly accepted paper (BehaVR) at PETS’25

In collaboration with Athina Markopoulou‘s group, our new work on user identification based on VR sensor data has been accepted to appear at the coming 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2025). Congrats to all the authors. Stay tuned for the proceedings!

Congratulations, Mojtaba, for defending his PhD thesis!

Congratulations to Dr. Mojtaba Taherisadr (my first PhD student!) for successfully defending his thesis entitled “Methodologies for personalized privacy-aware ML in human-in-the-loop systems.” His thesis addresses the multi-fold challenges of personalized privacy-aware systems, namely adaptation, detection, mitigation, and control under inter- and intra-human variation. His thesis led to several publications, including IEEE IoT journal, IoTDI, ICCPS, ISQED, and IEEE Bio-Inspired Computing Newsletter.
Congratulations again, and good luck with your future endeavors!