Mohammad Al Faruque IEEE Region: 6 (Western U.S.) Email Biography Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and engineering (CSE) from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), in 2002, the M.Sc. degree in computer science from Aachen Technical University, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, in 2009. He is currently with the University of California Irvine (UCI), where he is also an Associate Professor (with tenure) and directing the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory Besides more than 100 IEEE/ACM publications in the premier journals and conferences, he holds eight U.S. patents. His current research is focused on the system-level design of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), embedded systems, and Cyber-Physical-Systems (CPS) with special interests on design automation methodologies, data-driven modeling techniques, including machine learning for design and CPS security. His work involves novel hardware and software design for various CPS application areas, including Industry 4.0 (manufacturing), smart-grid, and autonomous vehicles. He was a recipient of the School of Engineering Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research 2019, the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems Early-Career Award 2018, and the IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award 2016. He was also a recipient of the UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Early-Career Faculty Award for Research 2017 and the School of Engineering Early-Career Faculty Award for Research 2017. He has served as the Emulex Career Development Chair, from October 2012 to July 2015. Before, he was with Siemens Corporate Research and Technology, Princeton, NJ, USA. He also received the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award 2016 from the Edison Foundation, the 2016 DATE Best Paper Award, the 2015 DAC Best Paper Award, the 2009 IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award, the 2016 NDSS Distinguished Poster Award, the 2008 HiPEAC Paper Award, the 2015 Hellman Fellow Award, the 2015 Kane Kim Fellowship Award, the 2017 DAC Best Paper Award Nomination, the 2012 DATE Best IP Award Nomination, the 2005 DAC Best Paper Award Nomination, the EECS Professor of the year 2015–16 Award, and the 2015 UCI Chancellors Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research. Position(s) & Affiliation(s) University of California, Irvine United States