As generative AI models move from massive cloud servers to phones and cars, they’re stripped down to save power. But what gets trimmed can include the technology that stops them from spewing hate speech or offering roadmaps for criminal activity. To counter this threat, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have developed a method...
A team of ECE researchers, doctoral student Umit Yigit Basaran, Prof. Amit Roy-Chowdhury, and Prof. Basak Guler, developed a new method that allows artificial intelligence models to erase private or copyrighted information without needing access to the original training data. The method, called “source-free certified unlearning” is detailed in a recent paper “A Certified Unlearning...
UC Riverside researchers have developed a new AI system, UNITE (Universal Network for Identifying Tampered and synthEtic videos), to detect manipulated or fully synthetic videos. Unlike earlier deepfake detectors that mainly focused on faces, UNITE analyzes entire video frames, including backgrounds and motion patterns. UNITE is one of the first tools that can catch forgeries...
ECE engineers have introduced a 3D nanoscale imaging technique that reveals how advanced materials convert light into electricity—separating, in real space, the photovoltaic (PV) and photothermoelectric (PTE) contributions that often mix in tiny devices. Led by ECE faculty Ming Liu and CEE faculty Ruoxue Yan and published in Science Advances (link: https://www.science.org/doi/ 10.1126/sciadv.adv7614), the work...
Ran Cheng, an Assistant Professor of ECE, has recently received a $250,000 award from the W.M. Keck foundation, along with three renowned experimentalists. The project is led by Prof. Enrique Del Barco from the University of Central Florida. The W. M. Keck Foundation announces its Science and Engineering Grants twice each year, in June and...
Daniel Enright, Hyunjong Choi, Yecheng Xiang, and Hyoseung Kim won the Best Paper Award at the 30th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) in May 2024. RTAS is one of the top conferences in the field of real-time embedded systems and is held as part of CPS-IoT Week, a premier academic event...
