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COVER: Food Sustainability

from Engineering Progress Fall 2020

from Engineering Progress Fall 2020, page 4

Message from the Dean

As Election Day approaches, keeping the voting booth safe is as important as ever. For UC Davis’ Matt Bishop, 2020 is just another year of work to keep electronic voting safe. As a cybersecurity expert and professor of computer science, Bishop helps election officials vet electronic voting systems and the electoral process they’re a part of to find and fix as many security issues as they can to make elections as secure as possible. Electronic voting machines have become widely adopted across the country as an alternative or supplement to paper ballots. These machines not only give election officials results faster, but also make it a lot easier and cheaper to print ballots for people who don’t speak English, easier for people with disabilities to vote and easier to identify ballots with stray marks. long was that it took us 25 minutes to get the program we wanted to use,” he said.

Though these machines were still used in the election, the RABA study made national headlines and soon, Bishop was contacted by election officials across the country. In 2006, he joined a team that evaluated a hotly-contested congressional race in Florida to see if the machines made a mistake in counting votes. Though the team concluded that the machines weren’t at fault, they identified similar flaws to those in the RABA study and wrote a report on how they could be used to attack the machines. In 2007, then-California Secretary of State Debra Bowen asked the University of California to perform a “top to bottom” review of the state’s e-voting systems. Bishop co-led this study, finding major issues with all three systems they studied. Their results led to two of these systems being decertified until the security concerns were addressed; special procedures were required to use the third. This study, along with the RABA study and others, began to change the public perception of the technology. “The entire dialogue changed from, ‘why are you objecting to the use of computers?’ to ‘maybe we’d better look at this more carefully,’” he said. Since then, Bishop has worked closely with election officials in his home of Yolo County to help with vulnerability analysis each election cycle. Bishop hopes to audit the machines for Yolo County and probe the county’s voter registration database.

Matt Bishop, Department of Computer Science professor (Reeta Asmai/UC Davis)

By Noah Pflueger-Peters

Despite the advantages, these machines can pose security risks through both hardware and software, as hackers can mess with the source code as well as break into the machine to tamper with the data. During vulnerability analysis, Bishop and his team try to do both to identify potential points of failure. With this information, companies or organizations can plug security holes the team uncovers to make systems more secure. “The question people usually ask is, ‘are electronic voting machines secure?’ and that’s exactly the wrong question because nothing is perfectly secure,” he said. “The right questions to ask are, ‘if I use this computer, does it make it harder to attack to the elections?’ and, ‘Does it eliminate problems that exist now, does it create new ones and if it does, are these more serious than the ones it addresses?’”

An eSlate VVPAT electronic voting machine. These machines are used across the country as alternatives to paper ballots. Photo: Wikimedia Commons CHANGING THE CONVERSATION

Bishop began studying electronic voting in 2003. He was invited by a former UC Davis graduate student at RABA Technologies to join a study of voting machines the State of Maryland had bought for the 2004 election. The team wrote a report for the state and the manufacturer finding severe security issues that made the machines easy to tamper with. “It took one of us five minutes to get complete control of the machine you voted on and 30 minutes to get complete control of the machine that had the databases where the ballots were stored. The only reason it took that

Top photo: An eSlate VVPAT electronic voting machine. These machines are used across the country as alternatives to paper ballots. (Matt Bishop/UC Davis)

Bottom photo: The eSlate JBC system connects to the eSlate VVPAT machine and records votes. This system, as well as the connection between the two machines, are two potential security risks that need to be accounted for. (Matt Bishop/UC Davis)

SECURING ELECTIONS

Despite having been around for almost 20 years, today’s machines, Bishop says, still have many of the same problems as the ones from the RABA study. However, he says there are a lot of steps officials can take to make the entire election procedure as foolproof as possible. “All of security is a balancing act,” he said. “So when you pick a voting machine, you have to integrate it into the physical election process because people will be handling and setting up the machines, tearing them down, programming the ballots, counting the vote cards and things like that.” Recently, Bishop has modeled electoral systems using “fault trees,” or maps that show the potential ways the election’s security can be compromised. In Yolo County, election officials have listened and implemented rigorous procedures to secure the election process. Though e-voting machines are required by law for people with disabilities, almost all voting in the county is still done, counted and re-counted using paper ballots. These machines are rigorously tested before the election, securely stored between elections and all ballots are accompanied by at least two people at all times on Election Day. “The goal is to make sure you don’t have any single points of failure, so that if one thing goes wrong, the whole election is corrupted,” he said. “You want a system where two or more things have to go wrong for failure to occur, and ideally you want different people handling these things.” Though the machines themselves have their problems and no election is 100 percent secure, he says that election officials are taking the right security measures and are more than happy to talk with voters about concerns. Above all, he says that none of these issues should scare people away from voting. “Voting is absolutely critical because if you don’t vote, I guarantee you it’s not going to count,” he said. “If you have a choice, vote on paper and double-check that you voted the way you wanted to before you turn in your ballot.”

Geotechnical Engineering Trailblazer

Professor Emeritus Izzat (Ed) Idriss

By Aditi Risbud Bartl

An internationally-recognized leader in the field of soil mechanics and foundation engineering, civil engineer Izzat (Ed) Idriss, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, has influenced the construction of dams, nuclear power plants, office buildings, hospitals and bridges around the world.

Born in Syria and raised in raised in Damascus and Beirut, Lebanon, Professor Emeritus Izzat (Ed) Idriss came to the United States in 1954 to complete his bachelor’s degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received a M.S. degree from Caltech in civil engineering in 1959 and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from UC Berkeley in 1966 with a research focus in geotechnical earthquake engineering—a new field at the time. He spent 20 years at the international consulting firm Woodward-Clyde Consultants (now part of AECOM), serving as senior principal and vice-president of a world-renowned geotechnical engineering consulting team.

Upon his arrival at UC Davis in 1989, the same year he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for “major contributions to the understanding of soil behavior during earthquakes and for the application of these contributions in engineering practice,” Idriss joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as a faculty member and Director of the Center for Geotechnical Modeling. He says one of his fondest memories at UC Davis was teaching an introduction to civil and environmental engineering class to first-year undergraduates.

“I thought I would show students how important engineers are by saying that when a doctor or lawyer works with a person, it affects one person at a time. But for engineers, if you’re involved in the construction of a dam, if something happens to a dam, it could affect tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people. I thought it would be inspiring, but boy, did I scare them!” Idriss said, laughing. “This is the time when students are still deciding what they’re going to do and I could encourage them to do things they really love. It was so wonderful to sit down and grade their exams. When somebody does well you say, ‘Oh, my gosh. They got it!’”

As director of the Center for Geotechnical Modeling from 1989-1996, Idriss was instrumental in growing the scope of the center in the early 1990s by securing funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Caltrans and Obayashi Corporation in Japan for a shaker for its centrifuge to measure the performance of soil and soil-structure systems during earthquakes and other catastrophic events. Working closely with Professor Bruce Kutter and facility manager Dan Wilson, Idriss and his colleagues were able to install a shaker on the largest (at the time) geotechnical centrifuge in the world and generate data that were openly distributed for use by other researchers.

From 2000 to 2004, more than $5M in major upgrades to the facility were implemented with NSF funding, including a new centrifuge drivetrain, shaking table upgrades, new model containers, advanced data acquisition systems, high-speed cameras and visualization tools. UC Davis supported the project by constructing the Geotechnical Modeling Facility building in 2003.

“It took a lot of effort to secure the early financing for the center because there was a little bit of skepticism about the usefulness of the centrifuge,” Idriss said. “For the past 20 years, it’s grown by leaps and bounds.”

Today, the CGM provides users access to world-class geotechnical modeling facilities, including 9-meter and one-meter radius centrifuges with shaking tables. Centrifuges use scale models to accurately study nonlinear, stress-dependent responses of soil masses. The 9-meter radius centrifuge has the largest radius of any centrifuge with a shake table worldwide. “I have known Ed for 28 years as a mentee, colleague and friend. I hit the jackpot in finding such a mentor when I arrived in Davis in 1992 as an assistant professor. He helped me, through his example and guidance, to be not only a better researcher, teacher and professional, but to be also a better person,” said Ross Boulanger, civil and environmental engineering professor and CGM director. “This commitment to excellence is now embedded in the DNA of our program. It is hard to overstate the impact that Ed has had on the geotechnical engineering profession, our geotechnical engineering group and the lives of the people fortunate enough to have worked with him.”

In 2004, the year he retired, Idriss and his wife established the “Excellence in Geotechnical Engineering Award” to support up to two graduate students’ educational experiences in geotechnical engineering. In 2016, Idriss and his wife established the “Mariam and I. M. Idriss Endowed Fund for Geotechnical Engineering Education” that helps promote the next generation of geotechnical engineers through symposia held at UC Davis and to support attendance of graduate students at technical conferences.

“Ed’s professionalism, thoughtfulness, humor and thirst for learning have been impressed upon me. He has left his fingerprints all over the geotechnical group, and specifically the Geotechnical Graduate Student Society (GGSS) at UC Davis. Ed prioritizes scholarship, leadership and fellowship and these are now the pillars of the GGSS and the base criteria for our annual Excellence in Geotechnical Engineering Award,” said Jason DeJong, professor of civil and environmental engineering. “From simple life mantras, to deep discussions on technical issues in the geotechnical profession, to demonstrating lifelong learning, Ed’s perspective and example has guided me in my professional interactions, development of research ideas and advising of students.”

Today, Idriss and his wife live in Santa Fe, NM. He continues in his research as a UC Davis professor emeritus and in practice as a consultant, while serving on several advisory boards. He returns to campus for the GGSS symposium each year and says he is energized hearing about new research from graduate students. “It’s so satisfying and humbling to help students succeed.”

“From our first interaction in 2009, when I was making my first steps in graduate school at UC Davis, to today, Professor Idriss has not ceased to profoundly impact my way of thinking and my perception of life and geotechnical engineering,” said Katerina Ziotopoulou, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. “Every moment spent with him has been full of illuminating technical conversations and exemplary work ethic, professional and personal advice, unbounded passion for learning, always with a generous sprinkle of humor. At UC Davis, and in the geotechnical program specifically, Professor Idriss has embodied scholarship, leadership, and fellowship which through the years became our own principles of community and a guiding light for all of us to work and live by.” “From our first interaction in 2009, when I was making my first steps in graduate school at UC Davis, to today, Professor Idriss has not ceased to profoundly impact my way of thinking and my perception of life and geotechnical engineering,” - Katerina Ziotopoulou

Professor Izzat “Ed” Idriss (third from right) with geotechnical engineering faculty at UC Davis.

UC Davis CHEST

Center

By Rachel Steere

Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Houman Homayoun. (Josh Moy/UC Davis)

Bolstering Cybersecurity Efforts Nationwide

What started as a hobby in security hardware for Houman Homayoun has grown into a cybersecurity consortium led by the University of Cincinnati in partnership with several other national universities, including the University of California at Davis, Northeastern University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Virginia and the University of Dallas.

Since 2019, when Homayoun joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an associate professor, he has served as the site director for the National Science Foundation Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust (CHEST). His research focus is in the broad area of computer engineering, with an emphasis on hardware security and trust, computer system security, heterogeneous computing and energy-efficient computing. The U.S. House of Representatives also recently approved a $3 million grant to help ensure that the center can continue its efforts to establish whole-of-government and whole-of-nation cybersecurity best practices.

“When your background is in computer architecture like me, you become an expert in how computer design and computer systems work,” said Homayoun. “I gradually moved from the application of computer architecture to focus on security when I had an idea to design electronics resilient against reverse engineering attacks.”

The mission of the CHEST Center is to address the research challenges that industry faces in the design, protection and resilience of hardware from the security vulnerabilities associated with electronic hardware and embedded systems. The ultimate goal is to develop a much-needed workforce for government and industry in security hardware. The center aims to coordinate university-based research with the needs of industry and government partners to advance knowledge of security, assurance and trust for electronic hardware and embedded systems.

“There is not a large presence of hardware security research within universities on the West Coast. UC Davis is in a good position as an established hardware security center because they are close to the Bay Area,” said Homayoun. “As a result, we are able to have a strong presence with our alumni and an established connection with those companies who have projects around hardware security.”

Homayoun and his team have recently been awarded two new projects that focus on developing new methods to detect hardware trojans, a malicious modification of the circuitry of an integrated circuit. The team uses frequency profiling of fabricated chips and develops a cognitive solution to automatically identify the best strategy to prevent reverse engineering.

He has also recently received funding to develop models for the COVID-19 pandemic, looking at community spread and mitigation measures for better and scalable policy alternatives to full lockdown. The solutions his team are deploying for the COVID-19 pandemic model are inspired by a similar model they developed for malware epidemics containment in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. UC DAVIS STUDENTS BECOME EXPERTS IN HARDWARE SECURITY

The CHEST center at UC Davis supports ten Ph.D. students. Homayoun says he looks forward to the center growing through additional faculty and student involvement.

Homayoun says he owes much of his early success in hardware security to Kerry Bernstein from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Len Orlando from the Air Force Research Laboratory, who were his project managers at the time.

“Kerry was truly instrumental to my success in preventing reverse engineering attacks in hardware security,” said Homayoun. “Initially I was investigating new device technology in microprocessors to reduce their power consumption. However, I thought the same technology could be adapted to prevent hardware reverse engineering of integrated circuits. I pitched the idea to Kerry and Len, and after many conversations, meetings and technical discussions, we moved to a successful design of the concept.”

The CHEST Center is funded by a combination of National Science Foundation grants and memberships by industry and non-profit institutions, and the center coordinates university-based research with partner needs to advance knowledge of security, assurance and trust for electronic hardware and embedded systems. This center currently has more than 20 industry partners committed to provide funding to the center including the Air Force Research Laboratory, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems and Raytheon Technologies.

Homayoun also teaches three courses for undergraduate students is the director of the Accelerated, Secure and EnergyEfficient Computing Laboratory (ASEEC) in the electrical and computer engineering department. This lab investigates secure, energy-efficient and high performance computer architecture design.

“Our students have really become experts in hardware security; they are publishing excellent papers and winning various awards. Essentially, we are building a strong pool of human resources for companies who are looking to hire,” said Homayoun. “UC Davis receives a strong pool of Ph.D. applicants which is fundamental to making our projects successful – if the students are able to execute the projects successfully then we will be successful in sustaining our center.”

The first grant planning meeting for the CHEST Center in 2018 with members from all six universities in the consortium. (Houman Homayoun/UC Davis)

UC Davis Engineering Receives $107M

in Research Funding

By Constanze Ditterich

Biomedical engineering professor Karen Moxon. (Alexander FisherWagner/UC Davis) THE UC DAVIS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING HAS GROWN ITS

RESEARCH EFFORTS this year to an all-time high of $107M in funding, highlighting the knowledge and expertise of our engineers at UC Davis solving the world’s most pressing problems. Here are four new research centers at UC Davis that showcase the college’s research strengths.

BRIDGING THE GAP + SPINAL CORD INJURY TREATMENT PROGRAM

Karen Moxon, professor of biomedical engineering at UC Davis, will lead a five-year, $36M contract as part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Bridging the Gap Plus Program. Moxon will lead a consortium of universities, biomedical startups and nonprofit organizations to develop interventions for spinal cord injuries that can be applied within days of injury to improve long-term outcomes.

“Spinal cord injury is a complex condition that causes partial or complete loss of function below the location of injury. We will develop systems for real-time biomarker monitoring and intervention to stabilize and rebuild neural communications pathways between the brain and spinal cord,” Moxon said, adding that she is excited to be in a position to effect real change for people who sustain a spinal cord injury. CENTER FOR HARDWARE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS SECURITY AND TRUST

Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Houman Homayoun, director of the UC Davis site of the Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust (CHEST) and his team were awarded $3M for two new projects to advance knowledge of security, assurance and trust for electronic hardware and embedded systems. Funded by the National Science Foundation, industry partners and nonprofit institutions, the goal of these projects is to detect hardware trojans, a malicious modification of the circuitry of an integrated circuit. The team uses frequency profiling of fabricated chips and develops a cognitive solution to automatically identify the best strategy to prevent reverse engineering. “AI will serve as both the enabling technology and the connective tissue that brings together these elements and catalyzes this transformation to a safer, fairer and more efficient food system for the next generation.”

– Ilias Tagkopoulos

AI INSTITUTE FOR NEXT GENERATION FOOD SYSTEMS

A team of UC Davis researchers led by Ilias Tagkopoulos, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Genome Center, was awarded $20M to establish the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute for Next Generation Food Systems, part of -a multi-institutional collaboration between UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Cornell University, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service. The goal of this center is to optimize plants for yield, quality and disease resistance, and minimize resource consumption and waste using AI. “The food system is ripe for disruption, with many advances over the past decade paving the way to a transformation,” said Tagkopoulos, director of the new institute. “AI will serve as both the enabling technology and the connective tissue that brings together these elements and catalyzes this transformation to a safer, fairer and more efficient food system for the next generation.”

Tagkopoulos will be joined by UC Davis researchers Nitin Nitin, professor in the Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Food Science and Technology; Mason Earles, assistant professor in the Departments of Viticulture and Enology and Biological and Agricultural Engineering; and Xin Liu, professor in the Department of Computer Science. THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PAVEMENT RESEARCH CENTER

The University of California Pavement Research Center (UCPRC) and Caltrans will continue their partnership through a $32M interagency agreement to expand the work of the Partnered Pavement Research Center project led by civil and environmental engineering professor John Harvey, who also serves as the director of the UCPRC.

“The UCPRC is pleased to be working with Caltrans for another three years to make pavements better for all users and improve their cost and environmental sustainability,” said Harvey.

Harvey and his team develop and implement support to help Caltrans improve the cost and environmental sustainability of the state highway network.

“A key to success for the people of California is that the partners work together, in consultation with industry, on the full arc of work necessary to move from conceptual ideas to research, development and solving the practical details needed for full implementation,” said Harvey.

Top photo: Computer science professor Ilias Tagkopoulos. (UC Davis College of Engineering)

Middle photo: Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Houman Homayoun. (Josh Moy/UC Davis)

Bottom photo: Civil and environmental engineering professor John Harvey. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis)

THANK YOU

Thanks to the generosity of many College of Engineering supporters, in fiscal year 2019-20, the college raised over $14.8 million in gifts and grants from alumni, businesses, foundations and friends. Gifts supported faculty research and teaching, undergraduate scholarships, graduate student awards, facilities and equipment needs.

$500,000 and above Richard C. and Joy M. Dorf Hyundai Motor Company Medacta Toddy John and Gina Wasson Anonymous

$100,000 - $499,999 Avectas Maria Bainer Trust Anonymous Chevron DMG MORI Co., Ltd. Jeffery and Marsha Gibeling Graniterock Intel Corporation Prem and Sandhya Jain Keysight Technologies La Marzocco LexisNexis Risk Solutions Probat Philip Risken Brian Underwood and Carol

Blacutt-Underwood Jerry Woodall, Ph.D. and Nancy

Bulger, Ph.D.

$50,000 - $99,999 Analog Devices Inc. Center for Advancing Women in

Technology Facebook, Inc. Ford Motor Company L3 Technologies Narda

Microwave-West MACOM Alyssa Panitch Qualcomm Inc. Radix DLT Robert Bosch, LLC Mr. Chand Shaik and Mrs. Shirin

Sultana Stratovan Corporation Texas Instruments Incorporated

$25,000 - $49,999 Bencafe S.A., Nicaragua Estate of Janice Causey Cobham Advanced Electronic

Solutions Inc. Mark and Margaret Garibaldi Robert L. Howe Timothy G. Jellison Josuma Coffee Company David Kappos and Leslie

Kimball Earl and Suzette Rennison Rizo-Lopez Foods Universal Sequencing

Technology Corporation

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Luhmann Micron Microsoft Corporation Mohamed and Shabnum

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Smith Liz Schenk Anthony J. and Jennifer Silveira Babak A. Taheri Yamaha Motor Ventures &

Laboratory Silicon Valley

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Chee Chih-Kang Chen and Hilda

Zhang Jeffrey B. and Dianne D. Child Alfred and Sharene Chuang Richard and Kitty Chuang Michael and Jody Coffey Mark Cowell Andrew Cross Kenneth Culver Jeannie Darby Robert and Shirley Davis Qiuju Diao Harry and Mary Dwyer ExxonMobil Foundation Pamela J. Fair ‘80 and Glen J.

Sullivan Linda Finley William and Judy Fleenor FM Global James Fridley and Elaine Scott Frank C. Galli, III and Lisa Galli Geopentech, Inc. Karl Gerdes and Pamela

Rohrich Bruce and Noretta Gilbert Frank and Mary Gill Thomas Gordon Carl and Donna Gowan Griffin Soil Group Abhishek Gupta John Guzman Gary E. Hackney and Natalie A.

Poole James and Cynthia Hallenbeck HDR, Inc. Elizabeth and Michael Helmer Jonathan and Muriel Heritage Leonard and Marilyn Herrmann Hewlett Packard Enterprise Frederick and Stella Hoffman Andrew Hulse and Margaret

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#3 #9

Biological and Agricultural Engineering (#3) and Environmental Engineering (#9) among the nation’s top graduate engineering programs

– U.S. News and World Report 2021

Student Organizations

• American Indian Science and Engineering

Society • Black Engineers Association • Chicano and Latino Engineers and Scientists

Society • Pilipinx Americans in Science and Engineering • Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and

Mathematics • Society of Women Engineers

Students Faculty 4,647

Undergraduate Students

30.1% women 22.8% underrepresented groups 4.2 years—mean time to degree LEADR Student Support Center Engineering Design & Startup Centers 1,195

Graduate Students

472 M.S. 723 Ph.D.

225

Total Faculty

13

Members of the National Academies

$90.3 million

in research expenditures (2018-19) (ASEE)

Departments

• Biological & Agricultural • Biomedical • Chemical • Civil & Environmental • Computer Science • Electrical & Computer • Materials Science • Mechanical & Aerospace