Ardalan Amiri Sani

Ardalan Amiri Sani is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), affiliated with the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences. He leads the Trustworthy Systems Lab (TrussLab), focusing on secure and reliable mobile systems, operating systems, and virtualization. His research bridges mobile computing, security, and OS design, addressing challenges in I/O devices, kernel hardening, and verifiable provenance.

Education: Ph.D. and M.Sc. from Rice University (ECE), B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology. Awards include the NSF CAREER Award, Google ASPIRE Award, and UCI Dean's Mid-Career Research Award. He has advised numerous graduate and undergraduate students, many of whom now work in academia and industry.

Research highlights include Tabellion (secure legal contracts on mobile devices), ProvCam (verifiable video provenance), and work on minimizing smartphone TCBs via hardware isolation. His grants include NSF funding for OS kernel security and NSA support for provenance systems.

• Education:
  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 2014
  • B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
• Grants:
  • $500K NSF Award (with UCR) for OS kernel security (2020)
  • NSF SaTC Award for GPU security in browsers
  • Google ASPIRE Award for Android system call filtering
• Labs/Teams: Trustworthy Systems Lab (TrussLab), collaborating with industry partners like Intel and Broadcom.