Andres (Andy) Meza was awarded a 2022 National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Graduate Fellowship (CSGrad4US). CSGrad4US “aims to increase the number and diversity of domestic graduate students pursuing research and innovation careers.”

Andy is a Research and Development Staff in our group working on hardware security and ML hardware acceleration. He plays a critical role in much of our group’s research. These include hardware security verification projects with industry (Intel, Cycuity, OpenTitan, Leidos, the Semiconductor Research Corporation) and academia (Cynthia Sturton’s group and Calvin Deutschbein). As if this isn’t enough, he also works on the hls4ml project on topics related MLPerf Tiny benchmarks and fault tolerance. To date, he has seven(!) publications at top venues with several more in submission.

Andy started with our group as an undergraduate. After graduation, he continued working on research projects and moved into his R&D staff role. Andy is applying for Ph.D. programs and will undoubtedly continue his research career as a Ph.D. student starting next academic year. We hope he stays at UCSD!

Congrats Andy on this well-deserved honor!