Chieh Tsai

Hey, thanks for stopping by!

I’m a PhD student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, advised by Prof. Salim Hariri in the Autonomic Computing Laboratory.

I work at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and autonomous vehicles, focusing on resilience—anticipating, withstanding, and recovering from failures and attacks. I design and evaluate ML-driven defenses to make autonomy safer, including experiments on a Quanser Qcar2 testbed

Previously, I worked on satellite image super-resolution with deep learning and co-authored work on nation-scale image analysis in VIP lab as a research assistant. I received my M.S. in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, where my thesis explored age and gender classification with cGAN augmentation.

Outside the lab, I enjoy music— I play the violin, piano, and ukulele, and I won a singing competition in high school.