The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCoE) has selected Farimah Farahmandi, PhD, as the recipient of the 2024–25 Pramod P. Khargonekar Award, recognizing the outstanding junior faculty member undergoing tenure and promotion review this past fall. Farahmandi is the Walden C. Rhines Endowed Professor for Hardware Security and was subsequently promoted to the rank of associate professor.
The award caps an outstanding year for Farahmandi. The HWCoE recognized her with the Excellence Award for Assistant Professors at the end of the academic year. She was also honored to receive a 2024 Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award at DAC‘s most recent conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Earlier in the 2024–25 academic year, Farahmandi received an NSF CAREER Award and was named the inaugural holder of the Walden C. Rhines Endowed Professorship, the only assistant professor with such an honor in the department.
Farahmandi’s string of successes prompted HWCOE News to publish a profile on her stellar year.
The Khargonekar Award is special to ECE Florida—it’s named for Dr. Pramod P. Khargonekar, currently vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to his post at UC Irvine, Dr. Khargonekar was Eckis Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UF (2001–2016) as well as the dean of the College of Engineering 2001–2009.