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Tuba Yavuz, PhD, is responding to cyberthreats using a technique called ‘fuzzing.’ Her project, “Constraint-Guided Local Fuzzing of Binaries,” recently received $1M of funding as part of the highly prestigious Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award program.

The RoboPI group at the University of Florida’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, led by Md Jahidul Islam, PhD, recently joined forces with the Ocean Rescue Alliance International (ORAI) and the International SeaKeepers Society to advance marine robotics for ecosystem monitoring. The collaboration focused on testing fully autonomous survey and mapping technologies designed to better understand the growth and health of remote marine habitats.

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.

Ivan Ruchkin, Ph.D., is not satisfied with how state-of-the-art cyber-physical systems deal with anomalies. A project recently funded by the National Science Foundation aims to fill in the gaps in current methodologies.

Ivan Ruchkin, Ph.D., builds worlds. His recent work, mostly along two major themes, concerns the way autonomous agents perceive the world and, indeed, the way in which the agents’ worlds are constructed.

Baibhab Chatterjee, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the agency’s highest honor for early-career faculty. His funded project, “MED-IoB: Transforming Medical Electronics using Distributed Internet of Bodies (IoB) for Powering, Sensing, Communication and Synchronization,” seeks to revolutionize implantable and wearable medical electronics by enabling seamless data connectivity and power in a network of devices, leveraging the conductive property of the human body.

Dr. Xiaoyi Lu is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Merced. He presents “Heterogeneity-Enriched Communication for Parallel and Distributed AI Systems” Tuesday, July 1 at 12:45pm in MALA 5050.

Sijia Liu, Ph.D., is currently an assistant professor at Michigan State University. He presents “Machine Unlearning for Generative AI” Friday, June 6 at 12:45pm in MALA 5050.

Hamed Dalir, PhD, is part of a nationally-funded initiative to develop a transformative three-dimensional optical packaging platform that redefines how data is routed across and between chips. The project is led by Ali Adibi, PhD, professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, in partnership with Dalir, Juejun Hu, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and colleagues at AIM Photonics, and nHanced Semiconductor. The team aims to unlock new levels of scalability, bandwidth, and energy efficiency by vertically stacking photonic layers and enabling seamless chip-to-chip optical communication.

Dr. Jie Fu (PI) has been awarded $1.3 million in funding from the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory for “Strategic Planning in Hierarchical Games: Achieving Rapid Dominance in the Uncertain World of Conflict (Shadow).” Distinguished Professor Warren Dixon, chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida, serves as co-PI on the project.