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Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian was recently announced as the Alan Hastings Faculty Fellow for 2020–2023.

A novel system proposed by the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World aims to combine cloud computing, 5G connectivity, machine learning, and automotive automation systems to create what they call Peer-to-Peer Car Charging.

ECE Florida’s two undergraduate advisors, Nicole Young and Chip Johnson, have been awarded the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering 2019-20 Staff Innovation Award. Nicole and Chip are the undergraduate Electrical Engineering (EE) and Computer Engineering (CpE) advisors, respectively.

This year’s Senior Design Expo moved into the virtual realm as students showcased their projects remotely.

Professor and AT&T Eminent Scholar José A. B. Fortes was recently notified that he is the recipient of the 2019-20 Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award, the highest faculty honor at UF.

ECE Florida staff engineer Mike Stapleton is collaborating with volunteers to create low-cost, open-source ventilators for use in the fight against COVID-19.

Dr. Prabir Barooah is a professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. He presents “A Statistical Characterization of Capacity of Virtual Batteries from Flexible Loads” Thursday, April 9 at 1:00 pm via Zoom.

Power system planning and simulation veteran Hala Ballouz presents “The New Distributed Energy Frontier: Challenges and Opportunities in Planning for Our Evolving Power Grid” Thursday, April 16 at 1:00 pm Via Zoom.

Jun-Chau Chien is currently a staff research engineer at the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University. Previously, he held industrial positions at Xilinx, InvenSense, and HMicro in 2012, 2015, and 2017, respectively. He presents “Advancing Precision Medicine and Precision Health with CMOS-enabled Continuous Monitoring of Molecules, Cells, and Beyond,” Thursday, March 26 @ 1:00 pm via Zoom.

Siheng Chen is a research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. He presents “Graph-structured data science for autonomous driving” on Thursday, April 2 at 1:00 pm via Zoom.