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Three ECE alumni were recently honored as part of the 2020 class of the Gator100, recognizing and celebrating the 100 fastest-growing Gator-owned or Gator-led businesses in the world each year.

Experts in the areas of space computing, high-performance computing, and resilient computing from academia, industry, and government converged recently at the University Florida campus for the 2019-2020 SHREC Annual Workshop.

Dr. Jing Wang is a Professor and the Director of Center for Wireless and Microwave Information Systems (WAMI) in Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He presents “3D-Printed mm-Wave Devices and Circuits for System-in-a-Package Applications” Thursday, Feb. 27 at 1:00 pm, LAR 330.

Assistant Professor Tuba Yavuz has been awarded a 2020 NSF CAREER Award for her project, “Towards a Secure and Reliable Internet of Things through Automated Model Extraction and Analysis.”

Deven Desai is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business. He presents “Data-Driven Innovation and the Law,” Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 1:00 pm in LAR 234.

Najme Ebrahimi is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan. She presents “Next Generation of Smart Wireless World: from High Data-Rate Mm-wave Scalable Phased-Array to Efficient IoT Connectivity for 5G and Beyond,” Thursday, Jan. 30 @ 1:00 pm, LAR 330.

Shreya Saxena is currently a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. She presents “Neural control of movement: How we move fast, why we fail, and how we can design interventions,” Thursday, Jan. 23 @1:00 pm in LAR 330.

“Eat, but Verify: Low-Cost Portable Devices for Food Safety Analysis,” a paper co-authored by ECE Florida faculty and Ph.D. students, has won First Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (CEM) Awards.

UF engineers and neuroscientists will test the effectiveness of a new motion-activated type of deep brain stimulation aimed at improving treatment for patients with severe essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary shaking and usually worsens over time.

Azra Bihorac, M.D. is the R. Glenn Davis Professor of Medicine, Surgery and Anesthesiology in the Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, & Renal Transplantation at the University of Florida. She presents “Augmented Decision Making – How to Implement Machine Learning Prediction into Research and Clinical Care” on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 1:00 pm, in LAR 330.