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Zoleikha Biron, PhD, is applying novel machine learning techniques to address challenges facing cyber-physical systems (CPS) in a project recently funded by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Mark Allen is Chair of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Penn. He’ll present “A Journey Through MEMS: Reflections on Research, Commercialization, and Community” Thursday, Sept. 4 at 4:00 pm in the NVIDIA Auditorium (MALA 1000).

Dr. Allen is Alfred Fitler Moore Professor, Chair of Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania. He presents “Magnetics in MEMS: From Switched Power Converters to Wideband Adaptive RF Filters” Friday, Sept. 5 at 2:00 pm in the NVIDIA Auditorium (MALA 1000).

A new initiative, led by Sachio Semmoto Chair of ECE Mark Tehranipoor and ECE Associate Chair for Academics Christophe Bobda, promises to connect University of Florida (UF) students and faculty with faculty and students from ECE departments and engineering colleges across Sub-Saharan Africa.

ECE’s early-career faculty members have had an unprecedented string of successes in the past academic year. No fewer than six early-career faculty members have earned young faculty awards during 2025.

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.