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Sachio Semmoto, Ph.D. (ME ‘68; Ph.D. ‘71),  ECE alumnus and world-renowned entrepreneur, delivered the commencement address at the UF Spring Doctoral Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 1.

After much deliberation and planning, department leadership proudly inducted the 2025 class of the ECE Hall of Fame at a gala celebration held in Malachowsky Hall on Monday, April 21. Sachio Semmoto Chair of ECE Mark Tehranipoor led the celebration—joined by members of the inaugural class of the Hall of Fame and luminaries from the ECE Florida family—to celebrate the induction of four Electrical & Computer Engineering alumni to this august group.

Laura Kim, Ph.D., has been awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award in support of her project “Room-Temperature Strong Coupling in Intercalated 2D Plasmonic Systems.” The $500,000, two-year project seeks to unlock quantum phenomena that have traditionally remained exclusive to cryogenic temperatures, bringing them into room-temperature environments by using layered nanoscale materials that confine light with extreme precision.

Matthew Matheny, PhD, helped found the Center for Quantum Computing at Amazon Web Services, where he managed the project for their first prototype quantum chip, Ocelot. He is currently the Device Team Manager for AWS CQC in Pasadena, CA, building the next-generation devices for their quantum hardware. He presents “A Logical Qubit Built from Dissipatively-Stabilized Schrödinger Cat Qubits” Friday, April 18 at 11:15am in 1000 Malachowsky Hall.

Dr. Monica VanDieren is senior technical marketing engineer at NVIDIA, specializing in quantum and high-performance computing. She presents “AI for Quantum Computing” Friday, April 18 at 10:00am in 1000 Malachowsky Hall.

Zetian Mi, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He presents “Ferroelectric Nitride Semiconductors: From Materials to Devices” Wednesday, April 16 at 2:00pm in MALA 5050.

Min Seok Jang, PhD, is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He presents “Infrared Polaritonics in Two-Dimensional Materials” Wednesday, April 16 at 4:00pm in MALA 5050.

The CHIP Lab, led by Hamed Dalir, Ph.D., has been awarded up to $435,000 by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, to pioneer a transformative approach to analog-to-digital (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion for next-generation AI accelerator processors.

Jeffrey Walling, Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. He presents “Bits-to-Waves: Digital RF, mm-Wave and THz Systems to Enable the Next-G” Friday, April 11 at 1:00pm in MALA 5050.

A new paper by researchers at UF Electrical & Computer Engineering has recently been published in ACS Photonics, outlining recent work in the area of tunable lasers. “Tunable Laser Using Transverse Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Working near Exceptional Point,” was authored by Elham Heidari, Ph.D., and her research group.