Category: Awards

ECE Distinguished Professor José Príncipe was recently notified of his election to the rank of Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Associate Professor Greg Stitt is the recipient of a Ruth and Joel Spira Excellence in Teaching Award. This honor was first revealed at the IEEE Spring Banquet last month, with Dr. Susan Hakkarainen, Joel and Ruth’s daughter, in attendance.

A number of ECE faculty, students, and staff were honored at the 2021 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Awards Recognition Ceremony on Friday, April 23.

Assistant Professor Roozbeh Tabrizian has been selected to receive a  2021 DARPA Director’s Fellowship, following his receipt of the 2019 DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA).

Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian was recently notified that he is the recipient of the 2020-21 Pramod P. Khargonekar Award for the most outstanding junior faculty member undergoing tenure and promotion review this past fall.

Distinguished Professor José Príncipe was recently informed that he is the winner of the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award “for fundamental contributions to adaptive learning systems.”

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.

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.

“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.

In the culmination of a three-year competition cycle, Team GatorWings beat ten other teams in the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) to win first place, taking home a $2M prize.