Category: Faculty

To get a good window into what the University of Florida is doing in the quantum space, spend some time with Laura Kim, Ph.D., and Yingying Wu, Ph.D. Both are award-winning assistant professors in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and both are gaining attention for their work in quantum research and education.

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.

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.

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.

Baibhab Chatterjee, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the agency’s highest honor for early-career faculty. His funded project, “MED-IoB: Transforming Medical Electronics using Distributed Internet of Bodies (IoB) for Powering, Sensing, Communication and Synchronization,” seeks to revolutionize implantable and wearable medical electronics by enabling seamless data connectivity and power in a network of devices, leveraging the conductive property of the human body.

An instructional assistant professor with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), Silva received the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award earlier this year.

Endowments support ECE’s most productive and innovative faculty members. In recent years, the department has seen a marked rise in the number of faculty holding endowed positions. ECE Florida faculty members holding endowments hail from all research areas within the department (electrophyiscs, electronics, signals & systems, and computer engineering) and are all marked by dedication, innovation, and productivity.

Ivan Ruchkin, Ph.D., has received funding from the NSF in support of his CAREER project “Rigorous Assumption Engineering for Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems.”

Two new faculty endowments promise to supercharge research at ECE Florida, providing critical support for two of the department’s highest-performing researchers.