Category: Faculty News

Martin Uman Featured on NPR
January 8, 2018NPR’s RadioLab featured Dr. Martin Uman on a Dec. 20 episode, “Big Little Questions.” In the quirky and personal segment, Dr. Uman identifies a strange phenomenon as ball lightning and goes on to describe it as a “well documented mystery.”
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Zare selected as a 2018 SPIE Rising Researcher
January 2, 2018Congratulations to Dr. Alina Zare, selected as a 2018 SPIE Rising Researcher for Defense, Commercial Sensing.
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Martin Uman Describes ‘Half Art, Half Science’ in BMW Commercial
January 1, 2018In a dramatic, professionally-filmed commercial for the plug-in hybrid BMW 530e, ECE lightning researcher Dr. Martin Uman and his students are shown doing what they do best—using ‘triggered lightning’ to study this awesome natural phenomenon.
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Asadi, Forte and Tehranipoor Among Authors to Receive Outstanding Paper Award @ ISTFA 2017
December 21, 2017Three ECE faculty were among the authors recently awarded the Best Paper Award at ISTFA 2017.
Read more: Asadi, Forte and Tehranipoor Among Authors to Receive Outstanding Paper Award @ ISTFA 2017 »Michael Fang Elected Member of Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE
November 28, 2017Congratulations to Dr. Michael Fang, who has been elected for a two-year term as a member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE.
Read more: Michael Fang Elected Member of Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE »ECE Congratulates Three Newly Elevated IEEE Fellows
November 28, 2017ECE Florida is proud to announce the recent elevation of three faculty members to the the distinction of IEEE Fellow: Dr. Tao Li, Dr. Mark Tehranipoor, and Dr. Huikai Xie.
Read more: ECE Congratulates Three Newly Elevated IEEE Fellows »Dr. Michael Fang Co-Chairs 6th IEEE/CIC International Conference
October 30, 2017The 6th IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC’2017) was held in Qingdao, China, Oct. 22-24.
Read more: Dr. Michael Fang Co-Chairs 6th IEEE/CIC International Conference »Dr. Jose C. Principe recently awarded Don D. and Ruth S. Eckis Professorship
October 16, 2017The fund honors Donald D. “Don” and Ruth S. Eckis.
Read more: Dr. Jose C. Principe recently awarded Don D. and Ruth S. Eckis Professorship »Karim Oweiss Receives $4.2 M from DARPA
October 16, 2017Will study the mechanisms by which cranial nerve stimulation can affect brain activity.
Read more: Karim Oweiss Receives $4.2 M from DARPA »Dr. Michael Fang Awarded 2017 UF Research Foundation Professor Award
October 13, 2017Congrats to Dr. Michael Fang for 2017 UF Research Foundation Professor Award. Dr. David P. Norton VP of Research Norton presented the award to him on Oct. 11.
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