Category: News

ECE Academic Assistant Elizabeth Rivera-Cortes has won a 2022 Division Three Superior Accomplishment Award.

ECE Assistant Professor Dr. Navid Asadi will be serving as the program chair for the well-regarded 2021 IEEE PAINE Conference, to be held Nov. 30–Dec. 2, hosted virtually from Washington, D.C.

The UF Summer Research Experience was a special opportunity for high school students to get involved in STEM-related research at UF. The two-week virtual research experience provided insight into two potential future fields of study for the students: robotics & artificial intelligence.

The ECE department recently added academic tracks to its graduate curriculum. This pilot program offers students the opportunity to specialize in a particular area of electrical and computer engineering—an incredibly broad and expansive field—without the addition of a minor or a certificate of study.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’ve taken the time to compile some of ECE Florida’s women inventors (patent holders).

ECE Florida is proud to welcome two new members to our faculty—both of whom have been recognized as ‘Rising Stars’ by the MIT-launched Rising Star program. Dr. Shreya Saxena and Dr. Najme Embrahimi both officially started Jan. 1.

Dr. Damon Woodard has accepted a position as Director of AI Partnerships for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

Hosted by the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, the first annual Women in IoT Workshop, “Leading through Change,” took place virtually Oct. 12.

ECE Florida staff engineer Mike Stapleton is collaborating with volunteers to create low-cost, open-source ventilators for use in the fight against COVID-19.

Beloved ECE engineer and teaching faculty Bill Wagner passed away on June 26. Bill taught in the teaching lab from 1985 to 2002.