Category: Research

UTokyo Collaborates with IMG, MIST
September 11, 2019ECE Florida and Professor Y.K. Yoon recently hosted a group of eight graduate students from the Graduate Program for Mechanical Systems Innovation (GMSI) at the University of Tokyo in Japan. The visiting students collaborated with UF students from IMG and the MIST Center.
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John Shea Co-PI on Newly Created Air Force Center of Excellence
May 28, 2019ECE professor Dr. John Shea is a co-PI on a new Center of Excellence (COE) for assured autonomy in contested environments, led by UF in conjunction with the Air Force Research Laboratory.
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January 31, 2019Following Team GatorWings’ initial top-ten showing at Phase 1 of the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) in 2017, the team came in fifth place overall in the second preliminary event in the competition.
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ECE Florida Team Wins First-Ever Dell EMC AI Challenge
January 7, 2019A UF ECE team has won the first-ever Dell EMC AI Challenge, a competition created to demonstrate the application of AI technologies in technical and business problems.
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Eisenstadt, Colleagues Use ‘Signals in the Soil’ to Reduce Fertilizer Run-off
October 24, 2018Using a novel system of custom-fabricated soil sensors, drones, and a wireless network, William Eisenstadt is part of a team of researchers aiming to reduce the amount of excess nitrogen fertilizer that makes its way into the water supply.
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Recent Supply Chain Infiltration Highlights Importance of Hardware Security
October 12, 2018It was revealed this week that widely-deployed servers manufactured by SuperMicro had been found to contain motherboards which had been modified at the factory.
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ECE Florida Team Emerges as Finalist in Dell AI Challenge
August 28, 2018A team of ECE Florida graduate students has emerged as finalists at the first ever Dell EMC AI challenge.
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Using technology to stop deadly fake pills
August 15, 2018Dr. Swarup Bhunia and his team have developed a way to instantly detect counterfeit pills.
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August 7, 2018On the third floor of Benton Hall, Dr. Yier Jin and his students have built a massive, interconnected virtual city out of Lego bricks which will be used to further research in the area of IoT and cybersecurity.
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June 1, 2018After the initial announcement of the launch of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Big Learning (CBL), things really got underway with the kickoff meeting May 31 and June 1.
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