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UTokyo Collaborates with IMG, MIST

September 11, 2019

ECE 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, 2019

ECE 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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GatorWings Team Is One of Six Winners in Phase 2 of DARPA Spectrum Challenge

January 31, 2019

Following 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, 2019

A 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, 2018

Using 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, 2018

It 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, 2018

A 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, 2018

Dr. Swarup Bhunia and his team have developed a way to instantly detect counterfeit pills.

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Nelms Institute Models the Connected World

August 7, 2018

On 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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NSF Center for Big Learning Kicks Off

June 1, 2018

After 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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