Archived Issues of ECE Florida News

4th Quarter
Featuring:

• Accelerating Innovation in AI-Augmented Health Systems
• Leading the Quantum Leap: UF Experts Behind the Momentum
• ECE ‘Star Gator’ Farahmandi Wins 40 Under 40 Alumni Award

3rd Quarter
Featuring:

• Four NSF CAREER Awards & Two DARPA YFA Awards in 2025
• Tech Meets Tide: UF RoboPI Lab Joins Forces for Marine Ecosystem Monitoring
• Ray Works to Validate Hardware-Software Interactions with New NSF-Funded Project
• Ivan Ruchkin Is Building Worlds

2nd Quarter
Featuring:

• New CAREER Award to Make Cyber-Physical Systems Aware of Their Own Limitations
• Achieving Rapid Dominance in the Uncertain World
• Laura Kim Awarded DARPA YFA to Create Light-Matter Hybrid Quantum Building Blocks
• Dalir Joins National Effort to Enable 3D Optical Packaging for Next-Gen AI Chips

1st Quarter
Featuring:

• New CAREER Award for Creating New Quantum Devices
• Cutting-Edge Photonics Accelerators
• Watermarks to Detect AI-Generated Writing
• New Faculty Endowments

4th Quarter
Featuring:

• ECE Faculty to Lead Regional Hub for $285M Semiconductor Research Institute
• Khalifa Receives Prestigious NIH New Innovator Award
• Koppal Uses Dual-Camera System to Track Multiple Targets from 1km
• Law Partners with ARO to Model Josephson Junctions

3rd Quarter
Featuring:

• ECE Florida Welcomes Five New Faculty Members
• $3M Collaboration with Citi Establishes New Endowed Professorship in Advanced Technologies, Supports Research
• Florida-Based Team Looks to Boost Semiconductor Manufacturing in the State
• Woodard Key Player in Partnership with NSA
• Using AI to Improve Surgical Robotics

2nd Quarter
Featuring:

• ECE Inducts Inaugural Class of Hall of Fame
• UF Team Works to Create Most Resilient Sensor on Earth
• Telecommunications Visionary Semmoto Gives UF Engineering its First Named Chair
• Florida-Based NSF Regional Engine Kicks Off

1st Quarter
Featuring:

• Two ECE Florida Faculty Members Elevated to IEEE Fellow
• Baoyun Ge Receives NSF CAREER Award to Explore High-Performance, Highly Sustainable Electric Machines
• Florida Semiconductor Week Convenes Leaders to Strengthen and Expand Florida’s Semiconductor Manufacturing Ecosystem
• Woodard Strives to Strengthen UF’s National Security & Defense Research Program

4th Quarter
Featuring:

• ECE Florida Relocates to Recently Completed Flagship Building
• Chatterjee Works to Create Links for Wireless Neural Implants Placed Deep Inside the Brain
• Asadi Works to Make Xray Imagery Less Noisy
• Florida Semiconductor Institute to Help Lead State in Critical Chips Sector

3rd Quarter
Featuring:

• Harley Works to Improve Nuclear Fuel Safety
• Zare Uses Hyperspectral Imagery to Combat Food Waste
• Wang Works to Reduce Noise in Power Electronics
• ECE Florida Welcomes Four New Faculty Members
• Sorger Awarded SPIE Maria Goeppert Mayer Award in Photonics

2nd Quarter
Featuring:

• Robots Revolutionize Cave Cartography
• Koppal Uses Bio-Inspired Cameras to Improve UAV Imaging
• ECE Researchers Power Fire Neural Network
• NSF IoT4Ag Engineering Research Center Connects Farmers with Technology
• McNair Collaborates with School of Construction to Provide Real-Time Monitoring and Communications for Job Sites

1st Quarter
Featuring:

• Vision & Expertise Shine at Florida Semiconductor Week
• Timing is Everything for Team Creating Hyper-Accurate Synchronization for DoD Readiness
• YK Yoon Works Towards Sustainable Materials & Powerful Manufacturing Technologies
• Koppal Selected as Amazon Scholar
• Farahmandi Aims to Detect the Most Vulnerable Locations in Chip Designs

Fall 2022
Featuring:

• Shreya Saxena Uses Deep Learning to Elucidate the Basis of Sensorimotor Control
• Farahmandi Pushes the Power of Heterogenous Integration
• UF-Led Multidisciplinary Team Receives $2M Grant for Quantum Engineering Research & Education
• Jie Fu Uses Deception and Counter-Deception to Protect Cyber Systems
• Asadi Leads the Way in Physical Assurance

Summer 2022
Featuring:

• ECE Florida Welcomes Mark Tehranipoor as Department Chair
• John Harris Leaves UF After 13 Years as Chair
• Jie Fu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Develop Intelligent Sensing & Control Methods
• Asadi Receives NSF CAREER Award to Protect ICs from Optical Attacks
• ECE Researchers Use AI Systems to Quantify Ecosystem Services

Spring 2022
Featuring:

• PRÍNCIPE ELECTED AS AAAS FELLOW
• Profile: Dr. Damon Woodard
• Fu Receives AFOSR YIP Award
• Tehranipoor Elevated to ACM Fellow
• More Than $59K Raised on Gator Giving Day

Fall 2021
Featuring:

• ECE Faculty Featured in Explore Magazine
• Rakov Awarded $1M NSF Grant for Lightning Studies
• Ebrahimi Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
• Summer Research Experience Provided Opportunity for High School Students to Explore Robotics, AI

Summer 2021
Featuring:

• In Memoriam—Warren B. Nelms, 1937–2021
• Tabrizian Receives Prestigious DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award
• Forte & Maghari Patent “Universal Testing Technique” to Detect Counterfeit Chips
• Alina Zare Collaborates with IFAS to Help Bring Coffee to Florida

Spring 2021
Featuring:

• UF Begins Construction on Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology
• SEC Announces José Fortes Wins 2021 Faculty Achievement Award for UF
• Príncipe Awarded Prestigious IEEE SPS Award
• Yoon & Mosaic Microsystems Collaborate to Develop Next-Generation Radar Array Tech

Fall 2020
Featuring:

• Engineering Plays a Leading Role in the Agriculture of the Future
• FICS Research Expands Industry Partnerships, Workforce Development Efforts
• Tabrizian and Bhunia Develop Clandestine Wireless ID Tags
• Eisenstadt Introduces Smart Mosquito Cages to More Effectively Test Insecticides

Summer 2020
Featuring:

• $15M Tech Transition Center Celebrates Virtual Kickoff
• UF Becomes First U.S. University to Acquire Cutting-Edge NVIDIA DGX A100 System, Advancing Its Artificial Intelligence Initiative
• Koppal Receives NSF CAREER Award for Active Computer Vision
• Tabrizian Selected as Hastings Faculty Fellow
• Novel Peer-to-Peer Car Charging System Proposes to Automate, Mobilize EV Charging

Spring 2020
Featuring:

• Tuba Yavuz Receives NSF CAREER Award
• Alina Zare Collaborates with Agronomy to Better Understand Agroecosystems
• ECE Florida Engineers Collaborate on Open-Source Ventilator Design

Fall 2019
Featuring:

• Team GatorWings Takes First Place in DARPA SC2
• Hardware Security Research and Education Centers of Excellence Open at UF and Ohio State University

Summer 2019
Featuring:

• Domenic Forte Receives ECASE-Army Award
• Roozbeh Tabrizian Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award

Spring 2019
Featuring:

• The Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World Names Leaders
• ECE Welcomes Three New Faculty Members