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Photo of Cammy Abernathy Cammy Abernathy Professor
No Photo Available Erica Alvarez Administrative Assistant II (FSI)
352-846-4988
Photo of David Arnold David Arnold George Kirkland Engineering Leadership Professor Director, Florida Semiconductor Institute
352-392-4931

Primary Research Area

Electrophysics
Research Interests

Micro/nanostructured magnetic materials, magnetic microsystems, alternative power/energy systems (wireless power, energy harvesting, electromechanical circuits)

Honors and Awards

HWCOE Faculty Award for Excellence in Leadership, 2024
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2024
ECE Faculty of the Year (student selected) (2021-2022)
DARPA MTO Microsystems Exploratory Council (2022-2025)
UF ECE Excellence Award for Teaching (2019)
Best Application Paper, 2017 MARSS Conference (2017)
UF ECE Excellence Award for Service (2017)
Best Poster, Frontiers in Biomagnetic Particles Conference, 2015
UF Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award, 2013
UF Engineering Pramod P.…

No Photo Available Fredi Arthur Research Administrator I
Photo of Abbas Babajani-Feremi Abbas Babajani-Feremi Associate Professor
Photo of Jesse Bennett Jesse Bennett Systems Administrator/Programmer III (ACIS)
352-392-3947
Photo of Swarup Bhunia Swarup Bhunia Semmoto Endowed Professor
352-392-5989

Primary Research Area

Computer Engineering
Research Interests

Hardware and systems security, food and medicine safety, adaptive and energy-efficient computing, wearable and implantable systems
Honors and Awards

UFRF Professorship, 2024
IEEE Fellow, 2024
Excellence in Research Award, EECS, Case Western Reserve University, 2013
IBM Faculty Award, 2013
T. and A. Schroeder Chair Professorship, Computer Science & Engineering, Case Western University, 2013
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Computer Design, 2012
National Science Foundation Career Development Award, 2011
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, 2009
Technical Excellence Award, Semiconductor Research Corporation, 2005, 2009

Photo of Zoleikha Biron Zoleikha Biron Assistant Professor
352-392-5965

Primary Research Area

Signals & Systems
Research Interests

Security and control of Cyber Physical Systems, Intelligent Transportation System, Control theory, Diagnosis, Energy management

Photo of Jeremiah J. Blanchard Jeremiah J. Blanchard Associate Instructional Professor
Photo of Nikolay A. Bliznyuk Nikolay A. Bliznyuk Associate Professor
No Photo Available Steven Blodgett Research Administrator III
352-846-3948
Photo of Christophe Bobda Christophe Bobda Citi Endowed Professor in Advanced Technologies Associate Chair for Academics
352-294-2024

Primary Research Area

Computer Engineering
Research Interests

System on Chip Design, FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing, Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture, Cybersecurity, Resilient Systems, Embedded Imaging, Robotics
Honors and Awards

ECE Service Excellence Award, 2025
HWCOE International Educator of the Year, 2024

Photo of Gijs Bosman Gijs Bosman Professor Emeritus

Primary Research Area:Devices

No Photo Available Meaghan Brune Scientific Writer
352-273-0539
No Photo Available Catherine Cake Fiscal Assistant II
Photo of Jacob Campbell Jacob Campbell End User Computer Specialist II
352-392-3977
Photo of Baibhab Chatterjee Baibhab Chatterjee Nelms Rising Star Endowed Professor
352-273-2189

Primary Research Area

Electronics
Research Interests

Energy-Efficient and secure analog/RF/mixed-signal circuits and systems for biomedical and IoT applications; time-domain sensing and sensor interfaces, human body communication, brain-channel communication for untethered neural implants, physical-layer security, low-power wireless and wireline techniques
Honors and Awards

ECE Teaching Excellence Award, 2025
NSF CAREER Award, 2025
Best 3-Minute Thesis Award (Audience Choice), IEEE Microwave Week 2020
Best Paper Awards, IEEE CICC, 2019, CICC 2021, HOST 2018, HOST 2019
Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship (2022) and Andrews Fellowship (2017-2019), Purdue University

Photo of Shannon Chillingworth Shannon Chillingworth Chief of Staff
352-392-6617
Photo of Marla B. Cummings Marla B. Cummings Office Assistant
352-846-3945
No Photo Available Adam Dagen Fiscal Assistant I
Photo of Hamed Dalir Hamed Dalir Associate Professor
352-846-4989

Primary Research Area

Electronics
Research Interests

Mid-IR Photonics, On-chip Light Sources, Classical & Quantum Sensors, Ising Machine, AI Accelerator, Photonics Integrated Circuits
Honors And Awards

Stanford–Elsevier Top 2% Scientists Ranking (top 0.3% in field), 2024–2025
ECE Teaching Excellence Award, 2025
Best Project Collaboration Award, TSMC, 2025
ECE Faculty of the Year (Student Choice), 2024–25
Rising Star in Photonics, ACS, 2025
IAAM Scientist Medal & Fellow, 2024
SPIE Senior Member, 2023
AFWERX Commercialization Solutions, 2022
SPIE Community Champion, 2020
IEEE/Optica Senior Member, 2018
JSPS Fellow, 2015
KAKENHI Early Investigator Award, 2014
JSPS Young Scientist Award, 2014
GCOE Golden Award, Tokyo, 2012
Yoshida Foundation Award, 2009

No Photo Available Sarah Day Fiscal Assistant II
352-273-0531
Photo of Quashawn Durant Quashawn Durant Maintenance Generalist I
352-273-3676
Photo of Dan Eicher Dan Eicher Systems Administrator / Programmer III
352-392-4937
Photo of William Eisenstadt William Eisenstadt Professor
352-392-4946

Primary Research Area

Electronics
Research Interests

IoT for agriculture, mosquito control, health and safety, IoT networking using LoRaWAN and MESH, IC Test, analog/mixed signal design, RF/microwave circuits

Photo of Rickard Ewetz Rickard Ewetz Associate Professor
352-392-0002

Primary Research Area

Computer Engineering
Research Interests

Emerging Computing Paradigms, Artificial Intelligence, Computer-aided Design, VLSI Circuits
Honors and Awards

Research Incentive Award, University of Central Florida (2024)
Best Paper Nomination, MILCOM (2023)
Best Paper Nomination, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (2022)
Best Paper Nomination, Design Automation and Test in Europe (2021)
Best Paper Nomination, Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (2019)

Photo of Ruogu Fang Ruogu Fang Assistant Professor
Photo of Yuguang (Michael) Fang Yuguang (Michael) Fang Emeritus Distinguished Professor

Primary Research Area: Computer Engineering

Photo of Farimah Farahmandi Farimah Farahmandi Walden C. Rhines Endowed Professor for Hardware Security
352-392-0910

Primary Research Area

Electronics
Research Interests

Formal Verification, Post-silicon Validation, and Design Automation
Honors and Awards

HWCOE Khargonekar Award, 2025
HWCOE Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, 2024
NSF CAREER Award, 2024
ECE Service Excellence Award, 2023
ECE Research Excellence Award, 2022
Young Faculty Award, Semiconductor Research Corporation, September 2022

Photo of Philip Feng Philip Feng Rhines Endowed Professor in Quantum Engineering Associate Chair for Research
352-294-6320

Expertise

Devices, Nanotechnology
Research Interests

Solid-State Devices, Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS), Quantum Engineering, Nanotechnology, Transducers, High-Precision Measurement & Instruments, Advanced Materials
Honors and Awards

ECE Research Excellence Award, 2025
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2019)
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2015)
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award (2014)
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium Invited Participant (2013)
Best Paper Awards (for Advisees): IEEE NEMS (2013), IEEE IFCS (2014), AVS (2014, 2016, 2021)
Finalists of Best/Outstanding Paper Awards (for Advisees): IEEE MEMS (2015, 2017, 2022), Transducers (2019)

Photo of Domenic Forte Domenic Forte Professor Steven A. Yatauro Faculty Fellow
352-392-1525

Primary Research Area

Electronics
Research Interests

Hardware security and trust, digital VLSI/CAD, and biometrics
Honors and Awards

Distinguished Speaker, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025
HWCOE Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award, 2022
2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), nominated by DoD, 2019
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, 2017
Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award by Army Research Office (ARO), 2016
George Corcoran Outstanding Teaching Award by University of Maryland, 2008

Photo of José Fortes José Fortes Professor AT&T Eminent Scholar
352-392-9265

Primary Research Area

Computer Engineering
Research Interests

Distributed information processing systems, cloud computing, autonomic computing, software-defined systems, dependable systems, human-machine cooperative intelligence, biodiversity informatics.
Honors and Awards

AAAS Fellow (2012-Present)
IEEE Fellow (1999-Present)
University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, University of Florida (2017-2020)
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering International Scholar of the Year (2017)
IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor (1991-1995)
UF Teacher/Scholar of the Year (2020)
SEC Faculty Achievement Award for the University of Florida (2021)

Photo of Jerry G. Fossum Jerry G. Fossum Emeritus Distinguished Professor

Primary Research Area: Devices

Photo of Jie Fu Jie Fu Nelms Rising Star Endowed Professor
352-392-2642

Primary Research Area

Signals & Systems
Research Interests

Theory and algorithms for synthesizing correct-by-construction autonomous systems through integrated formal methods, learning, control, and game theory

Photo of Kent Fuchs Kent Fuchs President Emeritus
352-392-1311

Primary Research Area

Computer Engineering
Research Interests

Dependable computer systems, Testing and failure analysis of integrated circuits

No Photo Available Regina Gainey Assistant to the Chair
352-273-3845
Photo of Lesly Galiana Lesly Galiana Research Coordinator III (FINS)
352-294-3945
Photo of Alan D. George Alan D. George Professor, Founder & Director of NSF Chrec Center

Primary Research Area: Computer Engineering

Photo of Kuang Gong Kuang Gong Assistant Professor
Photo of Pynie Gonzales Pynie Gonzales Business Administration Specialist III
Photo of Lauren Gonzalez Lauren Gonzalez Research Coordinator II (Nelms Institute)
352-294 2221
Photo of Kiara Gunn Kiara Gunn Administrative Assistant I
352-294-1483
Photo of Jing Guo Jing Guo Professor
352-392-0940

Primary Research Area

Electrophysics
Research Interests

Modeling, simulation, and design in nanoelectronics, quantum computing
Honors and Awards

National Science Foundation, CAREER, 2009

Photo of Jacob Hammer Jacob Hammer Professor Emeritus

Primary Research Area: Signals & Systems

Photo of Joel Harley Joel Harley Associate Professor Kent and Linda Fuchs Faculty Fellow
352-392-2692

Primary Research Area

Signals and Systems
Research Interests

Signal Processing, Data Science, Acoustics, Nondestructive Evaluation, Structural Health Monitoring, Speech Processing
Honors and Awards

AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2017
Invited Paper Published in Proceedings of the IEEE, 2015
Univ. of Utah Electrical and Computer Engineering Teaching Award, 2016

Photo of Elham Heidari Elham Heidari Assistant Professor
352-392-8411

Primary Research Area

Electrophysics
Research Interests

Nanophotonic and optical interconnect, Integrated photonics, Quantum engineering, Sensors, MOS and nanostructure device modeling
Honors and Awards

Rising Star in Photonics, American Chemical Society (ACS), Class of 2025
Stanford–Elsevier Top 2% Scientists Ranking, 2025
OSA Grant – Women Attending to Science, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), USA
JASSO Research Excellence Award, Japan

Photo of Limor Herb Limor Herb Research Coordinator I (SHREC)
352-846-3044
Photo of Micah Herron Micah Herron Fiscal Assistant II
352-846-0519
Photo of Gigi Hornilla Gigi Hornilla Fiscal Assistant I
352-392-4924
Photo of Yong Huang Yong Huang Professor
Photo of Md Jahidul Islam Md Jahidul Islam Yangbin Wang Rising Star Professor
352-392-9510

Primary Research Area

Computer Engineering
Research Interests

Robot Perception; Machine Vision; Underwater Robotics
Honors and Awards

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) award (2019-20), University of Minnesota
RAS Travel Grant for participating ICRA 2019 in Montreal, Canada
IEEE/RSJ Travel Grant for participating IROS 2017 in Vancouver, Canada
ADC Graduate Fellowship in Wireless and Networking Technology (2015-16), University of Minnesota

Photo of Mingyue Ji Mingyue Ji Associate Professor Director, EdgeAI Laboratory
352-294-8824

Primary Research Area

Signals and Systems
Research Interests

Machine Learning, Distributed Computing and Storage, Communication and Networking, Information Theory
Honors and Awards

Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Computing and Networking (ISICN), 2024
Outstanding ECE Research Award, University of Utah, 2023
Outstanding ECE Teaching Award, University of Utah, 2022
NSF CAREER Award, 2022
Listed as one of the Top 15% Undergraduate Teachers of the College of Engineering at the University of Utah for Fall 2021
Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2021
Listed as one of the Top 15% Undergraduate Teachers of the College of Engineering at the University of Utah for Fall 2020
IEEE Leonard G.…

Photo of Jasmeet Judge Jasmeet Judge Professor
Photo of Jack Judy Jack Judy Professor Intel/Charles E. Young Chair in Nanotechnology Director of the Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technologies
352-846-1275

Primary Research Area

Electrophysics
Research Interests

The development of novel micro/nano scale systems and their use in a wide variety of engineering and bio medical applications.
Honors and Awards

Medal for Exceptional Public Service, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2013
Fulbright Senior Scholar, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2006
Okawa Foundation Award, 2002
National Science Foundation Career Award, 1999

Photo of Jason Kawaja Jason Kawaja Manager, Information Technology
352-392-4568
Photo of Adam Khalifa Adam Khalifa Assistant Professor Dean Wayne Chen Faculty Fellow
352-273-1695

Primary Research Area

Electronics
Research Interests

Low-power analog/RF/Mixed-mode ASIC design, miniaturization, wireless powering, electrode design/microfabrication, coil design/fabrication for magnetic stimulation, neural stimulation and recording in animal models, and implant packaging
Honors and Awards

NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2024
NIH T32 Fellow, 2019
Ferdinand H. Fellow, 2018

Photo of Dennis Kim Dennis Kim Assistant Professor
352-846-3707

Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Pico and nanoscale engineering, semiconductor materials, 2D materials, quantum engineering, microscopy and spectroscopy, statistical thermodynamics, quantum-mechanical simulations
Honors and Awards
STROBE Postdoctoral Fellow Award 2017
Lamgmuir-NSSA Outstanding Student Poster Presentation Award at the American Conference for Neutron Scattering 2014
Korean-American Scientists and Engineering Association KUSCO_KSEA Scholarship for Graduate Students 2012
Youngnak General Academic Scholarship 2012
California Institute of Technology Clark Graduate Fellowship
American Institute of Chemists Award 2011
George R.…

Photo of Gloria Kim Gloria Kim Assistant Professor
Photo of Laura Kim Laura Kim Assistant Professor
352-294-3179

Primary Research Area

Electrophysics
Research Interests

Quantum engineering, quantum sensing, nanophotonics, solid-state devices, 2D materials
Honors and Awards

DARPA Young Faculty Award (2025)
2024 Early-Career Award in Nanophotonics
UCLA Faculty Career Development Award
Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, MIT, 2019-2022
EECS Rising Stars 2020
Gary Malouf Foundation Award, ARCS Foundation, 2016-2019
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2013-2016
Early Career Editorial Advisory Board of Applied Physics Letters, 2022-2024

No Photo Available Wikaash Kodan Assistant Director, Administrative Services
352-294-9183
Photo of Sanjeev Koppal Sanjeev Koppal Associate Professor Kent and Linda Fuchs Faculty Fellow
352-392-8942

Primary Research Area

Signals and Systems
Research Interests

Computer Vision, Computational Photography, Sensors, Optics, Image/Video Processing

No Photo Available Beline Lafayette Conference/Event Planner III (FSI)
352-239-2347
Photo of Herman Lam Herman Lam Associate Professor UF Site Director, NSF SHREC Center
352-392-2689

Primary Research Area

Computer Engineering
Research Interests

High-performance heterogeneous computing, reconfigurable computing, and computer architecture
Honors and Awards

Winner of 2018 Dell EMC AI Challenge, recognized for a heterogeneous computing (HGC) system that can support a complete workflow for machine learning
Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded by ECE students, 2015
National Science Foundation Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technology Innovation, 2012
2010 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Award for “Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences” for Novo-G reconfigurable supercomputer
University of Florida Teaching Improvement Program Award,1993

Photo of Benny Larry Benny Larry Ast Dir, Edu/Training Programs (FSI)
TBD
Photo of Haniph A. Latchman Haniph A. Latchman Professor Emeritus

Primary Research Area: Signals & Systems

Photo of Mark Law Mark Law Distinguished Professor
352-392-1519

Primary Research Area

Electrophysics
Research Interests

Design and modeling of IC fabrication process, computer modeling of semiconductor process and device behavior
Honors and Awards

Fellow, National Collegiate Honors Council, 2023
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Undergraduate Faculty Advisor/Mentor of the Year, 2020
UF Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, 2019
SEMI North America Award, 2014
Semiconductor Industry Association University Research Award, 2013
IEEE Electron Device Society J.J.…

No Photo Available Garrett Lawson Research Administrator II
352-846-0110
Photo of Marcy Lee Marcy Lee Office Manager
352-846-0203
Photo of Changying “Charlie” Li Changying “Charlie” Li Professor
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