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
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
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)
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
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)
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Dependable computer systems, Testing and failure analysis of integrated circuits
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
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
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
HPC Fault Tolerance and Data Reduction,Safety of Automonous Driving Systems, AI Dependability
Recent Publications
[NeurIPS’25] “You Only Spectralize Once: Taking a Spectral Detour to Accelerate Graph Neural Network”. The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025. Yi Li, Zhichun Guo, Guanpeng Li, and Bingzhe Li
[LDAV’25] “Lossy Parallel Visualization of Large-Scale Volume Data with Error-Bounded Image Compositing.” IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization, 2025.…
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Wireless and mobile networking, next generation wireless systems, medium access control protocols
Honors and Awards
Best Paper Session, IEEE Power and Energy Systems General Meeting, 2023
Featured Article, IET Smart Grid Journal, 2022
Nelms Faculty Fellow, UF Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, 2022
Star in Networking and Communications, N2Women, 2021
Distinguished Member, IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee, 2019–2021
Finalist, ECE Teacher of the year (nominated by the ECE department undergraduate students), 2019
UF Doctoral Mentoring Award, 2014
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Low-power design, reconfigurable computing, platform design, dynamic optimizations, hardware design, real-time systems. Specifically, exploring challenges in leveraging Blockchain technology in Internet of Things (IoT) devices for enhanced data privacy, security, ownership, and monetization. Research focus ranges from holistic system-level layouts to per-device System-on-Chip (Soc) architectural designs considering dynamic and heterogeneous resources for low power-/energy-based Blockchain operations.…
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Trustworthy computing; Automotives and IoT; Post-silicon validation; Formal Methods
Honors and Awards
Keynote Speaker DUHDe, Dresden, Germany, workshop part of Design, Automation, and Test in Europe, 2016
Best Paper Selection Committee Lead HOST, 2015
Research Recognition Award, Intel Strategic CAD Labs, for Research Pathfinding: Automated Analysis of Post-silicon Hardware Tracing, 2015
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Safe and trustworthy autonomy, cyber-physical systems, guarantees for learning components, formal methods, robotics, autonomous racing
Honors and Awards
NSF CAREER Award, 2025
Best Contributed Theoretical Paper for paper “Data Generation with PROSPECT: a Probability Specification Tool” at the Winter Simulation Conference. 12/2021
Frank Anger Memorial Award for crossover of ideas between the SIGSOFT (software engineering) and SIGBED (embedded systems) communities.…
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Robotics, Embedded Systems, Controls, Autonomous mobile agents
Honors and Awards
HWCOE Faculty Adviser/Mentor of the Year, 2024
Faculty of the Year, awarded by students of the ECE Department (2022-2023)
MIL (Machine Intelligence Laboratory) team faculty advisor for five world champion robot teams:
RoboSub (2005, 2006, 2007)
RoboBoat (2013)
Maritime RobotX Challenge (2019)
UF IEEE & HKN Teacher of the Year, 2012
Student Involvement Award for Advisor of the Year, 2011
IEEE Southeast Region Outstanding Branch Counselor, 2010
Anderson/CLAS Scholar Faculty Honoree, UF, 2000-2005, 2012
Teacher of the Year, UF, 2002
Teacher of the Year, College of Engineering UF, 2002
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Hardware security and trust, IoT security, electronics supply chain security, and reliable and testable VLSI design
Honors and Awards
SRC Aristotle Award, 2023
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2022
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018
TTTC Most Successful Event Award for HOST Symposium, 2016
Best Paper Award, IEEE Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, 2016
Best Paper Award, IEEE Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, 2015
ECE Research Excellence Award, University of Connecticut, 2014
Best Paper Award, IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop, 2013
Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE Computer Society, 2012
SOE Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, 2012
Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Computer Society, 2010-date
Distinguished Speaker, ACM, 2010-date
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2009
Certificate of Appreciation, IEEE Computer Society, 2009
Meritorious Service Award, IEEE Computer Society, 2008
Best Paper Award, IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop, 2008
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Edge computing, wireless communications and networking, distributed learning and optimization, federated learning, reinforcement learning
Honors and Awards
Best Paper Nomination, ACM e-Energy 2024
NSF CAREER Award, 2021
David J. Sumanth Early Career Research Award, University of Miami, 2021
Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award, UCLA, 2015
Best Paper Award, APCC 2009
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Automated verification, model checking, and automated model extraction.