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.…
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Hardware security, Reverse engineering, 3D imaging and image processing, Failure analysis, Sensors, Thermal barrier coatings
Honors and Awards
ECE Service Excellence Award, 2025
NSF CAREER Award, 2022
Best Paper Award, HOST International Conference, McLean, 2016
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
Signals & Systems
Research Interests
Security and control of Cyber Physical Systems, Intelligent Transportation System, Control theory, Diagnosis, Energy management
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
Signals & Systems
Research Interests
Theory and algorithms for synthesizing correct-by-construction autonomous systems through integrated formal methods, learning, control, and game theory
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Dependable computer systems, Testing and failure analysis of integrated circuits
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Modeling, simulation, and design in nanoelectronics, quantum computing
Honors and Awards
National Science Foundation, CAREER, 2009
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
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
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
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.…
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
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
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.…
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
Primary Research Area
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
Computer Vision, Computational Photography, Sensors, Optics, Image/Video Processing
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
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.…
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
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
Signal processing for wireless communications and radar
Honors and Awards
Keynote Speaker, IET International Radar Conference, Hangzhou, China, October 2015
Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, Ningbo, China, September 2015
2012 Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop
Primary Research Area
Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Parallel and Distributed Computing; Scalable, Efficient, and Secure Technologies and Systems for HPC, Big Data, AI, Cloud, Edge, and others; Novel Communication and I/O Technologies (e.g., RDMA/PMEM/NVMe/GPU/DPU); Scalable and Parallel Algorithms and Applications; Interdisciplinary Research for Social Good
Primary Research Area
Electronics
Research Interests
High performance data converters, delta-sigma modulators, synthesizable analog to digital converters, biomedical applications
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
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
Markov processes (with or without control), spectral theory and large deviations; Stochastic approximation, reinforcement learning
Honors and Awards
Outstanding Advisors List, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, 2010
Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Scholars’ Award, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, 1994
Primary Research Area
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
Aerial and underwater vehicle control, autonomous systems, cooperative control, mobile wireless sensor networks
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Electromagnetic waves, non-linear energetic interactions in the ionosphere, remote-sensing applications of ELF/VLF propagation of ELF/VLF propagation
Honors and Awards
International Educator of the Year, College of Engineering, UF 2014
Young Scientist Award for XXIXth URSI General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois 2008
Recipient, National Science Foundation Antarctic Service Medal, 2006
Primary Research Area
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
Signal processing; complexity analysis and entropic methods; machine learning and data fusion; uncertainty modeling; human systems and human performance; system engineering; human physiology
Honors and Awards
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Summer Faculty Fellow (Human Performance Wing), 2021, 2022
National Institutes of Health (NIH) LRP Award, 2021-2023
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Fellowship (ARCS), 2016-2017
Jefferson Presidential Fellowship in Data Science, 2015-2016
NASA’s Virginia Space Grant Consortium Fellowship, 2015-2016
Virginia Center for Health Innovation Fellowship, 2015-2016
NASA’s Virginia Space Grant Consortium Fellowship, 2014-2015
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Repperger Fellowship, 2015
UVa’s Critical Care and Trauma Young Fellowship, 2014
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Multi-functional semiconductor devices, (Sensors, logic, actuators, memory, MEMS), Design, characterization, and reliability
Honors and Awards
NASA Invention Award, 2008
IEEE Electron Device Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2006-2011
Teacher of the Year Award, UF HKN, 2005-2007
Best Paper Award, AIAA Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Technical Committee, 2004
Teacher of the Year Award, UF College of Engineering, 2003-2004
Teaching Improvement Program Award, UF, 1995
Primary Research Area
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
Research Interests: Sensorimotor Integration, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Brain-Machine Interfaces
Honors and Awards
National Science Foundation Excellence in Neural Engineering Award , 2001
Best Student Paper Award, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2001
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Biophysical modeling of electric-field effects on cells (non-excitable and excitable), semiconductor-device modeling and simulation, neural interfaces
Selected Publications:
A. Furniturewalla, P. Rustogi, E. Patrick, J. Judy, “Modeling the Recording of Intraneural Action Potential with Microelectrodes Using FEM and Point-Source Methods, IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, San Francisco, March, 2019.…
Primary Research Area
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
adaptive systems, learning theory
Honors and Awards
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2021
IEEE SP Society Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award, 2021
University of Florida International Scholar Award, HWCOE, 2019
University of Florida Don D. & Ruth Eckis Endowed Distinguished Professor, 2017
Life Fellow, IEEE, 2017
SEC Faculty Achievement Award Winner, 2016
University of Florida Teacher/Scholar of the Year, 2014-2015
Honorary Professor, U.…
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Lightning, Atmospheric Electricity, Lightning Protection
Honors and Awards
HWCOE Teacher/Scholar of the Year (2025)
Distinguished Professor, University of Florida (2022)
Honorary Member, International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE) (2022)
IEEE Richard R. Stoddart Award in Electromagnetic Compatibility (2019)
Toshio Takeuti Award, the International Symposium on Winter Lightning (2017)
Senior Faculty International Educator of the Year, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering,(2015–2016)
Honorary Doctorate Degree, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS) (2015)
IEEE-EMC Richard Schulz Transactions Prize Paper Award Honorable Mention (2015)
Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, JGR Atmospheres (2016)
Karl Berger Award, International Conference on Lightning Protection (2012)
Best Paper Award, 7th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning, Chengdu, China (2011)
Annual Recognition Award, National Lightning Safety Institute (2004)
Prize Paper Award, IEEE Power Engineering Society, Surge Protective Devices Committee (2001)
UF Research Foundation Professorship (2001–2003, 2007–2009)
Outstanding Contribution in Research Award, Southeastern Section Medallion Certificate, American Society for Engineering Education (1999)
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Lightning and Electromagnets, Devices and Semiconductor Device Manufacturing
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
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
Wireless communication & networking, military & secure communication, cross-layer design, networked autonomous vehicles
Research Sponsors
AFOSR, AFRL, DARPA, NSF, ONR, ARO, ARL, DoD (MURI administered by ONR),FDOT, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, SCEEE
Industry Engagement
Harris, Samsung Electromechanics, Intellon
Honors and Awards
ECE Staff Choice Award, 2025
Summer Faculty Fellow, Office of naval Research, 2012, 2014
MILCOM Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Communications Society, 2012
Outstanding Young Alumni, Clemson University, College of Engineering & Science, 2011
Fred W.…
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Micromachined transducers, MEMS, electroacoustics, aeroacoustics, and fluid mechanics
Primary Research Area
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
Machine learning, signal processing, pattern recognition, computational neuroscience, cognitive science
Honors and Awards
HWCOE Undergraduate Teacher of the Year (2025)
UF Center for Teaching Rising Star Award (2025)
ECE Excellence Award in Teaching (2022)
UF HKN & IEEE Faculty of the Year (2021)
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Devices & optoelectronics, AI/ML accelerators, mixed-signal ASICs, quantum processors, cryptography
Honors And Awards
2024 Fellow, IEEE
2023 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, SPIE
2023 Scientist Medal, IAAM
2022 Distinguished Researcher Award, SEAS GWU
2022 Fellow, SPIE
2022 Fellow, IAAM
2021 Fellow, Optical Society (formerly OSA)
2021 Highly Cited Researcher recognition (Elsevier, top 0.1% in field)
2021 DURIP Award, AFOSR
2020 Community Champion, SPIE
2019 PECASE – Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers, White House/U.S.…
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
Electronics
Research Interests
Solid state electronics and nano technology, new materials and devices to extend Moore’s law. Electrical measurements and modeling
Honors and Awards
TiE 50: Top Startup (SuVolta), 2014
ACE Award IEEE Spectrum: IEEE Emerging Technology: SuVolta, 2012
EuroAsia IC Industry Award for startup, 2011
Semi Award North America (Development of Strained Silicon Transistors), 2008
Fellow, IEEE, for Advancing Fabrication of nanoscale MOSFET, 2006
Fellow, Intel Corporation, 2003
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Carbon nanotubes, semiconductor nanowires, and related nanostructures. Integration of nanotechnology with silicon microfabrication
Primary Research Area
Electronics
Research Interests
Power electronics, electrical power, electromagnetic interference, electric vehicles, green energy conversion and grid integration, electromagnetic security, IoT security, cyber security, and hardware security
Honors and Awards
HWCOE Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award, 2024
UF Innovate Invention of the Year, 2023
NSF CAREER Award, 2012
IEEE Fellow, 2019
Primary Research Area
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
Wireless communications, physical-layer security, software-defined radios, radio frequency system on chip (RFSoC)
Primary Research Area
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Semiconductor electronics, manufacturing, measurement and failure analysis, wireless network testing
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Quantum materials, quantum devices, nanoelectronics, magnetism and spintronics, nonvolatile memory, unconventional computing (e.g. quantum and neuromorphic computing).
Honors and Awards
NSF CAREER Award, 2025
Research Opportunity Seed Fund, 2024
IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award, 2023
UCLA Outstanding Student Award Finalist
Physics Research Award
Editorial Board of Nanotechnology, member since 2024
IEEE EDS Young Professional Committee, member since 2024
Editorial Board of NPJ Spintronics, part of the Nature Partner Journals series, member since 2023
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.
Expertise
Devices
Research Interests
3-D MEMS technology; micromachined metamaterials for radio frequency and microwave applications; millimeter-wave antennas
Honors and Awards
HWCOE Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award, 2025
Primary Research Area
Signals and Systems
Research Interests
Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing
Honors and Awards
SEC Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow (2023-24)
H.E.R.S. Leadership Institute Participant, 2021-2022
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Teacher/Scholar of the Year, 2021-2022
Term Professorship Award, University of Florida, August 2021-July 2024
Advanced Leadership for Academics and Professionals Participant, 2022-2023
Best Reviewer Recognition, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2011
NSF CAREER Award for research entitled “Supervised Learning with Incomplete and Uncertain Data” 2014
NGA New Investigator Award, 2014
University of Missouri College of Engineering Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award, Mar.…