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Catia Silva » Electronics

This division covers a broad range of topics from the manufacturing of integrated circuits to their applications in real world systems.

Current research includes:

  • adaptive circuits
  • radio frequency circuits
  • hardware security
  • VLSI design
  • co-packaged photonic circuits for AI acceleration and reconfigurable computing 
  • acoustic sensing in harsh environments
  • microwave device and interconnect modeling
  • IC test, and modeling of materials,components and circuits for high-frequency power electronics
  • bioelectronics
  • energy harvesting circuits

Faculty

Area Chair: Hamed Dalir
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Catia Silva

Instructional Associate Professor

Office MALA 3122 Office Phone: 352-392-6502 Website: https://faculty.eng.ufl.edu/catia-silva/

Biography

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)

Education

Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida, 2018
M.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Porto, 2012
B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Porto, 2010