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ECE's early-career faculty members have had an unprecedented string of successes in the past academic year. No fewer than six early-career faculty members have earned young faculty awards during 2025.

Young Faculty Award Winners Power ECE’s Research Future

August 21, 2025

ECE’s early-career faculty members have had an unprecedented string of successes in the past academic year. No fewer than six early-career faculty members have earned young faculty awards during 2025.

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Chatterjee Receives NSF CAREER Award to Advance the Future of Medical Electronics through Body-Coupled Network of Devices

July 11, 2025

Baibhab Chatterjee, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the agency’s highest honor for early-career faculty. His funded project, “MED-IoB: Transforming Medical Electronics using Distributed Internet of Bodies (IoB) for Powering, Sensing, Communication and Synchronization,” seeks to revolutionize implantable and wearable medical electronics by enabling seamless data connectivity and power in a network of devices, leveraging the conductive property of the human body.

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ECE PhD Student Receives Prestigious MTT-S Fellowship

February 26, 2025

Asif Iftekhar Omi, an ECE Ph.D. student working with Dr. Baibhab Chatterjee, has been selected to receive the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications, among the most prestigious of accolades in microwave engineering.

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NSF Engine Team

Florida-Based NSF Regional Innovation Engine Kicks Off

March 25, 2024

A team of ten UF researchers, led by Dr. Yong-Kyu Yoon, is supporting 1 of only 10 NSF Engines: “Central Florida Semiconductor Innovation Engine.”

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Chatterjee works to create links for wireless neural implants placed deep inside the brain

October 5, 2023

Nature Electronics highlights work on extremely energy-efficient broadband communication in distributed wireless brain implants spearheaded by Dr. Baibhab Chatterjee.

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Volker Sorger—Building the Future with Photonic Memory

September 18, 2023

FSI Director Volker Sorger and his team have demonstrated in a recent publication that photonic-electronic hybrid circuits could be built that would create a revolutionary kind of photonic memory.

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