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Gator Africa Promises to Bring Collaboration, Exchange with Sub-Saharan Universities

August 26, 2025

A new initiative, led by Sachio Semmoto Chair of ECE Mark Tehranipoor and ECE Associate Chair for Academics Christophe Bobda, promises to connect University of Florida (UF) students and faculty with faculty and students from ECE departments and engineering colleges across Sub-Saharan Africa.

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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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Four ECE Faculty Receive 2024 DURIP Awards Supporting Defense-Relevant Research

December 21, 2023

The US Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced the 2024 funded DURIP projects under the DURIP. ECE Florida faculty submitted a number of proposals and four were ultimately chosen for funding.

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Tehranipoor Receives SRC Aristotle Award

October 5, 2023

ECE Chair Mark Tehranipoor received the 2023 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Aristotle Award.

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Asadi Works to Make X-Ray Imagery Less Noisy

September 26, 2023

ECE Associate Professor Navid Asadi recently received $2.6M of funding from the NSF for “Track 2 Acquisition of a Novel Performance-Driven 3D Imaging System for Extremely Noisy Objects (NPIX).” NPIX system will be able to capture images of objects with complex geometries while doing so with minimal noise.

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Tehranipoor Elevated to ACM Fellow

January 19, 2022

ECE Professor and Director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research Dr. Mark Tehranipoor has been elevated to the rank of Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

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Asadi to Serve as Program Chair for 2021 IEEE Paine Conference

October 18, 2021

ECE Assistant Professor Dr. Navid Asadi will be serving as the program chair for the well-regarded 2021 IEEE PAINE Conference, to be held Nov. 30–Dec. 2, hosted virtually from Washington, D.C.

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FICS Research Expands Industry Partnerships, Workforce Development

October 23, 2020

FICS Research is well-known and regarded as a global leader in hardware security and systems security research. While high-powered, high-dollar research is certainly one of the main thrusts of FICS Research’s activities, there is another that garners less recognition—workforce development.

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representation of AISS program

FICS Research Receives $7.8M to Help Make On-Chip Security Pervasive

May 13, 2020

Faculty from FICS Research have announced a collaboration with DARPA and Synopsys on a program called AISS: Automated Implementation of Secure Silicon.

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$15M Technology Transition Center Celebrates Virtual Kickoff

April 29, 2020

Dignitaries from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) gathered virtually yesterday with the CEO and CTO of Edpative Computing, Inc. (ECI) to celebrate the kickoff of the newly-created ECI Transition Center (ECI-TC).

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