We sat down with Emeritus Distinguished Professor Martin Uman to discuss his 50-year career at UF and his surprising path to the field of lightning research.
Martin Uman’s Distinguished Career—An Interesting Series of Accidents
Greg Stitt Receives Ruth and Joel Spira Excellence in Teaching Award
Associate Professor Greg Stitt is the recipient of a Ruth and Joel Spira Excellence in Teaching Award. This honor was first revealed at the IEEE Spring Banquet last month, with Dr. Susan Hakkarainen, Joel and Ruth’s daughter, in attendance.
Domenic Forte Awarded Yatauro Faculty Fellowship
Associate Professor Dr. Domenic Forte has been awarded the Steven A. Yatauro Faculty Fellowship. The endowed fellowship was created to honor a faculty member who continues to inspire students and is attempting to solve society’s most challenging problems.
Tabrizian Receives Prestigious DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award
Assistant Professor Roozbeh Tabrizian has been selected to receive a 2021 DARPA Director’s Fellowship, following his receipt of the 2019 DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA).
Yoon & Mosaic Microsystems Collaborate to Develop Next-Generation Radar Array Tech
YK Yoon and Mosaic Microsystems are collaborating on a project sponsored by the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to collaboratively develop ultra-low loss solutions for next-generation radar arrays.
Dr. Farahmandi to Present at TEDx
Assistant Professor Farimah Farahmandi will be one of 12 featured speakers at TEDxYouth@PHUHS, an independently organized TED event to be held at Palm Harbor University High School.
Tabrizian Receives 2020-21 Khargonekar Award
Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian was recently notified that he is the recipient of the 2020-21 Pramod P. Khargonekar Award for the most outstanding junior faculty member undergoing tenure and promotion review this past fall.
Príncipe Awarded Prestigious IEEE SPS Award
Distinguished Professor José Príncipe was recently informed that he is the winner of the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award “for fundamental contributions to adaptive learning systems.”
Damon Woodard Accepts Position as Director of AI Partnerships
Dr. Damon Woodard has accepted a position as Director of AI Partnerships for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.
FICS Research Expands Industry Partnerships, Workforce Development
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.