Category: Research News

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ECE Assistant Professor Ivan Ruchkin has received funding from NSF for his project “Neuro-Symbolic Bridge: From Perception to Estimation & Control.” The project aims to enhance the robustness of cyber physical systems (CPS).

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.”

Dr. Hamed Dalir’s CHIP Lab at the University of Florida published a new paper in Nature Communications Physics showcasing their groundbreaking research on integrating machine learning within optical networks.

A diverse team led by three ECE Florida faculty members is set to receive funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design and fabricate dynamic pressure sensors capable of performing at temperatures upwards of 800 °C (1472 °F), over a factor of 6X higher than any integrated pressure sensor currently in use.

Walden C. Rhines Endowed Assistant Professor for Hardware Security Farimah Farahmandi has received an NSF CAREER award in support of her project “SAIF: Security Assurance through AI and Formal Approaches for System-on-Chips.”

Yangbin Wang Rising Star Endowed Assistant Professor Farimah Farahmandi has received funding from the Office of Naval Research in support of her project “Optimized System Design for Assurance and Life-Cycle Management (SaLEM).”

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.

ECE Florida Assistant Professor Baoyun Ge has received an NSF CAREER Award for his project “Guided Exploration of Multiphysics Design Space for Electric Machines Using Tensorial Analysis (GEOMETRY).”

Dr. Philip Feng, ECE professor and associate chair for research, has been named as the inaugural Walden C. Rhines Endowed Professor for Quantum Engineering. The endowment will support Dr. Feng’s research program, focused on quantum engineering, novel materials, and nanoelectricalmechanical devices (NEMS), as well as the creation of the Florida Quantum Initiative. 

ECE Assistant Professor Elham Heidari has received a $300k grant from AFWERX, a program of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force, in support of her project “Emerging Trends in High-Capacity Optical Transceivers: A Focus on Monolithic Integration.”

Dr. Damon Woodard and Dr. Domenic Forte are spearheading a groundbreaking $992k initiative—funded by the Office of the President of the University of Florida—with the overarching goal of propelling the University of Florida to the forefront of national security research, policy formulation, and workforce development.

Dr. Farimah Farahmandi has received $290k in funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in support of her efforts to equip the Silicon Design & Assurance (SiDA) lab with the ZeBu Emulator framework, manufactured by Synopsys.

Dr. David Arnold is leading a project funded by the Florida DoE aimed at developing a pre-baccalaureate workforce strategic plan to support the growing semiconductor industry in the State of Florida.

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

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.

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.

ECE Florida Professor Shuo Wang has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project, “Advanced Electromagnetic Analysis and High-frequency Impedance Design for Magnetic Ferrite Inductors and Transformers.”

ECE Associate Professor and Kent & Linda Fuchs Faculty Fellow Joel Harley is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) to find innovative ways of determining the structural integrity of fuel rods used in nuclear power generation plants.

The NSF-funded engineering IoT4Ag research center held its year three annual retreat June 14–16 in Gainesville.

A UF team led by Yong-Kyu Yoon is part of a project that has been chosen as one of 34 semifinalists in the NSF Engines program.

Dr. Sanjeev J. Koppal has received $1M in funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in support of his project “Rapid High-Resolution Target Aerial Detection and Tracking through Deep Foveated Imaging.”

ECE Assistant Professor Jie Fu is part of a research project sponsored by the Army Research Laboratory under Cooperative Agreement W911NF-22-2-0233 between Raytheon BBN and ARL with support from the University of Florida. The broader project will develop novel research results focusing on robots’ formation tracking and waypoint design at both individual and team levels.

As profiled by UF News, the innovative Gainesville-based company Fire Neural Network, or FNN, is using artificial intelligence to reduce the time it takes to identify a devastating wildfire from 24 hours to just 40 seconds. ECE Florida has deep connections to this work—underpinning FNN’s ingenious technology is a deep understanding of lightning, its behavior, […]