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… Read More
Research NewsResearch News
ECE-Led Consortium Aims to Re-Shore Semiconductor Manufacturing
Supply chain disruptions. The Big Hack. Ransom attacks. These issues, familiar to all from the steady stream of stories in the media, have one thing in common. They all have to do with, in one way or another, semiconductor manufacturing.… Read More
Farahmandi Works to Counter Hardware Attacks Before Chips Are Manufactured
Dr. Farimah Farahmandi has received funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in support of her 3-year project, “FAME: Fault-Injection Assessment and Mitigation of Microelectronics at Pre-silicon.”
CNEL Seminar: Caio Kalil Lauand
Caio Kalil Lauand is a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida under the supervision of Dr. Sean Meyn. He presents “Clever Exploration for Machine Learning” Wednesday, March 22 at 3:00pm in NEB 409.
CNEL Seminar: Xiaolei Guo
Xiaolei Guo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. She presents “Interactive Segmentation with Deep Metric Learning” Wednesday, March 8 at 3:00pm in NEB 409.
Sanjeev Koppal Selected as Amazon Scholar
ECE Associate Professor Sanjeev Koppal was recently selected as an Amazon Scholar. He’ll work with Amazon to create better cameras and better algorithms for their robots.
YK Yoon Receives NSF Award for Sustainable Materials Solutions
ECE Professor Yong-Kyu ‘YK’ Yoon has received a $750k award from the NSF Convergence Accelerator Program in support of his project “Energy-efficient MetaConductors for Convergence of Sustainable Electronics (E-MC2 of Sustainable Electronics).”
Sandip Ray Leads $500k Project to Raise Awareness of Automotive Security Risks
Dr. Ray is leading a $500k project supported by the SaTC program at the NSF. The focus of “An Integrative Hands-on Approach to Vehicular Security Education” is to develop technology and materials to help the broader community comprehend the cybersecurity challenges in autonomous vehicles.
Shuo Wang and Team Warn Against the Dangers of the ‘Invisible Finger’
ECE researcher Dr. Shuo Wang and his security research group at the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World have been making the rounds of late, showcasing their research to Apple, Intel, Google and the like, talking about the ‘invisible finger.’
Shreya Saxena Uses Deep Learning to Elucidate the Basis of Sensorimotor Control
ECE Assistant Professor Shreya Saxena has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in support of her project, “Elucidating Principles of Sensorimotor Control using Deep Learning.” The research objective of this $1M BRAIN Initiative proposal is to develop biologically-inspired goal- and data- driven artificial intelligence methods to elucidate the neurodynamical basis of sensorimotor control.