Asadi Works to Make X-Ray Imagery Less Noisy

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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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ECE Researchers Use AI to Quantify Ecosystem Services

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Researchers in UF’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, along with collaborators from UF/IFAS, are developing AI systems for the purpose of more accurately measuring ecosystem services and how they are impacted by various land management practices.

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Jie Fu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Develop Intelligent Sensing & Control Methods

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ECE Assistant Professor Jie Fu has received a $550K NSF CAREER Award in support of her project Formal “Synthesis of Provably Correct Cyber-Physical Defense with Asymmetric Information.”

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Baoyun Ge

ECE Welcomes Baoyun Ge to the Faculty

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ECE Florida is excited to welcome the newest member of our faculty, Dr. Baoyun Ge. He officially starts as an assistant professor on May 15.

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Seminar: Olaoluwa Adigun

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Olaoluwa Adigun is a Ph.D. candidate in the Signal and Image Processing Institute, ECE Department at USC (LA). He presents “Bidirectional Backpropagation and High Capacity Network” Thursday, March 31 at 1:00pm Via Zoom.

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2022 Walter G. Fredrickson Distinguished Interdisciplinary Lecture Series: Susann Keohane

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As part of the Walter G. Fredrickson Distinguished Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, ECE alumna and IBM Master Inventor (200+ global patents issued) Susann Keohane presents “Living to Be 100: Emerging Technologies for Healthy Aging.”

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Harley Collaborates with MAE & Informatics Institute to Better Understand HEAs

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ECE Assistant Professor Joel Harley is embarking on a unique collaboration with MAE to better understand how a high entropy alloy (HEA) works on an atomic level.

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Forte & Maghari Invent “Universal Testing Technique” to Detect Counterfeit Chips

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An article recently published in the Academic Times profiled exciting new technology patented by researchers at the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research which promises a new way to detect recycled and counterfeit electronic parts. The technology created by ECE Associate Professor Domenic Forte and ECE Associate Professor Nima Maghari makes supply chains more secure, protects consumer safety and runs at almost zero cost.

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Zare’s $1.2 Million Award Brings Machine Learning to Plant Root Science

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A team of researchers from ECE Florida and IFAS has received a $1.2M grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that combines machine learning, hyperspectral cameras, and minirhizotron tubes to nondestructively study root systems of plants.

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Alina Zare Assists with Hunt for Better Biofuel

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Dr. Alina Zare and the Machine Sensing Lab are part of team working to engineer a more powerful biofuel—using switchgrass, a fast-growing perennial native to the U.S.

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Engineering Plays a Leading Role in Agriculture Practices of the Future

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Q&A with Dr. David Arnold and Dr. Alina Zare, working together on the recently created NSF ERC IoT4Ag Center

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Sanjeev Koppal

Koppal Receives NSF CAREER Award for Active Computer Vision

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ECE Assistant Professor Sanjeev Koppal has received a $100K NSF CAREER Award in support of his work in computer vision.

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Tuba Yavuz Receives NSF CAREER Award

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Assistant Professor Tuba Yavuz has been awarded a 2020 NSF CAREER Award for her project, “Towards a Secure and Reliable Internet of Things through Automated Model Extraction and Analysis.”

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Hunter Smith, Dylan Stewart, Alina Zare and Chris Wilson standing near a cow pasture

Alina Zare Collaborates with UF Agronomy to Better Understand AgroEcoSystems

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Dr. Chris Wilson of UF Agronomy and ECE Florida’s Dr. Alina Zare are using hyper-spectral imagery of experimental cow pastures to better understand the ecosystem effects of adding perennial peanut to beef pastures.

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Leader board at SC2

Team GatorWings Takes First Place in DARPA SC2

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In the culmination of a three-year competition cycle, Team GatorWings beat ten other teams in the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) to win first place, taking home a $2M prize.

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Harley Uses Deep Learning to Understand Abnormal Grain Growth

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Dr. Joel Harley is co-PI on a project that combines artificial intelligence and deep learning with materials and chemical science.

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ECE Florida Team Wins First-Ever Dell EMC AI Challenge

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A UF ECE team has won the first-ever Dell EMC AI Challenge, a competition created to demonstrate the application of AI technologies in technical and business problems.

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