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).
Tehranipoor Elevated to ACM Fellow

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).
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.
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.
Faculty from FICS Research have announced a collaboration with DARPA and Synopsys on a program called AISS: Automated Implementation of Secure Silicon.
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).
Students and professionals alike will be able to become experts in the field of hardware security beginning in January 2019 with the launch of ECE Florida’s new Hardware and Systems Security (HSS) certificate.
ECE Florida is proud to announce the recent elevation of three faculty members to the the distinction of IEEE Fellow: Dr. Tao Li, Dr. Mark Tehranipoor, and Dr. Huikai Xie.