The University of Florida will be closed Friday, Sept. 8, through Monday, Sept. 11, in anticipation of Hurricane Irma. As the state of Florida braces for one of the strongest hurricanes in history, departments are encouraged to revisit the university’s and their own emergency plans – or, if need be, to put one in place. Only essential university personnel should report for work on these days.

For the latest updates, please visit the UF Alerts website.

Prof. Domenic Forte has received an NSF CAREER Award for “Transformative Approaches for Hardware Obfuscation Protection, Attacks, and Assessment.”

The NSF CAREER program fosters the career development of outstanding junior faculty, combining the support of research and education of the highest quality and in the broadest sense.

We are proud to announce that FICS Research Co-director Mark Tehranipoor has been named a Cybsi Ambassador in Cybersecurity by the Intstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), “the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the result of humanity”.  IEEE.org

Karim Oweiss, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering, biomedical engineering and neuroscience, will also study the mechanisms by which cranial nerve stimulation can affect brain activity. Instead of using the standard microelectrode sensors, which don’t last as long as some longer learning processes might take, his lab will use advanced optical imaging.

In Biometric Security: Your Body as Your Password, Prof. Damon Woodard shares his thoughts on consumer concerns and the adaptability of biometric security

features on mobile devices and how researchers and engineers can mitigate their concerns with improved design.

Despite the relative convenience and improved security that biometric security offers mobile users, usability and data protection concerns

ECE Professor Dr. David P. Arnold was awarded the George Kirkland Professorship in Engineering Leadership. 

ECE Florida students, Rajendra Bhat and Rahul Sengupta (Dr. Andy Li's lab) and Rodrigo Daniel Trevizan from Dr. Bretas' lab 

recently won the best paper award at IEEE ICMLA 2016.

(more information and pictures are at http://www.andyli.ece.ufl.edu/index.php/2016/12/24/best-paper-award-icmla-2016/ )

CONGRATULATIONS to ECE Florida student, Felipe Lenz Carvalho who is advised by Dr. Martin A. Uman. He has received the Outstanding International Student Award 2016 from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. The International Student Awards Ceremony is celebrated each year in tandem with UF’s International Education Week and is sponsored by the UFIC.

We are proud to announce that

Dr. Jose C. Principe has been recently awarded Don D. and Ruth S. Eckis Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering

This fund honors Donald D. "Don" and Ruth S. Eckis. Don Eckis attended Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind., for two years.

He was the chairman and chief executive officer for Don's Prize Foods-Frozen Meat Packers Inc. in Miami.

EEL 5934 Neural Signals, Systems and Technology to be taught in Spring 2015

Spring 2015: EEL 5934

Neural Signals, Systems & Technology

Instructor: Karim G. Oweiss, Ph.D. Phone: (352) 294-1898 E-mail: koweiss@ufl.edu

Meeting Time and Location: Tuesdays 8:30AM-10:25AM, Thursdays 9:35AM-10:25AM in BLK 415

Credits: 3 credit hours

First Most Important Question: Why should I take this course?

Neural Engineering is an interdisciplinary field of research that focuses on novel tools and

The new faculty in ECE and CISE had a new faculty lunch reception with good food and conversation on September 19, 2014. Shown in photo left to right, Toshi Nishida, Patrick Traynor, Kyla McMullen, Eakta Jain, Juan Gilbert, Christina Gardner-McCune, John Harris, and Karim Oweiss. Thanks to associate chairs Nishida (ECE) and Gilbert (CISE) for organizing. Several of the new faculty were absent and will attend the next ECE/CISE new faculty reception in January.

Daniel Collotte and Kevin Runda, both graduates of the University of Florida Electrical Engineering program placed third at the annual Texas Instruments (TI) Innovation Challenge. They are shown here with Steve Lyle, Director of Engineering Workforce Development and University Marketing for Texas Instruments.

The team wowed the judges and Tiers with their universal interface cube and was awarded $5,000. There were over 800 participants in the competition! The department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud of this accomplishment.

Dr. Harris welcomes over 150 new ECE graduate students with a unique presentation that included “A Few Famous Alumni” featuring Chris Malachowsky, Co- founder of Nvidia and Augi Lye, Founder and CEO of Trendy Entertainment.

Five UF Electrical Engineering students win third place at the International Microwave Symposium which took place in Tampa, FL . The team is pictured from left to right: Tien-Yu Huang,  Jianxuan Tu, Chien-Ming Nieh, Changyu Wei, Meiyu Li . They were recognized for the High Sensitivity Radar competition with a final system weighing only 6 grams that featured a miniature antenna and coupler.

Mr. Yuanxiong Guo, a grduate student supervised by Dr. Michael Fang and Dr. Pramod Khargonekar, has accepted an assistant professor position in the area of smart grid in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University. Congratulations! 

Recent UF graduate, Harsha Ramakrishnappa, talks to the UF CRC about post-graduate success and making a home in Central Florida.  The full story can be found in the UF CRC's "Career Buzz" blog:

http://careerbuzz.tumblr.com/post/80580760433/international-gators-calling-the-swamp-home

There is a lot of lightning during the summer months in Florida. When there is lightning, you should go inside immediately.

Signal Processing can be used in Epilepsy, brain tumors, cancer, nicotene detection, dental research, blood analysis.

Ojika, a fourth-year computer engineering Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida, was recently notified of his being awarded a $20K Microsoft Azure Research Award. He received his first master’s degree in electrical engineering from California State University Los Angeles and a second in computer engineering from the University of Florida. He is also an XSEDE Student Campus Champion. 

"Emulating Bilingual Synaptic Response Using a Junction-Based Artificial Synaptic Device"

"Two-way artificial synapse mimics brain chemistry"
 

ACS Nano

On April 14, 2017 Dr. Dapeng Oliver Wu was recognized as the Bradley Distinguished Lecturer at Virginia Tech for his talk on, "Multimedia over Future Internet:

Challenges and Opportunities.

Abstract

Computer Graphics pioneer and University of Florida Professor Emeritus, Dr. John Staudhammer has died.  He was a noted American Electrical Engineer and devoted educator.

Two books have recently been publish with ECE professors serving as eidtors and contributors.

Hardware IP Security and Trust

http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319490243

Editors: Mishra, Prabhat, Bhunia, Swarup, Tehranipoor, Mark (Eds.)

Twenty students under the direction of Dr. Eric Schwartz took first place in the international Maritime RobotX Challenge in Oahu, Hawaii in December.

The RobotX Challenge is designed to foster student interest in autonomous robotic systems operating in the maritime domain. 

ECE PhD candidate, Andy Gray led the students on the NaviGator team. The team was made up of students from the departments

Dr. Swarup Bhunia has been awarded the Steven Yatauro Faculty Fellow for excellence in research and dedication in the field of Electrical Engineering, specifically the areas of: Hardware Security and Trust with emphasis on: anti-counterfeiting, anti-Trojan, authentication, & antipiracy solutions, Adaptive Nanocomputing with emerging technologies, Computing at Extreme, with emphasis on: nanomechanical logic and memory, Low-power and Robust Electronics, Bioimplantable and Wearable Systems. Steve Yatauro is an alum of ECE (BSEE in 1989).

We congratulate PhD student, Robert Karam, for receiving the best paper award at the IEEE BioCAS (Biomedical Circuits and Systems) Conference (www.biocas2016.org) in Shanghai, China. The paper is titled “Ultralow-power Data Compression for Implantable Bladder Pressure Monitor: Algorithm and Hardware Implementation” This was a collaborative project with Robert KaramDr. Bhunia from UF and researchers from the L. Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center and Cleveland Clinic. IIRC the conference had about 150 accepted papers, 300+ submissions, and 3 best paper awards.

Fang was honored for distinguished research and teaching contributions to the field of electrical and computer engineering, particularly for wireless network design and cybersecurity.

Photo shows Professor Jose Principe with his two latest PhD graduates: Dr. Kan Li and Dr. Goktug Cinar.

Dr. Xian-He Sun from the Illinois Institute of Technology visited ECE this week to present a talk on Parallelism for High Performance Data Processing: A Rethinking.

Alumni Accomplishment: Changzhi Li, a former student of Dr. Jenshan Lin, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University. Changzhi just received news that he will be awarded both the ASEE Terman Award and the IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Professional Award for 2014. Read full details here: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ece/department/news/ Last year Changzhi received the prestigious NSF CAREER award. Changzhi earned his MS in ECE in 2007 and his PhD in ECE in 2009 from the UNiversity of Florida.

Professor Oliver Wu was chosen as the general chair of the 2015 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP). This is a flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and will be held in Orlando, FL, USA, December 14--16, 2015.

On August 7th 2014, NSF awarded a new Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST). The MIST Center is led at UF under the direction of Dr. Toshi Nishida and Dr. David Arnold, with partner site at UCF led by Dr.  Peter Yuan and Dr. Joe Cho.  The 5-year Phase-I MIST Center funding consists of $557,500 from NSF.  Total projected 5-year funding including industry memberships is $4,800,000.

WECE celebrated the arrival of new students with a welcome brunch! It was attended by 40 new students to the ECE department. Delicious food was served and students had the opportunity to socialize and learn about the wealth of support within the organization and the department.

WECE plans several extracurricular activities and social events throughout the year.

ECE Undergrad coordinator Henry Zmuda welcoming new freshman and transfer students after the engineering convocation. The College of Engineering welcomed a record number of new students at the Engineering Student Convocation on Friday, August 22, 2014. The ECE and CISE departments co-hosting a reception for new undergraduate students in electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science.

The PropaGator team placed second at the 7th Annual International RoboBoat Competition July 8-13 in Virginia Beach, VA. Congrats to Prof. Eric Schwartz and all team members!

Dr. Michael Fang co-chaired the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) held in Toronto, Canada, 27 April-2May, 2014, with attendance over 800 people all around globe. INFOCOM is considered to be the top networking conference sponsored by IEEE with acceptance rate below 20%. This year's INFOCOM has received over 1600 papers with accept rate 19%.

PhD Student Andrew Gray, was just awarded a Google Scholarship for American Veterans. As part of this scholarship he will also participate in a Google retreat for a week in June. Andy is the robot boat team leader and a member of the SubjuGator team. 

Linke Guo, a graduate student supervised by Michael Fang, has accepted an assistant professor position in the area of cybersecurity in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Binghamton University (State University of New York). Congratulations!

Graduate student Daniel Kotovsky recently spent the month of January in Antarctica at McMurdo and South Pole Stations as part of Dr. Robert Moore’s research group. Daniel was onsite to perform yearly maintenance and make sure the receivers at each site would run through the long Antarctica winter.

Prof. John Shea received the Ellersick Award from the IEEE Communicaitons Society for the best paper at the 2013 Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) in San Diego.  The award is for the paper "Graph Matching-Based Topology Reconfiguration Algorithm for Systems of Networked Autonomous Vehicles."  The paper is authored by ECE postdoc Dr. Leenhapat Navaravong, Prof. Shea, Dr. Eduardo Pasiliao, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and Prof. Warren Dixon.

Congratulations to Fall 2013 Electric E recipient- Marc R. Feldman.

Matthew received a UF Superior Accomplishment Award in the Division III competition for his work at the ACIS lab.

Dr. Jack Judy joins ECE as the Intel Nanotechnology Endowed Chair/NIMET Director. Dr. Judy was formerly a professor at UCLA and a program manager in the Microsystems Technology Office of DARPA.

On July 22nd, the SubjuGator Team earned 2nd place in the 2012 RoboSub Competition against 30 teams, from 10 different countries. From left to right: Nic Fischer, Gautam Dash, Matthew Thompson, Forrest Voight, Patrick Walters, Dr. Eric Schwartz, Nathan Sauder, Navid Shahrestani. See http://subjugator.org/]http://SubjuGator.org