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Yangbin Wang Rising Star Endowed Assistant Professor 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.” The project seeks to enhance the safety and security of microelectronics by creating an innovative AI-assisted security verification framework for modern complex system-on-chip (SoC) devices. […]

Designed to set the standard for future STEM buildings across national and international campuses and transform the artificial intelligence (AI) and data science workforce, the University of Florida Friday held a celebratory ribbon cutting for the Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology.  Across the street from the Reitz Union in the heart of […]

On 24th October, PRESIDENT Joe Biden honored Computer science department chair and FICS faculty Dr. Juan Gilbert, Ph.D., at the White House with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for pioneering a universal voting system that makes voting more reliable and accessible for everyone and for increasing diversity in the computer science workforce. The National […]

Congratulations to FICS Research Director Dr. Kevin Butler, who was recently appointed on the 2023 council for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC).The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward […]

Dr. Eakta Jain’s research on the human/horse interaction asks if this can teach us something about building robots designed to improve our lives. She states “There are no fundamental guiding principles for how to build an effective working relationship between robots and humans, as we work to improve how humans interact with autonomous vehicles and […]

Congratulations to both Dr. Rampazzi and her Ph.D student Sri Hrushikesh Varma Bhupathiraju for wining two awards for their work-in-progress (WIP) paper, titled: “WIP: Infrared Laser Reflection Attack Against Traffic Sign Recognition Systems”. These awards include: The ETAS best short/WIP Paper award and the Qualcomm Best Demo Award at the Inaugural Symposium on Vehicle Security […]

Congratulations to ECE Assistant Professor, and FICS Associate Director, Dr. Farimah Farahmandi on being named as the inaugural the Yangbin Wang Rising Star Endowed Professor. This is a testament to her dedication to outstanding research and hard work.

Congratulations to FICS Research faculty member Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D. chosen by the The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals as an AAS Fellow. Dr. Prabhat is also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and […]

Congratulations to both Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., and David Kaber, Ph.D., who have been named Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE Fellow is a major distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this elevation.  The Fellow […]

New research by Sara Rampazzi and her team, reveals that expertly timed lasers shined at an approaching lidar system can create a blind spot in front of the vehicle large enough to completely hide moving pedestrians and other obstacles. The deleted data causes the cars to think the road is safe to continue moving along, […]