Category: News

FICS Research Education Director, Prof. Swarup Bhunia, and and Co-director, Prof. Mark Tehranipoor, have established a new academic serial publication entitled the Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (HaSS). The journal, which highlights new and ground-breaking developments in the rapidly expanding field of electronic hardware and systems security, is scheduled to be published quarterly beginning January […]

Robert Karam, a PhD student at the University of Florida’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) advised by FICS Research Director of Education, Prof. Swarup Bhunia, was awarded a best paper award at this year’s BioMedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference in Shanghai, China. His paper, “Ultralow Power Data Compression for Implantable Bladder Pressure […]

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 The IEEE Cybsi (Cybersecurity Initiative) Ambassadors are experts in various aspects […]

Three FICS Research doctoral students were recognized with Best In Session Awards at this year’s SRC TECHON in Austin, Texas. The Semiconductor Research Company (SRC) is a world class technology research consortium with highly regarded university research programs. Each year its national conference showcases the best of research sponsored by its members, as well as […]

Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of measurement solutions, recently announced that the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research (FICS Research) at the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering will outfit its new SeCurity and AssuraNce (SCAN) LAb with an extensive range of state-of-the-art Tektronix test equipment. The instrumentation, ranging from mixed domain oscilloscopes to […]

Ransomware – what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents – is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed a way to stop it dead in its tracks. Ransomware attacks have become one of […]

Members of the FICS Research team brought home two Best Paper Awards and one Best Paper Nomination from this year’s HOST Symposium! The IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) is an annual symposium which aims to facilitate the rapid growth of hardware-based security research and development. Each year it draws attendance from […]

Congratulations to the following FICS Research faculty and students who had papers accepted for publication this month:    Thomas Shrimpton, Martijn Stam and Bogdan Warinschi, “A Modular Treatment of Cryptographic APIs: The Symmetric-Key Case”, To appear at CRYPTO 2016*.   B. Reaves, L. Blue and P. Traynor, “AuthLoop: End-to-End Cryptographic Authentication for Telephony Over Voice Channels”, In […]

Three FICS Research students graduating from the University of Florida’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) this spring accepted academic positions at universities across the country! Congratulations to: Adam Bates, who will be joining faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Computer Science Department next fall.     Henry (Hank) Carter, […]

    The University of Florida and TESCAN, a leading manufacturer in electron microscopy, have partnered to create a world-class hardware security lab customized with advanced scientific instrumentation. The lab will be part of the new Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research, which operates on the UF campus under the leadership of co-directors Patrick Traynor and Mark […]