Category: News

In 2016 the American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) started a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standardization process for key encapsulation mechanisms (KEM) and digital signature schemes. The competition began with 69 proper submissions in December 2017. As of July 22, 2020, the competition entered the third round with 7 finalist algorithms (4 KEM/Encryption and […]

Associate Professor and Director of the FICS Research SCAN Lab Dr. Domenic Forte has been awarded the Steven A. Yatauro Faculty Fellowship. The endowed fellowship was created to honor a faculty member who continues to inspire students and is attempting to solve society’s most challenging problems. The endowment will provide additional funding for the exploration of new and creative […]

An article recently published in the Academic Times profiled exciting new technology invented by researchers at the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research which promises a new way to detect recycled (previously used) and counterfeit electronic parts, especially chips. 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 […]

Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering, was recently awarded a $1.7 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate.

Visionary Leader in EDA, Dr. Walden ‘Wally” Rhines, son of the founding chair of the UF Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) Dr. Frederick N. Rhines, is also is President and CEO of Cornami, Inc., a fabless software/semiconductor company focused on intelligent computing for fully homomorphic encryption and machine learning. He was previously CEO […]

In the modern digital era, counterfeit electronic devices and systems pose a severe threat to undisruptive service, users’ privacy as well as the national economy, and security. Adversaries can inject various counterfeit devices into the electronics supply chain due to its global and distributed nature and sheer operational complexities among numerous participants, which lacks distinct […]

Mark Tehranipoor, Ph.D., the Intel Charles E. Young Endowed Professor in Cybersecurity in ECE, Director of FICS, has received a $1.75M grant from the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) to establish a joint center between Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU and UF called the Center for Aerospace Resilience (CAR). The center’s mission is to investigate innovative […]

Tell me a little about yourself I was adopted from Chengdu, China and grew up in Salisbury, Maryland (locals call it “Smallsbury,” you can imagine why). In 2015, I pursued a Dual B.S. in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Here, I held a variety of mentoring/tutoring/teaching positions for courses such as […]

Dr. Fahim Rahman is a homegrown FICS Research professor, from a FICS Research PhD student to now a FICS Research faculty. Here are a few questions that we asked him:   Tell me a little about yourself I am from Bangladesh. I was raised in one of the most beautiful college towns in the country […]

Sreeja Chowdhury was a FICS Research student who now works at Ansys San Jose. We asked her the following questions about her career path and what she will miss most about FICS Research. Can you tell us more about your current job? I have recently joined as an Applications Engineer in Ansys San Jose. Ansys […]