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Ashley Tramble is a current FICS Research student who works at Honeywell FM&T. We asked her the following questions about her career path and how FICS Research assists in her career.   What is your current job? I am currently a Technical Fellow at the Kansas City National Security Campus managed and operated by Honeywell […]

The University of Florida today announced a public-private partnership with NVIDIA that will catapult UF’s research strength to address some of the world’s most formidable challenges, create unprecedented access to AI training and tools for underrepresented communities, and build momentum for transforming the future of the workforce. The initiative is anchored by a $50 million […]

Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research has announced a collaboration with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a program called Automated Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS). Leading electronic design automation company Synopsys will serve as a prime contractor on the program. The $7.8M grant, part of the DARPA Electronic Resurgence Initiative (ERI), has the broad goal of making scalable […]

“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). In attendance were: Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Dean Cammy Abernathy, Associate Dean […]

The World health Organization (WHO) has declared that the Coronavirus is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). While the immediate risk of the Coronavirus to the American public is believed to be low at this time1, FICS Research wants to assure you that the conference will take place. Our institute is taking the […]

Join us in congratulating Prof. Tom Shrimpton and Co-PIs Drs. Vincent Bindschaedler, Kevin Butler, and Patrick Traynor for being selected to participate in DARPA’s Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE) Program. The 1.5 million dollar research grant they received for this project will enable them to contribute their expertise in cryptographic and obfuscated communication protocols […]

We are thrilled to announce that Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) has generously gifted FICS Research with a fund to support our Distinguished Speaker Series. The series, which aims to attract high profile speakers to the University of Florida for both the benefit of the campus community as well as to explore potential collaboration opportunities, to […]

Several FICS Research faculty -including Director Mark Tehranipoor, Yier Jin, Navid Asadi, Domenic Forte, Farimah Farahmandi, and Associate Director Kevin Butler- joined forces with Professor Waleed Khalil and other colleagues at OSU to form two new Centers of Excellence (COEs) sponsored by the Nimbis, Inc, a developer of collaborative cloud communities and Air Force Office […]

We are proud to share the Dr. Yier Jin – FICS Research faculty member, IoT Term Professor and Program Director at the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World – was recently nominated a 2019 Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE’s Council on Electronic Design Animation (CEDA) for his research on hardware security vis a vis the Internet of […]

Prof. Kevin Butler recently received the honor of being conferred one of only two Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Professorships in Computer Science by the University of Florida. Accompanied by a half-million dollar endowment, the award is in recognition of his efforts in leading research on uncovering smart phone vulnerabilities. Butler’s research focuses on the security of computers, from embedded […]