Category: Research

Attending the upcoming Grace Hopper Conference in Orlando FL? FICS faculty member and ECE Assistant Professor Dr. Tuba Yavuz is presenting a virtual workshop during the Open Source Day (OSD) entitled “Linux Kernel Hacking Workshop”. This presentation will be available on September 22nd from 2-3 pm EST. More information on the presentation and the conference […]

Congratulations to Dr. Sara Rampazzi and her team composed of lead author Jennifer Sheldon, Weidong Zhu, Dr. Md Jahidul Islam, and FICS Research Director Dr. Kevin Butler, on winning Best Paper at HotStorage 2023 conference for the paper entitled “Deep Note: Can Acoustic Interference Damage the Availability of Hard Disk Storage in Underwater Data Centers?”

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.

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, […]

Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new contractor before she left for the day and needs him to do it. She gives him the wire transfer information, and with the money transferred, […]

Congratulations to Associate Director of FICS Research Dr. Farahmandi and her recent recipient of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Young Faculty Award for contributions in the field of microelectronic security and hardware security verification. This award recognizes untenured, full time researcher that show distinction in SRC funded research by both the novelty of research and […]

Using a $7.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a team of researchers led by the University of Florida will examine the needs of marginalized and vulnerable populations among security and privacy technologies. The project, supported by the NSF’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Frontiers program, seeks to develop foundational design principles to mitigate […]