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Click here to watch… Sriram Baireddy’s FICS Summer Research Experience 

Hedging Public-key Encryption in the Real World

The security of many cryptographic primitives relies on access to reliable, high-quality randomness. However, generating good randomness is a complex process that often fails, due to use of ill-designed random number generators (RNGs), software bugs, or malicious subversion…

Sumaiya Shomaji Wins Best Poster!

Sumaiya Shomaji University of Florida FICS Research Ph.D. candidate recently received the best poster award at 2017 WiSE (Workshop for Women in Hardware and Systems Security) conference.  The WiSE conference honors women of distinction in the engineering field. 

AuthentiCall: Efficient Identity and Content Authentication for Phone Calls

Faculty Spotlight:
Dr. Kevin Butler

“I was a weird kid, I think that’s how I learned to love networks, it came from hanging out at bus stations seeing where things were and were they were going…”

Upcoming Events

Booker High School Visit October 11th 2017

NSF GFRP Fellowship Deadlines October 23rd-November 2nd

2017 Forum for Trusted and Assured MicroElectronics

Booker High School Takeover!

October 11th 2017 will be a day to be remembered at FICS Institute. Sarasota, FL Booker High School students joined FICS students and faculty in exploring innovative research and technology.

New Course: Case Studies in Cybersecurity

Dr. Swarup Bhunia will be introducing a new and exciting course”Case Studies in Cybersecurity” This course will be offered exclusively at the University of Florida during the Spring 2018 academic term.

FICS Research Institute is offering a new
Graduate Certificate in Information Security

Student Spotlight

Grace Hopper Scholarship Recipient Ruimin Sun

“During the conference, I had the chance to talk to many faculty members from different universities and different research areas in computing. I was inspired by the way they examined challenging problems. They can always find a special angle, and propose a great idea using cutting-edge knowledge.”

October Highlights

FICS Research would like recognize the following prestigious achievements:

Dr. Daniela Oliveira Key Note Speaker at the Swiss Cyber Storm Conference 
Imani Sherman was awarded the Grace Hopper Celebration ofWomen in Computing Scholarship.

Reminders

FICS Releases Research Portfolio

2017 Forum for Trusted and Assured MicroElectronics

November 29th, 2017

November 2017

News Headlines

Security Flaws IEEE Standard
Discovered by FICS Researchers

Researchers from the University of Florida presented a paper at the 2017 ACM CSS conference detailing security flaws of the IEEE P1735 standard and what those vulnerabilities represent for the industry…  

Dr. Kevin Butler
HWCOE International Educator of the Year Award Recipient

Dr. Mark Tehranipoor Elevated to IEEE Fellow

Dr. Mark Tehranipoor recently added another distinguished honor to his title, IEEE Fellow for his contributions to integrated circuits security and trust.IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary… 

Dr. Yier Jin the 2017 Asian Host Program Chair

“This year’s AsianHOST was fabulous we can clearly see a significant increase in attendees, it is great to witness a healthy trend being established and I am grateful to assist in building a cybersecurity…” 

November Highlights

  • Alumni Adam Bates receives Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up
  • Dr. Domenic Forte delivered the visionary talk at Asian HOST 2017
  • FICS Research CyberGators received its first sponsorship from IBM Manager Nat Prakongpan
  • 2017 TAME Forum

December 2017

Mark Your Calendars!

2018 FICS Research Annual Conference on Cybersecurity
February 28th- March 1st
The University of Florida Emerson Alumni Hall

News Headlines

Security Flaws IEEE Standard
Discovered by FICS Researchers

Researchers from the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering presented a paper at the 2017 ACM CSS conference detailing security flaws of the IEEE P1735 electronics standard… 

Dr. Mark Tehranipoor Elevated to IEEE Fellow

Dr. Mark Tehranipoor recently added another distinguished honor to his title, IEEE Fellow for his contributions to integrated circuits security and trust.IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary… 

Dr. Kevin Butler
HWCOE International Educator of the Year Award Recipient

As the recipient of NSF Career Award 2013-2018, Vice-Chair of IEEE SP 2016 and UF Rising to National Preeminence Hire, Dr. Butler gracefully accepts this new accolade…

FICS Faculty advances Hardware Security Internationally

Dr. Yier Jin, the IoT  Term Endowed Professor, co-founded the IEEE AsianHOST symposium in 2016.  He served as program chair for AsianHOST 2016-2017.  “The 2017 AsianHOST symposium was great–we can clearly see a significant…”

December Highlights

Jeremy Epstein
Deputy Division Director NSF’s Division of Computer & Network Systems
University of Florida, ECE Distinguished Speakers Series

Edna Conway

Chief Security Officer (CSO) – Global Value Chain, Cisco 
FICS Research Distinguished Speakers Series

Trusted and Assured MicroElectronic (TAME) Forum
TAME participants visit FICS Research state of the art laboratory