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Protecting Pharmaceutical Supply Chain with UCR tags

“UCR tags can be a promising replacement of barcode/QR codes for protecting supply chains and can help preserve the cold chain for temperature sensitive commodities (e.g. food, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, etc)…”   -Kun Yang 

ISTFA 2017 Outstanding Paper Award
“Steps Toward Automated Deprocessing of Integrated Circuits”

Deprocessing of ICs historically is a very challenging and time consuming process which employs a variety of mechanical and chemical process tools in combination with one or more imaging modalities to reconstruct the IC architecture…

Spotlight Interview Dr. Damon Woodard

“Another project I am working on involves the use of mobile device usage as a means of establishing identity. Unlike face or fingerprint, mobile device usage is considered a behavioral biometric. As we focus more on establishing identity in cyberspace…” -Dr. Damon Woodard

Dr. Tuba Yavuz Detects a Double-Free and Use-after-Free 
Vulnerability in a Linux USB Driver 

The University of Florida Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering FICS Research  Assistant Professor Dr. Yavuz has detected a double-free and use-after-free vulnerability in a Linux USB driver…

Future of Cybersecurity Depends on Collaboration Between Industry, Academia and Government

The nation’s top cybersecurity experts convened at the University of Florida to discuss the latest developments in network, software and hardware security. The core message? Collaboration is key…

Dr. Juan Gilbert 2018 ACM Habermann Award Winner

Juan Gilbert, The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida, is one of two recipients of the 2018 A. Nico A. Habermann Award, given by the Computing Research Association (CRA)…

FICS Research Conference on Cybersecurity Award Winners

“We developed 2MA not as a one size fits all system, but as a generalized framework. In our paper we talk a significant amount about our embodiment of 2MA in the context of voice assistants. However, we hope that others will go on to use the framework we outline…”

-Ph.D Student Logan Blue

Spotlight Interview Dr. Thomas Shrimpton

“Most recently I’ve been very interested in what I call “API-centric cryptography”, a theme of research that aims to close the gap between what academic cryptographers formalize and prove things about, and the *real* cryptographic primitives that…”   -Dr. Thomas Shrimpton

FICS Research Ph.D. student Ulbert Botero receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees… 

Dr. Swarup Bhunia Three-Time Awardee

Dr. Swarup Bhunia Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Florida FICS Research Education Director Preeminence Professor, Steven Yatauro Faculty Fellow has received three prestigious …

Faculty Profile: Sandip Ray

Sandip Ray joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the beginning of 2018, as an endowed IoT (Internet of Things) Term Professor. He is also part of the core faculty of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World… 

UF/FICS Leads The Way in Hardware Security

Hardware security made news in the worst way possible last month with the announcement that two CPU bugs, nicknamed Spectre and Meltdown, leave virtually every modern computer, smartphone, tablet and PC vulnerable to malicious attack…

UF Cybersecurity Expert AND FICS Develop New Skimmer Detection

Credit card skimmers – electronic devices criminals stick on ATMs and gas pumps to secretly suck up your sensitive financial information – may have finally met their match. University of Florida researchers have teamed up with the New York City Police… 

2nd Annual IEEE HOST WISE Workshop

The 2nd HOST co-located workshop for Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE) took place May 3rd 2018 in McLean, VA . The purpose of this workshop is to attract more women to join the field of hardware and systems security…

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Daniela Oliveira

“My vision is to minimize or eliminate the effort the Internet user has to make when encountering suspicious emails. I hope that my work won’t require them to be suspicious all the time.  Suspicion takes all the great things the Internet provides …

-Dr. Daniela Oliveira 

UF Cybersecurity Expert AND FICS Develop New Skimmer Detection

Credit card skimmers – electronic devices criminals stick on ATMs and gas pumps to secretly suck up your sensitive financial information – may have finally met their match. University of Florida researchers have teamed up with the New York City Police… 

Physical Attacks & INspection on Electronics Workshop

Over seventy attendees from government, industry, and academia participated in the inaugural 2018 PAINE workshop. The Physical Attack and Inspection on Electronics Workshop was co-located with…

Research Team Wins Distinguished Paper Award

A team of University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) researchers won the Distinguished Paper Award at the 27th USENIX Security Symposium…

UF Cyber Defense Team Wins Second Place in Region Competition

After their performances in February qualified them to compete in the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (SECCDC) regional competition – their third time in three years – the University of Florida Student InfoSec Team ….

FICS Research to Launch Online Hardware & Systems Security Certificate

Students and professionals alike will be able to become experts in the field of hardware security beginning in January 2019 with the launch of ECE Florida’s new Hardware and Systems Security (HSS) certificate…

Using Technology to Stop Deadly Fake Pills

Researchers with the University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering have developed a way to instantly detect counterfeit pills, a growing problem in developing countries… 

The Solution to the Big Hack

“…Researchers in the University of Florida’s Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research (FICS) have developed a semiautomated system that could have identified in seconds the malicious chips…

Dr. Kevin Butler & Dr. Tuba Yavuz receive the NSF STARSS Grant

FICS Research faculty Kevin Butler and Tuba Yavuz were awarded an NSF STARSS grant to continue their work on securing the Internet of Things (IoT). Many IoT devices use inexpensive microcontrollers for their operation, but there is no easy …

Premiere Online Hardware & Systems Security Certificate

The Hardware and Systems Security (HSS) graduate certificate is a distinctive offering that provides comprehensive training and education on all aspects of hardware security and its interaction with software and systems security…

Dr. Daniela OIiveira and Dr. Yier Jin receive the NSF Medium Award

IoT Term Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Florida Dr. Daniela Oliveira and Endowed IoT Term Associate Professor Yier Jin and associates were awarded the NSF Medium award…