Yangbin Wang Rising Star Endowed Assistant Professor Farimah Farahmandi has received an NSF CAREER award in support of her project “SAIF: Security Assurance through AI and Formal Approaches for System-on-Chips.” The project seeks to enhance the safety and security of… Read More
FICS RESEARCH MOVES TO MALACHOWSKY HALL FOR DATA SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
Designed to set the standard for future STEM buildings across national and international campuses and transform the artificial intelligence (AI) and data science workforce, the University of Florida Friday held a celebratory ribbon cutting for the Malachowsky Hall for Data… Read More
DR. JUAN GILBERT HONORED WITH NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION.
On 24th October, PRESIDENT Joe Biden honored Computer science department chair and FICS faculty Dr. Juan Gilbert, Ph.D., at the White House with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for pioneering a universal voting system that makes voting more reliable… Read More
FICS RESEARCH DIRECTOR APPOINTED TO COMPUTING COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM COUNCIL
Congratulations to FICS Research Director Dr. Kevin Butler, who was recently appointed on the 2023 council for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC).The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious… Read More
HOW A HORSE WHISPERER CAN HELP ENGINEERS BUILD BETTER ROBOTS
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… Read More
DR SARA RAMPAZZI AND PHD STUDENT SRI HRUSHHIKESH VARMA BHUPATHIRAJU WIN MULTIPLE AWARDS AT THE INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM ON VEHICLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY.
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… Read More
FICS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR NAMED RISING STAR ENDOWED PROFESSOR
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.
DR PRABHAT MISHRA NAMED AAAS FELLOW
Congratulations to FICS Research faculty member Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D. chosen by the The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals as an AAS Fellow. Dr.… Read More
CISE DEPARTMENT CHAIR JUAN GILBERT NAMED IEEE FELLOW.
Congratulations to both Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., and David Kaber, Ph.D., who have been named Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE Fellow is a major distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in… Read More
Laser attack blinds autonomous vehicles, deleting pedestrians and confusing cars.
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… Read More