Three FICS Research doctoral students were recognized with Best In Session Awards at this year’s SRC TECHON in Austin, Texas. The Semiconductor Research Company (SRC) is a world class technology research consortium with highly regarded university research programs. Each year… Read More
Tektronix Equipment Prominently Featured in New SCAN Lab
Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of measurement solutions, recently announced that the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research (FICS Research) at the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering will outfit its new SeCurity and AssuraNce (SCAN) LAb with an… Read More
Extortion Extinction: Researchers Develop A Way to Stop Ransomware.
Ransomware – what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents – is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed… Read More
FICS Research Team Wins Awards at 2016 HOST Symposium
Members of the FICS Research team brought home two Best Paper Awards and one Best Paper Nomination from this year’s HOST Symposium! The IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) is an annual symposium which aims to facilitate… Read More
June Publication News
Congratulations to the following FICS Research faculty and students who had papers accepted for publication this month: Thomas Shrimpton, Martijn Stam and Bogdan Warinschi, “A Modular Treatment of Cryptographic APIs: The Symmetric-Key Case”, To appear at CRYPTO 2016*. … Read More
Graduating FICS Research Students Move on to Academic Positions!
Three FICS Research students graduating from the University of Florida’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) this spring accepted academic positions at universities across the country! Congratulations to: Adam Bates, who will be joining faculty at the… Read More
FICS Research Faculty Bring World Class Hardware Security Lab to UF
The University of Florida and TESCAN, a leading manufacturer in electron microscopy, have partnered to create a world-class hardware security lab customized with advanced scientific instrumentation. The lab will be part of the new Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research,… Read More
Second Meeting of US Brazil Workshop on Cybersecurity
This past Thursday and Friday, April 7-8, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida and FICS Research member, Daniela Oliveira, led the second in a two-part series of workshops aimed at promoting collaboration between US… Read More
Reverse-Engineering at FICS Research Facilities
Reverse engineering (RE) is a process in which the goal is to reproduce, duplicate, or enhance chips and systems based on the study of an original object and/or system. For electronic systems, reverse engineering (RE) could be performed at chip,… Read More
Zimu Guo
Zimu is a FICS Research student who is currently working towards a doctoral degree under the tutelage of Dr. Forte, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UF. He received a B.S. in Automation and Control from Beijing… Read More