Cybersecurity is an ever-changing field of research, with new forms of security threats appearing often. One increasingly common threat, surveillanceware, involves a malicious individual installing software on a victim’s mobile device enabling secret remote monitoring of the device’s activity. Using… Read More

Background A multi-departmental team from the University of Florida, Dr. Shigang Chen, Dr. Samuel Wu, Dr. David Vaillancourt, and Dr. Kejun Huang, was recently rewarded a $1,172,041 grant from the National Institute of Health on AI-powered medical research, specifically for… Read More

FICS Research at the University of Florida in collaboration with researchers from the Ohio State University ran a Hardware Assurance Survey aimed at identifying key areas of interest for future research, development, and collaborations between Government, Industry, and Academia.  The… Read More

Our proposal presents a first-ever methodology to enable hardware reconfiguration of interconnects and I/O inside the package even after the chip is fabricated. The prime feature of this novel technique is the trusted designer or IP owner will have the… Read More

ECE Assistant Professor and member of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research Farimah Farahmandi has been awarded a $500K grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for her project, “Security-Aware High-Level Synthesis (SHINE).” The project, which simultaneously introduces enhanced security strategies… Read More