- FICS Researchers, Drs. Kevin Butler and Vincent Bindschaedler, Recieve $1.2 Million NSF Grant to Study and Thwart SurveillanceCybersecurity 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
- UF Researchers Awarded $1.1M Grant by National Institute of Health on AI-Powered Medical ResearchBackground 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
- Hardware Assurance Survey ResultsFICS 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
- Dr. Asadi (FICS) and Dr. Need (MSE) Partner on $270k SRC ProjectOur 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
- Dr. Farahmandi Receives $500K DARPA Grant to Enhance Chip Security, Speed Time to MarketECE 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