The newsletter will highlight our ongoing activities and accomplishments, not only on the research front but also on education and outreach. We hope to keep you up-to-date on the broad research activities within the Institute, as well as provide opportunities for collaboration. We look forward to connecting with you.

Swarup Bhunia, Director & Semmoto Endowed Professor, ECE
My T. Thai, Associate Director & UF Research Foundation Professor, CISE​

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Two New Endowed Professorships Established at the Warren B. Nelms Institute Two highly-deserving leaders of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World were awarded endowed professorships in recognition of their research accomplishments and contributions to the institute. Dr. My T. Thai, Associate Director, and Dr. Sandip Ray, Director of Industry Programs, have been making significant contributions to the Warren B. Nelms Institute since it’s creation. They’ve helped to advance the Institute in many fronts through their leadership in research, education, and outreach. Read More >>
	Education and Workforce Development Activities in the Warren B. Nelms Institute Researchers in the Warren B. Nelms Institute are developing a curriculum on microelectronics and artificial intelligence (AI) that will support and encourage engaging, hands-on learning for upper-elementary students in a unique setting– children’s museums. Through a partnership with the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, FL, the curriculum will be delivered as a two-week summer camp at the museum from July 14th to July 25th, 2025. Read More >>
	New $1.5M NSF Project Introduces Microelectronics and AI Education in High Schools A new project, funded by the NSF Discovery Research PreK-12 program, will focus on engaging high school students in integrated computer science and engineering through hands-on experiences with microelectronics and artificial intelligence. This approach will pioneer a hardware-focused approach to AI education in K-12 classrooms. Read More >>
	Dr. Ruchkin Receives NSF CAREER Award to Make Cyber-Physical Systems Aware of Their Limitations As work on improving cyber-physical systems (CPS) barrels ahead, Ivan Ruchkin, Ph.D., has some concerns. Loosely defined as mechanisms controlled and monitored by computer algorithms, CPS have some basic susceptibilities—rare events and unexpected circumstances can cause the system to react in unsafe or incorrect ways. Thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation—$600k over five years—Ruchkin aims to correct this. Ruchkin’s recently funded CAREER project, “Rigorous Assumption Engineering for Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems,” works toward his vision of assumption-aware CPS—ones that behave with an understanding of their own assumptions and limitations. Read More >>
	Nelms Institute PhD Student Receives Prestigious MTT-S Fellowship Asif Iftekhar Omi, an ECE Ph.D. student working with Dr. Baibhab Chatterjee, has been selected to receive the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications, among the most prestigious of accolades in microwave engineering. The fellowship recognizes contributions which have the potential to reshape the future of healthcare technology, particularly in areas where microwave techniques play a pivotal role. Iftekhar Omi, who prefers to be known as Asif, is one of only two graduate students worldwide to receive the fellowship this year. Read More >>
	Join the IoT Students Club! Discover the exciting world of the Internet of Things! The IoT Students Club offers many fun-filled events such as hands-on IoT workshops, panels, and social events. The club is open to all undergraduate and graduate students in any major or department at University of Florida. More Information >>
	CAD for Assurance Webinars Aim to Share Hardware Security and Trust Tools and Research CAD for Assurance, an initiative supported by IEEE’s Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), is aimed at addressing the growing need for reliable and secure tools and methodologies in hardware design fields. The CAD for Assurance website is an academic dissemination effort by researchers in the field of hardware security. The goal is to assemble information on all CAD (Computer-Aided Design) for trust and assurance activities in academia and industry in one place and share them with the broader community of researchers and practitioners in a timely manner, with an easy-to-search and easy-to-access interface. Read More >>
	Research portfolio Warren B. Nelms Institute research addresses major world challenges relating to public health, energy, education, transportation, and more. Together with our esteemed group of multi-disciplinary faculty and students, we are developing broad Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and their applications to create more secure, sustainable, and connected communities. With billions of IoT-connected devices al-ready in the world today—and billions more in the coming years—the institute remains at the forefront of this burgeoning field while creating a critical mass of expertise at the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IoT. We invite you to browse our current and ongoing Warren B. Nelms Institute research projects. Read Portfolio >>