The newsletter highlights 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
 Registration is Now Open for the 2025 Warren B. Nelms Annual IoT Conference!The Third Annual Warren B. Nelms IoT Conference will be held on December 4-5, 2025 at the University of Florida campus. The conference will have a variety of distinguished speakers, industry panels, and student poster and demo sessions. We hope you will join us together with IoT experts, leaders, researchers, and enthusiasts from across the country to learn, share ideas, and spark new collaborations. | |
 | Researchers Work to Improve Safety and Trustworthiness in Autonomous Systems in New NASA Project Through a prestigious three-year NASA grant, a collaborative team of researchers across six different universities will work to understand the vital role of trust in autonomous systems. Dr. Sandip Ray serves as the lead for the University of Florida team, working in partnership with Dr. Swarup Bhunia. The project, “Trustworthy Resilient Autonomous Agents for Safe City Transportation in the Evolving New Decade” (TRANSCEND), is funded through the NASA University Leadership Initiative (ULI) program. TRANSCEND aims to develop a framework to determine the safety and trustworthiness of machine-learning-enabled autonomous aviation systems. Read More >> |
 | Dr. Tuba Yavuz Receives Prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award With the ever-increasing number of cyber threats such as malware, it has become more critical to quickly and efficiently analyze the intended behavior of the software running the systems powering much of today’s tech-driven world. ECE Associate Professor Tuba Yavuz is responding to these cybersecurity threats using a technique called ‘fuzzing.’ “The ability to precisely and quickly extract semantic information such as malicious actions embedded into binary executables, e.g., firmware, will be instrumental in securing the Internet of Things,” said Dr. Yavuz. |
 | Dr. My T. Thai Appointed Editor-in-Chief of ACM Computing Surveys Journal Dr. My T. Thai, Associate Director of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, has been appointed co-Editor-in-Chief of Association for Computing Machinery’s Computing Surveys journal (CSUR). This prestigious journal has a 2024 Impact Factor of 28, placing it at the top of the “Computer Science, Theory & Methods” category. |
 | IoT Design Competition 2025 The 4th iteration of the IoT Design Competition hosted by the IoT Students Club at University of Florida is underway! Fifteen student teams from the University of Florida will compete to design, build, and demonstrate their own software or hardware IoT Project. Teams will demo their projects at the Warren B. Nelms Annual IoT Conference at the University of Florida campus on December 4-5, 2025. |
 | Call for Student Posters & Demos at the Warren B. Nelms Annual IoT Conference The Student Poster and Demo Sessions are an excellent opportunity to gain exposure for your research and network with our large audience of industry and government professionals at the event. Winners will be selected from both sessions. We encourage you to register early, as we will have limited spots! Registration is FREE for the conference and Poster & Demo Sessions. |
 | Nelms in the News: Video Walls of Knowledge UF’s Malachowsky Hall brings multiple disciplines together through three key spaces. Swarup Bhunia, director of UF’s Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, was heavily involved in the development of the IoT Lab. He explained that the facility is used by graduate and undergraduate students to build smart sensors that are applied to internet of things technologies. |
 | Research PortfolioWarren 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. |