Author: Lauren Gonzalez

A student team representing the Warren B. Nelms Institute won 2nd Place in the HACK@CHES 2025 Competition. Team CapitalGators was comprised of Nelms Institute PhD students Sudipta Paria and Aritra Dasgupta, advised by Dr. Swarup Bhunia, and George Mason University PhD students Raghul Saravanan and Jayanth Thangellamudi, advised by Dr. Sai Manoj P D. “We’re absolutely thrilled […]

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, […]

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. The journal plays a unique and […]

UF’s Malachowsky Hall brings multiple disciplines together through three key spaces. Named after NVIDIA co-founder Chris Malachowsky, the University of Florida’s newly constructed Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology in Gainesville, FL, is a seven-story, 263,440-square-foot facility dedicated to the advancement of AI, computing, and data science. Completed just over a year ago, […]

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.’ Her project, “Constraint-Guided Local […]

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 overall project is led by Dr. Siddhartha […]

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 […]

Suman Chowdhury Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), has joined the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World. Dr. Chowdhury’s research areas include computational biomechanics, traumatic brain injury, multiscale brain modeling, ergonomics, and helmets, exoskeleton and prosthetic designs. Before joining the University of Florida, he served as […]

A new project aims to create pathways and opportunities in the cybersecurity and hardware security fields for military veterans. To address the critical shortage of cybersecurity professionals in Georgia and Florida and diversify the workforce in the semiconductor and microelectronic fields, the VETS-CYBER program will offer hands-on training and experience for participating veterans. The project, […]

The International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Systems at the Edge (ICEdge) 2025 will be held December 18th-20th, 2025 at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. This effort is a collaboration between many universities and industry partners worldwide, with Nelms Institute faculty Dr. Swarup Bhunia as a General Chair, Dr. Baibhab Chatterjee as […]