A paper authored by Warren B. Nelms Institute faculty and PhD students has won Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022, held May 23-26, 2022. The paper, titled “Invisible Finger: Practical Electromagnetic Interference Attack on Touchscreen-based… Read More
ECE RESEARCHERS USE AI TO QUANTIFY ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

As land managers and policy-makers around the state of Florida look for ways to mitigate the effects of climate change, it is becoming increasingly clear that ecosystem services—benefits provided by agricultural and natural systems—have a critical part to play. Researchers in… Read More
Researchers Aim to Address Range Anxiety of Battery Electric Vehicles with Peer-to-Peer Charging En Route

Battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) are becoming more and more common on the roads. With rising concerns over fossil fuel depletion and the impact of traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles on the climate, electric mobility is widely considered as the future… Read More
Professor Matthew Hale Earns Two Government-Funded Awards for Research

While most of us were spending our quarantine time picking up new hobbies or exploring the hidden depths of Netflix, Professor Matthew Hale was writing proposals that would eventually earn him both a Young Investigator Program (YIP) award and a… Read More
Prabuddha Chakraborty Wins First Place in Semifinals, Advances to Finals in Doctoral Thesis Competition

Prabuddha Chakraborty, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, has won first place in the semifinals of TTTC’s E. J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award at IEEE VLSI Test Symposium 2022… Read More
Nelms Institute Bowling Event

A great time was had by all at the Nelms Institute Bowling Event on March 27, 2022 at the Reitz Union Game Room. Nelms Institute students, faculty, and their families enjoyed bowling, pizza, and networking during the event. Thanks to… Read More
High School Students from Sarasota Visit the Nelms Institute IoT Lab

On April 13, 2022, around 40 students from North Port High School in Sarasota visited the Warren B. Nelms Institute IoT Lab. The students saw and participated in hands-on demos from eight Nelms Institute Graduate Students. The projects demos included… Read More
UF researcher receives NSF grant to develop curriculum to teach computing hardware fundamentals

Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko, an associate professor of educational technology and director of the NeurAL Lab, was recently awarded a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design gamified curriculum to teach computing hardware fundamentals. This collaborative grant, which includes… Read More
THE ART OF THE DESIGN: UF COMPUTER ENGINEERS’ BAKED-IN ‘SECURITY BRAIN’ TECHNOLOGY HAS MICROCHIPS DEFENDING THEMSELVES

The epiphany that emerged from UF engineering professors Swarup Bhunia and Sandip Ray was such a game-changing proposal that IEEE Spectrum, the flagship news magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, insisted that they coauthor an October 2017 feature… Read More
Celebrating Five Years of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World

The Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World celebrated its 5th Anniversary in January 2022. Since its inception in 2017, the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World has become a national leader in the education and research… Read More