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Through the NASA-funded TRANSCEND project, a collaborative team of researchers led by Florida Institute of Technology is working to understand the safety and trustworthiness of autonomous systems. But the research is just the beginning. The next step is sharing this knowledge to help establish a future workforce trained in artificial intelligence (AI) safety. “The overall […]

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, […]

PhD student Sudipta Paria has received the Certificate of Outstanding Merit, a distinction awarded to selected international students in recognition of their exceptional achievements and contributions to the UF community. Certificate recipients were honored at the International Student Achievement Awards (ISAA) ceremony on March 24, 2026. The annual ISAA were established to highlight the accomplishments of international students […]

A collaborative paper on side-channel security has received prominent recognition in the field of hardware security. The paper, “VALIANT: An EDA Flow for Side-Channel Leakage Evaluation and Tailored Protection,” was selected for Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security at the 2025 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). The study, originally published in IEEE Transactions […]

Researchers from the University of Florida received the Best Paper Runner-up Award at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT 2025) for their paper, “A Machine Learning Approach for Real-time Gait Analysis.” The multidisciplinary team includes Ankan Ghosh, Sumaiya Afroz Mila, Zongwei Zhen, Swarup Bhunia, Sandip Ray (Department of Electrical & […]

For the student demo session of the Warren B. Nelms Annual IoT Conference 2025, computer engineering student David Bickram set out to design a smart wearable to address gaps in existing assistive hearing technology. The idea was to build a device that could detect and classify environmental sounds and respond instantly, privately, and reliably. This […]

Jingwei Sun, PhD, Assistant Professor in Computer & Information Science & Engineering, is the PI of a new NVIDIA Academic Grant Award, alongside collaborator My T. Thai, PhD. Their project, titled “Personalized BP-free Federated Learning System for LLMs on the Edge,” aims to revolutionize how large language models (LLMs) learn and adapt on real-world edge […]

The Warren B. Nelms Third Annual IoT Conference gathered hundreds of scientists, faculty, students and industry leaders to UF’s Malachowsky Hall for Data Science and Information Technology to discuss advancements, applications and continued demand for IoT devices, from home smart gadgets to wearable technology to industrial machines — physical devices embedded with sensors and software to connect and exchange data. 

The conference theme was Intelligent Edge Computing: Emerging Frontiers in Technology and Applications. The two-day event also included interactive demos and poster presentations on student research.

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 […]

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 […]