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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 everyone who came out! We can’t wait to host another bowling event soon.    

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 secure RFID technology, a wearable health-monitoring device, automotive simulator, drone network experimentation, a fake medicine […]

Dr. 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 Dr. Mary Jo Koroly, Research Associate Professor, and Dr. Swarup Bhunia, Semmoto Endowed Professor, […]

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 article to unveil the concept to their two million print and online subscribers. With the […]

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 on Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation. Under the leadership of Dr. Swarup Bhunia, Director, and […]

Dr. Xiaochen Xian, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Warren B. Nelms Institute faculty member, and her students are currently researching new methods that can make sampling and monitoring data more efficient. These methods have significant real-world applications including COVID-19 pandemic surveillance and faster wildfire detection. Spatial Rank-Based Augmentation for […]

Brevin Tilmon, PhD Student at University of Florida, and Dr. Sanjeev Koppal, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are researching adaptive resolution, which allows cameras to distribute higher resolution onto parts of images that matter most. While most other efforts on this topic apply attention within network training and testing after […]

On February 15, 2022, University of Florida students, faculty, staff and alumni gathered at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee for Gator Day. The annual event provides an opportunity for UF faculty and students to present their research and engage in conversations with legislators and esteemed leaders from throughout the state of Florida. The event included […]

Dr. Sandip Ray, endowed IoT term professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Nelms Institute faculty member, has been awarded a research grant by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). The three-year grant funds research on the project “Security Assurance for Multi-tenant Accelerators.” Project Overview: Computing has been moving into the cloud.  We […]

In December 2021, Janise McNair, Ph.D., UF Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Warren B. Nelms Institute faculty member, was named one of 13 2021 Stars in Networking and Communications  by the N2Women (Networking Networking Women) group of the IEEE Communications Society. The N2Women’s Stars List recognizes researchers who have displayed outstanding research […]