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In April, students in the Applied Deep Learning and Applied Machine Learning courses presented their final projects during a poster session in Malachowsky Hall. Dr. Andrea Ramirez-Salgado, instructional assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education, instructed both courses this spring. The students were either from the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence Systems (MSAIS) […]

A recent breakthrough in the security of mixed reality devices by Dr. Shuo Wang‘s research group has received widespread attention, including a feature in the Top Picks section of Wired magazine. The research revealed a significant vulnerability in Apple’s Vision Pro headset that could allow attackers to decipher what users type, including sensitive information like […]

Warren B. Nelms Institute faculty member and assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning Yan Wang, Ph.D., has received an NSF CAREER Award. This honor is one of the NSF’s most competitive awards, recognizing early-career faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars and have the potential to lead advances in research and […]

Researchers from the Warren B. Nelms Institute, led by Dr. Sara Rampazzi, and from the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo have discovered a new attack that exposes devices’ MEMs microphones to potential remote eavesdropping. This work demonstrates how audio captured by microphones on everyday wireless devices like laptops and bluetooth headsets can be intercepted. Using […]

PhD student Rohan Reddy Kalavakonda is the recipient of the 2025 Attributes of a Gator Engineer award. The award is considered the greatest distinction of any student award given by the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. The Gator Engineering Attribute Awards honor six undergraduate and six Ph.D. students who strongly model one of the six Gator Engineering […]

Sudipta Paria is the recipient of the  2025 ECE Graduate Student Research Excellence award. The award is given yearly to an ECE graduate student who has excelled in their research during the academic year. The award recognizes students’ dedication, enthusiasm, and promise as an graduate researcher in the ECE department. Students are nominated by their […]

Electrical Engineering undergraduate student Tianjun Wang is the recipient of the 2025 ECE Undergraduate Student Research Excellence award. The award is given yearly to an ECE undergraduate student who has excelled in their research during the academic year. The award recognizes students’ dedication, enthusiasm, and promise as an undergraduate researcher in the ECE department. Students […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing healthcare, and at the heart of this transformation are foundation models (FMs), large-scale deep learning systems trained on massive datasets and a more general form of chatGPT beyond text. In their recent paper, A Comprehensive Survey of Foundation Models in Medicine accepted by IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (RBME), researchers Ruogu Fang, […]

CAD for Assurance, an initiative supported by IEEE’s Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), is aimed at addressing the growing need for reliable and secure tools and methodologies in hardware design fields. The CAD for Assurance website is an academic dissemination effort by researchers in the field of hardware security. The goal is to assemble […]

Since its inception in 2017, the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World has worked toward becoming a leader in education and research on Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation.  The institute is spearheading efforts to enhance workforce development and preparation of students for careers in IoT technology, hardware security, and cybersecurity. These projects are helping to address […]