Students from the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World have placed 1st and 2nd place in competition events at CSAW 2023. CSAW (see-SAW) is the world’s most comprehensive student-run cybersecurity event. It serves as an engaging platform for… Read More
Nelms Institute Students Showcase IoT Research Demos at the Malachowsky Hall Ribbon Cutting Event
On November 3, 2023, the University of Florida held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology. Malachowsky Hall will serve as a multidisciplinary space for medicine, pharmacy and engineering,… Read More
Dr. Mostafa Reisi Gahrooei Develops Adaptive Framework for Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Assessment
Dr. Mostafa Reisi Gahrooei, Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to fund the project, “Collaborative Research: Multi-Agent Adaptive Data Collection for Automated Post-Disaster Rapid Damage Assessment.” This project… Read More
Dr. Swarup Bhunia Inducted Into HOST Hall of Fame
Dr. Swarup Bhunia, Director of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, has been inducted into the HOST Hall of Fame. The IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) Hall of Fame was created to… Read More
Novel On-Chip Distributed Battery Research Published in IEEE Access Journal
As the growing demand for portable consumer electronics increases, researchers are faced with the challenge of having to fit more power into less space on a device. Limitations on the physical size, complexity, efficiency, and manufacturability of small-scale transistors introduce… Read More
Bridging Neuroscience and AI: Brain-Inspired AI To Make Machines Perceive Emotion Like Humans
Dr. Ruogu Fang and collaborators have secured a significant National Science Foundation grant for their project, “NCS-FO: Brain-Inspired Goal-Oriented and Bidirectional Deep Emotion Inference.” This pioneering initiative at the intersection of neuroscience and AI will explore groundbreaking advancements in both… Read More
New $1 Million NSF Funded Project Aims to Help Veterans Build Skills in Hardware Security
A new project led by Warren B. Nelms Institute researchers has received $1 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) Program. The project, titled “Pivots: VETS-HASTE: Veterans SkillBridge through Industry… Read More
Undergraduate Research Program Sparks Interest in Secure, Accessible, and Sustainable Transportation
This past summer, nine undergraduate students visiting from institutions around the country spent 10 weeks conducting research at the University of Florida (UF) on the topic of Secure, Accessible, and Sustainable Transportation (SAST). Through an NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates… Read More
Dr. Md Jahidul Islam Leads Project to Improve Underwater Robot Localization and Navigation
A project led by Dr. Md Jahidul Islam titled “Underwater Robot Navigation and Localization During Recovery by Optical Homing and Penning” received $600K in funding by the NSF Foundational Research in Robotics (FRR) program. Along with collaborators Dr. Sanjeev Koppal… Read More
Dr. Sanjeev Koppal Uses Bio-Inspired Cameras to Improve UAV Imaging
ECE Florida Associate Professor Sanjeev J. Koppal has received $1M in funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in support of his project “Rapid High-Resolution Target Aerial Detection and Tracking through Deep Foveated Imaging.” The project seeks to improve… Read More