Dr. Swarup Bhunia, Director of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently featured in a CNET article about new smartwatch technologies. Dr. Bhunia discussed research of his… Read More
STEPUP Engineering Students Visit the Warren B. Nelms Institute IoT Lab
University of Florida first-year engineering students in STEPUP (Successful Transition and Enhanced Preparation for Undergraduates Program) visited the Warren B. Nelms Institute IoT Lab in July 2022 for a lab tour and research demos. STEPUP is a student success program… Read More
Congratulations, Dr. Chakraborty!
Prabuddha Chakraborty, a graduate student in the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, successfully defended his dissertation and earned his PhD. Dr. Chakraborty has been advised by Dr. Swarup Bhunia, Director of the Warren B. Nelms Institute. In… Read More
New Faculty Member Spotlight: Dr. Ivan Ruchkin
Dr. Ivan Ruchkin will be joining the University of Florida as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in Fall 2022. Dr. Ruchkin will also join the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World.… Read More
Two Warren B. Nelms Institute Faculty Members Receive UF Excellence Awards for Assistant Professors
Two Warren B. Nelms Institute faculty members from two different colleges at University of Florida received the Excellence Awards for Assistant Professors this spring. Matthew Hale, assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Yan Wang, assistant professor in the… Read More
Dr. Shuo Wang and Team Receive Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE Security and Privacy Conference 2022
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