Category: Students

From fall 2025 to spring 2026, Nelms Institute members Aaron Costin, PhD and Janise McNair, PhD mentored an undergraduate student design team in the Integrated Product & Process Design (IPPD) program. The IPPD team, called “Brick-by-Bit”, far surpassed expectations. They received the University of Florida 2026 Exemplary Team Award, and they were selected to present […]

Traditional autism screening often relies on structured questionnaires or clinical observation, which can sometimes delay early identification. A paper by Sumaiya Afroz Mila, Jeba Maliha, Md Rafiul Kabir, Ankan Ghosh, and Sandip Ray introduces a different approach, utilizing large language models (LLMs) to make early screening more intuitive and accessible. “ScreeningPaL: LLM-NLP Enabled Early Autism […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) represents a highly-prevalent complication of diabetes in which individuals suffer from damage to the blood vessels in the retina. Skylar’s paper focuses on using deep learning systems that offer the revolutionary potential to DR identification and prevention of vision loss.

Tamzidul Hoque, graduate student of Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) . He will be joining the EECS Department of the University of Kansas (KU) as an Assistant Professor, starting in Fall 2020.

Caroline Chhu is a third-year Chemical Engineering major working with ECE graduate student Naren Masna and Dr. Swarup Bhunia. She has been working on a project to detect fake medicines and synthetic opioids using Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) Spectroscopy. Her involvements outside of research include being the Events Director for Chemical Engineering Peer Advisors and […]

Srivalli Boddupalli is a second-year ECE Ph.D. student, and a key student member of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World. Her Ph.D. supervisor is Professor Sandip Ray, also our Director of Industry Programs. Srivalli received her M.S. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida in 2018 and […]