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Warren B. Nelms Institute Newsletter, May 2025

Wednesday June 11, 2025

The newsletter will highlight our ongoing activities and accomplishments, not only on the research front but also on education and outreach. We hope to keep you up-to-date on the broad research activities within the Institute, as well as provide opportunities for collaboration. We look forward to connecting with you. Swarup Bhunia, Director & Semmoto Endowed […]

Nelms Institute Leads Second Year of NSF-Funded Veterans Hardware Security Training Program

Tuesday June 10, 2025

An ongoing project led by the Warren B. Nelms Institute is equipping veterans with in-demand skills in hardware security. This rapidly growing field is becoming more and more critical in today’s increasingly connected world. Funded by NSF, “Pivots: VETS-HASTE: Veterans SkillBridge through Industry based Hardware Security Training and Education,” is led by Dr. Wanli Xing (College […]

Student Poster Session Highlights Using AIoT to Solve Real-World Problems

Tuesday June 10, 2025

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) […]

Researchers Uncover Apple Vision Pro Security Flaw, Drawing Major Media Attention

Friday June 6, 2025

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 […]

Dr. Yan Wang Receives NSF CAREER Award: Harnessing GenAI to Create Resilient Communities

Thursday June 5, 2025

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 […]

Sound of Interference: Remote Eavesdropping Attack on Digital Microphones

Thursday June 5, 2025

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 […]

Rohan Reddy Kalavakonda Receives Attributes of a Gator Engineer Award

Tuesday June 3, 2025

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 Receives ECE Graduate Student Research Excellence Award

Tuesday May 20, 2025

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 […]

Tianjun Wang Receives ECE Undergraduate Student Research Excellence Award

Tuesday May 13, 2025

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 […]

A deep dive into ChatGPT moments in medicine- UF researchers dive into foundation models

Tuesday April 29, 2025

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, […]

Warren B. Nelms Institute Newsletter, March 2025

Wednesday April 2, 2025

CAD for Assurance Webinars Aim to Share Hardware Security and Trust Tools and Research

Tuesday April 1, 2025

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 […]

Education and Workforce Development Activities in the Warren B. Nelms Institute

Friday March 28, 2025

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 […]

New $1.5M NSF Project Addresses Engineering Workforce Need Through Hands-On Microelectronics and AI Education in High Schools

Friday March 28, 2025

A new project, funded by the NSF Discovery Research PreK-12 program, will focus on engaging high school students in integrated computer science and engineering through hands-on experiences with microelectronics and artificial intelligence. This approach will pioneer a hardware-focused approach to AI education in K-12 classrooms. Warren B. Nelms Institute researchers Dr. Pasha Antonenko, Dr. Swarup […]

Dr. Ruchkin Receives NSF CAREER Award to Make Cyber-Physical Systems Aware of Their Limitations

Tuesday March 25, 2025

As work on improving cyber-physical systems (CPS) barrels ahead, Ivan Ruchkin, Ph.D., has some concerns. Loosely defined as mechanisms controlled and monitored by computer algorithms, CPS have some basic susceptibilities—rare events and unexpected circumstances can cause the system to react in unsafe or incorrect ways. Thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation—$600k over five […]