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University of Florida Tackles COVID-19 With High-Tech Devices

November 6, 2020

Faculty and students at the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World went to work to invent wearable, smart, connected devices to fight COVID-19 and future viruses.

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Engineering Agriculture of the Future with IoT and AI Technology

Engineering Agriculture of the Future with IoT and AI Technology

September 29, 2020

Through the IoT4Ag Engineering Research Center, faculty from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering will play a pivotal role in providing data communications via IoT and application of AI to problems facing the agricultural sector.

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Mark Tehranipoor, Ph.D.

Tehranipoor Honored at Virtual Standing InnOvation Event (UF Innovate)

September 25, 2020

Mark Tehranipoor, Ph.D., Intel Charles E. Young Preeminence Endowed Chair Professor in Cybersecurity in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and director of FICS, leads a team of hardware and software engineers who have developed a superior reputation for securing electronics for government and industry. Dr. Tehranipoor received recognition at the virtual Standing InnOvation Awards for […]

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Edwin Marcial

Driven to Success

September 1, 2020

Edwin Marcial (BS, ECE ’92) captures drives and tech talks for his Techrides website. He has interviewed Dean Cammy Abernathy as well as leaders from Delta, Virgin Galactic, and Intercontinental Exchange, among other Fortune 500s, about what makes their companies successful.

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David Arnold, Ph.D. and Diane Rowland, Ph.D.

UF partners on $26M grant to produce more crops with less water and energy

August 21, 2020

University of Florida is partnering on a $26 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop new technologies and systems that will help farmers produce more food with less water and energy.

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Mark Tehranipoor, Ph.D., Director of FICS Research and Intel Charles E. Young Preeminence Endowed Chair Professor, ECE

FICS Research Receives $7.8M to Help Make On-Chip Security Pervasive

July 13, 2020

Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research has announced a collaboration with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a program called Automated Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS). The grant has the broad goal of making scalable on-chip security pervasive throughout industry and military applications.

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$15M Technology Transition Center Celebrates Virtual Kickoff

May 8, 2020

The joint center aims to harness the expertise of both FICS Research and Edaptive Computing to build a comprehensive set of technologies that can be used by designers and security engineers to ensure the security and trust of microelectronics.

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Six college faculty members have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Awards in 2020.

UF Engineers Receive NSF Early CAREER Awards to Support Innovative Research

April 6, 2020

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida is pleased to announce that six faculty members have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Awards in 2020.

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Karim Oweiss, Ph.D., ECE

Oweiss Receives $3.9M Grant to Explore Responsive Deep Brain Stimulation

January 15, 2020

UF engineers and neuroscientists will test the effectiveness of a new motion-activated type of deep brain stimulation (DBS) aimed at improving treatment for patients with severe essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary shaking and usually worsens over time.

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Chris Malachowsky, Florida Inventors Hall of Fame

NVIDIA Founder Chris Malachowsky Inducted Into Florida Inventors Hall Of Fame

September 25, 2019

University of Florida alumnus who founded the computer graphics company NVIDIA is among the newest members of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Chris Malachowsky, an alumnus of UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, was selected for inventing the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) that transformed the visual computing industry by creating a consumer-oriented 3D graphics […]

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