Rakov Awarded $1M NSF Grant for Lightning Studies

UF Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor and Co-Director of the International Center for Lightning Research & Testing (ICLRT) Vladimir Rakov has been awarded a $1M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project, “Lightning Studies Based on Measurements Spanning the Ranges from Radio Frequency to Optical (including Infrared and Ultraviolet) to Gamma-Rays.”

Koppal Receives NSF CAREER Award for Active Computer Vision

University of Florida‘s Electrical and Computer Engineering assistant professor Sanjeev Koppal, Ph.D., has received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his project, “Fast Foveation: Bringing Active Vision into the Camera.” The five-year award will support Dr. Koppal’s research in the area of foveation, the process through which the eye fixates on the object of interest […]

Roozbeh Tabrizian Selected As Hastings Faculty Fellow

During the recent virtual meeting of the ECE External Advisory Board Meeting on April 23, 2020, professor and chair John Harris made an exciting announcement regarding the Alan Hastings Faculty Fellow. This year, in recognition of his superior work in the area of radiofrequency micro- and nano-electro-mechanical resonators and transducers, Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian was announced as the Alan Hastings […]

Novel Peer-to-Peer Car Charging System Proposes to Automate, Mobilize EV Charging

While electric vehicles (EVs) are a critical part of envisioning a future without the internal combustion engine (ICE), there is still much work to be done before EVs are a practical means of long-distance travel in the United States. Current U.S. infrastructure and limited battery capacities have proved to be the limiting factors. A novel […]

An Ultrathin Nanoelectromechanical Transducer Made of Hafnium Zirconium Oxide

In a study published in Nature Electronics, researchers at the University of Florida were able to fabricate an ultrathin nanoelectromechanical transducer using 10-nm-thick ferroelectric hafnium zirconium oxide (Hf0.5Zr0.5O2) films. The team includes two senior researchers, Roozbeh Tabrizian and Toshikazu Nishida, as well as students Mayur Ghatge and Glenn Walters. “Our research has followed the long-standing […]