Tech Tuesday: University of Florida’s Photonics Lab Researchers Are Advancing Semiconductor Chips (WCJB TV20)
In this week’s Tech Tuesday, UF Innovate spotlights the University of Florida’s Photonics Lab with Dr. Volker J. Sorger, where researchers are advancing optical technologies on semiconductor chips for AI, data centers, and space applications.
Ruchkin & Príncipe Get Visual (UF ECE)
UF researchers are collaborating to create an end-to-end methodology to model, analyze, quantify, detect and adapt to changes in the visual environment of an autonomous cyber-physical system.
From Lab to Orbit: Unlocking Next-Gen Gravitational Detection With Quantum-Squeezed Photonic Integrated Circuit (UF ECE)
UF researchers are collaborating with Relative Dynamics on a NASA-funded project that aims to significantly enhance the sensitivity of gravitational wave observatories, while also advancing technologies in quantum magnetometry, fiber-optic gyroscopes, and biological imaging.
Ruchkin Receives NSF CAREER Award To Make Cyber-Physical Systems Aware of Their Limitations
UF researcher Ivan Ruchkin has received NSF CAREER Award to improve the safety of cyber-physical systems by developing methods to explicitly discover, validate, and manage the underlying assumptions that drive their behavior.
The 21st Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences Research Forum Highlights AI
UF researcher Alina Zare will be the keynote speaker at the 21st SWES Research Forum, highlighting how machine learning and AI can revolutionize problem-solving in agriculture and environmental science.
Wu Receives NSF CAREER Award To Create New Quantum Devices
UF researcher Yingying Wu has received a $546K NSF CAREER Award to support her project, which focuses on creating new quantum hardware devices such as magnetic transistors and diodes that utilize skyrmions.
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.”
Tabrizian Receives Prestigious DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award
Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian has been selected to receive a highly prestigious Director’s Fellowship from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
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 […]