Awards

Congratulations to Dr. George Atia for receiving an NSF CAREER award for his proposal entitled “Inference-Driven Data Processing and Acquisition: Scalability, Robustness and Control.”

Dr. Xun Gong receives a DoD DURIP award of $400,000 to purchase equipment for studying and measuring microwave components and antennas.

Congratulations to Dr. Ronald DeMara, Steven Pyle, Vignesh Thangavel, and Stephen Williams, whose paper “Self-Scaling Evolution of Analog Computation Circuits with Digital Accuracy Refinement” received the best paper award of the conference at the 2015 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2015, IEEE Indexed) ; citation “Best Design Paper.”

Congratulations to Dr. Yier Jin, whose team’s paper titled “HAFIX: Hardware-Assisted Flow Integrity Extension” was selected as a recipient for the Design Automation Conference (DAC 2015) Best Paper Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Kalpathy Sundaram, who will soon be awarded the 2015 Dielectric Science and Technology Division Thomas D. Callinan Award at the ECS 227th Meeting in Chicago.

Congratulations to Dr. Jiann-Shiun Yuan on receiving the College Excellence in Research at the full Professor level and UCF TIP Award this year.

Congratulations to Dr. Kalpathy Sundaram, who has been selected as the winner of 2015 Thomas Callinan Award given by the Dielectric Science & Technology Division of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). The award will be presented at the 2015 Spring Meeting in May in Chicago.

Congratulations to Yier Jin and the rest of the UCF Team for their performance in this year’s Embedded Security Challenge at NYU-Poly. This is the most famous hardware security competition, and approximately 40 teams attended the first phase from which 10 teams were selected for the final on-site competition. The UCF team was selected for the final round with three graduate students, Dean Sullivan, Yu Bi, and Kaveh Shamsi, and come in second place.

Congratulations to Ahmed Aldhahab, George Atia, and Wasfy Mikhael for receiving a Top 10 Student Paper Award for presentation of the paper, “Supervised Facial Recognition Based on Multi-Resolution Analysis and Feature Alignment” at the 57th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

Congratulations to Charna Parkey and Dr. Wasfy Mikhael for receiving the Best Paper award for their paper, “Linearized Adaptation of Non-Linear Post Conversaion Correction for TIADCs: A Behavioral Model Study” At IEEE AUTOTEST 2014.