Research

  Hao Zheng Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Engineering The George Washington University, 2021 Email Phone Office HEC-339A Phone (407) 823-0268 E-mail Hao.Zheng@ucf.edu Research Interests Computer Architecture Network-on-Chips Energy-Efficient Computing and Communication Systems Heterogeneous and Domain-specific Architectures Machine Learning techniques for efficient Computing Ongoing Research Projects Machine Learning for High-performance and Energy-efficient On-chip Communications Application-Aware Flexible…

  Ying Ma Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Florida, 2021 Email Phone Office HEC-371A Phone (407) 823-0265 E-mail Ying.Ma@ucf.edu Research Interests Machine/deep learning, specialized in recurrent network for sequence learning ( application in computer vision, natural language processing) Reinforcement learning Graph Neural Networks Convex Optimization Research Projects Memory augmented RNNs for…

  Yuxiao Yang Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering University of Southern California, 2019 Email Phone Office RB1-378 Phone (607) 379-3086 E-mail Yuxiao.Yang@ucf.edu Home Page http://yuxiaoyang.org/ Research Interests Brain-Machine Interfaces Neural Engineering Control Theory Stochastic Signal Processing Machine Learning Professional Activities Member, Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Member, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Honors…

  Qun Zhou Sun Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Iowa State University, 2011 Email Phone Office HEC-358 Phone (407) 823-3284 E-mail QZ.sun@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~qzhou/ Research Interests Smart Energy Infrastructure Systems Energy Data Analytics Bayesian methods and its applications in energy systems Optimization under uncertainties Ongoing Research Projects PI, “Building Intelligence with Layered Defense using…

  Fan Yao Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Engineering The George Washington University, 2018 Email Phone Office HEC-359 Phone (407) 823-0147 E-mail Fan.Yao@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~fanyao/ Research Interests Computer Architecture Hardware / System Security AI Security Energy-efficient Computing Cloud Computing Ongoing Research Projects Detection and defense techniques for microarchitecture attacks Understanding and taming hardware-based model tampering…

  Wei Sun Associate Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State University, 2011 Email Phone Office HEC-306 Phone (407) 823-2344 E-mail Wei.Sun@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~weisun/ Research Interests Power System Restoration and Self-healing Smart Grid Resilient and Secure Critical Infrastructure Cyber-Physical Systems Renewable Energy and Microgrid Ongoing Research Projects Scalable/Secure Cooperative Algorithms and Framework for…

  Qifeng Li Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Arizona State University, 2016 Email Phone Office R1-150 Phone (407) 823-0159 E-mail Qifeng.Li@ucf.edu Research Interests Convex/global Optimization Nonlinear Systems Power and Energy Systems Demand Side Management Networked Microgrids Distributed Energy Storage Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Distribution System Optimization Energy-Water-Food Nexus Ongoing Research Projects Stability, security and…

  Brian Kim Assistant Professor Ph.D., Biophysics Cornell University, 2013 Email Phone Office HEC-339 Phone (407) 823-1034 E-mail Brian.Kim@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~bkim/ Research Interests Low-noise Analog Circuit Design Monolithic CMOS Biosensors and Actuators Brain-machine interface Single-cell Electrophysiology Accessible Medical Diagnostics Testing Ongoing Research Projects Monolithic Integration of 1000-ch Neural Interface System on a Single Silicon…

  Zhishan Guo Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016 Email Phone Office HEC-433 Phone (407) 823-1024 E-mail Zhishan.Guo@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~zsguo/ Research Interests Modeling and analysis of real-time systems Machine learning theory and neural networks Secured and energy-aware cyber-physical systems Ongoing Research Projects CRII: NeuroMC – Parallel Online…

  Rickard Ewetz Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University, 2016 Email Phone Office HEC-235 Phone (407) 823-4766 E-mail Rickard.Ewetz@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~ewetz/ Research Interests Computer-aided design (CAD) for very large scale integration (VLSI) Physical Design: Clock network synthesis and timing driven placement Optimization and design of memristor crossbars with applications within neuromorphic…