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Overview of Research in ECE at UCF

We have talented students, dedicated faculty, state-of-the-art facilities, and quality educational programs. Through delivering research-based education to our students and facilitating technology transfers, ECE faculty continue their research endeavors that generate new knowledge and support technology advances as well as economic growth.

ECE is home to the FEEDER Center, one of national-network centers funded by the US Department of Energy under the GEARED program. Also affiliated with ECE is the MIST Center, an NSF I/UCRC program. ECE research is categorized into the following four focus groups, each of which consists of several areas:

  • Computer Systems and Architecture
    • Data-intensive High Performance Computing, Massive Storage and File System, I/O Architecture
      Computer Architecture and Evolvable Hardware
      Secure, Trusted, and Reliable Processor and ASIC Design; Cyber Security and Cryptography
  • Cyber-Physical Systems (Communication, Controls, Signal Processing, and Energy Systems)
    • Networked Systems, Cooperative Control, Optimization and Games
      Autonomous Robotic Vehicles, Medical and Assistive Robotics
      Smart Grids, Distributed Generation and Optimization, Protection and Control
      Biomedical Devices and Control
      Digital Signal Processing, Detection and Estimation
      Communication Theory, Cognitive Radios and Networks, Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks
      Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, Distributed Decision
  • Micro and Nano Systems
    • Microwave Sensors, Antennas, Phased Arrays and Integrated RF
      Micro- and Nano- Electronics, MEMS devices, Device Modeling, Acoustic Wave Devices
      Power electronics, Power Semiconductor devices and ICs
      Optoelectronic Materials, Thin Films Micromachining
  • Electromagnetics and Sensing
    • Microwave Sensors, Antennas, Phased Arrays and Integrated RF
      Remote Sensing, Satellite Communications

 

RESEARCH AREAS

The faculty in the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering deliver a research-based education to our students and continue their research endeavors that generate new knowledge and support technology advances as well as economic growth. ECE research is categorized into the following four focus groups.

 

Computer Systems and Architecture
Computer Systems and Architecture
Cyber-Physical Systems
Cyber-Physical Systems
Micro and Nano Systems
Micro and Nano Systems
Electromagnetics
Electromagnetics and Sensing