2015 News

The IoT Security competition in the CyberSEED was a research challenge that focused on the “Internet of Things.”

Dr. Linwood Jones is featured on the WFTV 2015 hurricane special.

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 Amanda Ross, Mariah Kenny, Benjamin Gafoor, and Phillip Dunlop, whose ECE Senior Design Team’s project about Pressure Reactive Stepping Stones was featured on Smithsonian.com.

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

ECE Ph.D. student Michael Trampler (advised by Xun Gong) received the best student research presentation award in 2015 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON) which was held at Cocoa Beach, FL, 13-15 April, 2015. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr. Jun Wang, who received a 2015 UCF Reach for the Stars award. In order to receive the Reach for the Stars award, faculty must have achieved noteworthy research and/or creative activity of national impact.