2019 News

Congrats to Issa Batarseh for receiving the R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award from IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS).

Congratulations to Dr. Junjian Qi for receiving the NSF CAREER Award. His CAREER project, entitled “Deciphering Large­Scale Real Outage Data for Cascading Failure Analysis, Prevention, and Intervention,”

RTSS 2019 just announced its program (http://2019.rtss.org/program/). The paper “Mixed-Criticality Multicore Scheduling of Real-Time Gang Task Systems”, lead by ECE Ph. D student Ashikahmed Bhuiyan and ECE Assistant Professor Zhishan Guo from the RTIS group (http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~zsguo/rtis.html) has been selected as an outstanding paper.

Today the Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office announced the outcomes of fiscal year 2019 funding program. ECE/RISES received two awards

This three-year half-million project aims to develop disruptive learned I/O architectures for today’s big learning applications. The research will use the testbed of a big-data and GPU cluster purchased under the DURIP instrument program W911NF-17-1-0208.

ECE Ph.D. students, Yuchen Cao and Haifeng Lyu (advised by Prof. Kenle Chen), won the 1st Place award in Student Design Competition “Carrier Aggregation: BAW Quadplexer Module” at IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) 2019 International Microwave Symposium (IMS2019) in Boston, Massachusetts.

US News and World Report published 2020 ranking of Best Graduate Programs. Our EE and CpE programs are ranked 53 and 52, respectively.

Congratulations to Amro Awad and Mingjie Lin for their new grant from DARPA/SPAWAR to investigate novel secure processor architectures. This three-year $1.12M project aims to explore efficient implementations of novel secure architectures through hardware prototyping.