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October 2026 Newsletter

FAU Receives NIST Grant to Build Quantum

Cybersecurity Workforce

Yufei Tang, Ph.D., faculty fellow of the Institute for Smarter Cities, Spaces, and Health and director of FAU’s FPL Center for Intelligent Energy Technologies (InETech), is leading a new $200,000 NIST-funded initiative to expand quantum cybersecurity training and workforce development across South Florida and the Treasure Coast.

From City Streets to Research Projects: West Palm Beach Students Explore Their Community Through Research

Under the Institute's mentorship, nine Palm Beach County high school students turned the streets of downtown West Palm Beach into a research laboratory this summer, developing five projects that explored real challenges in their community through technology, data and hands-on fieldwork.

From the Research Lab to Industry — and Back Again

Doctoral student Marjan Nassajpour put her research skills to work during a summer internship with Teva Pharmaceuticals and returned with new perspectives shaping her Alzheimer’s research under Behnaz Ghoraani, Ph.D., faculty fellow of the Institute for Smarter Cities, Spaces, and Health and director of the Center for SMART Health.

Secure Yet Fragile: Privacy-Preserving Healthcare AI Remains Vulnerable to Cyberattacks

Ahmed Imteaj, Ph.D., faculty fellow of the Institute for Smarter Cities, Spaces, and Health and director of FAU's SPEED Lab, and his graduate research team are uncovering vulnerabilities in emerging healthcare AI systems. Their work is helping identify the safeguards needed to make privacy-preserving AI more secure and reliable for future clinical use.

News from the Center for Connected Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (CA-AI)

FAU Receives NSF Grant to Prepare Future AI, Robotics Workforce

CA-AI Guest Speaker Recap: Xiaomin Lin, Ph.D.

CA-AI Guest Speaker Recap: Kumar Vijay Mishra, Ph.D.

Student Spotlight

Ahmed Imteaj, Ph.D., celebrates with the FAU SPEED Lab team their acceptance to NeurIPS 2026, one of the world's most prestigious conferences in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

. (L to R: Md Zarif Hossain, Ahmed Imteaj, Ph.D., Awal Ahmed Fime)

This fall, Mojtaba Jafarian Abyaneh — a Ph.D. candidate working under faculty fellow Jinwoo Jang, Ph.D. — received the Graduate Fellowship for Academic Excellence Award from the Florida Atlantic University Graduate College.

CA-AI students Anish Kaza (left) and Parker Wilmoth (right) presented their work at the IEEE OCEANS Conference in Monterey, California.

CA-AI students Gabriel Garcia (left) and Jose Sanchez Viloria (right) presented demos of three projects at GNU Radio Conference 2026 (GRCon26).