Researchers from Florida and South Carolina deployed robots 300 feet inside an underwater cave system in Orange Grove, Florida in April to collect data for mapping the system. Assistant Professor Md Jahidul Islam and members of his lab collaborated with Ioannis Rekleitis, Ph.D., associate professor at the University of South Carolina, to collect visual data with BlueROV2 and Chase-M2 robots alongside human divers. Such experiments prove the benefits of using robots along with human divers for inspecting and mapping cave systems that are often risky and inaccessible to humans.
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ECE Florida Associate Professor Sanjeev J. Koppal has received $1M in funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in support of his project “Rapid High-Resolution Target Aerial Detection and Tracking through Deep Foveated Imaging." The project seeks to improve the imaging abilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), allowing them to quickly and efficiently detect the areas of interest in a scene.
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As profiled by UF News, the innovative Gainesville-based company Fire Neural Network, or FNN, is using artificial intelligence to reduce the time it takes to identify a devastating wildfire from 24 hours to just 40 seconds. ECE Florida has deep connections to this work—underpinning FNN's ingenious technology is deep knowledge of lightning, its behavior, and its electrical signatures, based on decades of work at two ECE Florida labs.
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The National Science Foundation-funded IoT4Ag Engineering Research Center (ERC) launched in 2020, uniting expertise in agronomy, agricultural engineering, communications, robotics, environmental science, electrical and computer engineering, cyber systems, social science, and more. The center focuses on developing and deploying precision agriculture technologies to address the global grand challenges of food, energy, and water security. The center’s year three annual retreat was held June 14–16 in Gainesville.
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Dr. Janise McNair and her colleague Dr. Aaron Costin from the Rinker School of Construction are developing a multi-access edge computing system to manage signals to and from various heterogeneous sensors, software, and technology using an Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. Their system, IoT-ACRES (IoT- Applied Construction Research and Education Services) uses machine learning to facilitate learning from new data to update upstream models.
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A UF team led by Dr. Yong-Kyu Yoon is part of a project that has been chosen as one of 34 semifinalists in the NSF Engines program. The project, "NeoCity Semiconductor Technology Accelerator," is the only project in the semifinals from the microelectronics and semiconductors category, and was chosen from amongst the initial crop of 188 concept outlines.
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An industry/academic consortium spearheaded by ECE FLORIDA faculty is aiming to harness money unleashed by the CHIPS Act to jump-start semiconductor manufacturing in the Southeast. The Southeastern Consortium for Assured Leading Edge Semiconductors (SCALES), a not-for-profit consortium of more than 70 entities, is working to take advantage of funding opportunities offered as part of the transformational legislation.
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Professor Emeritus Jacob Hammer Retires After 36 Years |
Professor Emeritus Jacob Hammer (L) retired on May 18 after 36 years with ECE Florida. Besides being a highly respected researcher and teacher, Dr. Hammer is an IEEE Fellow, "For contributions to non-linear control and system theory." Presenting a plaque on behalf of the department is Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs David Arnold (R).
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Yoon in Attendance as S. Korean President Addresses Joint Session of Congress |
As the guest of U.S. Representative Darren Soto, ECE Professor Yong-Kyu Yoon was honored to attend a joint session of the US Congress to hear President Yoon Suk Yeol's April 27 address. Dr. Yoon was also pleased to meet the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology president, Dr. Byungjoo Min.
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UF IEEE Student Branch President Conrad Hellwege & incoming Treasurer Max Petlick attended the IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit in Atlanta and were honored to meet Vint Cerf, co-creator of the architecture of the Internet.
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