Florida Semiconductor Week, Jan. 23–25 in Gainesville, brought together nearly 300 luminaries in the world of semiconductor manufacturing and research to discuss the state-of-the-art in advanced packaging, advanced semiconductor design, and fabrication. Though many of the presentations were quite technical, there was a straightforward thread through many of the talks—workforce development.

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Funded by a $4.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), ECE researchers are leading a project to produce a microchip-sized tactical-grade clock that maintains accuracy on the magnitude of billionths of a second over time. The research is aligned with DARPA’s ongoing mission to stay ahead of an October Surprise—a reference to the unanticipated 1957 launch of Sputnik by the U.S.S.R.— to ensure ubiquitous national readiness for a potentially global theater of conflict.

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ECE Professor Yong-Kyu 'YK' Yoon has received a $750k award from the NSF Convergence Accelerator Program in support of his project "Energy-efficient MetaConductors for Convergence of Sustainable Electronics (E-MC2 of Sustainable Electronics)." The project is funded by Track I of the program, Sustainable Materials for Global Challenges. Dr. Yoon's multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional team will explore energy-efficient metaconductors and develop manufacturing technologies to translate them to commercial use to meet the signal/power integrity requirements for modern high-speed, broadband electronic applications.

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ECE Associate Professor Sanjeev Koppal was recently selected as an Amazon Scholar. He’ll work with the trailblazing company to create better cameras and algorithms for their army of robots.

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ECE Assistant Professor & Yangbin Wang Rising Star Endowed Professor Farimah Farahmandi has received funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in support of her 3-year project, “FAME: Fault-Injection Assessment and Mitigation of Microelectronics at Pre-silicon.” The $600k grant supports work which aims to counter real-world hardware attacks by using new tools and simulations to discover locations in chip designs which are the most vulnerable to attacks. Finding these vulnerabilities early (pre-silicon) will aid in the development of more efficient physical protection.

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ECE researchers Dr. Daniela Seabra Oliveira (Top) and Dr. Catia Silva (Bottom) collaborated with faculty from the UF College of Journalism and Communications and the University of Florida College of Education on a study recently highlighted by UF news. The authors used machine learning to analyze thousands of deceptive Russian Facebook ads to understand the factors that make disinformation ads so engaging. 

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ECE Florida is saddened to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Fred Taylor. Dr. Taylor was with the department for over 35 years and was a much-loved teacher, mentor, and researcher.

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