ECE FLORIDA

José Fortes, Ph.D., professor and AT&T Eminent Scholar, has been appointed the new acting chair of the University of Florida’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “As acting chair, I am honored by the trust that the college of engineering dean and my colleagues have placed in me to steward the ECE department through an important leadership transition,” said...

Hudson Marr, a senior studying electrical engineering in the University of Florida’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, is already making waves with job interviews. Before his senior year started, he and computer science senior Adrian Pascual founded Prepify AI, a company that provides artificial intelligence-powered job-interview tools to help candidates ac...

Xin Xie, Ph.D., a respected quantum researcher with significant industry experience, is joining the University of Florida’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, known as ECE, this fall as a research associate professor. Xie earned her doctorate from the University of Colorado Boulder and JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) ...

YK Yoon, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, or ECE, has been given the inaugural R.C. Gonzalez Faculty Fellowship. Established through a gift by University of Florida alumnus Rafael C. Gonzalez, Ph.D., the award recognizes engineering faculty excellence in research, innovation and leadership in engineering education. Yoon is known for...

Researchers from the University of Florida are playing a key role in a new national effort to advance rehabilitation and health care through artificial intelligence. The National Science Foundation has awarded $21.5 million over five years to establish the NSF AI Institute for Human-AI Cooperation, or HAIC, led by the University of Delaware in collaboration with UF, Delaware ...