External Faculty Awards
2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), nominated by Department of Defense, 2019 |
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (ECASE-Army) by Army Research Office, 2019 |
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, 2017 |
Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award, 2016 |
Schloss Dagstuhl – NSF Support Grant for Junior Researchers, 2016 |
Internal Faculty Awards
Excellence in Research Award, University of Florida ECE Department, 2023 |
HWCOE Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award (2021-2022), 2021 |
Steven A. Yatauro Faculty Fellow, 2021 |
Pramod P. Khargonekar Junior Faculty Award for Excellence, 2019 |
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Florida ECE Graduate Student Organization, 2019 |
Provost Awards UF Term Professorship 2019 |
UF Provost’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, 2018 |
Best Paper Awards and Nominations
EDFAS Virtual Workshop (ISTFA 2020) Outstanding Paper Award, 2021 |
ACM TODAES Best Paper Award, 2018 |
International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis (ISTFA) 2017 Outstanding Paper Award, 2018 |
International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) Best Student Paper Award, 2017 |
ACM Computing Reviews Notable Computing Books and Articles 2016, Hardware Category |
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) Best Paper Award, 2016 |
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) Best Paper Nomination (x2), 2016 |
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) Best Paper Award, 2015 |
Design Automation Conference (DAC) Best Paper Nomination, 2012 |
NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS) Best Student Paper Award, 2011 |
Graduate School Awards
Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award, 2013 |
Northrop Grumman Fellowship, 2012-2013 (Awarded to a top student in ECE) |
TA Teaching and Development (TATD) Fellow, University of Maryland, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 |
George Corcoran Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Maryland, 2008 (Presented to two ECE graduate teaching assistants in 2008) |
Undergraduate Awards
Co-recipient of medal for Electrical Engineering, Manhattan College, 2006 (Awarded at graduation to top two EE students in 2006) |
Next in Merit: Draddy Medal for General Excellence in Engineering, 2006 |
Society of Military Engineers (SAME) Scholarship, 2005 |
Manhattan College Presidential Scholarship, 2002 |
NY State Academic Excellence Scholarship, 2002 |
Awards Received by Student Advisees
Fellowships & Scholarships
David Koblah | Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship, 2022 |
Ulbert (Joey) Botero | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), 2018 |
Sreeja Chowdury | ISC2 Graduate Cybersecurity Scholarship, 2018 |
Service
Ana Covic | Received the ECE Graduate Student Excellence in Service Award, 2021 |
Mentee Best Paper, Demo, & Poster Competition Awards
Tasnuva Farheen | Awarded honorable mention in poster competition at the Fifth Workshop for Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE), 2022 |
Rabin Acharya | Received Best Poster Award in “AI Architectures and Algorithms” track at IBM-IEEE AI Compute Symposium (AICS), 2021 |
Ulbert (Joey) Botero | Received Outstanding Paper Award from EDFAS Virtual Workshop, 2020 |
Sumaiya (Jyoti) Shomaji | Awarded first place for poster in “IoT Technology” category at the Warren B. Nelms Annual IoT Conference, 2019 |
Sumaiya (Jyoti) Shomaji | Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Finalist and People’s Choice Award Winner at the University of Florida, 2019 |
Sumaiya (Jyoti) Shomaji | Received best oral presentation award at UF Diversity Graduate Research Symposium, 2019 |
Sreeja Chowdury | Awarded first place in poster competition at the Third Workshop for Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE), 2019 |
Sumaiya (Jyoti) Shomaji | Awarded honorable mention in poster competition at the Third Workshop for Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE), 2019 |
Ulbert (Joey) Botero | Awarded best poster in “Hardware Verification and Authentication” category at FICS Research Annual Conference on Cybersecurity, 2019 |
Mahbub Alam | Awarded best poster in “Physical Attacks and Countermeasures” category at FICS Research Annual Conference on Cybersecurity, 2019 |
Sreeja Chowdury | Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Finalist at the University of Florida, 2018 |
Sreeja Chowdury | Awarded second place in poster competition at the Second Workshop for Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE), 2018 |
Ulbert (Joey) Botero | Awarded best poster at FICS Research Annual Conference on Cybersecurity 2018 |
Nima Karimian | Awarded best student paper at International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2017 |
Zimu Guo | Awarded best demo at FICS Research Annual Conference on Cybersecurity 2017 |
Sreeja Chowdury | Awarded best hardware primitive poster at FICS Research Annual Conference on Cybersecurity 2017 |
Zimu Guo and Nima Karimian | Awarded best hardware security poster at FICS Research Annual Conference on Cybersecurity 2016 |