My Honors and Awards
| Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), April 2025 to March 2028 |
| A. James Clark School of Engineering Early Career Distinguished Alumni (ECDA) Society, 2024 |
| 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
| ECE Faculty of the Year (Student Choice), University of Florida, 2025-2026 |
| 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 |
Other Research Honors and Distinctions
| World’s Top 2% Scientists, 2020 – 2024 |
| #43 in “Reverse Engineering” Specialty, 2024 ScholarGPS Top Scholar – Lifetime |
| #231 in “Integrated Circuit” Specialty, 2024 ScholarGPS Top Scholar – Lifetime |
| #65 in “Integrated Circuit” Specialty, 2024 ScholarGPS Top Scholar – Prior Five Years |
| #128 in “Logic” Specialty, 2024 ScholarGPS Top Scholar – Prior Five Years |
| #2,475 in “Electrical and Computer Engineering” Specialty, 2024 ScholarGPS Top Scholar – Prior Five Years |
| #9,308 in “Engineering and Computer Science” Specialty, 2024 ScholarGPS Top Scholar – Prior Five Years |
| #24,110 in “Overall (All Fields)” Specialty, 2024 ScholarGPS Top Scholar — Prior Five Years |
| #1 in “Reverse Engineering” Specialty, 2022 ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar – Prior Five Years |
Best Paper Awards and Nominations
| International Conference on Information Technology – New Generations (ITNG) Best Student Paper Award, 2025 |
| 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 |
External Service Awards
| Springer Nature Editor of Distinction `Author Service’ Award, May 2025 |
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
| Uthra Madhavan | Received Outstanding Gator Engineering M.S. Student Award, 2026 |
| Uthra Madhavan | Received UFIC International Student Achievement Award, 2026 |
| Matheus Kunzler Maldaner, James Woelke, and Stephen Wormald | Awarded 1st Place at UF AI Days’ “Gator Hack”, 2025 |
| Landon Amaba | Awarded 2nd Place in presentation competition at IEEE SoutheastCon, 2025 |
| Carson Sobolewski | Awarded ECE Undergraduate Student Research Excellence Award, 2024 |
| Pallabi Ghosh | Received IJCB 2023 Doctoral Consortium Travel Scholarship, 2023 |
| Tasnuva Farheen | Awarded Annette Cornwell Bauer Scholarship to attend Inspiring Women Leaders Conference, 2022 |
| 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 |