{"id":1895,"date":"2024-07-16T16:33:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartsystems.ece.ufl.edu\/?page_id=1895"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:35:08","slug":"peter-forcha","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/people\/peter-forcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Forcha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Peter <\/span>Forcha<\/span> is currently pursuing a<\/span><\/span>  <\/span><\/span>Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer<\/span><\/span> Engineering at the University of Florida, under the<\/span><\/span>  <\/span><\/span>supervision of Dr. Christophe Bobda. He obtained<\/span><\/span> his<\/span><\/span> bachelor\u2019s degree in Electrical and Electronics<\/span><\/span> Engineering at the University of <\/span>Buea<\/span> in Cameroon<\/span><\/span> and completed his Master of Engineering in Power<\/span><\/span> Systems at Makerere University in Uganda. Peter\u2019s<\/span><\/span> research is focused on building hardware <\/span>accelera<\/span><\/span>tors for machine learning. Additionally, he shares a<\/span><\/span> passion for other machine-learning applications, such<\/span><\/span> as computer vision and natural language processing.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Research Interest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Human Action Recognition and Pose Estimation, Reconfigurable Computing, and Hardware Acceleration<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coursework<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Reconfigurable computing<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • VLSI\u00a0<\/span> Circuit and Technology<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Fundamentals of Machine Learning<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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    Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Coming Soon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    6200 Malachowsky Hall, Gainesville, FL, 32611
    Email:<\/strong> Peter.forcha<\/span><\/span>@ufl.edu
    LinkedIn: <\/strong>coming soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Biography Peter Forcha is currently pursuing a  Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, under the  supervision of Dr. Christophe Bobda. He obtained his bachelor\u2019s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Buea in Cameroon and completed his Master of Engineering in Power Systems at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-section-nav.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1895","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1895\/revisions\/2651"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smartsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}