Smart Grid

Hydrokinetic energy conversion, ocean turbine dynamometer – Hydrokinetic Energy Conversion; 22 kW Ocean Turbine Dynamometer; Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)

Hydrokinetic energy conversion, ocean turbine dynamometer – Hydrokinetic Energy Conversion; 22 kW Ocean Turbine Dynamometer; Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)

High-speed communication networks (wireless, sensor, optics, traffic management, healthcare)

Wireless and Network Security; User Privacy in Smart Grid; Internet of Things and Ad Hoc Networks

Cybersecurity and privacy with an emphasis on its practical and applied aspects

Parallel and distributed discrete-event simulation; High-performance simulation and modeling of large-scale computer networks.

Power System Operations and Control; Artificial Intelligence Applications to Power Systems; Energy conservation and alternate energy sources;

Electromagnetic Field Modeling and computations; Asynchronous Learning Networks and Educational Methods

Distributed Multimedia Database Systems; Database Management; Multimedia Data Mining; Multimedia Systems, GIS

Wireless communications and wireless sensor networks; Smart, On-chip, miniaturized, High frequency (HF) antennas; Broadband analysis of RF propagation for wireless communication systems; RFID; Computational and applied electromagnetics

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Information policy research

Control systems; Applied power electronics; Electrical machinery/variable speed drives; Renewable energy sources that utilizes cutting edge theory and technology

Power Electronics

Electric power systems; Control and automation strategies for electric power systems; Soft computing; Distributed algorithms; Medium voltage AC and DC shipboard electric power systems; Large-scale electric power systems on the transmission level, i.e., Florida’s grid

Special Purpose Hardware Implementations

MAC and Routing Protocols; Network Traffic Modeling; Radio Resource Management

Integration of novel high power apparatus, such as superconducting devices, power electronics converters, and novel rotating machines into power systems; Large scale hardware-in-the-loop simulations coupled to high power testing for model validation and analysis

Co-simulation; Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation; Modeling and simulation of FACTS; HVDC and renewable resources; Electric ship power system; Grid Integration of distributed resources and their impacts on electrical systems; Modeling and simulation of renewable energy and its impact

Human ecological impacts; Remote sensing; GIS; Energy conservation; Climate change

Department of Geography

Signal and Image Processing

Neural networks; Ant colony systems; Genetic algorithms; Fuzzy logic; Pattern recognition; Random number generators; Field programmable gate array (FPGA) applications

Stability of power systems, distributed control of DGs, distributed optimization and communication for smart grid, islanding operation and anti-islanding algorithm

Cyber-Physical Systems Security, Power Systems Operation, Control and Protection.

Renewable integration, large-scale control of the grid; capacity, control, and resource allocation; policy in energy systems

Power Electronics, Electrical Power, Electromagnetic Interference, Electric Vehicles, Green Energy Conversion and Grid Integration

Hardware Security and Trust, IoT Security, Supply Chain Security, Counterfeit Electronics Detection

And Prevention, Reliable Circuit Design and Analysis, and Integrated Circuits and Systems Testing

Modeling, and computation of complex, novel molecular and materials systems; Electronic structure of materials in condensed phase, in solution and as nano structures; Time dependent electronic and molecular dynamics simulations;

Parallel programming at the petascale using the Super Instruction Architecture to describe electronic structure of large complex systems (http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/ACES)

Mathematical systems theory; Control systems

Communication theory; Data communication networks; Multimedia information systems

Distributed computing; Service-oriented architecture; Web-services; Grid services; Distributed object technology; Database management; Computer architecture for non-numerical processing; Computer aided digital hardware design; Microprocessor-based design

Computer networks; Wireless and mobile networking; Sensor networks; Mobility and handoff management; Security and authentication

Medium access control

Network computing; Advanced computing architecture; Biologically inspired nanocomputing;

Distributed information processing systems

Leadership and Strategy, Competition and Pricing, Cost Analysis, Universal Service

Wireless networking (traffic engineering and security), Internet security (worms, DDoS, malware, and spreader detection), network algorithms and protocols

Regulatory Policy, Energy Risk Management, Energy Policy and Regulation, Energy Pricing

Nanotechnology, thin films, sensors, surface science

Advanced signal processing techniques; Networking adaptivity; Wireless sensors networks and wireless telemetry; UWB, OFDM based wireless technologies with emphasis on WIMAX and IMT-Advanced

Software engineering; Business intelligence; Decision support systems; Information security & risk management; Distributed systems

Data mining and data-driven decision making with a focus on learning from Web clickstream data; Applications such as behavioral profiling; Recommender systems and online fraud detection

Professor, Information Systems & Decision Sciences

Renewable energy source grid integration; Modeling and control of energy systems; Large-scale power system planning and operation

Software quality; Electronic intermediaries and the development of Agent-based systems for negotiations and fraud detection.