Labs, Centers, and Research-Funded Scholar Programs

Labs & Centers

The faculty in the department is actively involved in sponsored research with support from various funding agencies, including

National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Department of Defense (DoD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Department of Energy (DoE)
Department of Education (DoEd)
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)
Air Force Office of Science Research (AFOSR)
Army Research Lab (ARL)
Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
And more

Research Centers, Labs, & Groups Directory:

FAU Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Engineering (i-SENSE)
Director: Jason Hallstrom, Ph.D., EE, Room 408A.
EECS i-SENSE Fellows: Jason Hallstrom, Dimitris Pados, Ramin Pashaie, Mahsa Ranji, Reza Azarderakhsh, Behnaz Ghoraani, Yufei Tang, George Sklivanitis.
https://www.fau.edu/isense/
NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (CAKE)
Director: Borko Furht, Ph.D., EE, Room 503D.
Faculty: Borko Furht, Hari Kalva, Oge Marques, Daniel Raviv.
http://cake.fau.edu
Center for Connected Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence
Director: Dimitris A. Pados, Ph.D., EE, Room 108.
Faculty: Dimitris A. Pados, George Sklivanitis, Zhen Ni, Xiangnan Zhong, Shermeen Yousif.
http://ca-ai.fau.edu
NSF AIDL: Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Lab
Director: Hill (Xingquan) Zhu, Ph.D., EE, Room 507B.
http://eng.fau.edu/research/aidl/
Adaptive Learning Systems Lab
Director: Zhen Ni, Ph.D., EE, Room 410B.
http://www.eng.fau.edu/directory/faculty/ni/index.php
Applied DSP and Machine Learning Lab
Director: Hanqi Zhuang, Ph.D., EE, Room 410A.
Faculty: Hanqi Zhuang, Nurgun Erdol
http://www.eng.fau.edu/directory/faculty/zhuang/index.php
Bidtellect Lab
Director: Hill (Xingquan) Zhu, Ph.D., EE, Room 507B.
http://bidtellect.fau.edu
Bio-inspired Robotics and Communications Systems Group
Director: Abhijit Pandya, Ph.D., EE, Room 516.
Faculty: Abhijit Pandya, Sue Graves, Javad Hashemi, Ali Danesh, Manish Gupta.
Postdoctoral fellow: Riki Patel
http://www.eng.fau.edu/directory/faculty/pandya/index.php
Bio-Inspired Sciences and Technologies (BIST) Lab
Director: Ramin Pashaie, Ph.D., EE, Room 317.
http://www.eng.fau.edu/directory/faculty/pashaie/
Biological Data Science Research Group
Director: Michael Degiorgio, Ph.D., EE, Room 418.
http://degiorgiogroup.fau.edu/
Biomedical Signal and Image Analysis Lab
Director: Behnaz Ghoraani, Ph.D., EE, Room 319.
http://biomedsignal.com/
Biophotonics lab
Director: Mahsa Ranji, Ph.D., EE, Room 513.
https://www.fau.edu/engineering/research/biophotonics/
Computational Human Genomics Research Group
Director: Raquel Assis, Ph.D., EE, Room 432.
http://assisgroup.fau.edu/index.html
Cryptographic Engineering Lab
Director: Reza Azarderakhsh, Ph.D., EE, Room 314.
http://faculty.eng.fau.edu/azarderakhsh/
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab
Director: Daniel Raviv, Ph.D., EE, Room 409.
http://EECS.fau.edu/research/research.php
LACCEI Engineering Learning Systems and Smart Adaptive Remote Lab
Director: Maria Petrie, Ph.D., EE, Room 525.
http://sarl.fau.edu/
Micro & Nanotechnology in Medicine Lab
Director: Waseem Asghar, Ph.D., EE, Room 408A.
http://faculty.eng.fau.edu/asghar
Multimedia Systems Lab
Director: Hari Kalva, Ph.D., EE, Room 408B.
Faculty: Hari Kalva, Oge Maques, Borko Furht.
http://mlab.fau.edu
Networked Intelligence Control Systems (NICS) Lab
Director: Xiangnan Zhong, Ph.D., EE, Room 410B.
http://www.eng.fau.edu/directory/faculty/zhong/
NSF Big Data Training and Research Laboratory
Director: Taghi Khoshgoftaar, Ph.D., EE, Room 507A.
http://www.eng.fau.edu/directory/faculty/khoshgoftaar/index.php
Privacy, Security, and Trust in Autonomy Lab
Director: Mehrdad Nojoumian, Ph.D., EE, Room 503A.
http://faculty.eng.fau.edu/nojoumian/research.html
Secure Systems Research Group
Director: Eduardo Fernandez, Ph.D., EE, Room 410B.
http://security.EECS.fau.edu
Software Engineering Lab
Director: Shihong Huang, Ph.D., EE, Room 410A.
http://www.eng.fau.edu/directory/faculty/huang/index.php
Spatial Network Big Database Lab
Director: KwangSoo Yang, Ph.D., EE, Room 409.
http://faculty.eng.fau.edu/yangk/home/students.html
Tecore Networks Labs
Smart Mobile Computing
Director: Imad Mahgoub, Ph.D., EE, Room 413.
http://smc.eng.fau.edu/#/

Wireless and Sensor Networking Lab
Director: Mihaela Cardei, Ph.D., EE, Room 413.
Faculty: Imad Mahgoub, Mihaela Cardei, Mohammad Ilyas, Ionut Cardei, Valentine Aalo.
http://www.eng.fau.edu/directory/faculty/cardei_m/index.php
Theoretical Cryptography Lab
Director: Feng-Hao Liu, Ph.D., EE, Room 412.
http://faculty.eng.fau.edu/fenghao/

Research-funded scholar Programs:

These programs are designed to advance student career pathways or graduate education in high-need high profile academic disciplines – namely Computer science, Data science, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity.