Current members

Student Awards

• 2025 Most Innovative Poster, awarded by UF Innovate at the Annual Nelms IoT Conference: Zhenjiang Mao
• AWS-Vanderbilt Mission Autonomy Hackathon, Most Innovative Award ($10k): Krish Kapadia, Yilin Liu, Zhenjiang Mao, Ishaan Sen, Zhongzheng Zhang, Zhuoyang Zhou
• 2025 ACM Student Research Competition at the Embedded Systems Week: First Undergraduate – Trevor Turnquist, Graduate Runner-Up – Jordan Peper
• 2025-2026 University and AI Scholars: Trevor Turnquist, Christopher Oeltjen
• 2025 1st Place Undergraduate Poster at the MAE Poster Competition: Lorant Domokos
• 2025 NSF student travel award for CPS-IOT Week: Jordan Peper
• 2025 MAE Student Leadership Award: Lorant Domokos
• 2024 Nelms IoT Conference Poster Awards: 2nd Place — Zhenjiang Mao; Honorable Mention — Yuang Geng, Sam Jhong
• 2024 Nelms IoT Conference 1st Place Demo Award: Lorant Domokos, Carson Sobolewski, Christopher Oeltjen, Anthony Joannides
• 2024-2025 University Scholars: Lorant Domokos
• 2024-2025 UF AI Scholars: Carson Sobolewski
• 2024 University of Florida Board of Education Summer Fellowship Program: Jordan Peper
• 2024 ECE Undergraduate Research Excellence Award: Carson Sobolewski

Alumni

Masters:

1. Artem Bisliouk, MS in CS, 2025, next position: back to the University of Mannheim.
2. Yuyang Zhang, MS in ECE, 2025, next position: PhD student at North Carolina State University.
3. Parth Krishnachandra Vasoya, MS in CS, 2025, next position: machine learning engineer at the Blueberry Breeding Lab.
4. Jessil Bijou, MS in ECE, 2025, next position: data center controls engineer at Amazon Web Services.
5. Rohith Nama Reddy, MS in ECE, 2024-2025, next position: AI and software intern at bhild.
6. Bharat Gandhi, MS in ECE, 2025, next position: machine learning intern at Microsoft.
7. Anuj Papriwal, MS in CS, 2024-2025, next position: software development engineer at Amazon Web Services.
8. Kshitij Vejre, MS in CS, 2024-2025, next position: software developer at boto3.
9. Sujan Satya Sai Nadiminti, MS in CS, 2025, next position: software developer at Intersect Healthcare Systems.
10. Shobhit Singh, MS in CS, 2025, next position: research assistant at the SoundPad Lab.
11. Vedansh Maheshvari, MS in CS, 2024-2025, next position: full-stack AI engineer at Unified Accessibility.
12. Archit Mittal, MS in CS, 2024-2025, next position: full-stack developer at Unified Accessibility.
13. Sukanth Sundaran, MS in CS, 2024-2025, next position: ?
14. Pratham Sharma, MS in CS, 2024-2025, next position: web developer at UF Lastinger Center.
15. Mohit Kukreja, MS in CS, 2024-2025, next position: data scientist at Vaccine Genie.
16. Amol Sinha, MS in CS, 2024, next position: data engineer at Stanford Health Care.
17. Shaurya Wahal, MS in CS, 2024, next position: software developer at Unified Accessibility.
18. Dong-You (Sam) Jhong, MS in ECE, 2023-2024, next position: AI engineer at Solidigm.
19. Nathan Norohna, MS in ECE, 2023-2024, next position: powertrain intern at Mercedes-Benz R&D, then a Software Development Engineer in Test at Apple.
20. Amit Kumar, MS in ECE, 2024, next position: software development engineer at Amazon Web Services.
21. Srikruth Reddy Puram, MS in CS, 2024, next position: full-stack developer at LYNKUP.
22. Bilhani Charlakorla, MS in CS, 2024, next position: junior engineer at Intercontinental Exchange.
23. Chengxi Zhou, MS in ECE, 2023-2024, next position: continuing at UF.
24. Ao Wang, MS in ECE, 2023-2024, next position: PhD student at the University of Florida.
25. Eric Chen, MS in ECE, 2022-2023, next position: continuing at UF.
26. Kang Gao, MS in ECE, 2022-2023, next position: PhD student at Michigan State University.

Undergraduates:

1. Alejandro La Serna Silva, UG in EE, 2024-2025, next position: continuing at UF.
2. Gabriel Muñoz, UG in CS, 2025, next position: software engineering intern at Disney.
3. Fernando Guillen, UG in EE, 2024-2025, next position: continuing at UF.
4. Aimar Murua Poza, exchange student in Math, 2024-2025, next position: data scientist at Sekuenz Data Driven Seekers.
5. Carson Sobolewski, UG in CpE, 2023-2025, next position: PhD student at MIT.
6. Lorant Domokos, UG in MechE, 2023-2025, next position: mechanical engineer at SpaceX.
7. Anthony Joannides, UG in EE, 2024-2025, next position: continuing at UF.
8. Ethan Krol, UG in CS, 2023-2024, next position: software engineering co-op at NASA.
9. Manning Chen, UG in CpE, 2024, next position: software engineer at Texas Instruments.
10. Andres Castrillon, UG in MechE, 2022-2024, next position: MS student at Carnegie Mellon University.
11. LiangLiang Sun, UG summer intern, 2023, next position: MS student at Northeastern University.
12. Adam McAleer, UG in MechE, 2022-2023, next position: continuing at UF.
13. Jianing Yu, UG summer intern, 2023, next position: MS in ECE student at UF.
14. Lillian Sullivan, UG in EE, 2023, next position: continuing at UF (pre-med).

CURE course 2023 alumni:

• Ramsey Makan, Jonas Dickens, Tyler Ruble, Christopher Oeltjen, Carter Amaba, Aditya Gandhi, Emilia Delaune, Ethan Krol, and Giancarlo Vidal. All continued to their sophomore year at UF.

Senior design projects:

1. Nolin Eaddy, Alexis Gadsden: UG in ECE, Fall 2025, project: “Power Board for TEA Cars”.
2. Emma Livay: UG in ECE, Fall 2025, project: “Closed-Loop Driver for Brushless Direct-Current Motor”.
3. Jackson Werner, Ruben Gonzalez-Vera: UG in ECE, Spring 2025, project: “Mitigation of Sporadic Shutdowns of Autonomous Racing Cars”.
4. Tony Parra, Charlotte Smith, Kevin Welch: UG in ECE, Fall 2024, project: “Battery Charge-Aware Autonomous Racing“.
5. Kyle Pothul, Eddy Rosales, Jorge Flores, Matthew Pityo: UG in CS, Fall 2024, project: “Trajectory Prediction”.
6. Rolando Arias, David Szczesniak, Ryder Valiquette: UG in CS, Spring 2024, project: “MLCraft: Minecraft Map Generation with Diffusion”.
7. Jerry Payne and David Herrera: UG in ECE, Spring 2024, project: “State of Charge Estimation for Autonomous DonkeyCars”.
8. Joshua Nielsen: UG in ECE, Spring 2024, project: “Visual Dynamics Modeling for Autonomous RC Cars”.

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