Assistant Professor and Walden Rhines Endowed Professor in Hardware Security, Farimah Farahmandi, was notified that she is the recipient of the 2024-2025 Pramod P. Khargonekar Award for the most outstanding junior faculty member who underwent tenure and promotion review in 2024.

The Khargonekar Award comes on the heels of  Dr. Farahmandi’s strongest tenure package for an assistant professor in the history of Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. She was the recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, “SAIF: Security Assurance through AI and Formal Approaches for System-on-Chips,” 2024-2029.T

he Khargonekar Award is special to ECE Florida—it’s named for Dr. Pramod P. Khargonekar, currently vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to his post at UC Irvine, Dr. Khargonekar was Eckis Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UF (2001–2016) as well as the dean of the College of Engineering 2001–2009).