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FAU's video compression technology portfolio includes 683 intellectual property assets, 250 granted patents and 73 U.S. patents, including 16 U.S. patents essential to the international VVC/H.266 standard.
August 10, 2026
Florida Atlantic University has announced that a video-compression technology portfolio developed through a long-standing research partnership with OP Solutions, LLC (OPS) has been acquired by Dolby Laboratories, a global...
Principal investigator Masoud Jahandar Lashaki, Ph.D., an associate professor in FAU’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering.
August 10, 2026
Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science has received an $800,475 grant from the Gulf of America Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop an innovative, artificial...
From left, Abbas Khan, Juan Merlos, Ph.D. students, and Tarruck Wheeler, a masters student, all within FAU’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
July 14, 2026
FAU recently completed its inaugural Hacking for Defense course, a national innovation program that connects students with real-world challenges from the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Offered through...
D-Wave, Quantum Computing
July 09, 2026
Robert Loredo has been named the executive director of Florida Atlantic's Center for Quantum Technologies. In this role, Loredo will lead the university’s expanding quantum computing efforts as FAU continues to advance...
The trained AI model converts the user’s forearm muscle movements into real-time commands that control a robotic hand, allowing it to perform the intended gestures. (Photo by Alex Dolce)
July 01, 2026
Most prosthetic hands today still face a basic challenge: no two amputees are alike, yet most devices are built as if they are. This mismatch makes it difficult to achieve natural, intuitive control, often forcing users to...
West Palm Beach Aerial Image
June 25, 2026
A Decade of I-SENSE: After more than a decade of advancing sensing technologies and intelligent systems, FAU’s Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) is evolving its identity to better...
Drone
June 16, 2026
Seven student researchers from FAU's Center for Connected Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (CA-AI) are taking on one of the nation's most ambitious aerospace engineering competitions. Selected to compete in the DARPA...
Researcher, Lab
June 09, 2026
Florida Atlantic University has received a 12-month $1 million award through the AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge, a trilateral defense innovation initiative supported by the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom....
Robotic Dog
June 08, 2026
Florida Atlantic University has received a $1 million gift from the Levine Family Foundation to establish the Michael R. Levine AI-Enabled Hands-On Engineering Lab at the College of Engineering and Computer Science. The lab...
Big Data
June 02, 2026
A new study published in the Journal of Big Data (JBD) highlights the journal’s emergence as one of the world’s leading publications in data science and artificial intelligence research during its first decade – an...