Christophe Bobda

Christophe Bobda is a Citi Endowed Professor in Advanced Technologies and Associate Chair for Academics at the University of Florida's Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering within the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. His research focuses on FPGA-based systems, cybersecurity, embedded systems, and resilient architectures. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paderborn, Germany, and degrees from Universities in Germany and Cameroon.

Research interests include System-on-Chip design, reconfigurable computing, and robotics. Notable contributions span secure cloud FPGA deployment, multi-tenant hardware security, and near-sensor processing architectures. He received the HWCOE International Educator of the Year award in 2024.

Recent work emphasizes FPGA security in cloud environments, with projects like CIVIC-FPGA and ISO-TENANT addressing isolation and attack mitigation. His lab explores embedded imaging and robotics applications, leveraging low-power and high-performance FPGA solutions. NSF grants support his research in FPGA acceleration and datacenter infrastructure.

Publications highlight advancements in event-based vision systems, 3D semantic modeling, and hardware trojan detection. Ongoing projects include chiplet interfaces for on-device AI and galvanic isolation for physical attack prevention. His work bridges theoretical cybersecurity with practical FPGA implementations for resilient systems.