CISE
The Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering is concerned with the theory, design, development and application of computer systems and information processing techniques. The mission of the CISE Department is to educate undergraduate and graduate majors as well as the broader campus community in the fundamental concepts of the computing discipline, to create and disseminate computing knowledge and technology, and to use our expertise in computing to help society solve problems.
Departmental News
UF Programming Team Takes First in North America
On October 29, the Programming Team competed in the IEEEXtreme 5.0 (2011), "a global
challenge in which teams of IEEE student members – supported by an IEEE Student Branch,
advised and proctored by an IEEE Member, compete in a 24-hour time span against each other
to solve a set of programming problems." It is a new contest (in its fifth year) conducted
over the internet with only a single round of competition.
Out of more than 1500 teams world wide and 227 teams from the USA, our best team--starring
Joe Thuemler, Jason Fisher, and Cheran Wu--finished 1st in North America and 13th in the world.
Career Development Workshop January 23rd.
The Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of
Florida is excited to announce the 10th Biannual Computer and Information Science and
Engineering Career Development Workshop. The goal of this event is to allow all computer
science / computer engineering students at UF, regardless of their particular major or
College, to interact with top industry representatives from across the field of computer
and information science and engineering in the hopes of fostering mutually beneficial
career and internship opportunities.
Students and Alumni can register by visiting the
Students section.
Interested companies can learn more about the event
including benefits of corporate sponsorship.
Ms. Ting Chen wins Young Scientist Award
Ms. Ting Chen, co-supervised by professors Baba Vemuri and Anand Rangarajan won the "Young Scientist Award" at the premiere Medical Imaging Confrence called MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention) 2011 held in Toronto, Canada. She got the award for a jointly authored paper titled: "Mixture of segmenters with discriminative spatial regularization and sparse weight selection," Ting Chen, Baba C Vemuri, Anand Rangarajan and Stephan Eisenchenk. Further details about the award are accessible at http://www.miccai2011.org/award/miccai-2011-young-scientist-awards
Dr. Thai Receives Provost’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
Dr. My T. Thai received a Provost’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors at the University of Florida. The awards are focused on junior faculty and recognize excellence in research.
Dr. Thai’s research interests are centered on the Combinatorial Optimization and its applications in networks, including communication networks, online social networks, wireless sensor networks, and biological networks.
The results of her work have led to many research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DoD), about 60 articles published in leading journals and conferences on networking, 4 edited books including a handbook on optimization in complex networks, and 1 Springer Brief.
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