Month: August 2019

Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), was recently awarded a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop technology that will monitor high-risk intersections in Gainesville, FL, to make roadways safer. The project, “Video Based Machine Learning for Smart Traffic Analysis and Management,” […]

Usha Suryadevara (computer engineering, MS ‘01) is the director of development at Info Tech in Gainesville, Fla. Suryadevara has made mentoring women in computer science and engineering an important part of her life.  Why were you interested in the computer engineering/science field? Honestly, I had to decide between dissecting frogs or learning about computers. I’ve […]

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Often when I speak with students who are majoring in computer sciences, many of them tell me that they have never taken a computer science course until college. This is especially true for the female, black, and Latino students I’ve spoken with as a computer science professor. […]

Humans are social creatures, but some things are just hard to talk about. For many people, mental health is one of those things. But what if you can’t talk about something where the leading treatment is talk therapy? Maybe try speaking to someone who’s not human. Benjamin Lok, a professor in the Department of Computer […]