Month: November 2020

Fall 2020

Growing up in China, Chunbo “Chuck” Huang, Ph.D., (Ph.D. CE ’00), founder and CEO of Citcon, didn’t know that one day he would become a computer scientist. After he won the national level high school math and physics Olympiad competitions, he received an offer from Tsinghua University to attend and pick any major. “Although I […]

Brendan David-John, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), was recently named a Google Ph.D. Fellowship recipient under the area of Human-Computer Interaction. According to the list of recipients from the fellowship’s inception, David-John is the first student from any Florida university to receive the fellowship. David-John’s research […]

Dear colleagues, alumni and friends, With the end of the semester quickly approaching, I wanted to share some stories that came out of the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering in the last few months. This fall, the department congratulated a faculty member for receiving a $1.2 million grant from […]

The University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering welcomes three new faculty members. James Fairbanks, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dr. Fairbanks’s research focuses on programming languages; concurrency, parallelism and high-performance computing; and database, data science and informatics. His work focuses on using programming language theory and algebraic techniques for designing and developing […]

Christina Boucher, Ph.D., associate professor in the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will give Dr. Boucher and her team the opportunity to develop a set of algorithms and an electronic interface that will allow public health […]