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From left: CISE Chair Patrick Traynor, Aaron Kotranza, Adam Bates, Subodha Charles and Prabhat Mishra are shown at the CISE Distinguished Alumni Awards.

CISE celebrates 2026 class of Distinguished Alumni Awardees

April 29, 2026

The Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering celebrated the 2026 class of Distinguished Alumni awardees on April 21 at the University of Florida’s J. Wayne Reitz Union.

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Farimah Farahmandi, Ph.D., sitting in her lab

ECE ‘star Gator’ Farimah Farahmandi wins 40 Under 40 alumni award

April 24, 2026

Farimah Farahmandi, Ph.D., is considered an emerging leader in hardware security verification and trustworthy semiconductor design, a field vital to national security and the global semiconductor ecosystem.

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Meera Sitharam, Ph.D.

Sitharam wins award for excellence and innovation in doctoral dissertation advising

April 20, 2026

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering selected Meera Sitharam, Ph.D., to receive a Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award for the 2025–26 academic year.  

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Edward Kempa stands next to his poster.

‘Intellectual curiosity, relentless perseverance’: Meet multi-major engineer Edward Kempa

April 10, 2026

No one will ever accuse Edward Kempa of being an underachiever. Kempa is graduating this spring with double majors – his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Department of Computer and Information Science (CISE) and a bachelor’s in economics.

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Patrick Traynor, Ph.D.

Spring 2026: Message from the Chair

April 10, 2026

Dear friends, faculty, alumni and students,  With the spring semester rapidly coming to a close, now is a great time to take stock of our remarkable work in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering.  We continue to delve into some of the world’s thorniest problems while achieving student and faculty success with […]

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