James Fairbanks, Ph.D.

UF Researchers Enhance Defense Readiness Through the Language of Mathematics

September 8, 2022

The explosive growth of diversified scientific data has reaped unprecedented advancements in scientific discovery and engineering. Unfortunately, it is difficult to relate data from one scientific problem to another without a unified approach to the mathematics of scientific modeling. A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by engineering faculty at the University of Florida hopes to […]

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Bonnie Dorr, Ph.D.

New Hire: Welcoming Bonnie Dorr to CISE

August 15, 2022

Bonnie Dorr, Ph.D., joined the faculty as a professor at the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) in Spring 2022. Her research and project management experience includes deep-language understanding and semantics, large-scale multilingual processing, and summarization. She has carried out seminal work in cross-language divergence detection, machine translation, paraphrasing and automatic evaluation […]

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AI Summer Camp

Hey Chatbot, tell me how kids can learn about AI

August 11, 2022

This story originally appeared on news.ufl.edu. UF researchers and students hold summer camp for local children to make AI more accessible.   Soccer-bot, stress-bot and fashion-bot are just three examples of conversational apps created by middle schoolers using a unique digital interface developed by University of Florida researchers. AMBY, which stands for AI Made By You, […]

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Kevin R.B. Butler, Ph.D.

UF to Lead $7.5M NSF-Funded Project on Protecting Security of Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations

August 8, 2022

Computing has never been more important to our daily lives than it is today. Videoconferencing has become ubiquitous for almost the entire population and access to technology and virtual worlds have become a necessity for all rather than a privilege reserved for certain populations. However, throughout this rapid evolution in computing, it is increasingly apparent […]

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Benjamin Lok, Ph.D.

Lok Inducted into 2022 Inaugural Class of IEEE Virtual Reality Academy

July 8, 2022

Benjamin Lok, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, was recently inducted as a member into the inaugural class of the IEEE Virtual Reality Academy. Dr. Lok was one of 49 scholars and innovators inducted into this year’s class. “Our work has focused on innovating in the area of […]

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Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., CISE department chair, with Thomas Pena, a recipient of the LAC Scholarship.

2022 CISE Awards Ceremony

June 2, 2022

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 CISE undergraduate and graduate scholarships. Certificates were presented to the winners at the CISE Awards Ceremony in April. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”15″ gal_title=”2022 CISE Awards Ceremony”]    

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Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D.

Spring 2022: Message From the Chair

May 11, 2022

Dear colleagues, alumni and friends, The world around us is everchanging, and at the University of Florida, that means constant innovation. With another academic year coming to an end, I wanted to share some incredible stories of research and accomplishments that came out of our department this spring. Here at the Department of Computer & […]

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Baba Vemuri, Ph.D.

UF Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Develop Automated Methods to Diagnose Neurodegenerative Disorders

May 11, 2022

A four-year grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and National Institute on Aging (NIA) has been awarded to Baba C. Vemuri, Ph.D., the Wilson and Marie Collins Professor in Engineering at the University of Florida (UF), to resolve the limitations of MRI for the purpose […]

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Drew Gill

UF Alumnus Designs App to Make Campus Parking Easier

May 9, 2022

If you’ve ever parked on the University of Florida (UF) campus, you’re aware of the various parking restrictions. One recent alumnus has been working to create an app that alleviates some of the stress of navigating those parking restrictions. Drew Gill (BSCS ’22) began creating EZ Park UF as a group project for his Human-Computer […]

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Tyler Hanks

CISE Student Earns NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

May 4, 2022

Congratulations to Tyler Hanks, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), who has been selected for the 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), which recognizes exceptional students who are pursuing full-time research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The NSF GRFP has […]

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