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After their performances in February qualified them to compete in the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (SECCDC) regional competition – their third time in three years – the University of Florida Student InfoSec Team (UF SIT) came home with a second place trophy. The competition took place in Kennesaw, Ga., on April 2 – 3. Joseph N. Wilson, Ph.D. the […]

For the third time in three years, the University of Florida Student InfoSec Team (UF SIT) has been 1 of 7 teams whose high performance has qualified them to compete in the regional Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (SECCDC). The competition – in which a group of students must defend a computer network from persistent attacks from hacking experts […]

Juan Gilbert, The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and department chair, is 1 of 2 recipients of the 2018 A. Nico A. Habermann Award, given by the Computing Research Association (CRA). The CRA unites industry, academia and government to advance computing research and change the world. This prestigious award highlights outstanding individuals who have made […]

Jessica N. Jones, a Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing at the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has received the Emerging Scholar Honorable Mention Award. Offered by the Association for Academic Women (AAW), the award is made possible by the support of UF President Kent Fuchs. Jones received the […]

The University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) celebrates Black History Month by spotlighting the achievements in diversity among faculty and students. “Our diversity in CISE makes us all better. Our students, faculty, alumni and all members of the CISE family benefit from working with and interacting with people from […]

Alex Shaw, a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, won the best student paper award for “Comparing Human and Machine Recognition of Children’s Touchscreen Gestures” at the 19th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). The paper compares human and machine recognition of […]

Kevin Butler, Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, received the 2017 International Educator of the Year Award from the UF International Center. Butler, who is also part of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research, received the award during International Education Week. Along with other daily […]

Baba C. Vemuri, Ph.D., the recently named Wilson and Marie Collins Professor in Engineering at the University of Florida, received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Collaborative Research for Computational Neuroscience program titled, “Automated Analysis of Movement Disorders from Diffusion and Functional MRI.” “Dr. Vemuri’s work in neuroimaging and computer vision is groundbreaking. […]

The department’s 21st biannual Career Development Workshop (CDW) saw a flood of students to the Reitz Union’s Grand Ballroom on Sept. 25, 2017. More than 860 students stopped by during the four-hour event. A mix of undergraduate students, graduate students and alumni interested in working in computer science or engineering fields came to interview with 31 […]

UF engineering professor Kristy Boyer’s latest NSF project uses intelligent virtual agents to study and foster collaboration skills in elementary school students. Collaboration is a critical skill needed in many fields, but particularly in computer science, where many people often work together on a larger project. It is a skill that is not intrinsic; it […]