Category: Faculty

Jorg Peters, a professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and Meera Sitharam, an associate professor in CISE, received a $1.2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to revolutionize geometric design with material micro- and nano-structure. Peters is interested in representing, analyzing and computing with geometry. He […]

The Department welcomes two new faculty members. Christina Boucher Assistant Professor Focus: Bioinformatics Christina Boucher develops computational solutions that address biological problems impacting society. Boucher worked at Colorado State University before coming to the University of Florida. Previously, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego. “I am hoping to generate and […]

The University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering celebrates Black History Month by spotlighting our achievements in diversity among five key performance indicators. According to 2015 data from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the UF CISE department ranks No. 1 among computer science departments at public universities in the number of black […]

Baba Vemuri, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has received the 2017 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award. Vemuri is 1 of 4 recipients of this year’s the award. “Just as for all researchers, it is also satisfying for me to be recognized by my peer community and this provides the necessary impetus […]

Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering and associate professor at the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has been named a Fellow by the Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) at Accion. Traynor came to the University of Florida Department of Computer and Information Science and […]

Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has been elected by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) to be an NAI Fellow. Gilbert is a human-centered computing expert hired in 2014 as a professor and associate […]

Shigang Chen, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has been honored as a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Chen was recognized for his individual contributions to advancing the field of computing. He was one of 45 distinguished members named, and one […]

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida has named Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering. Traynor came to the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) in 2014 as an associate professor focusing on security and networks. John and Mary Lou […]

Meera Sitharam, an associate professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, a professor in the UF Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, were awarded $799,990 of a $1.13 million grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project, “Collaborative Research: Geometric Elucidation of Supramolecular […]

Ransomware – what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents – is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed a way to stop it dead in its tracks. The answer, they say, lies not […]