Category: faculty

Ahmed Helmy, Ph.D., was selected by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as an inductee honored with the designation of “Distinguished Scientist”. Dr. Helmy’s main contributions include research in the fields of mobile networks design, mobility modeling, wireless measurements, network simulation and multicast routing. The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes the Top 10 percent of […]

A new study by Lexis Nexis, a digital risk management company, says mobile purchase fraud is on the rise. The study reports that the money stolen through mobile transactions went up 70 percent last year when compared to 2013. Concerns over mobile transactions have made it to congress and President Barack Obama has proposed a […]

Dr. Gerhard X. Ritter, CISE Professor Emeritus and former department chair, was an plenary keynote speaker at the 19th Iboamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2014) in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. This annual conference was held November 2-5, 2014. The title of his talk was Lattice-Based Dendritic Computing: A Biomimetic Approach to Artificial Neural Networks. In […]

OptNetSci, UF’s Optima Network Science research group, won the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN) in Maui, Hawaii, December 2014, for the paper entitled “Online Algorithms for Optimal Resource Management in Dynamic D2D Communications”, authored by Alan Kuhnle, Xiang Li, and My T. Thai. This work […]

To get kids interested in complicated subjects like computer science, sometimes all they need is a taste of the real thing. That’s the thinking behind Hour of Code, a program designed to expose students to computer science early and encourage schools to offer more computer science classes. The second annual iteration of the program, accessible […]

When you watch funny Youtube videos, how does your heart rate vary? When you build Legos, where do you get stuck? When you search for camouflaged animals, what are your gaze patterns like? Questions such as these were transformed into term projects in Eakta Jain’s new class called “Human-Centered Computer Graphics”. The course covered topics […]

Sumi Helal, Ph.D., a professor at CISE, has been named 2015 IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for his contributions to Mobile and Pervasive Computing Systems. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of […]

A University of Florida researcher’s desire to provide citizens with disabilities the same opportunity to vote as everyone else could serve as the catalyst for revolutionizing voter access nationwide. Juan Gilbert’s Prime III, an electronic voting machine a decade in the making, has debuted in primary elections in several states. Officials in New Hampshire were […]

Ahmed Helmy, Ph.D., CISE professor, and his son, Amir Helmy (13 yrs), Eastside High School, developed two award-winning mobile apps for healthcare called Seizario and HeartEra. Seizario detects epileptic seizures and falls and automatically alerts emergency contacts. Heartera captures heart movement patterns and beats per minute. Heartera took first place in the Mobile App Competition […]

Professor Juan Gilbert’s Prime III voting system (www.PrimeVotingSystem.com) will be used as a pilot on Sept. 9 in Nashua, N.H. After a recent meeting with New Hampshire’s Secretary of State, Dr. Gilbert’s technology will be implemented statewide in November. Dr. Gilbert and his research team were awarded a $4.5 million grant from the U.S. Election […]