Category: faculty

Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., a professor at the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering was selected as a 2024-2025 Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Awardee and a 2024-2025 University of Florida Graduate School Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Awardee. Nominations for this award come from current UF graduate students, faculty members, administrators, and alumni.  “Dr. Mishra has […]

Steganography, the art of concealing secret messages within other pieces of text or media, has been in practice for centuries. Its history dates to Ancient Greece, but the first recorded use of the term was in 1499 in a book disguised as a book about magic titled Steganographia. Even today, this method remains relevant, with […]

Tamer Kahveci, Ph.D., professor and associate chair of academic affairs in the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), was recently appointed as editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), a leading bimonthly journal published jointly by the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), and […]

Emmanuel Dorley, Ph.D., was recently elected to the 2025 Fulbright Association National Board. Emmanuel Dorley, Ph.D., has been interested in how technology works since he was 10 years old. His mother had purchased him a Gateway PC, and his interest in computers and gadgets only grew from there.   “I spent countless hours trying to […]

UF cybersecurity professor Kevin Butler developed the framework, which spells out guidance for countries to prevent fraud and abuse on mobile cash apps. Cash apps are the prominent form of banking in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia and can leave people vulnerable to losing their life savings. As mobile-money services were growing at a […]

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a threat to the role of antibiotics in modern medicine, but currently, we don’t fully understand the intricacies of AMR. There is an urgent need for research on this topic to support advances in our understanding of AMR and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a grant to a […]

A cohort of faculty, staff and students from the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) were invited to attend Howard University Research Month in April. The group included Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and CISE department chair, and several students from his lab. […]

Sumi Helal, Ph.D., retired from the department after two and a half decades of service. While on leave from UF, Helal served as professor and chair in Digital Health in the School of Computing and Communication at Lancaster University, U.K. Helal has also founded multiple companies including, Rokoit USA, Pervasa Inc., Phoneomena Inc., and cofounded […]

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) has elected Eakta Jain, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, as the new chair of the SIGGRAPH executive committee.   Jain’s vision for the SIGGRAPH committee includes vibrancy, sustainability and member wellness. […]

University of Florida researchers recently concluded the largest study on audio deepfakes to date, challenging 1,200 humans to identify real audio messages from digital fakes. Humans claimed a 73% accuracy rate but were often fooled by details generated by machines, like British accents and background noises. “We found humans weren’t perfect, but they were better […]