Category: Faculty

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 […]

The Herbert Wertheim College Awards recognize faculty, staff, and students receiving UF and/or college awards in the 2020-2021 academic year and celebrate the excellence of Gator Engineering and the fundamental values of our college. The International Educator of the Year recognizes the outstanding contributions of faculty and staff to the internationalization of the University of […]

Douglas D. Dankel II, Ph.D., retired assistant professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), passed away on March 16, 2022, after a long illness. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the North Carolina State University in 1971, he earned a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the […]

Researchers from the University of Florida were recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore how to integrate AI learning into middle school science through natural language processing (NLP). Investigators will work with teachers and students at middle schools in Florida and Indiana. The project team includes the principal investigator Kristy […]

Shigang Chen, Ph.D., a professor, and his team at the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) recently received the best paper award at the 29th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) for their research on non-duplicate sampling and its applications in network traffic monitoring. “This research will make network monitoring faster […]

Jih-Kwon Peir, Ph.D., recently retired from the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) after 27 years. Dr. Peir came to the University of Florida (UF) in 1994. His research focused on high-performance computer system architectures, microarchitectures and their memory hierarchy designs. Dr. Peir, who was an associate professor, was the CISE graduate […]

Cybersecurity is an ever-changing field of research, with new forms of security threats appearing often. One increasingly common threat, surveillanceware, involves a malicious individual installing software on a victim’s mobile device enabling secret remote monitoring of the device’s activity. Using a new $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation researchers at the University of […]

Baba C. Vemuri, Ph.D., the Wilson and Marie Collins Professor in Engineering, and his team at the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) recently received the best poster award at the biennial International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging for research in processing advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. The research […]

The University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering welcomes its new faculty member. Zhe Jiang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dr. Jiang’s research focuses on data mining; database, data science and informatics; interpretable AI; and machine learning. His lab’s mission is to design and develop accurate, scalable, and robust AI and machine learning […]

Christina Gardner-McCune, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, is expected to receive the 2022 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator award for her work with the Artificial Intelligence for K-12 Initiative (AI4K12.org). The award is presented annually at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Educational […]