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Each summer, Sanethia Thomas, Ph.D., brings UF students to South Africa to create tech solutions for community problems. 

Incorporating interest-based learning into LLM-based tutors, Abhishek Kulkarni, Ph.D., is working to make them more engaging for students. 

Yuanyuan Lei, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the University of Florida’s Department of Computer & Information Science and Engineering, or CISE, and researchers in her lab are uncovering the internal mechanisms that support logical reasoning and using that understanding to make LLMs more precise and efficient.

Computer & Information Science & Engineering Professor Emeritus Gerhard X. Ritter, Ph.D., died while in hospice care near his Gainesville home in March. He was 89 years old. 

Researchers evaluated four common ways people provide feedback to AI systems, revealing a tradeoff between model accuracy and the effort required from users.

Kevin R.B. Butler, Ph.D., has been named the chair of the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, or CISE. 

Professor Prabhat Mishra celebrates another Outstanding Dissertation Award earned by one of his former doctoral students, continuing a tradition of research excellence spanning more than two decades.

UF engineering professor Patrick Traynor, Ph.D. says commercially available tools used to detect AI-generated text in scientific literature are ineffective.

The Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering celebrated the 2026 class of Distinguished Alumni awardees on April 21 at the University of Florida’s J. Wayne Reitz Union.

Farimah Farahmandi, Ph.D., is considered an emerging leader in hardware security verification and trustworthy semiconductor design, a field vital to national security and the global semiconductor ecosystem.