Shigang Chen, Ph.D.

Dr. Chen and Team Receive Best Paper Award at ICNP 2021

March 10, 2022

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 […]

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Armisha Roberts

Doctoral Student Receives Meta Ph.D. Fellowship

March 3, 2022

Armisha Roberts, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, was recently named a recipient of the Meta Ph.D. Fellowship. Roberts is one of the 37 selected for the 2022 fellowship, and she is the only recipient from the state of Florida. “Receiving this fellowship is a blessing,” she said. […]

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Four International CISE Students Receive Outstanding Achievement Awards

January 20, 2022

Four students from the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) were the recipients of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the UF International Center. The winners – Balaji Balasubramani, Ram Kartikeya Boyini, Pedro Guillermo Feijoo Garcia, and Pan He – were among 20 students from the Herbert Wertheim College of […]

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Florida Hacks with IBM

Tidal energy proposal wins UF, IBM technology contest Florida Hacks with IBM

January 6, 2022

An all-female team of “hackers” was declared the winner on Thursday of the national technology contest – Florida Hacks with IBM – that called on participants to discover potential solutions to combat the effects of climate change. The team, Gator Gulf Energy – comprised of three current University of Florida students and a recent graduate […]

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Jih-Kwon Peir, Ph.D.

Jih-Kwon Peir Retires from CISE After More Than 25 Years

December 1, 2021

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 […]

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Vincent Bindschaedler, Ph.D., and Kevin R. B. Butler, Ph.D.

Researchers Receive $1.2M NSF Grant to Study and Thwart Surveillanceware

November 18, 2021

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 […]

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Baba C. Vemuri, Ph.D.

Dr. Vemuri and Team Receive Best Poster Award at International Conference

November 16, 2021

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 […]

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Zhe Jiang, Ph.D.

Announcing 2021 Faculty Hires

November 15, 2021

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 […]

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Christina Gardner-McCune, Ph.D.

Christina Gardner-McCune, AI4K12 Team Will Receive Outstanding Educator Award

November 15, 2021

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 […]

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