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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 […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An entrepreneur, a former university trustee, a business developer and a family of legal professionals are the latest honorees in the University of Florida’s prestigious Academy of Golden Gators. The academy honors alumni and friends whose support and guidance are driving UF’s ascent as one of the nation’s best institutions of higher […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]