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Florida Department of Transportation ranks safety as a top priority for the state, and it is listed as one of FDOT’s Vital Few focus areas. Despite the vision of having fatality-free roadways, crashes are still a reality today. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles noted an increase of total annual traffic crashes […]

Urban traffic control is one of the most important and challenging issues facing cities. Increases in the volume of traffic have significant impacts on congestion and consequently on the amount of time that travelers spend on the road. Furthermore, traffic signal control timing does not change in real-time based on changes in traffic patterns or […]

These days, road networks in our cities contain a variety of smart and connected infrastructure which generate an abundance of Big Data. This data can be processed to improve the flow of traffic and safety for both vehicles and pedestrians. At the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI), transportation and computer science engineers are working […]

Kristy Boyer, Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, recently received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate artificial intelligence (AI) education for middle school students. This project, a collaboration between Dr. Boyer and Maya Israel, Ph.D., an associate professor […]

Allison Logan, marketing and communications specialist for the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), was recently named a recipient of the University of Florida Division Three Superior Accomplishment Award. Superior Accomplishment Awards recognize efforts that go the extra mile and beyond a staff member’s normal assigned duties. Logan was recognized for her […]

Seven 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 – Kiana Alikhademi, Mahsan Nourani, Meghana Reddy Voladri, Subodha Charles, Tianwei Xie, Wins Goyal and Yue Wang – were among 15 students from the […]

At the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, located in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering on the University of Florida campus, My T. Thai, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering and associate director of the Institute, is developing software technologies that can explain how bias […]

Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., the Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor, was recently named a recipient of the 2021 SIGCHI Social Impact Award. Dr. Gilbert, the chair of the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, was 1 of 3 people chosen to receive the award this year. The Association of Computing […]

Chris Crawford, Ph.D., may have taken a different path in life had a storm not fried his computer. “It was literally a lightning strike that propelled me into computer science,” said Dr. Crawford (HCC Ph.D. ’17), an assistant professor at the University of Alabama Department of Computer Science. The computer was a gift from his […]

Growing up in Gainesville, FL, Rhonda Holt, the senior vice president of information technology at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), assumed she would be pursuing aerospace as a profession. The space program was gearing up in Florida, and like many people, she had grown up watching space shuttle take-offs. But, after graduating from high school […]