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Nearly 150 innovators celebrated their fiscal year 2019 achievements at UF Innovate | Tech Licensing’s second annual Standing InnOvation event. Benjamin Lok, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering whose inventions showcase the value of human-computer interactions, received the Innovator of the Year award for 2019. “Much of Dr. […]

Faculty members Lisa Anthony, Ph.D.; Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D.; and Jorg Peters, Ph.D.; from the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering have been selected to receive the University of Florida Term Professorship award for 2019-2022. The University Term Professorship was established in 2016 and is presented to 250 eligible faculty members annually. Selection of […]

Congratulations to Mohan Zalake, a Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. student, for receiving the best paper award at Association for Computing Machinery’s 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (ACM IVA). Zalake’s paper, “Internet-based Tailored Virtual Human Health Intervention to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening: Design Guidelines from Two User Studies,” provides design guidelines for future developers who […]

Manuel Bermudez, Ph.D., an associate professor, recently retired from the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) after 34 years. Dr. Bermudez came to the University of Florida as a CISE assistant professor in 1985. His research focused on programming languages, and he made several important contributions in the area of syntax analysis […]

Kyla McMullen, Ph.D., an assistant professor, and Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate, who are members of the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences (iAAMCS), host the Modern Figures Podcast, which is sponsored by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). What is the Modern Figures Podcast? Modern Figures podcast […]

Usha Suryadevara (computer engineering, MS ‘01) is the director of development at Info Tech in Gainesville, Fla. Suryadevara has made mentoring women in computer science and engineering an important part of her life.  Why were you interested in the computer engineering/science field? Honestly, I had to decide between dissecting frogs or learning about computers. I’ve […]

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Often when I speak with students who are majoring in computer sciences, many of them tell me that they have never taken a computer science course until college. This is especially true for the female, black, and Latino students I’ve spoken with as a computer science professor. […]

Humans are social creatures, but some things are just hard to talk about. For many people, mental health is one of those things. But what if you can’t talk about something where the leading treatment is talk therapy? Maybe try speaking to someone who’s not human. Benjamin Lok, a professor in the Department of Computer […]

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  Sanethia Thomas earned a Ph.D. in human-centered computing from the University of Florida’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and was advised by Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and department chair. She spoke during the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Spring 2019 graduation recognition ceremony for Ph.D.’s, […]