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App Aims to Take Risk Out of Traffic Stops
April 25, 2017Many police officers will tell you the riskiest parts of their job are responding to domestic violence calls and making traffic stops. A group of University of Florida students has come up with a way to make the latter a little less dangerous – for everyone. The group, all students in UF’s Herbert Wertheim College […]
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CISE Ph.D. Student Inducted into AEL Honor Society
April 21, 2017Joseph Isaac, a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has been inducted into Alpha Epsilon Lambda (AEL), a national honor society of graduate and professional students. Isaac is studying human-centered computing under the advisement of Christina Gardner-McCune. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from […]
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Announcing 2017 Faculty Hires
March 18, 2017The Department welcomes two new faculty members. Christina Boucher Assistant Professor Focus: Bioinformatics Christina Boucher develops computational solutions that address biological problems impacting society. Boucher worked at Colorado State University before coming to the University of Florida. Previously, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego. “I am hoping to generate and […]
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UF-TYPE Codeathon Brings Computer Science to Students
March 15, 2017A codeathon on April 15 hosted by UF-TYPE (Teaching Youth Programming Essentials), a student-run organization at the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), brought students from Gainesville-area middle and high schools together to spend the day coding. About 40 students attended the event and participated in several coding-related activities ranging from […]
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Students Place Third in Cyber Defense Competition
March 10, 2017A team of students from the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) has taken third place in the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). Of 33 teams that competed at the 2017 Virtual Preliminary Qualification Competition on Feb. 25, the UF team was one of eight selected to advance to the regional […]
Read more »College Ranked in the Top 1% for Enrollment of Women
March 9, 2017At the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, women are transforming the future. Under the leadership of Dean Cammy Abernathy, the college has prioritized diversity and inclusion alongside leadership and innovation. We are the New Engineers – leaders with a strong technical foundation who are equally adept at thinking critically and collaborating with others to execute […]
Read more »FICS Research Announces New Student Group: CyberGators
March 7, 2017CyberGators at FICS Research is a student-driven organization dedicated to advancing cybersecurity, privacy and awareness. They are a diverse group of students performing interdisciplinary research, exploring innovative educational ideas, and seeking engagement in professional collaborations and community outreach across industry, government and academia. Read more: FICS Research
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UF-TYPE Initiative Receives Google igniteCS Funding
March 3, 2017UF-TYPE, a student-run organization at the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has been awarded funding from Google’s igniteCS. UF-TYPE (Teaching Youth Programming Essentials) is an outreach program of UF’s Women in Computer Science and Engineering (WiCSE). The UF-TYPE Initiative was started in Spring 2016 and is one of two programs managed […]
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UF CISE Celebrates Black History Month
February 23, 2017The University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering celebrates Black History Month by spotlighting our achievements in diversity among five key performance indicators. According to 2015 data from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the UF CISE department ranks No. 1 among computer science departments at public universities in the number of black […]
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Student Named Co-Runner-Up for IEEE Award
February 23, 2017Farimah Farahmandi, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the University of Florida’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), was named a co-runner-up for an award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The System Validation and Debug Technology Committee (SVDTC) Student Research Award is given in recognition of an outstanding researcher in the […]
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