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The convergence of two engineering disciplines at the University of Florida is building a valuable tool that will allow researchers to diagnose human cancers, potentially leading to earlier clinical interventions. Kiley Graim, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, is leading a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]

Self-driving cars, like the human drivers that preceded them, need to see what’s around them to avoid obstacles and drive safely. The most sophisticated autonomous vehicles typically use lidar, a spinning radar-type device that acts as the eyes of the car. Lidar provides constant information about the distance to objects so the car can decide […]

After 19 years of work, Juan Gilbert says he has invented the most secure voting machine. Will anyone prove him wrong? In late 2020, a large box arrived at Juan Gilbert’s office at the University of Florida. The computer science professor had been looking for this kind of product for months. Previous orders had yielded […]

After many years devoted to teaching and research at the University of Florida, Baba Vemuri, Ph.D., was recently named a Distinguished Professor. Dr. Vemuri, who is also the Wilson and Marie Collins Endowed Professor in Engineering, is the third person in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) to receive the distinction. […]

**Article originally published on K-12 Dive.** The University of Florida and Orange County Public Schools together developed a statewide curriculum on artificial intelligence for high school students. Every day, students are using artificial intelligence on their phones, said Michael Martucci, assistant director of career and technical education at Orange County Public Schools in Florida. Asking […]

**Article originally published on Nature.** Black and Hispanic people face huge hurdles at technology companies and in computer-science education in the United States, with far-reaching consequences for science and all of society. Juan Gilbert felt alone as he pursued a Ph.D. in computer science in the 1990s. It was a familiar sense that had followed […]

As students across the nation return to the classroom this fall, Florida is among the first states to adopt a K-12 artificial intelligence, or AI, education program designed to prepare its youth for the growing global demand for an AI-enabled workforce. Tapping into the expertise of the University of Florida and its AI initiative, the […]

By Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., professor and John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering, and Logan Blue, a Ph.D. student. This story originally appeared in The Conversation. Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer […]

The explosive growth of diversified scientific data has reaped unprecedented advancements in scientific discovery and engineering. Unfortunately, it is difficult to relate data from one scientific problem to another without a unified approach to the mathematics of scientific modeling. A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by engineering faculty at the University of Florida hopes to […]

Bonnie Dorr, Ph.D., joined the faculty as a professor at the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) in Spring 2022. Her research and project management experience includes deep-language understanding and semantics, large-scale multilingual processing, and summarization. She has carried out seminal work in cross-language divergence detection, machine translation, paraphrasing and automatic evaluation […]