Vemuri Receives 4-year NSF Grant

November 10, 2017

Baba C. Vemuri, Ph.D., the recently named Wilson and Marie Collins Professor in Engineering at the University of Florida, received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Collaborative Research for Computational Neuroscience program titled, “Automated Analysis of Movement Disorders from Diffusion and Functional MRI.” “Dr. Vemuri’s work in neuroimaging and computer vision is groundbreaking. […]

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Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Ph.D.

Virtual Agent Technologies Help Level the Playing Field in Classroom Collaboration

August 23, 2017

UF engineering professor Kristy Boyer’s latest NSF project uses intelligent virtual agents to study and foster collaboration skills in elementary school students. Collaboration is a critical skill needed in many fields, but particularly in computer science, where many people often work together on a larger project. It is a skill that is not intrinsic; it […]

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