Category: Students

The University of Florida Student Information Security Team (UFSIT) has had a successful semester with a second-place finish in U.S. Southeast Regional Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) and a third-place finish in the Department of Energy Cyberforce competition.  The UFSIT Collegiate Penetration Testing Team finished second in the CPTC on October 14, 2023. The team […]

Divya Vellanki, a master’s student in computer science, came to UF from Andhra Pradesh, India and hit the ground running. Self-determined and ambitious, Vellanki dives into every opportunity available to her to enrich her college experience, determined to push herself out of her comfort zone and make a big impact in every endeavor she undertakes. […]

Science, technology, engineering, math, family. It’s not often one will see these words grouped together, but when the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) program visited the White House to pitch their purpose and achievements, they brought the whole familia in tow; with the intention of engaging with top leadership in their mission to overcome […]

Patriel Stapleton, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Her research investigates how game-based learning simulations can be used to effectively teach middle-school students about complex topics. “Receiving the NSF fellowship is a great honor because […]

Aysegul Bumin, a Ph.D. student in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), along with her team recently received the best student paper award at the 13th Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) for her research on fiber-based tensor completion for […]

Women in Computer Science and Engineering (WiCSE), the official student Association for Computing Machinery’s Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) chapter at the University of Florida, recently hosted its annual Middle and High School Code-A-Thon. The group welcomed about 35 Gainesville-area middle and high school students for a day of interactive and educational computer science […]

A group of students representing the UF Student InfoSec Team (UF-SIT) Kernel Sanders team recently won a Capture the Flag (CTF) tournament sponsored by Raymond James in St. Petersburg, Fla. By finishing first, the team won a $10,000 prize.   “Although different teams have been participating in this competition for a while, UF has often placed […]

Congratulations to Tyler Hanks, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), who has been selected for the 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), which recognizes exceptional students who are pursuing full-time research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The NSF GRFP has […]

Armisha Roberts, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, was recently named a recipient of the Meta Ph.D. Fellowship. Roberts is one of the 37 selected for the 2022 fellowship, and she is the only recipient from the state of Florida. “Receiving this fellowship is a blessing,” she said. […]

Four 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 – Balaji Balasubramani, Ram Kartikeya Boyini, Pedro Guillermo Feijoo Garcia, and Pan He – were among 20 students from the Herbert Wertheim College of […]