A group shot of codeathon participants

UF-TYPE Codeathon Brings Computer Science to Students

March 15, 2017

A 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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UF Student InfoSec Team

Students Place Third in Cyber Defense Competition

March 10, 2017

A 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 […]

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FICS Research Announces New Student Group: CyberGators

March 7, 2017

CyberGators 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 Members

UF-TYPE Initiative Receives Google igniteCS Funding

March 3, 2017

UF-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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Making History

UF CISE Celebrates Black History Month

February 23, 2017

The 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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Farimah Farahmandi

Student Named Co-Runner-Up for IEEE Award

February 23, 2017

Farimah 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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UF Community Mourns the Loss of Karan Khullar

February 17, 2017

As many of you are aware, one of our students, Karan Khullar, was fatally struck by a car on Feb. 11, 2017. As a community, the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and the University of Florida are deeply saddened by the tragedy. If any of you […]

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Two CISE Students Awarded UFII Fellowship

January 6, 2017

Xiang Li and Monamie Banerjee were awarded the University of Florida Informatics Institute (UFII) Graduate Student Fellowship for 2017. UFII offers six or seven fellowships each year. Li is a Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Ph.D. student working in the Optima Network Science lab under the supervision of My Thai, a CISE professor. Li received a […]

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Julia Woodward

Student Selected as CRA Research Award Finalist

December 16, 2016

Julia Woodward was selected as a finalist for the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Woodward was one of eight finalists from Ph.D. institutions, and the only students from the University of Florida to receive the honor for 2017. Woodward is an undergraduate student pursuing her bachelor’s degree in digital arts and science in […]

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Graduate Student Preeminence Award Increased

November 21, 2016

The University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce an increase in the stipend for the Graduate Student Preeminence Award (GSPAs). The purpose of the GSPA is to assist Ph.D. programs to offer highly competitive research assistantship stipends to their strongest Ph.D. applicants. GSPA recipients in CISE receive a full […]

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