Category: Students

Alex Shaw, a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, won the best student paper award for “Comparing Human and Machine Recognition of Children’s Touchscreen Gestures” at the 19th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). The paper compares human and machine recognition of […]

The University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) is proud to announce the graduation of its first two students from the Human-Centered Computing (HCC) Ph.D. degree program. Chris Crawford, whose research focuses on brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and human-robot interaction, and Marvin Andujar, whose research focuses on effective BCI, graduated this […]

FICS Research is thrilled to announce that its faculty have been chosen to receive the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) grant. Offered by the U.S. government’s Office of Personnel Management and funded through the National Science Foundation, the grant seeks to address the critical shortage of and national demand for cyber-security professionals employed […]

Roozbeh Ketabi and Babak Alipour, both Ph.D. students from the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and Ahmed Helmy, a CISE professor, won best poster at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). Ketabi and Alipour are Helmy’s research assistants on a National Science Foundation (NSF) project called “MobiBench.” The poster, En […]

Some engineers are thinking about what humans can do with their brains. A team of students at the University of Florida, with the help of Juan Gilbert, Ph.D., the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), are bringing those ideas to life […]

Joseph 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 […]

Several students from the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) won the poster competition for their respective categories on March 8 during the second day of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research conference. The conference, the FICS Research Conference on Cybersecurity, was held over two days at Emerson Alumni Hall on […]

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 […]

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 […]

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