Category: Students

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Rasha Elhesha, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Florida’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), received the Outstanding International Student Award for her exemplary academic achievement and involvement at UF. Elhesha, an international student from Egypt, was one of 15 students from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering to receive the award. After […]

Since 2011, the NCWIT (The National Center for Women & IT) Student Seed Fund has invested over $178,250 in more than 129 student-run programs for women in computing at non-profit, U.S. Academic Alliance member institutions nationwide (excluding U.S. territories). Programs have included technology-related learning and advancement opportunities, including programming workshops, peer mentoring and support, professional […]

Congratulations to Yerika Jimenez, a CISE Ph.D. student, for winning the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

CISE Ph.D. student Yuanwen Huang and his advisor Prabhat Mishra won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED 2016) for their paper entitled “Reliability and Energy-aware Cache Reconfiguration for Embedded Systems.” This paper has developed optimization techniques to balance conflicting design constraints such as energy and reliability. Cache vulnerability due to soft errors is one […]

The world of autonomous vehicles is rapidly changing, and what was once a dream in various science fiction films is inching closer and closer to reality. Many companies, such as Google and Tesla, are publicly working on autonomous vehicles, but who is working on the human-centered side of this technology? Jerone Dunbar is a Ph.D. […]

Our warmest congratulations to Brianna B. Posadas, Yerika A. Jimenez, Sanethia V. Thomas, Ekaterina Muravevskaia, Farimah Farahmandi, and Jasmine D. Bowers in regards to being selected for the CRA women – 2016 Grad Cohort in San Diego California.  The 2016 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop will be held at the Hilton San Diego Bay Front in San […]