Category: Students

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.