Category: students

Three GEM Fellows from the University of Florida (UF) did a fantastic job preparing for and briefing Intel CEO Brian Krzanich and Intel Senior Vice President of Human Resources Richard Taylor. They also prepared a live demonstration of UF Brain-Computer Interface group research on June 24, and there are significant opportunities for next steps. Congratulations […]

Elham Sakhaee, Ph.D. student, and Alireza Entezari, an associate professor at the CISE, won the best paper award, sponsored by the Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL) for their paper entitled “Learning Splines for Sparse Tomographic Reconstruction” that was presented at the 10th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC’14). Tomography is a fundamental computational approach to a wide […]

Junjie Li’s paper wins the best paper award at the 6th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB) in Las Vegas. “Optimal Alignment of Three Sequences on a GPU” is co-authored by CISE faculty Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D., and Sartaj Sahni, Ph.D. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) were developed originally to meet the computational needs of algorithms […]

A team consisting of students affiliated with the UF CISE Data Science Research Center and Warrington College of Business Administration finished in second place in the 7-hour Hoggetowne Hack 2014, Gainesville (an Open Data movement hackathon). Their concept was “Safe City,” an Android app that promotes safety by helping identify crime-prone areas of the city. […]

In April 2013, the UF Graduate Teaching Assistant Award was given to Sencer Nuri Yeralan, Computer and Information Science and Engineering. Only about 20 graduate students are given this award at UF each year. Awards to engineering students are very rare: Nuri is the third engineering student to win this award since it was established […]