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Student Selected as CRA Research Award Finalist
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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CISE Professor Honored as ACM Distinguished Scientist
Shigang Chen, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has been honored as a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Chen was recognized for his individual contributions to advancing the field of computing. He was one of 45 distinguished members named, and one…
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Cybersecurity Expert Named the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering
The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida has named Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering. Traynor came to the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) in 2014 as an associate professor focusing on security and networks. John and Mary Lou…
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Changing the Face of Computer Science
The online documentary series Lab Daze highlights an aspect of computer science not historically associated with the field: Cool. Created in 2014 by computer science professor Juan Gilbert and his graduate students at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, the 10-episode series follows the lab’s activities in an effort to get younger students interested…
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Graduate Student Preeminence Award Increased
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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Faculty Receives Part of $1.13 Million NSF Grant
Meera Sitharam, an associate professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, a professor in the UF Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, were awarded $799,990 of a $1.13 million grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project, “Collaborative Research: Geometric Elucidation of Supramolecular…
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Student Receives an Outstanding International Student Award
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…
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Tech Sassy Girlz Stops by CISE
Oct. 28, 2016 – Last week, 50 middle school-aged girls spent a day on the University of Florida campus learning about computer science. After a short hands-on lesson in coding and animation, the girls took a tour of the Human-Experience Research Lab in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Kara Gundersen, a CISE…
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WiCSE to receive the NCWIT Student Seed Fund Gift of $5,000
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…
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Extortion extinction: Researchers develop a way to stop ransomware
Ransomware – what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents – is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed a way to stop it dead in its tracks. The answer, they say, lies not…
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Sitharam Part of $1.05 Million NSF Award
Meera Sitharam, Ph.D., a CISE associate professor, was awarded $299,243 of a $1.05M grant funded by the National Science Foundation. Grant Abstract: This grant supports the collaborative research efforts of an interdisciplinary team comprising pure mathematics, applied mathematics, computer science, and physics on some problems in materials science. The world is full of many varied structures,…
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Anthony Receives CAREER Award from National Science Foundation
A CAREER award is the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for junior faculty and is designed to help provide a foundation for a lifetime of scientific leadership. Lisa Anthony, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida. She collaborates with the…
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ACM Distinguished Speaker
Congratulations to Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., a CISE professor, for being selected to serve as an ACM Distinguished Speaker! See full list of winners here
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Thai Named a UF Research Foundation Professor
The University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) has named My T. Thai, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, a UFRF Professor for 2016-2019. Thai’s research interests include blockchain, scalable machine learning, security and privacy, big graph mining, complex network analysis, approximation algorithms and optimization. She earned her Ph.D.…
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Ph.D. Student Wins the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Yerika Jimenez, a CISE Ph.D. student, for winning the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.