Welcome to the digital newsletter from the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). Each semester, you will receive an email highlighting department updates and successes. We look forward to connecting with you.
We’re excited to share some CISE news and insights from the Spring 2023 semester. >>>
Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D.
The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor
CISE Department Chair
The National Science Foundation has selected a team of scientists, including Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Ph.D., from the University of Florida and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to lead a $20 million institute to advance AI to promote STEM education.
Kejun Huang, Ph.D., received an NSF CAREER Award for his project focusing on machine learning that addresses the challenges of unsupervised learning, which teaches an artificial intelligence system to understand patterns in data.
Eakta Jain, Ph.D., conducted a year of fieldwork observing interactions between horses and humans to learn more about building robots designed to improve our lives.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science elected 19 faculty from the University of Florida, including Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., to its newest class of Fellows.
Patriel Stapleton, a Ph.D. student, was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Her research investigates how game-based learning simulations can be used to effectively teach middle-school students about complex topics.
Sumi Helal, Ph.D., was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to mobile and pervasive computing and their applications in graceful aging and accessibility.
Women in Computer Science and Engineering (WiCSE) hosted its annual Middle and High School Code-A-Thon. The group welcomed about 35 Gainesville-area middle and high school students for a day of interactive and educational computer science workshops.
Aysegul Bumin, a Ph.D. student, along with her team recently received the best student paper award at the 13th Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics.
The computer engineering graduate program continues to climb in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings among public graduate engineering programs. The program has risen to No. 13 among public universities nationwide.