Eakta Jain, Ph.D., FDOT Study

Smart Safety: Using Apps and Eye-Tracking Technology to Evaluate School Zone Beacon and Bicycle Detection

March 29, 2021

Florida Department of Transportation ranks safety as a top priority for the state, and it is listed as one of FDOT’s Vital Few focus areas. Despite the vision of having fatality-free roadways, crashes are still a reality today. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles noted an increase of total annual traffic crashes […]

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Yashaswi (Yash) Karnati

Using Machine Learning Techniques to Help Mitigate Congestion

March 24, 2021

Urban traffic control is one of the most important and challenging issues facing cities. Increases in the volume of traffic have significant impacts on congestion and consequently on the amount of time that travelers spend on the road. Furthermore, traffic signal control timing does not change in real-time based on changes in traffic patterns or […]

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Tania Banerjee, Ph.D.

Big Data and AI Help to Improve Operations and Safety at Intersections

March 24, 2021

These days, road networks in our cities contain a variety of smart and connected infrastructure which generate an abundance of Big Data. This data can be processed to improve the flow of traffic and safety for both vehicles and pedestrians. At the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI), transportation and computer science engineers are working […]

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My T. Thai, Ph.D.

Exposing the Shortcuts: Improving Fairness of Artificial Intelligence in the Connected World

February 26, 2021

At the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, located in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering on the University of Florida campus, My T. Thai, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering and associate director of the Institute, is developing software technologies that can explain how bias […]

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Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., and My T. Thai, Ph.D.

Two CISE Professors Named 2021 IEEE Fellows

January 13, 2021

The IEEE has named two professors from the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) as 2021 Fellows. Professors Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., and My T. Thai, Ph.D., were among three Fellows selected from the University of Florida and five selected from the State of Florida this year. Dr. Mishra was elevated to the […]

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Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D.

Ranka Receives Impact Award from IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing

January 7, 2021

Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has received the 2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing Impact Award. The award recognizes senior researchers or educators for their significant or distinguished contributions in the field of cloud computing. Dr. Ranka’s research interests include high-performance […]

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Shadow Health

Shadow Health, Co-Founded by CISE Professor, is Acquired by Elsevier

January 4, 2021

Shadow Health, a UF Innovate startup, was recently acquired by Elsevier, a leader in research publishing and information analytics. The Gainesville company was co-founded in 2011 by Benjamin Lok, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE); along with David Massias, CEO, and Aaron Kotranza, Ph.D., […]

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Chuck Huang, Ph.D.

Alumni Spotlight: Chunbo “Chuck” Huang

November 19, 2020

Growing up in China, Chunbo “Chuck” Huang, Ph.D., (Ph.D. CE ’00), founder and CEO of Citcon, didn’t know that one day he would become a computer scientist. After he won the national level high school math and physics Olympiad competitions, he received an offer from Tsinghua University to attend and pick any major. “Although I […]

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Sumi Helal, Ph.D.

Helal Elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea

October 22, 2020

Congratulations to Sumi Helal, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, who was recently elected as a member of the Academia Europaea, the European equivalent to the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Helal’s primary research areas are pervasive and mobile computing, digital health, and the Internet of Things. His […]

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