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Four students from the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) received an Outstanding International Student Award for their exemplary academic achievement and involvement at UF. The winners, Guangyu Zhu, Shikha Mehta, Mimonah Al Qathrady and Aishat Aloba, were among 15 students from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering to receive […]

A team of University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) researchers won the Distinguished Paper Award at the 27th USENIX Security Symposium. Nolen Scaife, a doctoral researcher; Christian Peeters, a Ph.D. student; and Patrick Traynor, The John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering and professor, presented the paper, […]

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. The interface between people and technology has come a long way since the robot on the original Lost in Space television series (circa 1965-1968) slowly and mechanically […]

After their performances in February qualified them to compete in the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (SECCDC) regional competition – their third time in three years – the University of Florida Student InfoSec Team (UF SIT) came home with a second place trophy. The competition took place in Kennesaw, Ga., on April 2 – 3. Joseph N. Wilson, Ph.D. the […]

Juan Gilbert, The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and department chair, is 1 of 2 recipients of the 2018 A. Nico A. Habermann Award, given by the Computing Research Association (CRA). The CRA unites industry, academia and government to advance computing research and change the world. This prestigious award highlights outstanding individuals who have made […]

Jessica N. Jones, a Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing at the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has received the Emerging Scholar Honorable Mention Award. Offered by the Association for Academic Women (AAW), the award is made possible by the support of UF President Kent Fuchs. Jones received the […]

Alex Shaw, a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, won the best student paper award for “Comparing Human and Machine Recognition of Children’s Touchscreen Gestures” at the 19th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). The paper compares human and machine recognition of […]

Kevin Butler, Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, received the 2017 International Educator of the Year Award from the UF International Center. Butler, who is also part of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research, received the award during International Education Week. Along with other daily […]

The University of Florida Research Foundation has named Shigang Chen, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor for 2017-2020. Chen’s research interests include computer networks, Internet security, Internet of things, cyber-physical systems and wireless communications. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer […]

Jorg Peters, a professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and Meera Sitharam, an associate professor in CISE, received a $1.2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to revolutionize geometric design with material micro- and nano-structure. Peters is interested in representing, analyzing and computing with geometry. He […]