Tag: Benjamin C. Lok

On October 26, UF Innovate | Tech Licensing hosted its annual event to recognize top innovations stemming from the University of Florida. Standing InnOvation, the best kind of “standing ovation” you can give to innovators, recognized the seven innovations of the year and the Innovator of the Year, Dr. William Hauswirth, a pioneer in gene […]

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., […]

Shadow Health’s ‘Digital Clinical Experiences’ fill a need, especially now One potential casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic might have been nursing programs. Might have been but wasn’t, due to a virtual-patient interaction program created by University of Florida researcher Benjamin Lok, Ph.D. Because personal protective equipment was in high demand, nursing students, such as those at […]

Nearly 150 innovators celebrated their fiscal year 2019 achievements at UF Innovate | Tech Licensing’s second annual Standing InnOvation event. Benjamin Lok, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering whose inventions showcase the value of human-computer interactions, received the Innovator of the Year award for 2019. “Much of Dr. […]

Humans are social creatures, but some things are just hard to talk about. For many people, mental health is one of those things. But what if you can’t talk about something where the leading treatment is talk therapy? Maybe try speaking to someone who’s not human. Benjamin Lok, a professor in the Department of Computer […]

The CISE department’s student-run organization WiCSE (Women in Computer Science and Engineering) led an outreach day on March 25 for middle school girls. The girls were attending a week-long spring break camp hosted by the UF WISE group, sponsored by the Florida Museum of Natural History, spending one day in each of 5 science and […]