Tag: My T. Thai

“ We agree. That point is now.” In March, 1,000 top tech experts including Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published their call for a six-month moratorium on further development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, citing what they perceived to be a potential runaway risk without sufficient guardrails. In […]

A team of researchers at the University of Florida will explore ways to increase trustworthiness and interpretability of artificial machine learning in healthcare under a new $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The team will also investigate ways to use AI to diagnose neurodegenerative diseases earlier. The project will provide a paradigm shift […]

Faculty members Christina Boucher, Ph.D.; Kristy E. Boyer, Ph.D.; Kevin R.B. Butler, Ph.D.; Shigang Chen, Ph.D.; Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D.; My T. Thai, Ph.D.; and Baba Vemuri, Ph.D.; from the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering have been selected to receive the University of Florida Term Professorship award for 2021-2024. The University Term Professorship was […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hosted by the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, the first annual Women in IoT Workshop, “Leading through Change,” took place virtually on Monday, Oct. 12, via the Zoom videoconferencing platform. With a keynote speaker, panel discussions, and student poster sessions, the densely packed workshop was more like a mini-conference. More than 200 registrants […]

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. […]

My T. Thai, Ph.D., a UF Research Foundation Professor, has been selected as the Associate Director of The Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World. Thai was previously the Associate Chair of Research in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Twin […]

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. […]

The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 34 faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2016-2019. The recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields. The UFRF Professors were recommended by their college deans based […]