Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Ph.D.

UF Partners on NSF-Funded National Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Focused on STEM Learning

May 4, 2023

The National Science Foundation announced today that it has selected a team of scientists from the University of Florida and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to lead a $20 million institute to advance artificial intelligence to promote STEM education. The AI Institute for Inclusive Intelligent Technologies for Education (INVITE) will be based in Illinois with UF as […]

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Eakta Jain, Ph.D.

How a Horse Whisperer can Help Engineers Build Better Robots

May 2, 2023

Humans and horses have enjoyed a strong working relationship for nearly 10,000 years — a partnership that transformed how food was produced, people were transported and even how wars were fought and won. Today, we look to horses for companionship, recreation, and as teammates in competitive activities like racing, dressage and showing. Can these age-old […]

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Patriel Stapleton

Ph.D. Student Patriel Stapleton Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

May 2, 2023

Patriel Stapleton, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Her research investigates how game-based learning simulations can be used to effectively teach middle-school students about complex topics. “Receiving the NSF fellowship is a great honor because […]

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Computer Engineer Graduate Program Ranks No. 13

Computer Engineering Graduate Program Jumps 2 Spots in U.S. News & World Report Rankings

April 28, 2023

The Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida continues to climb in the latest U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) rankings among public graduate engineering programs. The computer engineering graduate program has risen to No. 13 among public universities nationwide. Last year, the program was ranked No. 15 […]

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Kejun Huang, Ph.D.

Huang to Use Career Award to Tackle AI’s Unsupervised Learning Challenges

April 27, 2023

Kejun Huang, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). His project, “Principled Unsupervised Learning via Minimum Volume Polytopic Embedding,” will focus on machine learning that addresses the challenges of unsupervised learning, which teaches the machine, or […]

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Tamer Kahveci, Ph.D., and Aysegul Bumin, a Ph.D. student

Student Wins Best Paper Award at ACM Conference

April 25, 2023

Aysegul Bumin, a Ph.D. student in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), 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 (ACM BCB) for her research on fiber-based tensor completion for […]

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Code-A-Thon middle and high school participants with WiCSE members.

WiCSE Hosts Code-A-Thon for Gainesville Students

April 25, 2023

Women in Computer Science and Engineering (WiCSE), the official student Association for Computing Machinery’s Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) chapter at the University of Florida, recently 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 […]

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Sumi Helal, Ph.D.

Helal Named a 2022 ACM Fellow

March 10, 2023

Sumi Helal, Ph.D., a professor in the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Dr. Helal was recognized for his contributions to mobile and pervasive computing and their applications in graceful aging and accessibility. He was one of 57 members selected […]

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