Sanethia Thomas speaks during the college recognition ceremony

Alumni Spotlight: Sanethia Thomas, Ph.D.

May 17, 2019

  Sanethia Thomas earned a Ph.D. in human-centered computing from the University of Florida’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and was advised by Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and department chair. She spoke during the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Spring 2019 graduation recognition ceremony for Ph.D.’s, […]

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Pablo Garces and Brian De Souza with their first place $25,000 check at the Big Idea Competition.

Carbon Emissions Tracking App Wins $25,000 in Big Idea Competition

May 1, 2019

LiveGreen won first place at the 2019 Big Idea Gator Business Plan Competition. Led by CEO and Co-Founder Brian De Souza and CTO and Co-Founder Pablo Garces, LiveGreen is a mobile platform that empowers people to reduce their carbon footprint so they can be part of the solution to end climate change in one generation. […]

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Three Ph.D. Students from CISE Receive NCWIT Award

April 30, 2019

Jasmine Bowers, Tiffanie Smith and Sanethia Thomas, all Ph.D. students in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, received the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) North Florida & Southeast Georgia Affiliate Award for Aspirations in Computing. The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Collegiate Award was designed to honor technical accomplishments […]

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Two CISE Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

April 24, 2019

The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) recognizes outstanding graduate students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Fellows benefit from a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees (paid to their educational institution), opportunities for international research […]

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Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D.

Mishra Selected as a Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Awardee by College

March 18, 2019

Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., a professor at the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has been selected as a 2019 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Awardee. Mishra’s primary area of research is design and verification of architectures and algorithms for secure and energy-efficient electronic systems. Over the last academic year, […]

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Alumni Spotlight: Ivens Applyrs, Computer Engineering (’18)

July 16, 2018

In his own words, Ivens Applyrs, a Spring 2018 commencement speaker, describes his journey to becoming a New Engineer. My story begins in the country side of Haiti. As a young child, I remember my imagination transforming our one-bedroom duplex into an innovative tech hub. The wooden walls filled with termites would drop down like […]

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FICS Research Receives Grant to Produce Next Generation of Cybersecurity Experts

June 11, 2017

FICS Research is thrilled to announce that its faculty have been chosen to receive the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) grant. Offered by the U.S. government’s Office of Personnel Management and funded through the National Science Foundation, the grant seeks to address the critical shortage of and national demand for cyber-security professionals employed […]

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Ahmed Helmy, Roozbeh Ketabi and Babak Alipour at INFOCOM

CISE Team Wins Best Poster at INFOCOM

May 9, 2017

Roozbeh Ketabi and Babak Alipour, both Ph.D. students from the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and Ahmed Helmy, a CISE professor, won best poster at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). Ketabi and Alipour are Helmy’s research assistants on a National Science Foundation (NSF) project called “MobiBench.” The poster, En […]

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Members of the student team that created Virtual Traffic Stop

App Aims to Take Risk Out of Traffic Stops

April 25, 2017

Many police officers will tell you the riskiest parts of their job are responding to domestic violence calls and making traffic stops. A group of University of Florida students has come up with a way to make the latter a little less dangerous – for everyone. The group, all students in UF’s Herbert Wertheim College […]

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CISE Ph.D. Student Inducted into AEL Honor Society

April 21, 2017

Joseph Isaac, a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has been inducted into Alpha Epsilon Lambda (AEL), a national honor society of graduate and professional students. Isaac is studying human-centered computing under the advisement of Christina Gardner-McCune. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from […]

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