Tag: women

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 […]

Arnold and Lisa Goldberg want to play their part in educating the New Engineer. They know that by investing in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), students will have the tools, leadership skills and confidence to succeed in computer science. The Goldberg’s $1 million gift establishes the Arnold […]

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 […]

In today’s increasingly connected world, the sheer volume of messages we receive on any subject, including speech, images, video and metadata, as well as text imbedded in images and videos, is mind-boggling. When something unexpected happens, government policy analysts need to inform and advise our nation’s leaders about the causes and effects immediately. Trying to […]

Supporting Women and the Industry Recently accepted as a BRAID Affiliate, the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering is working to increase diversity in computer science Diversity makes the industry stronger. That’s why UF CISE excels in the number of women throughout our program. Want to learn more about our diversity? Come […]

This May, the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) celebrated a milestone of firsts as France L. Jackson, Ph.D., and Jessica N. Jones, Ph.D., became the first black women to graduate with Ph.D. degrees from the department. These achievements are particularly significant in the field of computer science. While diversity in […]

UF engineering professor Kristy Boyer’s latest NSF project uses intelligent virtual agents to study and foster collaboration skills in elementary school students. Collaboration is a critical skill needed in many fields, but particularly in computer science, where many people often work together on a larger project. It is a skill that is not intrinsic; it […]

The Anita Borg Institute (ABI) and Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., have accepted the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering as a 2017 BRAID Affiliate school. The BRAID (Building, Recruiting And Inclusion for Diversity) Initiative aims to increase diversity among undergraduate majors in computer science departments, with particular attention to women and racial/ethnic […]

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 […]

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 […]