AAAS Fellow Juan Gilbert Builds Tech for Voting and to Make Stem More Diverse
Juan Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), decided to write a set of guidelines for diversity and inclusion in crisis. “I am writing in response to the events that have impacted the Black community, the Black computing community,” he […]
Dr. Juan Gilbert Featured in Forbes Article
Juan Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), shares his thoughts on how to make academic inventing more inclusive. By honoring and elevating the voices of a diverse group of inspiring inventors, the American Association for the Advancement of Science […]
Paper on Retaining Black Computer Science Students Co-Authored by CISE Chair Earns Best Paper Award at Respect 2020
A paper titled, “The iAAMCS Ecosystem: Retaining Blacks/African-Americans in CS Ph.D. Programs,” earned a best paper award at the 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) Conference. The paper was co-authored by Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome, Ph.D., a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Education, and Juan E. Gilbert, […]
Gilbert Elected As Member of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida
Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), was recently elected as a member of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL). Dr. Gilbert was elected because of his pioneering human-centered computing research focused on societal issues […]