UF Engineer Receives NSF Grant to Enable Real-Time Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance
Christina Boucher, Ph.D., associate professor in the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will give Dr. Boucher and her team the opportunity to develop a set of algorithms and an electronic interface that will allow public health […]
Gilbert Creates inLine Ticketing System to Lower Health Risk When Voting
As people across the country head to the polls, a concern on many minds is how to stay safe while voting. With the COVID-19 pandemic surging nationwide, what can election officials do to ensure everyone has the ability to vote without risking their health? Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and […]
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 […]
New COVID-19 Research Initiative: Ultra-Low Cost Social Distancing Band
My T. Thai, Ph.D., Yier Jin, Ph.D., and Ahmed Helmy, Ph.D. of UF’s Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are developing an affordable wearable device that indicates appropriate social distancing. The researchers’ approach utilizes Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) […]
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, […]
McMullen Uses 3D Audio Rendering and Perception to Aid Firefighters
Kyla McMullen, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, believes the use of 3D sounds can help firefighters find their way when visual conditions are impeded. With a system developed by McMullen, the responder would hear unique 3D audio cues […]
Award From National Science Foundation and Amazon to Improve AI Fairness
My T. Thai, associate director of the Warren B. Nelms Institute and UF Foundation Research Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), in collaboration with professors Hanghang Tong from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ross Maciejewski from Arizona State University, recently received a three-year award for over $1 million from […]
Mishra Named a UF Research Foundation Professor
The University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) has named Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, a UFRF Professor for 2020-2023. Dr. Mishra’s research interests include embedded and cyber-physical systems; energy-aware computing; formal verification; hardware security and trust; post-silicon debug; and system-on-chip validation. He is the research director […]
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 […]