Dr. Juan Gilbert Shares His “Secret Sauce” on Modern Figures Podcast
Dr. Juan Gilbert, the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department, is passionate about diversifying computer science and the professoriate. He is a first-generation college student whose parents instilled in him the value of education. Dr. Gilbert purposefully chose to be a scholar-athlete but by […]
Credit Card Vigilantes – Skim Reaper
MacroFab engineering podcast interviewed Skim Reaper‘s founders, Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., The Dasburg Family Preeminent chair in engineering in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida and Christian Peeters, a Ph.D. candidate in the same department. What is Skim Reaper, how does it work, how did it start, what […]
Butler Selected as a Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Awardee by College
Kevin R. B. Butler, Ph.D., a holder of the Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Associate Professor in Computer Science at the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has been selected as a 2020 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Awardee. “I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work with amazingly talented […]
Improving Election Integrity
University of Florida researcher, Juan Gilbert, Ph.D., the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department, shared with Issues in Science and Technology, a quarterly journal published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in partnership with Arizona State University, about his research on […]
How the ‘Skim Reaper’ Protects You From Credit Card Skimmers
Houston has been hailed king when it comes to credit card skimmers, and they’re not completely wrong. Houston is a hub for the skimming scam but the reality is they exist everywhere. “My credit card got stolen for the sixth time in a three-year period,” professor Patrick Traynor, with the Department of Computer and Information […]
How Some Men Are Challenging Gender Inequity in the Lab
Dr. Juan E. Gilbert, the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and Chair of the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department at the University of Florida, shares with Nature magazine his efforts to support female colleagues. “At the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, we have about 20% of the […]
UF Engineer Testifies Before U.S. House Committee About Election Security
Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor, testified as an expert witness regarding election security during a hearing by the House Administration Committee on Thursday, January 9, 2020. Dr. Gilbert, who has been conducting research on elections for more than 15 years and who was one of two academics asked to testify, […]
City of Gainesville, University of Florida Begin Groundbreaking Work on Roadway Safety Thanks to $2 Million NSF Grant
The City of Gainesville and the University of Florida were awarded a joint $2 million grant through the National Science Foundation’s Smart and Connected Communities Program. Now, UF researcher Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), his team and the city have begun their groundbreaking work […]
What Would It Take to Shut Down the Entire Internet?
Gizmodo.com, a design, technology, science and science fiction website, asked cybersecurity experts how exactly one would go about shutting down the entire internet. Dr. Kevin Butler, associate professor of Computer and Information Science and Engineering and associate director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research at the University of Florida, shared his thoughts. “Probably the […]
UF Engineer Leads Collaboration for Safer Roadways
Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), was recently awarded a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop technology that will monitor high-risk intersections in Gainesville, FL, to make roadways safer. The project, “Video-Based Machine Learning for Smart Traffic Analysis and Management,” is […]