CISE
The Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering is concerned with the theory, design, development and application of computer systems and information processing techniques. The mission of the CISE Department is to educate undergraduate and graduate majors as well as the broader campus community in the fundamental concepts of the computing discipline, to create and disseminate computing knowledge and technology, and to use our expertise in computing to help society solve problems.
Departmental News
Grad Student Receives IEEE Best Paper Award
UF CISE graduate student Aaron Kotranza and collaborators Assistant Professor Benjamin Lok, Drs. Adeline Deladisma and Scott Lind (Medical College of Georgia) and Dr. Carla Pugh (Northwestern University) received the Best Paper Award for their work titled, "Virtual Human + Tangible Interface = Mixed Reality Human: A Pilot Study with a Virtual Breast Exam Patient" at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 Conference. The conference was held in Reno, NV on March 8th-14th. The IEEE Virtual Reality conference is the virtual reality field's most prestigious and selective conference. (Full Story Here)
CISE Faculty Wins Prestigious NSF Career Award
Prabhat Mishra, an assistant professor in the CISE Department received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his research project entitled "New Directions in Functional Verification of Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures." The National Science Foundation sponsored Faculty Early Career Development Program is one of the most prestigious awards for new faculty. The CAREER program recognizes and supports early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who are most-likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century, according to the NSF website. The award provides more than $400,000 over a five year period.
This brings the Department's number of CAREER awards to nine. Past CISE winners of this award are professors Chen, Dobra, Helmy, Jermaine, Liu, Lok, Peir, and Schneider.
Assistant Professor Awarded Prestigious Sloan Fellowship
Chris Jermaine, an assistant professor in the CISE Department, has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for 2008-2010. This appears to be the first time that a faculty member in UF's College of Engineering has ever received this award, which is widely considered the oldest and most prestigious of its kind.
The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. Currently a total of 118 fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. Thirty-five Sloan Fellows have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers, fourteen have won the Fields Medal in Mathematics, and hundreds have received other honors.
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