Month: February 2021

At the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, located in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering on the University of Florida campus, My T. Thai, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering and associate director of the Institute, is developing software technologies that can explain how bias […]

Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., the Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor, was recently named a recipient of the 2021 SIGCHI Social Impact Award. Dr. Gilbert, the chair of the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, was 1 of 3 people chosen to receive the award this year. The Association of Computing […]

Chris Crawford, Ph.D., may have taken a different path in life had a storm not fried his computer. “It was literally a lightning strike that propelled me into computer science,” said Dr. Crawford (HCC Ph.D. ’17), an assistant professor at the University of Alabama Department of Computer Science. The computer was a gift from his […]

Growing up in Gainesville, FL, Rhonda Holt, the senior vice president of information technology at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), assumed she would be pursuing aerospace as a profession. The space program was gearing up in Florida, and like many people, she had grown up watching space shuttle take-offs. But, after graduating from high school […]

Christina Gardner-McCune, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, recently received the Faculty Career Influencer Award from the University of Florida Career Connections Center (C3). The UF Career Influencer Awards celebrate the collaboration and innovation of C3 partners who have had an exceptional impact on career development and […]