Month: November 2021

Researchers Receive $1.2M NSF Grant to Study and Thwart Surveillanceware

Vincent Bindschaedler, Ph.D., and Kevin R. B. Butler, Ph.D.

Cybersecurity is an ever-changing field of research, with new forms of security threats appearing often. One increasingly common threat, surveillanceware, involves a malicious individual installing software on a victim’s mobile device enabling secret remote monitoring of the device’s activity. Using… Read More

Announcing 2021 Faculty Hires

Zhe Jiang, Ph.D.

The University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering welcomes its new faculty member. Zhe Jiang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dr. Jiang’s research focuses on data mining; database, data science and informatics; interpretable AI; and machine learning. His… Read More