Gilbert Receives Social Impact Award from ACM SIGCHI
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…
Alumni Spotlight: Chris Crawford
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,”…
Alumni Spotlight: Rhonda Holt
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…
Gardner-McCune Receives Career Influencer Award and Appointed as an ACM Education Advisory Committee Member
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…
U.S. News & World Report ranks UF Online No. 3 in the Country
The University of Florida continues to rise in national recognition for its online undergraduate programs. Released today, the U.S. News & World Report 2021 now ranks UF Online No. 3…
Two CISE Professors Named 2021 IEEE Fellows
The IEEE has named two professors from the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) as 2021 Fellows. Professors Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., and My T. Thai, Ph.D., were…
Ranka Receives Impact Award from IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing
Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has received the 2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing Impact Award….
Shadow Health, Co-Founded by CISE Professor, is Acquired by Elsevier
Shadow Health, a UF Innovate startup, was recently acquired by Elsevier, a leader in research publishing and information analytics. The Gainesville company was co-founded in 2011 by Benjamin Lok, Ph.D.,…
UF to begin construction on Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology
The University of Florida began construction on the Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology, a 263,000-square-foot academic building located in the heart of UF’s main campus that will…