UF-SIT Team Places First in CyberForce Competition
The University of Florida Student InfoSec Team (UF-SIT) placed first at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) during the 2019 CyberForce Competition out of 15 participating teams and placed third…
UF-SIT Team Takes First in Pwny Race at NYU’s CSAW Competition
Walking into New York University for Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), the Kernel Sanders team didn’t know they would leave as champions. Owen Flannagan, a junior competing on behalf of…
Helal Named a 2019 AAAS Fellow
Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, Ph.D., a professor in CISE, was named a 2019 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished contributions to the field of…
UF-SIT Team Qualifies for CTF Competition
The Kernel Sanders Capture the Flag (CTF) team, part of the UF Student InfoSec Team (UF-SIT), was 1 of 10 groups that recently qualified for a CTF competition at the…
UF Designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research
The University of Florida has been re-designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research (CAE-R) through academic year 2024. This designation puts UF in an elite…
CISE Career Fair Sees Largest Attendance
In its 25th iteration, the CISE Career Fair saw its largest attendance of students and companies to date during the Sept. 23 event. Over five hours, more than 1,200 students…
Lok Receives Innovator of the Year Award
Nearly 150 innovators celebrated their fiscal year 2019 achievements at UF Innovate | Tech Licensing’s second annual Standing InnOvation event. Benjamin Lok, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer…
3 Faculty Members to Receive UF Term Professorships
Faculty members Lisa Anthony, Ph.D.; Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D.; and Jorg Peters, Ph.D.; from the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering have been selected to receive the University of…
Student Wins Best Paper Award at ACM IVA 2019
Congratulations to Mohan Zalake, a Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. student, for receiving the best paper award at Association for Computing Machinery’s 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (ACM IVA). Zalake’s…