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.
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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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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. 
