UF Computer & Information Science & Engineering

The UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) 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 students, 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 expertise in computing to help society solve problems. Collectively, the list of achievements and awards received by the department’s 50 faculty include 17 NSF Career Award winners; six IEEE Fellows; three ACM Fellows; three AAAS Fellows; one IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award; one IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace-McDowell Award; and one ACM Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. CISE researchers study the theory, design, development and application of computer systems and information processing techniques. Research areas in the department include: Algorithms Bioinformatics Cloud Computing Computational Geometry Computer Vision & Medical Image Computing Concurrency, Parallelism, and High-Performance Computing Database, Data Science, and Informatics Embedded Systems Energy-Aware Computing Graphics and Visualization Human-Centered Computing Image and Signal Analysis Information Security Machine Learning Networking Pervasive and Mobile Computing