Several members of the ACIS Laboratory attended the iDigBio Digital Data Conference in Tempe, AZ June 5 – June 7, 2023 and a one-day iDigBio retreat on June 8, 2023. The conference leveraged digital data for conservation, ecology, systematics and… Read More
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (March 25, 2021) – Dr. José Fortes, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, has been named winner of the 2021 SEC Faculty Achievement Award for the University of Florida, the SEC… Read More
You are invited to attend our webinars to learn about ongoing and proposed CENTRA collaborative research. The purpose of these webinars is also to engage international researchers in transnational collaborations. Webinar presentations will include descriptions of specific areas or questions… Read More
Congratulations to Saumitra Aditya, ACIS Lab’s most recent PhD graduate who defended his dissertation on “Software Defined Overlay Network and Workload Orchestration in Social Network Based Edge Infrastructure for Smart Communities” on July 15th, 2020 at 12:00 noon. He was… Read More
May 19, 2020 in Research News In two recently awarded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. Renato Figueiredo of the Advanced Computing and Information Systems (ACIS) Laboratory is applying edge computing, virtual networks, and open-source software to advance… Read More
Professor and AT&T Eminent Scholar José A. B. Fortes was recently notified in a letter from University of Florida President Kent Fuchs that he is the recipient of the 2019-20 Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award, the highest faculty honor at UF. The… Read More
Congratulations to Ícaro Alzuru, ACIS Lab’s most recent PhD graduate who defended his dissertation on “Human-Machine Extraction of Information from Biological Collections”, on Monday, March 30th at 8:30 am. This dissertation is part of the HuMaIN project: http://humain.acis.ufl.edu/. Ícaro is… Read More
Guest Speaker: Dr. Keichi Takahashi visited the ACIS lab in Larsen Hall during the week of November 11th, 2019 to discuss collaborative research with ACIS faulty and student. Dr. Takahashi was also the guest speaker on Data movement middleware towards… Read More
Congratulations to Ken Subratie, ACIS Lab’s PhD graduate who defended his dissertation on “A Software-defined Overlay Virtual Network with Self-organizing Small-world Topology and Forwarding for For Computing”, Friday, November 15th. While at ACIS, Ken has also led the open-source development… Read More
ACIS Director, Dr. José Fortes, was recently named as a University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professors for 2019- 2022. The recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is… Read More