Two members of the Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory (ACIS), Dr. José A.B. Fortes, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Michael Elliott, PhD student, attended the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History… Read More
Several members of the Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory (ACIS) from the University of Florida attended the SPNHC-TDWG 2024 Conference, Sept. 2-6, 2024 in Okinawa, Japan. Attendees included, Dr. José A.B. Fortes, Founder and Director of the ACIS Lab.,… Read More
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Michael Elliott won the 1st Place Student Prize at the TDWG Conference (Biodiversity Information Standards) Oct 9 – 13, 2023 in Hobart, Australia. The talk was titled “Using ChatGPT with Confidence for Biodiversity-Related Information Tasks.” Michael is a PhD student in the ACIS lab under the supervision of Dr. José A. B. Fortes at the University of Florida.
The CENTRA 6 Conference: AI in the Edge-Cloud-HPC Continuum was held at Indiana University in Indianapolis, Indiana from September 12 – 15, 2023. Dr. José Fortes, Director of the ACIS Lab., and Michael Elliott, PhD student, presented at the conference.
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 novel biodiversity research.
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 announced on Thursday.
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.
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.
ACIS Director, Dr. José Fortes, was recently named as a University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professors for 2019- 2022.