1. Overall Ranking in US: #30 among all US universities, #6 among public universities (USNews)
2. CS Program Ranking: #49 (USNews)
3. UFL currently has a big AI initiative with a new $70million partnership with NVIDIA that established the world's fastest AI supercomputer in higher education (140 NVIDIA DGX™ A100 systems with 1,120 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs). UFL will hire 100 more faculty members focused on AI.
More about the University of Florida:
The University of Florida is the flagship campus of the State of Florida university system and is ranked as the #6 best public US university (Top 30 among all US National Universities) according to US News and World Report. UF recently announced a $70 million artificial intelligence partnership with NVIDIA to create an AI-centric data center that houses the world's fastest AI supercomputer in higher education (https://news.ufl.edu/2020/07/nvidia-partnership/). The Department of CISE in the HWCOE is a vibrant, multidisciplinary highly collaborative environment, consistently ranked among the top departments for both graduate and undergraduate programs. It offers BA, BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, with an enrollment of 2,440 undergraduate students and 668 graduate students of which 148 are PhD students. The CISE department currently has 55 faculty. Collectively, the list of achievements and awards received by the faculty include one Fulbright Scholar; 19 NSF CAREER Award winners; eight 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. The Department's external research expenditures were over $8.8 million last year, an increase of over 60% over the past five years.