Juan E. Gilbert
Juan E. Gilbert is the Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and Chair of the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department at the University of Florida where he leads the Computing for Social Good Lab. He has research projects in election security/usability/accessibility, advanced learning technologies, usability and accessibility, Human-Centered AI/machine learning and Ethnocomputing (Culturally Relevant Computing).
He is the inventor of Prime III, an open source, secure and accessible voting technology. Prime III was the first open-source voting system to be used in state, local and federal elections in the U.S.A. Gilbert was named a laureate of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Joe Biden for pioneering and championing universal design in elections technology to make voting accessible for everyone and increasing diversity in the computer science workforce.
Gilbert is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the National Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Inventors (NAI).