Admission to Candidacy: COGGINS, William, May 14th at 1pm via Zoom

 ANNOUNCEMENT OF Ph.D. Admission to Candidacy

 

 

Date Posted

FROM: Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department

May 7, 2026

TO: the Members of the Supervisory Committee for:

 

First Name

Last Name

M.I.

 

William

Coggins

H

 

SUPERVISORY COMMITTTEE MEMBERS

Eric Ragan

Chair

 

 

Co-Chair

 

Christan Grant

Member

 

Juan Gilbert

Member

 

 

Member

 

 

Member

 

Jasmine McNealy

External Member

 

1.  Name of Examination

Ph.D. Admission to Candidacy

2.  Degree Sought

Doctor of Philosophy

3.  Area of Specialization

 

4.  Thesis/Dissertation Title

Putting Audits on the Bench: Algorithm Audit Informed Philosophy to Construct Benchmarks for LLMs using Low Resource Language Dialects for Direct Comparison

 

5. Examination: Date, Time, Place

May 14, 2026

1:00 p.m.

Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/6165038929

 

 

 

 

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