Mubarak Shah
Professor and Director of the Center for Research in Computer Vision
- Office: L3 Harris Engineering Center Room 245D
- Email: shah@crcv.ucf.edu
- Phone: 407-823-5077
BIOGRAPHY
Mubarak Shah is the Trustee Chair Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida and the founding director of the Center for Research in Computer Vision.
His research focuses on video surveillance, visual tracking, human activity recognition, and UAV video analysis. He has authored multiple books and published extensively in the field of computer vision. He has also served as editor-in-chief of a leading computer vision journal and as associate editor for several others.
Shah is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, SPIE and IAPR. His honors include the ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing and UCF’s Pegasus Professor award.
He has mentored more than 50 graduate students and leads a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision. He also mentors high school students through a Department of Defense apprenticeship program.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Computer Science – Wayne State
RESEARCH
- Video Surveillance and Monitoring
- Visual Tracking
- Scene and Object Recognition
- Human Activity Recognition
- UAV Video Analysis
- Video Registration
- Video Categorization and Segmentation
- 3D reconstruction
- Content-based Video Retrieval
AWARDS
- Fellow, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), 2021.
- Fellow, NAI (National Academy of Inventors), 2020.
- Fellow, AAAS (American Association of Advancement of Science), 2010.
- Fellow, SPIE (Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers), 2008.
- Fellow, IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition), 2006.
- Fellow, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), 2003.
- ACM SIGMM award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 2019.
- Inducted to UCF Chapter of National Academy of Innovators, December 2017.
- UCF Luminary Award, October 2017
- University Excellence in Research Award, 2017.
- Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students Award, 2017
- Top 10% Paper Award at International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2014), 2014.
- 2nd place in NHK Where is beauty? Grand Challenge at the ACM Multimedia 2013 conference.
- NGA(National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency) Best Research Poster award at NARP Symposium Award, 2013.
- University Distinguished Researcher award, 2012.
- College of Engineering & Computer Science Advisory Board Award For Faculty Excellence, 2011
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) award, 2011.
- Finalist for the Best Paper award, ACM Conference on Multimedia, 2010.
- ACM Distinguished Speaker (DSP), 2008-2014.
- University Distinguished Researcher award, 2007.
- Sindhi Association of North American award, 2007.
- Pegasus Professor, 2006.
- UCF Millionaires’ Club, 2005, 2006, 2009-2013, 2015.
- Honorable mention, ICCV 2005 Where Am I? Challenge Problem.
- Finalist for the Best Paper award, ACM Conference on Multimedia, 2005.
- Research Incentive Award (RIA), 2003, 2009, 2014.
- Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, 1996, 2003.
- IEEE Distinguished Visitors Program Speaker, 1997-2000.
- Engineering Achievement Award of Information Systems Division of Harris Corporation, 1999.
- IEEE Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, 1997.
- TOKTEN awards by UNDP, 1992, 1995, 2000.
- Philips International Institute Scholarship 1980.