October 13, 2025
UCF’s student cybersecurity competitors are among the best in the nation, climbing to the No. 8 spot out of 6,510 teams in the U.S. for capture-the-flag (CTF) competitions. The CTFtime.org ranking, current as of Oct. 13, naturally fluctuates throughout the season as more teams complete competitions. Over the past several weeks, UCF has climbed steadily,…
July 30, 2025
The University of Central Florida has launched the Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI), a bold initiative that will elevate UCF’s leadership in this transformative technology. The institute will unite more than two dozen world-class faculty across multiple colleges who are advancing foundational and applied artificial intelligence (AI) in areas like computer vision, robotics, machine learning, healthcare,…
June 25, 2025
Three UCF faculty were named 2025 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award winners while two recent faculty hires transferred their CAREER projects to continue their work at Florida’s Premier Engineering and Technology University. All five awardees teach and conduct research through UCF’s College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS), and together their funding…
June 18, 2025
Over the years UCF’s academic work in the tech field has earned national recognition, with the university producing 25% of engineering and computer science graduates in Florida. This future-focused momentum is helping to advance Orlando’s tech hub, which ranks as the second-fastest-growing in the South, according to CommercialCafe.Florida’s Orlando metro area — including Sanford and…
November 6, 2023
Reserve Mercury is one of the most ambitious real-world projects UCF computer science students have undertaken, with the mission to help members of the U.S. Army Reserve do their crucial work better. You probably know someone in the U.S. Army Reserve and don’t even realize it. There are nearly 200,000 Army Reserve soldiers across the…
February 11, 2021
The University of Central Florida has been awarded a nearly $2.9 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to provide cybersecurity scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students. Scholarship recipients will focus on cybersecurity training and research at UCF, and after graduation, must work for a federal, state, local, or tribal government organization in a…