March 24, 2022
UCF Computer Scientist Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Award and Over $1 Million for String Algorithms Research
October 22, 2021
Seventeen faculty and staff projects will receive about $5 million in Jump Start funds to advance UCF’s impact under President Alexander N. Cartwright’s 2021-22 Strategic Investment Program. CECS researchers will receive $1.5M of the awards.
September 15, 2021
The Army Research Lab-funded project will help ground vehicles navigate complex terrain when GPS is not available by using computer vision and artificial intelligence.
March 8, 2021
Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, an associate professor with Computer Science, was named as one of 31 Women’s History Month Honorees.
January 29, 2021
Dr. Sahar Hooshmand received the CECS Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Instructor and her nomination has been forwarded to the university for consideration for the same award at the university level.
January 25, 2021
Computer Science graduate student Brandy King has won the CECS Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant.
January 19, 2021
The paper won the Best Scientific Paper award at the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition.
December 16, 2020
The Computing Research Association (CRA) has an annual award for outstanding undergraduate research. “This award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding potential in an area of computing research.”
November 12, 2020
CS PhD graduate Yun Zhai and Professor Mubarak Shah received an ACM SIGMM Test of Time Paper Honorable Mention award for their paper “Visual attention detection in video sequences using spatiotemporal cues
March 30, 2020
CS undergraduate student Gary Hoppenworth has won a Scholarship from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship & Excellence in Education Foundation (see https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/2020-goldwater-scholars-by-legal-state-of-residence/).