Awards

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE CS) has elected Professor Damla Turgut, the chair of the UCF Department of Computer Science, to its Board of Governors. She will serve a two-year term, playing a pivotal role in guiding strategy and direction for the organization that furthers the interests of its 375,000 members worldwide.…

The awards are given to academics who have made an impact in their field of study and could potentially become academy inductees. Three UCF faculty members have been recognized by the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL) for the impact they’ve had on their fields of study. Associate professors Ranajay Ghosh and…

Agere Chair Professor Carolina Cruz-Neira was recognized for her pioneering work in modeling and simulation.   Carolina Cruz-Neira, Agere Chair Professor in the UCF Department of Computer Science, was honored by the National Center for Simulation (NCS) with her induction to its 2024 Hall of Fame, a testament to her groundbreaking work and global acclaim…

Established in 2014, the Modeling & Simulation Hall of Fame recognizes accomplishments and contributions of individuals who have pioneered the development of modeling and simulation   The National Center for Simulation (NCS) inducted its 2024 honorees for the Modeling & Simulation (MS&T) Hall of Fame: UCF Professor and augmented and virtual reality pioneer Carolina Cruz-Neira;…

These Knights are demonstrating what it means to be culturally informed and globally connected.   Learning a second language opens doors to new possibilities — new places, new cultures, new connections with people you would likely never meet. Although English has become the world’s de facto lingua franca, college students across the U.S. are increasingly…

This award is given once a year and is one of the highest awards for software engineering given to pre-tenure faculty from the Association for Computing Machinery.   University of Central Florida assistant professor Kevin Moran has won the 2024 SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award “for outstanding contributions to improving the quality of mobile applications,…

  Virtual reality pioneer Carolina Cruz-Neira, Agere Chair Professor at the UCF Department of Computer Science, has been inducted into the inaugural Augmented World Expo (AWE) XR Hall of Fame. With her induction, she joins an elite international group of 100 researchers, entrepreneurs, artists, advocates and others selected for building the augmented reality and virtual…

  Every year on the first Wednesday of April, UCF honors the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of our people on Founders’ Day, our annual celebration of the employees, faculty and students who keep reaching for the stars. More than 150 faculty members were recognized across the university, including several from the College of Engineering and…

The students developed a software program that analyzes workers in an industrial setting to help improve safety, streamline operations and integrate robotic assistance. Predicting the future might involve a fortune teller or a time machine, and only in the movies at that. But for one group of students at UCF’s Center for Research in Center…

  UCF professor Yan Solihin, a computer science faculty member and director of the UCF Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster, has been named a 2023 Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Solihin and 51 other individuals representing higher education, industry and research institutions from 14 countries received the honor for their impactful…