Faculty

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut for receiving $10,000.00 from National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project titled “The Ninth ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet-14) – Student Travel Awards”.

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha and Dr. Narsingh Deo on receiving $2500 from Georgia State University for being an early adopter of the TCPP/CDER Curriculum Initiative supported by NSF.

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley on receiving $22,000 in additional funding from SoarTech for a project titled “FOCVS phase 1”.

Dr. Gita Sukthankar’s lab developed the KPark mobile phone app, which now has more than 2,000 users. More information is available at www.kparkapp.com.

During April, Dr. Mubarak Shah’s computer vision research was presented at two leading Brazilian academic / research universities. Presentations were made at the University of Sao Paulo (Universidade de Sao Paulo, USP) and the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, ITA.)

Congratulations also to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez, who has a newly opened exhibit on the Turing Test at the Orlando Science Center. A piece about this aired on September 17 on Channel 35 news.

Dr. Charles Hughes will give an invited keynote talk at the “Emerging Multimedia Applications and Services for Smart Cities” Workshop, which is part of the ACM Multimedia Conference. The talk will be titled “Human Surrogates: Remote Presence for Collaboration and Education in Smart Cities”.

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch and Dr. Charlie Hughes (along with Dr. Arjun Nagendran) for receiving $178,437 in new funding (for a total of $678,615) from the Office of Naval Research for their grant titled “Human-Surrogate Interaction”.

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley on receiving $472,542 in new funding from the NSF for a project titled “RI: Small: Neuroevolution of Brain-Inspired Computational Models Over Vast Timescales”.

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah on receiving $86,370 in new funding from the US Army Contracting Command for a project titled “Visual Analytics in Multiple Camera Networks”.