October 21, 2013
Professor Kien A. Hua’s paper “Online Video Delivery: Past, Present, and Future” (http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2502435) is included in the special section of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP), devoted to papers from the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Best Papers of ACM Multimedia 2012.
October 21, 2013
Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez on receiving $1,924.00 in new funding (for a total of $74124) from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for a project titled “Dependable Systems International Research and Educational Experience (DeSIRE2)”.
October 7, 2013
Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha for receiving $10,000.00 from US Air Force Research Laboratory for a project titled “Extreme Scale Algorithms for Formal Validation and Parameter Discovery of Computational Models: Applications to the Synthesis of Cyber-Physical Systems and Memristor-based Crossbar Computing”.
October 2, 2013
The University of Central Florida’s most-winning competitive team has returned from St. Petersburg, Russia with an impressive ranking: as the world’s 48th best computer programming team.
September 26, 2013
Dr. Mubarak Shah and Amir Roshan Zamir received the Best Research Poster Award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency at the 2013 NARP Symposium for their poster titled: “Accurate Image Localization Based on Google Maps Street View.”
September 26, 2013
Alan Wright was seleced for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 2013.
September 26, 2013
Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley’s article “Evolvability Is Inevitable: Increasing Evolvability without the Pressure to Adapt” (See Article) was the top science news item at Science Daily ,which claims to be “one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites” with 15 million page hits per month.
September 12, 2013
CS students Zhongkai Han, Syed Zain Masood, Jason Hochreiter, and Spencer Fonte received an honorable mention for the best student paper award at the 2013 10th IEEE International Conference and workshops on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) for their paper (co-authored by Dr. Marshall Tappen)
September 5, 2013
Xi Wang and Dr. Gita Sukthankar won the “best poster award” at the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining for their paper “Link Prediction in Multi-relational Collaboration Networks”.
September 4, 2013
I have a strong passion for teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science and information technology. For undergraduate courses, I emphasize providing students with a good understanding of current techniques, improving their problem-solving capability, enhancing their basic computer skills, and preparing them to become part of the proficient IT workforce.