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UCF Student Entrepreneur Headed to Microsoft After Graduation

Nathan Kurelo Wilk ’22, a native of Brazil, developed the technical training, hands-on experience and entrepreneurial insight at UCF that’s needed to succeed in the…

Computer Science Department Chair Elected to Engineering Institute Board of Governors

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…

UCF Wins 2024 Southeast Regional Programming Contest

The first-place finish secures a spot in the North America Championship, giving the team the opportunity to compete for a place at the world finals…

Computer Science Undergraduate Researcher Presents Research in Italy

  An impressive finish on a computer vision conference challenge has paved the way for a computer science student’s first trip overseas. Tina Tran, an…

UCF Continues Its Winning Legacy at the U.S. Department of Energy CyberForce Competition

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition teams took home first and sixth place, securing the university’s fourth consecutive victory.   The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense…

UCF Professors Receive 2024 Rising Stars Awards From Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida

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…

UCF Researcher Inducted into National Center for Simulation Hall of Fame

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…

3 UCF-connected Experts to Be Inducted Into the 2024 National Center for Simulation Hall of Fame

Established in 2014, the Modeling & Simulation Hall of Fame recognizes accomplishments and contributions of individuals who have pioneered the development of modeling and simulation…

UCF Students Host Live Cyberattack Simulation Contest

Horse Plinko, created by Hack@UCF and the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team, gives students the opportunity to defend a fictional company against an active cyberattack.…

2 UCF Students Share Highlights From Their Summer of Language Learning

These Knights are demonstrating what it means to be culturally informed and globally connected.   Learning a second language opens doors to new possibilities —…

Why Cybersecurity Students Choose UCF

From a great education to networking experiences and being part of a champion cybersecurity team, there’s plenty of reasons future cybersecurity professionals earn their degrees…

UCF Cyber Team Visits National Security Agencies, Meets with Industry Experts

The 10 students who attended the experience were able to learn from and network with professional in federal organizations, such as the U.S. Secret Service…

CECS Welcomes 17 New Faculty Members for the Fall Semester

  The UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science is making an impact in areas such as hypersonic technology, nanomedicine and biomedical engineering, and robotics…

Computer Science Student Lands Tenured Faculty Role

  It’s not uncommon for new graduates to hit the pavement, degree in hand, in search of a new job. That’s not the case for…

UCF Modeling and Simulation Student Perseveres to Earn Ph.D.

  Pursuing a doctoral degree is one of the most challenging endeavors for any student. Beyond the academic rigor it demands, it’s often also a…

CS Faculty Receive Promotion and Tenure

UCF faculty members across the university, including several from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, achieved significant career milestones in earning promotions and tenure…

UCF Professor Kevin Moran Wins SIGSOFT Early Career Award for Mobile App Advancements

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…

UCF Hosts ‘Battle of the Brains’ Programming Championship, Seeking 13th Straight Trip to World Finals

The competition helps build students’ problem-solving skills, which are valuable to those seeking a career in software development, data science and research, and related fields.…

UCF AI for Game Programming Instructor Conducts Live Playthroughs for Student Projects

  It’s not often that creators get to experience the thrill of seeing people using their products for the first time. For the students in…

UCF Computer Science Professor to Be Inducted to the XR Hall of Fame

  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…

CyberColosseum Solutions Takes First Place at UCF’s 2024 Joust New Venture Competition

Three UCF cybersecurity enthusiasts won UCF’s 2024 Joust New Venture Competition on Thursday and earned $12,000 to grow their company, an immersive information security simulator…

UCF Computer Science Professor Honored for Contributions to Advance Computing

  UCF professor Yan Solihin, a computer science faculty member and director of the UCF Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster, has been named a 2023…

UCF Student Awarded $25,000 Google-CAHSI Dissertation Award for VR, AR Research

Computer science doctoral student Esteban Segarra ’22MS is one of only five recipients of this year’s award, which will help support his work to leverage video games…

UCF Computer Science Professor Recognized for Service to Computing Community

UCF professor Yan Solihin has been honored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Microarchitecture (ACM SIGMICRO) with the Distinguished Service Award.…

2 UCF Students to Compete on the 2024 U.S. Cyber Team

The students, who qualified due to excellent performances in other cybersecurity challenges, will compete worldwide in various competitions while representing the nation. Two UCF computer…

UCF Earns 4th CyberForce National Championship

One team secured first place and another ranked fourth in the competition against some of the nation’s top cybersecurity students. UCF is becoming a cybersecurity…

UCF Students Support U.S. Military with New Technology

Through partnerships and fellowships with the National Security Innovation Network, computer science Knights have developed a mobile communication technology for the U.S. Army Reserve. Reserve…

UCF C3 Team Places Second at Lockdown Competition

A team of six Knights won the second-place award at Lockdown, a cybersecurity competition hosted by the University at Buffalo on Oct. 21. The winning…

New UCF Project is Harnessing Virtual Reality to Teach Quantum Computing

The multi-institutional work is funded by a nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Researchers from the University of Central Florida, University…

UCF C3 Team Wins First Place at the Southeast Collegiate Pen Testing Competition

  A team of six Knights – IT sophomore Noah Magill; IT senior Colton Knight; computer science seniors Zachary Groome, Harrison Keating and Matthew McKeever;…

Success Hacks: 700 Students Attend UCF Knight Hacks’ Largest Hackathon

The event was the first hackathon for more than half of the participants, providing students an entry into these competitive and valuable experiences. One idea,…

Digital Detective: UCF Computer Science Graduate Student Does Double Duty to Help Fight Crime

Ariel Turnley is pursuing not one, but two UCF master’s degrees while serving as a digital forensics intern for the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office Computer…

UCF C3 Team Wins Second Place at Raymond James Capture the Flag Competition

A team of five Knights – computer science undergraduates Matthew McKeever and Harrison Keating, digital forensics master’s students Caitlin Cameron and Cameron Whitehead, and cyber…

UCF C3 Team Wins First Place at Hack the Building 2.0: Hospital Edition

Members of UCF’s collegiate cybersecurity competition team have again taken first-place honors, this time at the Hack the Building 2.0: Hospital Edition competition in Columbia,…

UCF Computer Science Graduate Students Take First Place in Aviation Cybersecurity Competition

A team of three UCF graduate students thwarted cyberattacks on a fictional airport as part of an international cybersecurity competition, besting eight other teams to…

Five New Faculty Join UCF Department of Computer Science

  The UCF Department of Computer Science welcomes five new faculty for Fall 2023:

UCF C3 team wins AFCEA TechNet International Military and Collegiate CTF Competition

  A team of four UCF students won the 2023 AFCEA Augusta TechNet International Military and Collegiate CTF Competition. Thirty-five teams from eight countries competed…

UCF Awards Three CS Faculty with Promotions and Tenure

  One-hundred-forty-three UCF faculty members, including three from the Department of Computer Science, recently achieved significant career milestones in earning promotions and tenure for the…

UCF Digital Forensics student wins Conquer-the-Hill Reign Edition

  Congratulations to Cameron Whitehead for placing 1st in the 2023 DOE Conquer-the-Hill Reign Edition competition.  Cameron is a graduate student in the Master of…

UCF C3 Team closes Spring semester with 2nd Place finish in the Spring ICL Collegiate Cup

The UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team finished the Spring semester on May 5th with a 2nd Place finish in the Spring International Cyber League Collegiate…

DOE CyberForce Director Amanda Theel presents National Championship trophy at UCF

Amanda Theel, Director for the Department of Energy’s CyberForce Competition, visited UCF and toured the Lockheed Martin Cyber Innovation Lab on April 18th.

UCF Places 1st and 3rd in 2023 DOE Adventurer Competition

Congratulations to Cameron Whitehead (MS-DF) for finishing in 1st Place and to Caitlin Whitehead (MS-DF) for finishing in 3rd Place in the 2023 Conquer the…

C3 teams wins ISTS Competition at RIT

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team and their coach, Dr. Tom Nedorost for winning the 2023 Information Security Talent Search Competition.

Papers Accepted at Top HCI Conferences

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph J. LaViola Jr. and members of UCF’s Interactive Computing Experiences (ICE) Research Cluster on having two papers accepted to ACM CHI…

Fourteen Papers Accepted in CVPR 2023

The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is the premier annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located…

UCF Captures 3rd Place in Global Pen Testing Competition

UCF Captures 3rd Place in Global Pen Testing Competition January 23, 2023 The C3 Team finished in 3rd Place in the Global Collegiate Penetration Testing…

UCF C3 Team wins WRCCDC Invitational

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team and coaches for winning the 2022 WRCCDC Invitational on Saturday, December 3rd.

UCF wins 2022 SE Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team and coaches Tom Nedorost and Martin Roberts for winning the Southeast Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition hosted by…

UCF places 2nd in the International Cyber League Collegiate Cup

UCF finished runner-up in the Final Round of the International Cyber League Collegiate Cup competition on November 17th. UCF correctly identified and responded to all…

UCF wins 2022 NIATEC Invitational Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

UCF won the 2022 NIATEC Invitational Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition hosted by Idaho State University on November 12th. Two teams from Brigham Young University finished…

UCF defends National Championship in DOE CyberForce Competition

Two UCF teams claimed 1st and 2nd places in the 2022 DOE CyberForce Competition on November 5th at the Q-Center in St. Charles, IL. Penn…

UCF finishes 1st and 3rd in A-ISAC Student Cyber Challenge

Two UCF teams finished 1st and 3rd in the 2022 Aviation ISAC Student Cyber Challenge on November 2nd at the Portofino Bay Resort at Universal…

UCF Department of Computer Science Alumni Honored for Career Achievements

To understand a university’s role in shaping the future of the world, a closer look at the 16 University of Central Florida alumni who were…

UCF students drafted for the US Cyber Team

Three UCF students were drafted to compete to the US Cyber Team on October 17th. All three students are members of the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity…

UCF alumni win 2022 Global Cyber Games Charity Battle

A team of UCF alumni working at Abbott Laboratories won 1st Place in both rounds of the 2022 Global Cyber Games Charity Battle held at…

C3 Team’s Cameron Whitehead wins DOE Conquer the Hill – REIGN Edition

Congratulations to Cameron Whitehead (MSDF) for winning the DOE Conquer the Hill – REIGN Edition. 

C3 Team captures 3rd and 7th in the 2022 US Cyber Open

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team and coach Dr. Tom Nedorost for an outstanding performance in the 2022 US Cyber Open. 1470 students…

Dr. Damla Turgut Appointed as Chair of UCF Department of Computer Science

The UCF Department of Computer Science is pleased to announce that Professor Damla Turgut, Ph.D., has been appointed Chair of the Department. Her appointment will…

UCF Awards Promotions to Four Computer Science Faculty

Eighty-nine UCF faculty received promotions and another 48 earned tenure status for the 2021-22 cycle following a rigorous evaluation process. The Department of Computer Science…

UCF Students Oust Top Teams at 2022 North America Collegiate Programming Contest, Advance to World Finals

After beating dozens of top teams to earn seventh place, UCF will advance to the World Finals for the 11th consecutive year.

UCF crowned National Champions for 5th time!

The UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition (C3) Team won the 2022 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for a record 5th time! To get to the nationals,…

Cyber Team wins the CAE-NCX National Championship

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition team and coach Tom Nedorost for winning the CAE-NCX Championship!

Knightsec finishes runner-up in JerseyCTF II

UCF’s Knightsec team finished in 2nd Place in the JerseyCTF II competition. Over 1200 teams registered to compete yet only 502 teams managed to score…

Cyber Team captures 3rd Place in NCAE Cyber Games National Championship

UCF captured 3rd Place in the 2022 NCAE Cyber Games National Championship on April 9th after previously winning the NCAE Cyber Games Southeastern Regional on…

TROSK wins $7,500 in JOUST New Venture Competition

TROSK, a start-up company created by Daniel Trimble and Ryan Carnovsky along with Michael Troisi (’21), won $7,500 in UCF’s JOUST New Venture Competition.

Cyber Team wins CyberSEED CTF

UCF’s C3 team keep up it’s winning tradition by placing 1st and winning a $3,000 cash prize in the 2022 CyberSEED CTF sponsored by the…

Congratulations to Dr. Thankachan

UCF Computer Scientist Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Award and Over $1 Million for String Algorithms Research

Cyber Team wins SECCDC…again!

Congratulations to the C3 team and coach Dr. Tom Nedorost for winning the 2022 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Regional at Kennesaw State University on…

UCF finishes 3rd in the Information Security Talent Search

Congratulations to the C3 team and coach Dr. Tom Nedorost for placing 3rd in the 2022 Information Security Talent Search at Rochester Institute of Technology…

Shah Named Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Professor Mubarak Shah a Fellow for his significant contributions to human action recognition in video and for…

2 UCF Professors Elected as IEEE Fellows for Career Achievements

Two UCF professors are being honored as 2022 fellows by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a prestigious national distinction. The IEEE announced…

UCF Professor Greg Welch Named to the National Academy of Inventors

The Pegasus Professor, who specializes in simulation and modeling, is UCF’s 17th NAI fellow — the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

UCF C3 Team wins 2021 DOE CyberForce National Championship

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team (C3) Team and coach, Dr. Tom Nedorost, for winning the 2021 Department of Energy CyberForce Competition. UCF’s…

UCF Cyber team finishes 2nd in National Cyber League

Congratulations to Hack@UCF’s Knightsec team and coach Dr. Tom Nedorost for capturing 2nd Place in the Fall 2021 National Cyber League competition.

2 CS Researchers Awarded Jump Start Awards

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…

Jump Start Your Ph.D. Journey

Apply by November 15, 2021 to get your application fee waived for Fall 2022 admission!

UCF C3 Team wins $10,000 Grand Prize at Raymond James Invitational

Congratulations to UCF C3 Team members Cameron Whitehead (MS-DF), Caitlin Whitehead (MS-DF), Jeffrey DiVincent (JR-CS), and Matthew McKeever (SO-CS) and their coach, Dr. Tom Nedorost,…

UCF C3 Team wins Aviation ISAC Collegiate CTF

Two UCF student teams finished 1st and 4th place in the 2021 Aviation ISAC Collegiate CTF Competition on Monday, September 27th. The students are all…

UCF Researchers Awarded $4.5 Million to Develop Non-GPS Location Finder

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.

CRCV Has 6 Papers Accepted to ICCV 2021

ICCV is the premier international computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and tutorials. In 2021, UCF’s Center for Research in…

UCF Cybersecurity Researcher Leads DARPA-Funded Project to Help Reduce Fraud

The complex nature of corporate relationships provides an opportunity for criminals, adversaries, and others to hide illegal activities in plain sight.

Two UCF students rank among Top 5 in the US Cyber Open

Congratulations to Hack@UCF club members Cameron Whitehead and Caitlin Whitehead for ranking among the Top 5 in the US Cyber Open.

UCF Offers New Master’s Program in Cyber Security and Privacy

A new master’s degree in cyber-security and privacy will be offered beginning this fall at UCF, designed to train professionals who can protect and defend computer…

UCF C3 Team wins CCDC National Championship!

UCF C3 Team wins CCDC National Championship! April 30, 2021 Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team and their coach, Dr. Tom Nedorost, for…

UCF Programming Teams Win First and Third Places in the South Division of the North American Divisional Championships

UCF Teams finished first (Gold Medal) and third (Bronze Medal) in the “South Division” of the North American Divisional Championship (NADC) of the International Collegiate…

UCF wins NIATEC Invitational Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team and coach Tom Nedorost for winning the 8th Annual NIATEC Invitational Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition on Saturday,…

UCF C3 Team Wins CCDC At Large Regional Competition

UCF’s Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition (C3) Team won the 2021 At Large Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held virtually on March 27th & 28th. This is the…

Cyber team wins $2000 at CSI CyberSEED

UCF’s KNIGHTSEC team won a $2,000 cash prize and placed 3rd overall in the 2021 CyberSEED CTF Competition on Saturday, March 27th.

UCF Takes Second Place in the Maryland Cyber Challenge

UCF placed 2nd in the Maryland Cyber Challenge on March 24, 2021. The competition tested cyber skills in 10 categories: Encoding/Encryption, File Analysis, Forensics/Hard Disks,…

UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team Places 3rd in 2021 Information Security Talent Search

The UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team placed 3rd in the 2021 Information Security Talent Search Competition hosted by Rochester Institute of Technology on March 5th…

Dr. Wisniewski a Women’s History Month Honoree

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, an associate professor with Computer Science, was named as one of 31 Women’s History Month Honorees.

UCF Starts New Master’s Degree Program in Computer Vision

The Master of Science in Computer Vision at UCF has been approved by the Florida Board of Governors to begin in Fall 2021.

NSF Awards UCF $2.9 Million to Train Next Generation of Cybersecurity Defenders

The award comes at a time when cyber threats are becoming more prevalent, from stolen customer information to the hacking of government data and more…

CECS Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Instructor

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…

CECS Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant

Computer Science graduate student Brandy King has won the CECS Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

ICPR Best Paper Award Goes to UCF Authors

The paper won the Best Scientific Paper award at the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition.

Team from UCF CS Currently 8th place in XPrize Foundation’s Pandemic Response Challenge

A team of researchers from the AI Things Lab at UCF, consisting of Sharare Zehtabian, Siavash Khodadadeh and professor Lotzi Bölöni is participating in the XPrize…

Two UCF Students Recognized for Outstanding Undergraduate Research

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…

UCF IT Graduate Finishes 2nd in The Nation

Michael Roberts (a current MS in digital forensics student and, UCF IT graduate) finished second in the nation at the 2020 DOE CyberForce Competition hosted…

UCF Themed Experience VR Portal: Pegasus Station

An article “UCF Themed Experience program collaborates with VR pioneer Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira” appears in In Park Magazine.

CS PhD graduate and Prof. Shah win SIGMM Test of Time Honorable Mention Award

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…

Congratulations to Drs. Foroosh and Wisniewski for winning both TIP and RIA awards

The winners of UCF’s Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) and Research Incentive Award (RIA) awards for this year were announced today on UCF Today.

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah who was elected to the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida “For his contributions in video surveillance, including…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah, who was named an AI 2020 most influential scholar for his “outstanding technical achievements with lasting contribution and impact.” This…

CS student Gary Hoppenworth wins Goldwater Scholarship

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/).

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team!

Congratulations to the CCDC Team and Coach Tom Nedorost for winning the At Large Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Regional on Sunday, March 29th. In this…

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes

Congratulations to Dr. Charlie Hughes who has been selected to be inducted in the National Center for Simulation Hall of Fame this year!

Acclaimed Computer Scientist and Virtual Reality Pioneer Joins UCF Faculty

We are pleased to welcome a VR pioneer and National Academy of Engineering member Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira to the faculty in Computer Science.

Developing Synergistic Solutions: UCF’s Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster

The Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster at UCF, established in 2017, is a university-wide research group that focuses on integrated solutions to both the human…

Assistant Professor’s Passion is to Better Humanity

More and more, the way we communicate is through social computing. Pam Wisniewski, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science, examines how people are managing their…

Lotzi Bölöni Interview

Professor Lotzi Bölöni joined the UCF Department of Computer Science in 2017. Since then, he has worked on a number of projects related to robotics…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah, who is to be inducted into the National Academy of Inventors as a fellow on April 10, 2020.

Congratulations to Irene Tanner

Congratulations to Irene Tanner, an undergraduate in Computer Science, who was awarded an Honors Undergraduate Thesis scholarship from the Burnett Honors College in October.

Congratulations to the following UCF students

Congratulations to the following UCF students who won first place in the Duel Factor Capture the Flag competition at Florida Cyber Con:

CS Students and Faculty Win Best Long Paper Award at SUI 2019

Several UCF CS students and faculty have won a “Best Long Paper” award at the 7th ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction.

UCF’S All-Female Team Places 3rd in Wicked6 Cyber Games

Congratulations to Hack@UCF’s Knightsec team and their coach, Dr. Tom Nedorost, for advancing to the Final Round of the inaugural 2019 Wicked6 Cyber Games held…

Dr. Shah Wins Prestigious ACM SIGMM Award

Trustee chair professor Dr. Mubarak Shah is the 2019 winner of the prestigious ACM SIGMM award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and…

UCF’s All-Female Cyber Team Advances in Wicked6 Competition

A UCF team consisting of CS undergraduates Sara Aladham, Lauryn Landkrohn, Sydney Munro, and a graduate student in the MS in Digital Forensics program, Jensly…

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Wins NSF Career Award

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, an assistant professor with the department of Computer Science, earned an NSF CAREER award for her proposal: “CAREER: Safety by Design: Protecting…

Children Give Their Input on How to Make TikTok a Safer Platform for Youth

Research by PhD student Karla Badillo-Urquiola and CS assistant professor Pamela Wisniewski describes the use of participatory design methods to redesign TikTok (or Musical.ly) to…

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Wins UCF Reach For The Stars Award

At the UCF Founder’s Day convocation in April, Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, an assistant professor with the department was recognized with UCF’s Reach for the Stars…

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship Team

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship team for their second place finish at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held on April 23-25,…

UCF Cyber Defense Team Wins SouthEast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team won the 2019 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held at Kennesaw State University on April 3-4, 2019.

Congratulations to Drs. Ladislau Boloni, Damian Dechev, Haiyan Hu, Damla Turgut, and Shaojie Zhang

Congratulations to Drs. Ladislau Boloni, Damian Dechev, Haiyan Hu, Damla Turgut, and Shaojie Zhang for receiving a UCF Research Incentive Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, her PhD student Karla Badillo-Urquiola, and their coauthor, Xinru Page for receiving a Best Paper award (top 1% of all…

PHD Graduate Alvaro Velasquez Named to UCF’s 30 under 30

UCF CS PhD graduate Alvaro Velasquez, who received his PhD in Computer Science in 2018 (and also a bachelor’s degree in 2014 and a MS…

Congratulations to The UCF CCDC Team

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team, under the direction of Dr. Tom Nedorost, competed in the virtual qualification round of the 2019 Southeast Collegiate…

Congratulations to UCF’s Collegiate Cyber Defense Team

Congratulations to UCF’s Collegiate Cyber Defense Team and Dr. Tom Nedorost, team coach, for winning the Department of Energy CyberForce Competition on Saturday, December 2,…

Members of the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team finished in 1st Place at the LockDown!

Members of the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team finished in 1st Place at the LockDown! V5 competition on Saturday, November 17th at the University…

UCF Finishes 3rd in National Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition

UCF finished in 3rd Place at the National Collegiate Penetration Testing competition on Sunday, November 4th at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team

UCF’s 36-year-old record of “top three in the southeast” continued for another year, thanks to our excellent team members.

Raymond James Capture-The-Flag Competition

A team of UCF students won the Raymond James Capture-the-Flag Competition on Saturday, October 27th at Raymond James corporate headquarters in St. Petersburg, FL.

UCF Students Win at Duel Factor CTF Competition in Tampa

On October 11, 2018, UCF had 19 members of the Hack@UCF club compete in the Duel Factor CTF Competition at Florida Cyber Con at the…

Eastern Region Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition

UCF won the Eastern Region Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition on Sunday, October 7th hosted by Penn State University.

A-ISAC Collegiate Cyber Challenge

Two teams of UCF students finished 1st and 2nd Place in the inaugural A-ISAC Collegiate Cyber Challenge hosted at the Aviation ISAC Annual Summit on…

Dr. Sumit Jha Receives $1 Million NSF Grant

UCF Today has an article about Dr. Sumit Jha, associate professor of Computer Science, who received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to make…

Congratulations to 4 CS and IT Students And Dr. Thomas Nedorost

Congratulations to a team of 4 CS and IT students

UCF CRCV Automating Detection of Lung Cancer

The video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cryh1ydwnFM&sns=em, is a report shown on Fox 35 News (on July 25) that describes the work of CS assistant professor and CRCV faculty…

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski who was selected for a W. T. Grant Foundation Scholars award. Dr. Wisniewski was the only Computer Scientist selected this…

Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team (named “Raptor”) for finishing 10th in the ACM ICPC World Finals yesterday and first among the North American teams.

Congratulations to The UCF CCDC Team

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team finished 2nd in the 2018 National Cyber Defense Competition held April 13-15, 2018 at Disney’s Coronado Springs Convention…

Alumnus Sajal Das Receives University of Missouri System President’s Award For Sustained Career Excellence

Dr. Sajal Das, who received his Ph.D. at UCF (under Dr. Narsingh Deo) is the Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair at Missouri University of Science…

Dr. Wisniewski’s Research on Teen Monitoring Apps Gathers World-Wide Publicity

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski’s research on teen safety, and teen monitoring apps is the subject of an article in Gizmodo

UCF Team Wins Dept of Energy Cyber Defense Competition at Argonne Natl Laboratory

A team of 6 students from the Collegiate Cyber Defense Club @ UCF (aka Hack@UCF) won 1st Place in the 2018 Department of Energy Cyber…

UCF CCDC Team Sweeps Regional Competition

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team won the 2018 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held at Kennesaw State University in Georgia on April 2-3,…

UCF Students Take 1st Place in Info Sec Talent Search

Two UCF teams captured 1st and 3rd place in the 16th annual Information Security Talent Search (ISTS) Competition on February 4th in Rochester, NY.

Dr. Kien Hua Interviewed For News 6

Dr. Kien Hua, professor of Computer Science, was interviewed by News 6 reporter Adrianna Iwasinski recently, and the interview is available at https://www.clickorlando.com/news/q-a-a-conversation-with-ucf-s-dr-kien-hua-on-mesh-networks.

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, who is a finalist for the 2018 William T. Grant Scholars Program.

Congratulations to the UCF Raptor team

Congratulations to the UCF Raptor team, (L to R): Timothy Buzzelli, Eric Ly, Alex Coleman, all Computer Science majors, who won the SE Regional division…

Congratulations to Sumit Jha’s PhD Student Sunny Raj

Congratulations to Sumit Jha’s PhD student Sunny Raj for his excellent work in the NIPS/Google Adversarial Defense competition, where he took 14th place out of…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha and His Student Sunny Raj

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha and his student Sunny Raj and collaborators Dr. Laura Pullum and Dr. Arvind Ramanthan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for…

CS Highly Ranked in Computer Vision, Visualization, HCI and Other Areas

According to the website csrankings.org, which ranks research in Computer Science based on papers published in very prestigious and highly-selective conferences, UCF ranks 6th in…

Congratulations to Drs. Hassan Foroosh and Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Drs. Hassan Foroosh and Mubark Shah, who were given UCF Luminary awards at a reception on October 18 in downtown Orlando. Attached is…

Congratulations to the UCF CCDC Team

Congratulations to the UCF CCDC team, and their coach and advisor, Dr. Thomas Nedorost, who won first place on October 14th in the Raymond James…

Congratulations to UCF’s Cyber Defense Team

Congratulations to UCF’s Cyber Defense Team, which captured 3rd place in the Global Cyberlympics World Finals at The Hague, Netherlands today.

Congratulations to Professor Kenneth Stanley

Congratulations to Professor Kenneth Stanley for winning the following award from the International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL): 2017 ISAL Award for Outstanding Paper of…

Congratulations to Yun Zhai And Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Yun Zhai & Mubarak Shah’s paper “Visual attention detection in video sequences using spatiotemporal cues” which was noted as a Classic paper from…

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on her UX Lab’s successful engagement with Bogen Inc. This was covered in the magazine “Sound and Video Contractor”. You…

Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team, “Badlands”, who solved 7 problems in the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest and finished officially…

Congratulations to Dr. Ali Orooji

Congratulations to Dr. Ali Orooji, who was named as a Distinguished Faculty Member at UCF by students living in the Tower III Community. Dr. Orooji’s…

Congratulations to Dr. Sean Szumlanski

Congratulations to Dr. Sean Szumlanski who was named as a Distinguished Distinguished Faculty Member at UCF by students living in the Knights’ Circle community. Dr.…

Congratulations to Both Ken Stanley and Lotzi Boloni

Congratulations to both Ken Stanley and Lotzi Boloni, who have been approved for promotion to (full) professor, effective August 8, 2017.

Teaching Incentive Awards

Congratulations to Drs. Shaojie Zhang, Damla Turgut, Mainak Chatterjee, and Mostafa Bassiouni for receiving Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) awards.

Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola

Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola for winning a Research Incentive Award (RIA).

Congratulations to Asfhin Dehghan and Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Asfhin Dehghan and Mubarak Shah whose work on tracking multiple individuals was covered in an article in Science Magazine (published by the AAAS).

Congratulations to Dr. Annie Wu

Congratulations to Dr. Annie Wu who won the College Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award. Her name is being forwarded to the UCF committee for consideration…

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut who won the College Excellence in Professional Service award. Her name is being forwarded to the UCF committee for consideration…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah who won the College Excellence in Research Award at the full professor level. His name is being forwarded to the…

Congratulations to Arup Kumar Ghosh

Congratulations to Arup Kumar Ghosh, who received an honorable mention for the 2016-2017 university award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant. This award recognizes…

Congratulations to Dr. Afshin Dehghan

Congratulations to Dr. Afshin Dehghan, who won the 2016-17 university award for Outstanding Dissertation in the category Engineering, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences. This award…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah, who will receive a 2016 award for Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students in the disciplinary grouping of “Engineering, Physical,…

Congratulations to Hack@UCF and Advisor Dr. Tom Nedorost

Congratulations to Hack@UCF and advisor Dr. Tom Nedorost for capturing 1st Place in the 15th annual Information Security Talent Search Competition at Rochester Institute of…

Congratulations to UCF’s CCDC Team

For the 5th consecutive year, UCF’s CCDC team has qualified to compete in the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Regional. The competition will be held…

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, who has received some substantial media coverage from National Public Radio and Science Daily among others, for two papers that…

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola and His Students

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta, Amirreza Samiei, Mehran Maghoumi, Pooya Khaloo, Corey Pittman, and Dr. Joseph LaViola for having their paper, “Jackknife: A Reliable Recognizer with…

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut for winning the University excellence in professional service award, which will be given to her at the UCF Founder’s Day…

FastCompany Covers CRCV Technology For Counting Crowds

Research developed at UCF’s Center for Research on Computer Vision (CRCV) enables counting crowds from photographs, see https://www.fastcompany.com/3067376/fast-cities/the-science-and-politics-of-counting-the-crowds-at-the-inauguration-and-womens-m .

Congratulations to Kyle Martin And Dr. Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to Kyle Martin and Dr. Joseph LaViola who won a best paper award.

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on receiving $10,360 in new funding.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola on receiving $100k from Lockheed Martin Corporation for a project titled: “Improving Augmented Reality Technologies for Training and Education”.

Congratulations to The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team won 1st Place in the 2016 Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition held on November 6, 2016.

Congratulations to Arup Kumar Ghosh

The IEEE Orlando Section (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/orlando/) presents Graduate Scholarship Awards each calendar year.

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut on receiving $27,800 from Career Soft LLC for a project titled: “Alternative Methods for Peer-to-Peer Mobile Communication in a High-Latency…

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch, who received a “Long Lasting Paper Impact” award at the ISMAR conference, along with Ramesh Raskar and Henry Fuchs for…

Congratulations to Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni

Congratulations to Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni, who is a participant in a $5M grant from NSF,

How The University of Central Florida Built a Hacking Dynasty

The Christian Science Monitor has published an article about our award-winning Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team and their many accomplishments since the team was created.

UCF Recognized as NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense

Dean Michael Georgiopoulos was in Huntsville Alabama on June 8 to receive UCF’s official recognition as a NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense.

Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team

Congratulations to the UCF Programming team for their strong finish in the World Finals.

The UCF CCDC Team Featured on Good Day Orlando

The University of Central Florida Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team recently was featured on Good Day Orlando. You can view the video by clicking here.

CCDC Team Wins 3rd Consecutive National Title

Congratulations to our Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition team from HackUCF and their coach, Dr. Thomas Nedorost, for winning the National CCDC for the third year…

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes and Dr. Mark Llewellyn

Congratuations to Dr. Charles Hughes and Dr. Mark Llewellyn on receiving UCF Teaching Incentive Awards in recognition of their outstanding teaching performance.

Congratulations to Professor Fei Liu

Congratulations to professor Fei Liu, whose paper, Crowdsourcing Annotations for Websites’ Privacy Policies: Can It Really Work?, was selected as one of the five best…

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski whose Quality Enhancement Program proposal.

Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang And His CS PHD Student Ardalan Naseri

Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang and his CS PhD student Ardalan Naseri for their paper “Multiplexed labeling of genomic loci with dCas9 and engineered sgRNAs…

UCF IT Student Takes 4th Place in The Joust Competition

A UCF IT program graduate, Arielle Cohen, and her team, Zuke Music won 4th place in the UCF Joust competition on April 15.

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha And Damian Dechev

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha and Damian Dechev, who were approved for promotion to Associate Professor. The promotions officially take place on August 8, 2016.

Congratulations to The UCF CCDC Team

For the 4th year in a row, UCF’s CCDC team has won the Southeast regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition regional. Congratulations to the team and…

Congratulations to Khurram Soomro

Congratulations to Khurram Soomro, a PhD student in Computer Science, who won first place in the doctoral competition (for CECS) at the graduate research forum…

Congratulations to Drs. Narsingh Deo, Avelino Gonzalez, and Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Drs. Narsingh Deo, Avelino Gonzalez, and Mubarak Shah, who were recognized for their 30 years of service to UCF at today’s Founder’s Day…

Congratulations to Arup Guha

Congratulations to Arup Guha for winning the college’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh for winning the college’s Excellence in Research Award at the full professor level.

Congratulations to CS Major, Joey Velez-Ginorio

Congratulations to our own CS major, Joey Velez-Ginorio, was recently awarded the Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher Award (DURA) for the month of August 2016.

Boqing Gong Receives UCF’s First NSF CRII Grant

Dr. Boqing Gong, received a CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) grant from NSF. This is the first CRII grant awarded at UCF.

HACK@UCF Spokesperson Interviewed by Fox 35 News

Gaelan Adams, Hack@UCF media spokesperson, was interviewed by Dana Jay, Fox 35 News, on Airline Boarding Pass privacy risks on Monday’s 10 pm News. The…

UCF CCDC Team Qualifies For Southeast Regional Competition

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team participated in the qualification round of the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition on Saturday, February 6th.

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth And Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Joseph LaViola for earning an honorable mention award (top 4% of papers) at the 2016 ACM CHI conference, for their…

Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee

Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee for receiving $12,000 from the UCF/I-4

Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni

Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni for receiving a grant for $37,882 from MosaixSoft, Inc. for a project titled “Investigating the Configuration and Visualization of a…

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on winning a best paper award at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016).

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes

New Scientist, a UK-based weekly English-language international science magazine, did a piece that featured TeachLivE and our own Professor Charles Hughes. You can view the…

Gaelan Adams Interviewed by Channel 6 News

Gaelan Adams, Hack@UCF media spokesperson, was interviewed by Louis Bolden, Channel 6 News, on Smart TV privacy risks on Monday’s 11pm News. The interview can…

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola II

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola II for receiving $40,000 in new funding from Coda Enterprises, LLC for a project titled “Exploring the Benefits of 3D…

Congratulations to The Collegiate Cyber Defense Club @ UCF (HACK@UCF)

Congratulations to the Collegiate Cyber Defense Club @ UCF (Hack@UCF) and their advisor, Dr. Thomas Nedorost, for winning the top award for collegiate cybersecurity teams…

Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee

Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee for receiving $36,000 from Athena Technologies for a project titled: “Modeling and Simulation of Heterogeneous Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks”.

FOX 35 Interview With Dr. Ken Stanley

Dr. Ken Stanley did a Fox 35 studio interview about artificial intelligence. The story was done in light of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement to…

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh on receiving $14,268 from the Florida High Tech Corridor matching grants program for a project titled: “Rapid Automated 3D Terrain…

UCF CCDC Wins Panoply Hackathon Competition

UCF’s Cyber Defense Team scores another victory to wrap up the 2015 calendar year. Four members of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Club @ UCF (aka…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha and Narsingh Deo for receiving at total of $5,208.00 from NVIDIA (and $9,098.00 in matching funds from CS) for a…

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley for receiving $10,000.00 plus $22,000.00 from Soar Technology, Inc. for a project titled “Soar Tech HyperNEAT Collaboration (DoD STTR Phase…

Congratulations to Dr. Gary T. Leavens

Congratulations to Dr. Gary T. Leavens for receiving $320,000.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh for receiving $6,561.00 from UCF/I-4 for a project titled “FHTC: Rapid Automated 3D Terrain Modeling from Airborne Data”.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola for receiving of $75,000.00 from UCF/I-4 for a project titled “FHTC: Physics Based Multi-Touch Movement Interface Creation for 3D Modeling…

Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni

Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni for receiving $150,311.20 in new funding from the NSF for a project titled “CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Social Learning in…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik

Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik on receiving $101,912 from the NSF for a project titled “CGV: Medium: Collaborative Research: A Unified Approach to Material Appearance…

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha And Narsingh Deo

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha and Narsingh Deo for a grant of $2,500 from Georgia State University for a project titled “Adoption of Parallel Programming…

Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu

Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu for receiving $416,456 from the NSF for a project titled “ABI Innovation: Computational Analysis of microRNA Binding”.

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes for receiving two awards.

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team for their strong performance at the ACM Southeast Regional Programming Contest that was held on Saturday, November 14th.

National Cyber Analyst Challenge

Members of the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team met with Congressman John Mica at the US Capitol last Thursday morning.

CSI Cyberseed Competition

Congratulations to members of the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Club for outstanding participation in the CSI CyberSEED Competition. Of the 32 schools that participated, UCF’s…

Dr. Mubarak Shah and CRCV Researchers Perform Automated Crowd Counting

An article in UCF Today (http://today.ucf.edu/ucf-researchers-perform-worlds-first-automated-mass-crowd-count/) describes how researchers from the UCF Center from Research in Computer Vision

Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua

Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua on receiving $130,000 in new funding from NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) for a project titled “Tabletop: A Multimedia Communication…

UCF Team Competes in National Cyber Analyst Challenge November 6

A team of 5 UCF students will compete in the final phase of the “National Cyber Analyst Challenge” on November 6th at the Lockheed Global…

Jonathan Singer, IT Alumnus, Named Emerging Tech. Leader of The Year by Tampa Bay Tech. Forum

Jonathan Singer, who is a Security Engineer at GuidePoint Security and an alumnus of our IT degree program, was named an “Emerging Technology Leader of…

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola who, with Steve Fiore (IST/Philosophy) received $260K from the Office of Naval Research for a project titled: “Interactive Visualization In…

Dr. Kenneth Stanley Speaks About His New Book

Dr. Kenneth Stanley gave a talk on his new book, Why Greatness Cannot be Planned: The Myth of the Objective, at the TTI/Vanguard conference in…

Congratulations to Drs. Pawel Wocjan And Dan Marinescu

Congratulations to Drs. Pawel Wocjan and Dan Marinescu (with Eduardo Mucciolo from Physics) on receiving $330,200.00 from the NSF for a project titled: “AF: Small:…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $1,299,551 from the department of Justice for a project titled, “Studying the Impact of Video Analytics for Pre,…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha for receiving $54,333 in new funding from CyberRisk Partners, LLC for a project titled “The Design and Validation of Computational…

Gita Sukthankar Appointed to Darpa Study Group

Associate Professor Gita Sukthankar has been appointed to the Information Science and Technology study group for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez on receiving $314,011 in new funding from the NSF for a project titled: “SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: Diagnostic Driving: Real…

The Washington Post Mentions UCF CCDC Team

The Washington Post has published an article about the growing need for cybersecurity experts, and mentioned the UCF CCDC Team’s trip to Washington DC for…

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez on receiving $231,974 from the NSF in new funding from the NSF for a project titled: “IRES: Avatar based Adaptive…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah and Dr. Niels Da Vitoria Lobo

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah and Dr. Niels da Vitoria Lobo on receiving $600,000 from the NSF for a project titled: “RET Site: Research Experiences…

UCF CCDC Team Honored in Washington DC

The UCF CCDC team was in Washington DC last week, receiving honors for winning the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for the second year in…

Congratulations to Dr. Ulas Bagci

Congratulations to Dr. Ulas Bagci whose software and algorithms are described in a UCF Today story, and on his publication in Nature Communications about the…

Dr. Kenneth Stanley’s Book Featured on FiveThirtyEight.com

A story about Dr. Kenneth Stanley’s new book, Why Greatness Cannot be Planned: The Myth of the Objective, with references to a lot of work…

IT Major Interviewed For WFTV Special Report

Nathan Dennis, a sophomore IT major and member of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Club was interviewed for a WFTV 9 special report on public WiFi…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha on receiving a $16,000 REU supplement from the National Science foundation for a grant titled “XPS: EXPL: FP: Collaborative Research:…

Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni And Dr. Randall Shumaker

Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni (and Dr. Randall Shumaker) on receiving $50,176 from General Dynamics for a project titled “FY2015: H8-4 Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik

Congratulations to Sumanta Pattanaik for receiving $13,000.00 from Leidos for a project titled “Web-based Interactive Volume Rendering”.

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha for receiving $16,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “SHF: Small: Exascale Formal Verification Algorithms for Parameterized…

In Memory of Dr. Amar Mukherjee

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Dr. Amar Mukherjee, Emeritus Professor in Computer Science, on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. A…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha on receiving $50,067 from the Royal Bank of Canada for a project titled: “RF: Design and Validation of Cyber-security Applications…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah on receiving $20,000.00 from the Florida Center for Cybersecurity for a project titled “Identity Assurance using Biometrics for Cybersecurity”.

Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team

The UCF Programming Team was one of more than 12,000 teams in 100+ countries that competed in regional contests.

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha for receiving $25,000.00 from UT-Battelle, LLC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for a project titled “Algorithmic Validation of Clustering, Classification, and…

Congratulations to Dr. Cliff Zou

Congratulations to Dr. Cliff Zou for receiving $16,666.50 from The Florida Center for Cybersecurity for a project titled “Smart Grid Security Protection through Cross-Layer Approaches”.

Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee

Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee for receiving $25,000 from the Florida Center for Cybersecurity for a project titled: “Vulnerability and Survivability of Cyberspace: Basic Science…

UCF CCDC Team Claims Second National Title

Congratultions to the UCF CCDC Team for winning the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for the second year in a row! This is the team’s…

2014/2015 Computer Science Ph.D. Student of The Year Award Program

Congratulations to Afshin Dehghan, who received the 2014/2015 Computer Science Ph.D. Student of the Year Award. In addition, congratulations to Rahmatollah Beheshti and Solmaz Gurkan,…

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Heinrich

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Heinrich for winning a UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award. Dr. Heinrich has been instrumental in developing the CS senior design class.

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh, whose promotion to (full) professor was approved by the provost and will take place officially on August 8, 2015!

Microsoft’s Build The Shield Cybersecurity Competition

Congratulations to four teams of UCF EECS students for their strong performance at Microsoft’s Build the Sheild cybersecurity competition in Redmond, WA. UCF’s teams finished…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah (And The CRCV)

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah (and the CRCV) for receiving several new grants.

Congratulations to Drs. Niels Da Vitoria Lobo And Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Drs. Niels da Vitoria Lobo and Mubarak Shah on receiving $402,880 from the NSF for their REU Site in Computer Vision. The grant…

CCDC Team Wins 2015 SECCDC

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team took 1st Place in the 2015 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held at Kennesaw State University on April…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah and Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Congratulations to Mubarak Shah and Hassan Foroosh for each winning a UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA) for the 2014-15 academic year. These awards are in…

Congratulations to Dr. Fernando Gomez

Congratulations to Dr. Fernando Gomez, who was recognized at UCF Founder’s Day for his years of service at UCF, upon his retirement.

Congratulations to Drs. Gonzalez, Hu, And Sukthankar

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez for receiving a 2015 Pegasus award. In order to receive the Pegasus award, faculty must have achieved excellence in teaching,…

2015 Build-The-Shield Cyber Security Competition

Four teams of UCF cyber students qualified and have been invited to compete in the 2015 Build-The-Shield cyber security competition at Microsoft HQ in Redmond,…

Congratulations to CS PHD Student Alvaro Velasquez And Advisor Dr. Sumit Jha

CS PhD student Alvaro Velasquez has been awarded the 2015 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations to Alvaro and his doctoral advisor Dr.…

Congratulations to The UCF CCDC Team

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team competed in the virtual qualification round of the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition on Saturday, March 7th.

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta And Dr. LaViola

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta and Dr. LaViola for winning the Michael A. J. Sweeney Award for the best HCI student paper at the upcoming Graphics…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha on receiving $7500 from a UCF In-House Research Grant for a project titled “Robust Design of Stochastic Nanoscale Computing Systems…

Congratulations to PHD Student Alvaro Velasquez

Congratulations to PhD Student Alvaro Velasquez, whose undergraduate Honors thesis has been selected as the first place winner for the Outstanding Thesis Award at the…

Article in Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences by Dr. Shaojie Zhang and Ardalan Naseri

CS PhD student Ardalan Naseri and Associate professor Shaojie Zhang are co-authors of an article that just appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy…

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley for receiving an additional $10,000 in new funding (for a total of $32K) from Soar Technology, Inc. for a project…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha who has received $99,994 in new funding from UT-Battelle, LLC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a project titled “Algorithmic Validation of…

2014 Collegiate Cybersecurity Championship Cup

UCF was awarded the 2014 Collegiate Cybersecurity Championship Cup at the 48th annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences on January 5, 2015.

UCF Top Stories of 2014

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team’s success at the 2014 CCDC National Competition was one of UCF’s top stories for 2014. More information is…

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola on receiving $150,000 in new funding from the US Army Contracting Command for a project titled “Augmented Reality- Based Intelligent…

Congratulations to Dr. Gita Sukthankar

Congratulations to Dr. Gita Sukthankar on receiving $20,000 in new funding from the US National Science Foundation for a project titled “Doctoral Mentoring Consortium at…

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut

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…

Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team for their performance in the 2014 ACM Southeast USA Regional Programming Contest.

Cybertech Expo by Raytheon

Raytheon Company is coming to the UCF campus! Join Raytheon engineers as they share some current research efforts and pet projects.

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha And Dr. Narsingh Deo

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…

Jonathan Singer Featured in WKMG Interview

Jonathan Singer, who graduated with an IT degree in Fall 2013, was featured in a WKMG news report about Wi-Fi privacy issues.

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley

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

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah on receiving of $225,000.00 in new funding from SRI International on a grant totalling $500,000) for a project titled “Sarnoff:…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha for receiving $10,000.00 from US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for a project titled “Satisfiability Solving using Nanocomputing”.

KPARK Mobile Phone App

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.

CCDC Team Referenced in Forbes Article

The UCF CCDC Team’s win at this year’s National Competition was referenced in a recent Forbes article. The full article can be read here.

Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua

Congratulations to Kien Hua for receiving $161,661 from NASA Shared Services Center for a project titled: “Fusing Human and Machine Intelligence for a Modern Spaceport…

Dr. Mubarak Shah’s Computer Vision Research Presentations at Leading Brazilian Universities

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha and Faraz Hussain

Congratulations to CS PhD student Faraz Hussain and Dr. Sumit Jha, who have received the Best Paper award at the 4th IEEE International Conference

Invited Keynote Talk by Dr. Hughes

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni

Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni, whose paper “Autobiography-based prediction in a situated AGI agent” received the Kurtzweil Best AGI Idea Prize 2014 at the Artificial…

Student Featured on CNN

UCF undergraduate Grant Hernandez is featured in an interview that may air on CNN talking about the security of the Nest thermostat, which can be…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha on receiving $215,035 in funding from the NSF for a project titled: XPS: EXPL: FP: Collaborative Research: Formal Methods Based…

Congratulations to PHD Student Lisa Soros And Professor Kenneth Stanley

Congratulations to PhD student Lisa Soros and professor Kenneth Stanley, who won the Best Poster Award for their poster “Identifying Necessary Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution…

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley And Former CS PHD Alumnus Dr. Brian Woolley

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley and former CS PhD alumnus Dr. Brian Woolley. On July 17th their paper,

Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee

Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee for receiving $53,920.00 from The Research Foundation of the State University of New York (SUNY) for a project titled “Demo:…

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh on receiving $19,685 in new funding, for a total of $68,308, from Jackson Technologies LLC, for a project titled: “Airborne…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha for receiving $487,627 in new funding from the NSF for a project titled “SHF: Small: Exascale Formal Verification for Parameterized…

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch, Dr. Charles Hughes, and Dr. Arjun Nagendran

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)…

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu

Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu for receiving $416,456 in new funding from the NSF for a project titled “ABI Innovation: Computational Analysis of microRNA…

Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team

After competing in the World Finals, the UCF Programming Team finished 3rd in North America (USA and Canada) and 21st worldwide, beating teams from schools…

UCF Programming Team Competing in World Finals

The UCF Programming Team will compete Wednesday against 121 teams in the World Finals. UCF advanced to the World Finals after placing first in the…

Who’s Your Daddy? UCF Students Program Computer to Find Out

Students in the Center for Research in Computer Vision have developed a facial recognition tool that promises to be useful in rapidly matching pictures of…

Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni

Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni along with Randall Shumaker and Stephen Fiore, who received $178,200.00 from General Dynamics for a project titled “RCTA FY2014 Task…

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch And Dr. Charles Hughes

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch and Charles Hughes (along with Arjun Nagendran) on receiving $30,0000 from the Office of Naval research for a project titled…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha on receiving $14,306 in new funding from NVIDIA Corp. for a project titled “The UCF Computer Science CUDA Teaching Laboratory…

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth And Dr. Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Dr. Joseph LaViola for having their paper, “Exploring the Usefulness of Finger-Based 3D Gesture Menu Selection”, receive a SIGCHI 2014…

Congratulations to The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team for winning the Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving new funding in the amount of $275,000.00 from SRI International for a project titled “Sarnoff: Content Extraction for…

Congratulations to Both Dr. Charles Hughes And Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu

Congratulations to both Dr. Charles Hughes and Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu for receiving Research Incentive Awards from UCF for their outstanding research efforts.

UCF Founders Day 2014

Congratulations to the following faculty who received recognition at UCF’s 2014 Founders Day Convocation:

TeachLive Revolutionizes Teacher Training

Congratulations to TeachLivE for its recognition from the Orlando Sentinel and US News and World Report’s issue on Best Graduate Schools.

Congratulations to The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team has won 1st Place for the second consecutive year in the 2014 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held…

Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team for finishing 2nd (out of 21 universities) in the North American Invitational Programming Contest (NAIPC).

Congratulations to Haroon Idrees, Nolan Warner, and Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Haroon Idrees, Nolan Warner, and Mubarak Shah for having their paper “Tracking in dense crowds using prominence and neighborhood motion concurrence” (Image and…

Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua

Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua for receiving $40,000.00 in new funding from NASA Kennedy Space Center for a project titled “A Live Video Computing Framework…

Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu

Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu for receiving $134,577 in additional funding on her NSF project titled: “CAREER: A Computational Framework to Study Epigenetic Regulation”.

Congratulations to The Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team

The CCDC Team competed in the virtual qualification round of the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition this past Saturday.

Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev

Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev for receiving an in-house award of $7500 for a project titled “MX-Boost: An Infrastructure for Exascale Performance Analysis and Optimization”.

Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev

Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev for receiving a UCF In-House Award of $7,500 for his project titled “MX-Boost: An Infrastructure for Exascale Performance Analysis and…

Congratulations to The CCDC Team

Congratulations to the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team for being featured on FOX News this past Thursday, February 20th, 2014.

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $41,500 from the Google Research Awards program for a project titled “Human Action Recognition in Untrimmed Realistic Videos”.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola, Whose Research Cluster Was Approved

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola and his collaborators: the college has approved a new Research Cluster of Excellence called “Interactive Systems and User Experience”.

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes for receiving the 2014 College Excellence in Research Award. Dr. Hughes will receive this award at the UCF Founder’s Day…

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh for receiving the College Distinguished Researcher Award at the Associate Professor level. Dr. Foroosh was recognized for his many achievements,…

Robots: From The Big Screen to The Real World

From the Jetsons’ futurist maid, Rosey, to the Terminator and the Transformers, movies about the role smart robots can play in our lives have captured…

TeachLive System Featured Twice This Week

The TeachLivE system developed by Dr. Charles Hughes and his collaborators was featured twice this week in two local reports:

The Calculus of Success: UCF Programming Team

UCF’s most winning team lands another regional win. Coach Ali Orooji, CECS associate professor, now seeks a world title for the scholarship-funded team.

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes and his collaborators! Their TeachLivE system received the National Simulation & Training Association Governor’s Award last night (December 3). That…

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha And Narsingh Deo

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha and Narsingh Deo for receiving $2,500.00 from Georgia State University for a project titled “Department-wide Multi-course Multi-semester Multi-instructor Early Adoption…

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh for receiving $30,000.00 from UCF/I-4 for a project titled “FHTC: Rapid Automated 3D Terrain Modeling from Airborne Data”.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola for receiving $75,000.00 from JHT, Inc. for a project titled “Physics Based Multi-Touch Movement Interface Creation for 3D Modeling and…

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes

Congratulations for two awards to Dr. Charles Hughes: First, at the college Industrial Advisory Board dinner Friday, November 15, Dr. Hughes won the “CECS Advisory…

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch And Dr. Charles Hughes

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch (of the IST) and Dr. Charles Hughes for receiving $365,000.00 from the Office of Naval Research for a project titled…

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola for receiving $19,600.00 from Jardon & Howard Technologies (JHT), Inc for a project titled “Feasibility for the development of a…

Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang

Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang for receiving $164,019.00 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project titled “Identification, Discovery, and Public Archiving of…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $250,000.00 from Sarnoff Corporation for a project titled “Sarnoff: Content Extraction for IARPA ALADDIN Program”.

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah who was inducted again into the UCF Millionaires Club. This recognizes that he brought to UCF over a million dollars…

Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team

The UCF Programming Team’s 31-year-old record of “top three in the southeast” continued for another year, thanks to our excellent team members.

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha for receiving funding in the amount of $5,000.00 from UT-Battelle, LLC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for a project titled “Formal…

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez for receiving $29,555.00 in new funding (for a total of $94,344.00) from the US Department of Education for a project…

Congratulations

On October 24, at the Gala banquet during the ACM Multimedia Conference, it was announced that Computer Science Ph.D. student Behnaz Nojavanasghari, along with coauthors…

Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua

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,…

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

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…

World’s Top 50: UCF Programming Team

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…

Best Research Poster Award

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…

Alan Wright Selected For Honorable Mention in CRA’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 2013

Alan Wright was seleced for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 2013.

Joel Lehman And Kenneth O. Stanley Got Top Rated Science News Item!

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…

Congratulations to Students Zhongkai Han, Syed Zain Masood, Jason Hochreiter, and Spencer Fonte

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…

Best Poster Award

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…

Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni’s Reflection

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…

Scholarship of Teaching From a Computer Scientists Prospective.

Having won a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Award this year ,I felt it was important to reflect on SoTL as a computer scientist…

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut And Dr. Ladaslau Boloni

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut and Dr. Ladaslau Bölöni for winning a best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013)

Young Entrepreneur & Scholar (YES) Program

The YES program provides scholarships and paid internship opportunities to eligible junior engineering or computer science majors.

Congratulations to Damian Dechev, Steven Feldman, and Pierre Laborde

Congratulations to students of Damian Dechev Steven Feldman and Pierre LaBorde who came back from their conference trip last week with the Best Paper Award…

Computer Science Senior Design

The Department of EECS Computer Science Division is pleased to announce the launch of its new Senior Design website. Visit the website at http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/cssd/.

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley

Congratulations to Dr. Ken Stanley, whose recent article, “Evolvability Is Inevitable: Increasing Evolvability without the Pressure to Adapt,” was published at Science Daily. The article…

Congratulations to Drs. Cliff Zou And Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to both Dr. Cliff Zou and Joe LaViola on winning TIP awards this year.

Dr. Kien Hua Becomes Pegasus Professor

Dr. Kien A. Hua was officially made a Pegasus professor at the Founder’s day convocation on April 3, 2013. He joins a group of distinguished…

Professor Gita Sukthankar Wins Research Incentive Award

In recognition of her outstanding research efforts, Dr. Gita Sukthankar won a UCF Research Incentive Award for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Congratulations to UCF’s Collegiate Cyber Defense Club

The Collegiate Cyber Defense Club’s competition team won 1st Place and also Best-in-Services at the 2013 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition ( seccdc.org ) held…

CRA-W/CDC Distinguished Lecture Series

The CRA-W/CDC Distinguished Lecture Series jointly presented by Florida Institute of Technology, Rollins College, and UCF, will be on March 26, 2013 starting at 4:30pm…

Dr. Tappen’s Work Featured on UCF Today

Work of our own Dr. Marshall Tappen on computer vision algorithms to “accurately track the nesting routes of endangered sea turtles,” is described in an…

The New Scientist

The New Scientist has an article about a storytelling program, written by CS professor Ladislau Bölöni, http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628945.700-storytelling-software-learns-how-to-tell-a-good-tale.html

On Campus: Experience a Virtual Reality Car

On September 20th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ford will demonstrate a state-of-the-art vehicle simlator that uses virtual reality. Click here for more information.

Dr. Joseph LaViola Interviewed at ACM Siggraph

UCF’s own Dr. Joseph LaViola is interviewed about the future of user interfaces that use guestures, based on his participation in a panel at ACM…

Camp Connect

Camp Connect, which was held at UCF from August 16th – August 23rd, introduced high school students to the various Engineering programs. Click here for…

Congratulations to Sebastian Risi And Kenneth O. Stanley

“A Unified Approach to Evolving Plasticity and Neural Geometry,” a paper by Sebastian Risi and Kenneth O. Stanley, won the Best Student Paper Award at…

Congratulations to UCF’s Student Chapter of The ACM

UCF’s student chapter of the ACM won the ACM’s Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding Community Service 2011-2012.

TeachLive Mixed-Reality Teaching Environment

The TLE TeachLivE mixed-reality teaching environment, which supports teacher practice, won an honorable mention in the 2012 National Consortium for Continuous Improvement in Higher Education’s…

28th Annual Science Olympiad National Tournament

The University of Central Florida will host more than 7,000 students, educators and parents from all 50 states during the 28th Annual Science Olympiad National…

CS Division Faculty Promotions

Congratulations to Drs. Joseph LaViola and Marshall Tappen. Their tenure and promotion to associate professor cases were approved by the president and provost and will…

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team

The UCF Programming Team (including Matt Fontaine and Antony Stabile) finished fifth in the University of Chicago Invitational, completing 7 of the 10 problems posed…

Congratulations to Peter Tonner

Peter Tonner, an undergraduate research student, won second place in the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence (SURE) of 2012 under the Engineering and Computer Science…

Dr. Shaojie Zhang’s Research

The research of Dr. Shaojie Zhang, an assistant professor in the Computer Science division of EECS, was described in Genome Technology magazine.

Congratulations to Emily Sassano

Congratulations to Emily Sassano on being awarded an NSF fellowship. Emily is one of our recently admitted PhD students working with Dr. Sumit Jha.

Congratulations to Dr. Gita Sukthankar

Congratulations to Dr. Gita Sukthankar, who is the recipient of the 2012 Award for Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students in the Engineering, Physical Sciences,…

Congratulations to Peter Tonner

Congratulation to Dr. Shaojie Zhang’s student, Peter Tonner, who won the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) Poster Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni

Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni for receiving $7804 in new funding from General Dynamics for a grant titled: “RCTA -FY 2011 H10 Dynamics of Operating…

Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang

UCF CS Ph.D. student Cuncong Zhong, a biologist from Indiana University, Justen Andrews, and UCF Assistant Professor Shaojie Zhang received the best paper award for…

Dr. Shaojie Zhang Featured in UCF Today

UCFTODAY published an article about Dr. Shaojie Zhang’s work on using a complex computer program to analizy RNA motifs. You can read the article here.

Congratulations to Jonathan Cazalas

Congratulations to Jonathan Cazalas who is receiving the College’s 2012 Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Award Nomination. This nomination is being forwarded to the College…

Congratulations to Arup Guha

Congratulations to CS division lecturer Arup Guha, who is receiving the 2012 College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Arup is also in the running for…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving the 2012 College Excellence in Research Award. Dr. Shah’s name will also be forwarded to the University Committee…

Nucleic Acids Research Cover Story

The cover story of the next issue of Nucleic Acids Research is a story by two UCF EECS CS division authors: Cuncong Zhong and Shaojie…

Computer Science Student Wins Second Place For Essay

Kristjan Arumae, a student in Computer Science studying for his bachelor’s degree, won second place for his essay in BrainTrack’s Computer Science Scholarship.

New Automated Way to Spot Threats in Crowds Pioneered at UCF

The work of Dr. Mubarak Shah and several collaborators and students on finding threats in crowds from video is featured in an article in UCF…