2024 News Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… News 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… Faculty 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… Awards 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… News 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.… Faculty 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… Awards 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… News 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… 2023 News News 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… Awards 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.… Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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… News 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… Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… Cyber Defense 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;… News 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,… News 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… Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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,… Cyber Defense 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… Faculty Five New Faculty Join UCF Department of Computer Science The UCF Department of Computer Science welcomes five new faculty for Fall 2023: Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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. Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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. Faculty 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… News 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… Cyber Defense 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… 2022 News Cyber Defense 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. Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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… Awards 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… Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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. Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… Faculty 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… News 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. Cyber Defense 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 Defense 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! Cyber Defense 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 Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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 Defense 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… Awards Congratulations to Dr. Thankachan UCF Computer Scientist Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Award and Over $1 Million for String Algorithms Research Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… Faculty 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… 2021 News Faculty 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. Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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. Awards 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… News Jump Start Your Ph.D. Journey Apply by November 15, 2021 to get your application fee waived for Fall 2022 admission! Cyber Defense 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,… Cyber Defense 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… Awards 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. News 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… Cyber Defense 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. Cyber Defense 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. Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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… News 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… Cyber Defense 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,… Cyber Defense 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 Defense 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. Cyber Defense 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,… Cyber Defense 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… Awards 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. News 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. Cyber Defense 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… Awards 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… Awards 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. Awards ICPR Best Paper Award Goes to UCF Authors The paper won the Best Scientific Paper award at the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. Faculty 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… 2020 News Awards 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… Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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. Awards 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… Faculty 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. Faculty 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… Faculty 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… Awards 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/). Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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! Faculty 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. Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… Faculty 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… 2019 News Faculty 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. Awards 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. News 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: Awards 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. Cyber Defense 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… Awards 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… Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… Faculty 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… Awards 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… Cyber Defense 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,… Cyber Defense 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. Awards 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. Awards 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 Students 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… Cyber Defense 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… 2018 News Cyber Defense 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,… Cyber Defense 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… Awards 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. News 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. Awards 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. Awards 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… Awards Eastern Region Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition UCF won the Eastern Region Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition on Sunday, October 7th hosted by Penn State University. Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… Cyber Defense Congratulations to 4 CS and IT Students And Dr. Thomas Nedorost Congratulations to a team of 4 CS and IT students Research 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… Awards 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… Programming Team 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. Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… Research 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 Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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,… Awards 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. Faculty 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. 2017 News Faculty Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, who is a finalist for the 2018 William T. Grant Scholars Program. Awards 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… PhD Students 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… Awards 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… News 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… Awards 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… Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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. Faculty 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… Faculty 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… Faculty 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… Programming Team 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… Awards 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… Awards 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.… Faculty 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. Awards Teaching Incentive Awards Congratulations to Drs. Shaojie Zhang, Damla Turgut, Mainak Chatterjee, and Mostafa Bassiouni for receiving Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) awards. Awards Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola for winning a Research Incentive Award (RIA). News 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). Awards 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… Awards 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… Awards 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… Awards 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… Awards 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… Awards 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,… Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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… News 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… Awards 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… Awards 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… Research 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 . 2016 News Awards Congratulations to Kyle Martin And Dr. Joseph LaViola Congratulations to Kyle Martin and Dr. Joseph LaViola who won a best paper award. Faculty Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on receiving $10,360 in new funding. Faculty 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”. Cyber Defense 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. PhD Students Congratulations to Arup Kumar Ghosh The IEEE Orlando Section (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/orlando/) presents Graduate Scholarship Awards each calendar year. Faculty 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… Awards 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… Faculty Congratulations to Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni Congratulations to Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni, who is a participant in a $5M grant from NSF, Cyber Defense 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. News 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. Programming Team Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team Congratulations to the UCF Programming team for their strong finish in the World Finals. Cyber Defense 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. Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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. Awards 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… Awards Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski whose Quality Enhancement Program proposal. Research 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… News 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. Faculty 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. Cyber Defense 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… PhD Students 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… Awards 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… Awards Congratulations to Arup Guha Congratulations to Arup Guha for winning the college’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Awards Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh for winning the college’s Excellence in Research Award at the full professor level. News 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. News 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. Cyber Defense 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… Cyber Defense 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. Awards 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… Faculty Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee for receiving $12,000 from the UCF/I-4 Research 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… Awards 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). News 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… News 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… Faculty 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… Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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”. News 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… Research 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… 2015 News Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… Research 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… Research 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 Faculty 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”. Faculty 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… Research 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… Research 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… Research 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… Research 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”. Awards Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes for receiving two awards. Programming Team 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. Cyber Defense 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. Cyber Defense 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… CRCV 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 Faculty 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… Cyber Defense 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… News 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… Research 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… Faculty 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… Faculty 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:… CRCV 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,… Research 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… Research 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). Research 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… Cyber Defense 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… Research 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… Research 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… Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… News 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… Cyber Defense 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… Research 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:… Faculty 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… Research 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”. Faculty 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… Faculty 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… Research 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… Research 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”. Programming Team 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. Research 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… Research 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”. Research 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… Cyber Defense 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… PhD Students 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,… Awards 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. Faculty 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! Awards 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… CRCV Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah (And The CRCV) Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah (and the CRCV) for receiving several new grants. Faculty 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… Cyber Defense 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… Faculty 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… Faculty 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. Awards 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,… News 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,… Awards 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.… Cyber Defense 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. Awards 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… Research 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… PhD Students 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… News 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… Research 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… Research 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… Cyber Defense 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. Cyber Defense 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… 2014 News Research 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… Research 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… Faculty 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… Programming Team Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team for their performance in the 2014 ACM Southeast USA Regional Programming Contest. News 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. Faculty 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… News 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. Faculty 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”. Research 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:… Research 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”. Faculty 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. Cyber Defense 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. Research 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… Faculty 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… Faculty 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… Awards 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 Faculty 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… Awards 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… News 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… Research 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… Awards 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… Awards 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, Research 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:… Research 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… Research 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… Faculty 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)… Faculty 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… Faculty 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… Research 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… Programming Team 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… Programming Team 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… CRCV 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… Faculty 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… Faculty 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… Research 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… Awards 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… Cyber Defense 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. CRCV 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… Awards 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. Awards UCF Founders Day 2014 Congratulations to the following faculty who received recognition at UCF’s 2014 Founders Day Convocation: News 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. Cyber Defense 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… Programming Team 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). PhD Students 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… Research 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… Research 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”. Cyber Defense 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. Awards 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”. Awards 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… Cyber Defense 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. Research 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”. Research 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”. Awards 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… Research 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,… News 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… Research 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: 2013 News Programming Team 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. Awards 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… Faculty 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… Research 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”. Research 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… Awards 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… Faculty 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… Faculty 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… Research 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… Research 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”. Faculty 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… Programming Team 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. Research 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… Faculty 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… PhD Students 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… Faculty 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,… Faculty 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… Research 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… Programming Team 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… Awards 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… Awards 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. News 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… PhD Students 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… Awards 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… Faculty 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… Awards 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… Awards 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) News Young Entrepreneur & Scholar (YES) Program The YES program provides scholarships and paid internship opportunities to eligible junior engineering or computer science majors. Awards 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… News 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/. News 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… Awards Congratulations to Drs. Cliff Zou And Joseph LaViola Congratulations to both Dr. Cliff Zou and Joe LaViola on winning TIP awards this year. Faculty 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… Awards 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. Cyber Defense 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… News 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… 2012 News Research 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… News 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 News 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. News 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… News 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… Awards 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… News 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. Awards 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… News 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… Faculty 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… Programming Team Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team The UCF Programming Team (including Matt Fontaine, Travis Meade and Antony Stabile) finished fifth in the University of Chicago Invitational, completing 7 of the 10… News 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… Research 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. PhD Students 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. Awards 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,… PhD Students 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. Research 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… Awards 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… News 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. Awards 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… Awards 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… Awards 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… News 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… News 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. Research 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…