List of 2013 News

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…