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 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 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 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 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…
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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:
