List of 2019 News

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

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

Congratulations to Irene Tanner

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

Congratulations to the following UCF students

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Shah Wins Prestigious ACM SIGMM Award

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

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

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

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Wins NSF Career Award

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

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

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

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Wins UCF Reach For The Stars Award

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

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship Team

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

UCF Cyber Defense Team Wins SouthEast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

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

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

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

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski

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

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

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

Congratulations to The UCF CCDC Team

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