List of 2023 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…

UCF Computer Science Professor Recognized for Service to Computing Community

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

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

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

UCF Earns 4th CyberForce National Championship

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

UCF Students Support U.S. Military with New Technology

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

UCF C3 Team Places Second at Lockdown Competition

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

New UCF Project is Harnessing Virtual Reality to Teach Quantum Computing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Five New Faculty Join UCF Department of Computer Science

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

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

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

UCF Awards Three CS Faculty with Promotions and Tenure

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

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

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

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

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

DOE CyberForce Director Amanda Theel presents National Championship trophy at UCF

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

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

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

C3 teams wins ISTS Competition at RIT

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

Papers Accepted at Top HCI Conferences

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

Fourteen Papers Accepted in CVPR 2023

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

UCF Captures 3rd Place in Global Pen Testing Competition

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