Faculty

  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 2022-23 cycle. Haiyan Hu was promoted to professor, and Yanjie Fu and Wei Zhang were promoted to associate professor with tenure. The approved faculty­ underwent a rigorous evaluation of their…

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 2023 and one paper accepted to IEEE VR 2023!

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 begin August 8, 2022. ¨Our department went through tremendous growth to become a world-class name in Computer Science research and education. It is a great honor for me to follow…

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 had four faculty members selected this year.

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 his leadership in promoting the undergraduate research experience.

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 its new cohort of 311 fellows earlier this month.

The Pegasus Professor, who specializes in simulation and modeling, is UCF’s 17th NAI fellow — the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, an associate professor with Computer Science, was named as one of 31 Women’s History Month Honorees.

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 Foundation’s Pandemic Response Challenge

An article “UCF Themed Experience program collaborates with VR pioneer Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira” appears in In Park Magazine.