Faculty

Dr. Kien Hua, professor of Computer Science, was interviewed by News 6 reporter Adrianna Iwasinski recently, and the interview is available at https://www.clickorlando.com/news/q-a-a-conversation-with-ucf-s-dr-kien-hua-on-mesh-networks.

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, who is a finalist for the 2018 William T. Grant Scholars Program.

Congratulations to Professor Kenneth Stanley for winning the following award from the International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL): 2017 ISAL Award for Outstanding Paper of the Decade 2002 – 2012

Congratulations to Yun Zhai & Mubarak Shah’s paper “Visual attention detection in video sequences using spatiotemporal cues” which was noted as a Classic paper from 2006 by Google Scholar, see https://goo.gl/qjRWky. This paper has 677 citations and is the 4th most cited paper in the Multimedia area of the Google Classic papers.

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on her UX Lab’s successful engagement with Bogen Inc. This was covered in the magazine “Sound and Video Contractor”. You can read the article at: http://www.mazdigital.com/webreader/49401?page=37.

Congratulations to both Ken Stanley and Lotzi Boloni, who have been approved for promotion to (full) professor, effective August 8, 2017.

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on receiving $10,360 in new funding.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola on receiving $100k from Lockheed Martin Corporation for a project titled: “Improving Augmented Reality Technologies for Training and Education”.

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut on receiving $27,800 from Career Soft LLC for a project titled: “Alternative Methods for Peer-to-Peer Mobile Communication in a High-Latency Environment”.

Congratulations to Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni, who is a participant in a $5M grant from NSF,