News

The winners of UCF’s Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) and Research Incentive Award (RIA) awards for this year were announced today on UCF Today.

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah who was elected to the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida “For his contributions in video surveillance, including object detection, tracking and action recognition”.

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah, who was named an AI 2020 most influential scholar for his “outstanding technical achievements with lasting contribution and impact.” This recognizes Dr. Shah as being one of the top 10 most-cited scholars in the top venues for Computer Vision.

CS undergraduate student Gary Hoppenworth has won a Scholarship from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship & Excellence in Education Foundation (see https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/2020-goldwater-scholars-by-legal-state-of-residence/).

Congratulations to the CCDC Team and Coach Tom Nedorost for winning the At Large Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Regional on Sunday, March 29th. In this year’s competition the University of Alaska-Anchorage came in 2nd, and Dakota State University finished 3rd. UCF’s Team now advances to compete in the National CCDC Championship which will be held virtually from May 22-24.

Congratulations to Dr. Charlie Hughes who has been selected to be inducted in the National Center for Simulation Hall of Fame this year!

We are pleased to welcome a VR pioneer and National Academy of Engineering member Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira to the faculty in Computer Science.

The Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster at UCF, established in 2017, is a university-wide research group that focuses on integrated solutions to both the human and technological causes of security and privacy problems.

More and more, the way we communicate is through social computing. Pam Wisniewski, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science, examines how people are managing their social interactions with others through the use of technology. Her team studies the juxtaposition of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Social Computing, and Privacy.

Professor Lotzi Bölöni joined the UCF Department of Computer Science in 2017. Since then, he has worked on a number of projects related to robotics and artificial intelligence, cognitive architectures, distributed and grid computing and wireless networking. Below he discusses his research and what his team plan to work on in the future.