News

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team won 1st Place in the 2016 Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition held on November 6, 2016.

The IEEE Orlando Section (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/orlando/) presents Graduate Scholarship Awards each calendar year.

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. Greg Welch, who received a “Long Lasting Paper Impact” award at the ISMAR conference, along with Ramesh Raskar and Henry Fuchs for their 1998 “Spatial Augmented Reality” paper. This paper is the original work using computer driven projectors to augment physical objects.

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

The Christian Science Monitor has published an article about our award-winning Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team and their many accomplishments since the team was created.

Dean Michael Georgiopoulos was in Huntsville Alabama on June 8 to receive UCF’s official recognition as a NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense.

Congratulations to the UCF Programming team for their strong finish in the World Finals.

The University of Central Florida Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team recently was featured on Good Day Orlando. You can view the video by clicking here.

Congratulations to our Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition team from HackUCF and their coach, Dr. Thomas Nedorost, for winning the National CCDC for the third year in a row! This is an amazing accomplishment, the first time ever in the history of the competition that a team has won three times in a row!