News

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh for receiving $6,561.00 from UCF/I-4 for a project titled “FHTC: Rapid Automated 3D Terrain Modeling from Airborne Data”.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola for receiving of $75,000.00 from UCF/I-4 for a project titled “FHTC: Physics Based Multi-Touch Movement Interface Creation for 3D Modeling and Simulation, Phase II”.

Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni for receiving $150,311.20 in new funding from the NSF for a project titled “CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Social Learning in Mixed Human-Robot Groups for People with Disabilities” (joint with Drs. Behal, Hancock, and Maboudou)

Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik on receiving $101,912 from the NSF for a project titled “CGV: Medium: Collaborative Research: A Unified Approach to Material Appearance Modeling”.

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha and Narsingh Deo for a grant of $2,500 from Georgia State University for a project titled “Adoption of Parallel Programming on Heterogeneous Platforms in the CS Curriculum at University of Central Florida”.

Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu for receiving $416,456 from the NSF for a project titled “ABI Innovation: Computational Analysis of microRNA Binding”.

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes for receiving two awards.

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team for their strong performance at the ACM Southeast Regional Programming Contest that was held on Saturday, November 14th.

Members of the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team met with Congressman John Mica at the US Capitol last Thursday morning.

Congratulations to members of the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Club for outstanding participation in the CSI CyberSEED Competition. Of the 32 schools that participated, UCF’s team finished 1st in Capture the Flag, 1st in Social Engineering, and 2nd in Internet of Things.