News

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch and Charles Hughes (along with Arjun Nagendran) on receiving $30,0000 from the Office of Naval research for a project titled “Human-Surrogate Interaction”.

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha on receiving $14,306 in new funding from NVIDIA Corp. for a project titled “The UCF Computer Science CUDA Teaching Laboratory for Core Courses”.

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Dr. Joseph LaViola for having their paper, “Exploring the Usefulness of Finger-Based 3D Gesture Menu Selection”, receive a SIGCHI 2014 Best of CHI Honorable Mention Award (top 5% of all submission to CHI 2014). This was out of over 2000 submissions.

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team for winning the Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.

Congratulations to both Dr. Charles Hughes and Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu for receiving Research Incentive Awards from UCF for their outstanding research efforts.

Congratulations to the following faculty who received recognition at UCF’s 2014 Founders Day Convocation:

Congratulations to TeachLivE for its recognition from the Orlando Sentinel and US News and World Report’s issue on Best Graduate Schools.

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team has won 1st Place for the second consecutive year in the 2014 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held at Kennesaw State University on March 31 – April 2.

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team for finishing 2nd (out of 21 universities) in the North American Invitational Programming Contest (NAIPC).

Congratulations to Haroon Idrees, Nolan Warner, and Mubarak Shah for having their paper “Tracking in dense crowds using prominence and neighborhood motion concurrence” (Image and Vision Computing, volume 32 (2014), pp. 14-26) featured as a selected paper this week on the main SIGGRAPH website’s front page (http://www.siggraph.org/). This website attracts about 50,000 visitors per month.