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The University of Central Florida’s most-winning competitive team has returned from St. Petersburg, Russia with an impressive ranking: as the world’s 48th best computer programming team.

Dr. Mubarak Shah and Amir Roshan Zamir received the Best Research Poster Award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency at the 2013 NARP Symposium for their poster titled: “Accurate Image Localization Based on Google Maps Street View.”

Alan Wright was seleced for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 2013.

Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley’s article “Evolvability Is Inevitable: Increasing Evolvability without the Pressure to Adapt” (See Article) was the top science news item at Science Daily ,which claims to be “one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites” with 15 million page hits per month.

CS students Zhongkai Han, Syed Zain Masood, Jason Hochreiter, and Spencer Fonte received an honorable mention for the best student paper award at the 2013 10th IEEE International Conference and workshops on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) for their paper (co-authored by Dr. Marshall Tappen)

Xi Wang and Dr. Gita Sukthankar won the “best poster award” at the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining for their paper “Link Prediction in Multi-relational Collaboration Networks”.

I have a strong passion for teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science and information technology. For undergraduate courses, I emphasize providing students with a good understanding of current techniques, improving their problem-solving capability, enhancing their basic computer skills, and preparing them to become part of the proficient IT workforce.

Having won a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Award this year ,I felt it was important to reflect on SoTL as a computer scientist in the hope of providing examples of how the very definition of SoTL should continually evolve and expand.

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut and Dr. Ladaslau Bölöni for winning a best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013)

The YES program provides scholarships and paid internship opportunities to eligible junior engineering or computer science majors.