Faculty

  Gregory F. Welch Professor and AdventHealth Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation Ph.D., Computer Science UNC Chapel Hill, 1996 Email Phone Phone (407) 796-2823 E-mail welch@ucf.edu Home Page https://sreal.ucf.edu Research Interests Virtual and Augmented/Mixed Reality Human motion tracking/capture systems Displays (head-worn, fixed, projector-based, etc.) Human-Computer Interaction Human surrogates (virtual and physical avatars) Interactive computer graphics…

  Fan Yao Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Engineering The George Washington University, 2018 Email Phone Office HEC-359 Phone (407) 823-0147 E-mail Fan.Yao@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~fanyao/ Research Interests Computer Architecture Hardware / System Security AI Security Energy-efficient Computing Cloud Computing Ongoing Research Projects Detection and defense techniques for microarchitecture attacks Understanding and taming hardware-based model tampering…

  Ronald F. DeMara Professor Ph.D., Computer Engineering University of Southern California, 1992 Email Phone Office HEC-310 Phone (407) 823-5916 E-mail Ronald.DeMara@ucf.edu Home Page http://cal.ucf.edu/ Research Page ARGIS Research RESEARCH INTERESTS Computer Systems Design and Architecture Emerging Computing Devices for Machine Learning Adaptive and Reconfigurable Hardware Ongoing Research Projects Probabilistic Spin Logic for Low-Energy Boolean…

  Chinwendu Enyioha Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania, 2014 Email Phone Office HEC-416 Phone (407) 823-0122 E-mail Chinwendu.Enyioha@ucf.edu Home Page https://cenyioha.eecs.ucf.edu/ Research Interests Distributed optimization, decision theory and control over networks Resource-aware computation in distributed systems Safety and security in Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) Ongoing Research Projects Resource Management with Limited…

  Rickard Ewetz Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University, 2016 Email Phone Office HEC-235 Phone (407) 823-4766 E-mail Rickard.Ewetz@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~ewetz/ Research Interests Computer-aided design (CAD) for very large scale integration (VLSI) Physical Design: Clock network synthesis and timing driven placement Optimization and design of memristor crossbars with applications within neuromorphic…

  Joseph T. Kider Assistant Professor Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania Email Phone Phone (407) 882-1343 E-mail jkider@ist.ucf.edu Home Page https://www.josephkider.com/ Background Joe focuses on the transdisciplinary digital design of smart sustainable architecture. I work on high dimensional light transport problems, such as complex illumination, material appearance, physically-based simulation, and spectral rendering, which facilitate a unique…

  Ivan Garibay Associate Professor Ph.D., Computer Science University of Central Florida, 2004 Email Phone Office ENG2-424 Phone (407) 823-2204 E-mail igaribay@ucf.edu Home Page https://www.cs.ucf.edu/~garibay/ Research Interests Big Data Data Analytics Lifelong Learning Innovation and Economic Prosperity Fintech and Cybersecurity Simulation and Agent-Based Models In addition, complex systems, computational economics, evolutionary computation, complex adaptive systems,…

  Roger Azevedo Professor Ph.D., Educational Psychology McGill University, 1998 Email E-mail Roger.Azevedo@ucf.edu Home Page https://www.ist.ucf.edu/People/Roger-Azevedo Background Dr. Azevedo is a Professor in the School of Modeling Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. He is also an affiliated faculty in the Departments of Computer Science and Internal Medicine at the University of…

  Qun Zhou Sun Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Iowa State University, 2011 Email Phone Office HEC-358 Phone (407) 823-3284 E-mail QZ.sun@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~qzhou/ Research Interests Smart Energy Infrastructure Systems Energy Data Analytics Bayesian methods and its applications in energy systems Optimization under uncertainties Ongoing Research Projects PI, “Building Intelligence with Layered Defense using…