2014 News

The UCF Programming Team will compete Wednesday against 121 teams in the World Finals. UCF advanced to the World Finals after placing first in the Southeast Regional Contest.

Students in the Center for Research in Computer Vision have developed a facial recognition tool that promises to be useful in rapidly matching pictures of children with their biological parents and in potentially identifying photos of missing children as they age.

Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni along with Randall Shumaker and Stephen Fiore, who received $178,200.00 from General Dynamics for a project titled “RCTA FY2014 Task H8: Social Dynamics Modeling and Simulation”.

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 Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving new funding in the amount of $275,000.00 from SRI International for a project titled “Sarnoff: Content Extraction for IARPA Aladdin Program”.

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: