2015 News

A story about Dr. Kenneth Stanley’s new book, Why Greatness Cannot be Planned: The Myth of the Objective, with references to a lot of work from Dr. Stanley’s lab appeared on the front page of http://fivethirtyeight.com/ on July 23, 2015, which is a popular news site.

Nathan Dennis, a sophomore IT major and member of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Club was interviewed for a WFTV 9 special report on public WiFi security issues.

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha on receiving a $16,000 REU supplement from the National Science foundation for a grant titled “XPS: EXPL: FP: Collaborative Research: Formal methods based algorithmic synthesis of more-than-Moore nano-crossbars for extreme-scale computing.”

Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni (and Dr. Randall Shumaker) on receiving $50,176 from General Dynamics for a project titled “FY2015: H8-4 Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance (RCTA)”.

Congratulations to Sumanta Pattanaik for receiving $13,000.00 from Leidos for a project titled “Web-based Interactive Volume Rendering”.

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha for receiving $16,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “SHF: Small: Exascale Formal Verification Algorithms for Parameterized Probabilistic Models of Complex Computational Systems”.

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Dr. Amar Mukherjee, Emeritus Professor in Computer Science, on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. A memorial service was held for him on Monday, June 8th attended by family, friends and a good number of EECS faculty.

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha on receiving $50,067 from the Royal Bank of Canada for a project titled: “RF: Design and Validation of Cyber-security Applications for Mobile Banking Platforms”.

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah on receiving $20,000.00 from the Florida Center for Cybersecurity for a project titled “Identity Assurance using Biometrics for Cybersecurity”.

The UCF Programming Team was one of more than 12,000 teams in 100+ countries that competed in regional contests.