April 9, 2015
The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team took 1st Place in the 2015 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held at Kennesaw State University on April 7-8. This is the third consecutive year that UCF has won 1st Place in the Southeast region.
April 6, 2015
Congratulations to Mubarak Shah and Hassan Foroosh for each winning a UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA) for the 2014-15 academic year. These awards are in recognition of outstanding research efforts.
April 3, 2015
Congratulations to Dr. Fernando Gomez, who was recognized at UCF Founder’s Day for his years of service at UCF, upon his retirement.
April 3, 2015
Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez for receiving a 2015 Pegasus award. In order to receive the Pegasus award, faculty must have achieved excellence in teaching, research, and/or creative activity, and service of national and international impact.
April 2, 2015
Four teams of UCF cyber students qualified and have been invited to compete in the 2015 Build-The-Shield cyber security competition at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, WA. The top 50 teams from across the nation will compete at the event.
March 31, 2015
CS PhD student Alvaro Velasquez has been awarded the 2015 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations to Alvaro and his doctoral advisor Dr. Sumit Kumar Jha.
March 27, 2015
The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team competed in the virtual qualification round of the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition on Saturday, March 7th.
March 21, 2015
Congratulations to Eugene Taranta and Dr. LaViola for winning the Michael A. J. Sweeney Award for the best HCI student paper at the upcoming Graphics Interface 2015 conference.
March 6, 2015
Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha on receiving $7500 from a UCF In-House Research Grant for a project titled “Robust Design of Stochastic Nanoscale Computing Systems using Massive Parallel GPGPUs”.
February 27, 2015
Congratulations to PhD Student Alvaro Velasquez, whose undergraduate Honors thesis has been selected as the first place winner for the Outstanding Thesis Award at the 2015 Founder’s Day Honors Convocation. This is the first time that a CS Division student has placed first since 2008!