2016 News

Congratulations to Kyle Martin and Dr. Joseph LaViola who won a best paper award.

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski on receiving $10,360 in new funding.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola on receiving $100k from Lockheed Martin Corporation for a project titled: “Improving Augmented Reality Technologies for Training and Education”.

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team won 1st Place in the 2016 Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition held on November 6, 2016.

The IEEE Orlando Section (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/orlando/) presents Graduate Scholarship Awards each calendar year.

Congratulations to Dr. Damla Turgut on receiving $27,800 from Career Soft LLC for a project titled: “Alternative Methods for Peer-to-Peer Mobile Communication in a High-Latency Environment”.

Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch, who received a “Long Lasting Paper Impact” award at the ISMAR conference, along with Ramesh Raskar and Henry Fuchs for their 1998 “Spatial Augmented Reality” paper. This paper is the original work using computer driven projectors to augment physical objects.

Congratulations to Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni, who is a participant in a $5M grant from NSF,

The Christian Science Monitor has published an article about our award-winning Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team and their many accomplishments since the team was created.

Dean Michael Georgiopoulos was in Huntsville Alabama on June 8 to receive UCF’s official recognition as a NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense.