2016 News

Congratulations to the UCF Programming team for their strong finish in the World Finals.

The University of Central Florida Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team recently was featured on Good Day Orlando. You can view the video by clicking here.

Congratulations to our Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition team from HackUCF and their coach, Dr. Thomas Nedorost, for winning the National CCDC for the third year in a row! This is an amazing accomplishment, the first time ever in the history of the competition that a team has won three times in a row!

Congratuations to Dr. Charles Hughes and Dr. Mark Llewellyn on receiving UCF Teaching Incentive Awards in recognition of their outstanding teaching performance.

Congratulations to professor Fei Liu, whose paper, Crowdsourcing Annotations for Websites’ Privacy Policies: Can It Really Work?, was selected as one of the five best papers of the WWW conference held April 11-15, 2016 in Montreal, Canada.

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski whose Quality Enhancement Program proposal.

Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang and his CS PhD student Ardalan Naseri for their paper “Multiplexed labeling of genomic loci with dCas9 and engineered sgRNAs using CRISPRainbow”, which was published online today in Nature Biotechnology

A UCF IT program graduate, Arielle Cohen, and her team, Zuke Music won 4th place in the UCF Joust competition on April 15.

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha and Damian Dechev, who were approved for promotion to Associate Professor. The promotions officially take place on August 8, 2016.

For the 4th year in a row, UCF’s CCDC team has won the Southeast regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition regional. Congratulations to the team and their coach, Dr. Thomas Nedorost!