List of 2015 News

UCF CCDC Wins Panoply Hackathon Competition

UCF’s Cyber Defense Team scores another victory to wrap up the 2015 calendar year. Four members of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Club @ UCF (aka…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha and Narsingh Deo for receiving at total of $5,208.00 from NVIDIA (and $9,098.00 in matching funds from CS) for a…

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley for receiving $10,000.00 plus $22,000.00 from Soar Technology, Inc. for a project titled “Soar Tech HyperNEAT Collaboration (DoD STTR Phase…

Congratulations to Dr. Gary T. Leavens

Congratulations to Dr. Gary T. Leavens for receiving $320,000.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh for receiving $6,561.00 from UCF/I-4 for a project titled “FHTC: Rapid Automated 3D Terrain Modeling from Airborne Data”.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola for receiving of $75,000.00 from UCF/I-4 for a project titled “FHTC: Physics Based Multi-Touch Movement Interface Creation for 3D Modeling…

Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni

Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni for receiving $150,311.20 in new funding from the NSF for a project titled “CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Social Learning in…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik

Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik on receiving $101,912 from the NSF for a project titled “CGV: Medium: Collaborative Research: A Unified Approach to Material Appearance…

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha And Narsingh Deo

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha and Narsingh Deo for a grant of $2,500 from Georgia State University for a project titled “Adoption of Parallel Programming…

Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu

Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu for receiving $416,456 from the NSF for a project titled “ABI Innovation: Computational Analysis of microRNA Binding”.

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes for receiving two awards.

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team for their strong performance at the ACM Southeast Regional Programming Contest that was held on Saturday, November 14th.

National Cyber Analyst Challenge

Members of the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team met with Congressman John Mica at the US Capitol last Thursday morning.

CSI Cyberseed Competition

Congratulations to members of the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Club for outstanding participation in the CSI CyberSEED Competition. Of the 32 schools that participated, UCF’s…

Dr. Mubarak Shah and CRCV Researchers Perform Automated Crowd Counting

An article in UCF Today (http://today.ucf.edu/ucf-researchers-perform-worlds-first-automated-mass-crowd-count/) describes how researchers from the UCF Center from Research in Computer Vision

Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua

Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua on receiving $130,000 in new funding from NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) for a project titled “Tabletop: A Multimedia Communication…

UCF Team Competes in National Cyber Analyst Challenge November 6

A team of 5 UCF students will compete in the final phase of the “National Cyber Analyst Challenge” on November 6th at the Lockheed Global…

Jonathan Singer, IT Alumnus, Named Emerging Tech. Leader of The Year by Tampa Bay Tech. Forum

Jonathan Singer, who is a Security Engineer at GuidePoint Security and an alumnus of our IT degree program, was named an “Emerging Technology Leader of…

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola who, with Steve Fiore (IST/Philosophy) received $260K from the Office of Naval Research for a project titled: “Interactive Visualization In…

Dr. Kenneth Stanley Speaks About His New Book

Dr. Kenneth Stanley gave a talk on his new book, Why Greatness Cannot be Planned: The Myth of the Objective, at the TTI/Vanguard conference in…

Congratulations to Drs. Pawel Wocjan And Dan Marinescu

Congratulations to Drs. Pawel Wocjan and Dan Marinescu (with Eduardo Mucciolo from Physics) on receiving $330,200.00 from the NSF for a project titled: “AF: Small:…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $1,299,551 from the department of Justice for a project titled, “Studying the Impact of Video Analytics for Pre,…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha for receiving $54,333 in new funding from CyberRisk Partners, LLC for a project titled “The Design and Validation of Computational…

Gita Sukthankar Appointed to Darpa Study Group

Associate Professor Gita Sukthankar has been appointed to the Information Science and Technology study group for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez on receiving $314,011 in new funding from the NSF for a project titled: “SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: Diagnostic Driving: Real…

The Washington Post Mentions UCF CCDC Team

The Washington Post has published an article about the growing need for cybersecurity experts, and mentioned the UCF CCDC Team’s trip to Washington DC for…

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez on receiving $231,974 from the NSF in new funding from the NSF for a project titled: “IRES: Avatar based Adaptive…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah and Dr. Niels Da Vitoria Lobo

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah and Dr. Niels da Vitoria Lobo on receiving $600,000 from the NSF for a project titled: “RET Site: Research Experiences…

UCF CCDC Team Honored in Washington DC

The UCF CCDC team was in Washington DC last week, receiving honors for winning the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for the second year in…

Congratulations to Dr. Ulas Bagci

Congratulations to Dr. Ulas Bagci whose software and algorithms are described in a UCF Today story, and on his publication in Nature Communications about the…

Dr. Kenneth Stanley’s Book Featured on FiveThirtyEight.com

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…

IT Major Interviewed For WFTV Special Report

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

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:…

Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni And Dr. Randall Shumaker

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik

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

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…

In Memory of Dr. Amar Mukherjee

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

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”.

Congratulations to The UCF Programming Team

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

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha for receiving $25,000.00 from UT-Battelle, LLC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for a project titled “Algorithmic Validation of Clustering, Classification, and…

Congratulations to Dr. Cliff Zou

Congratulations to Dr. Cliff Zou for receiving $16,666.50 from The Florida Center for Cybersecurity for a project titled “Smart Grid Security Protection through Cross-Layer Approaches”.

Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee

Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee for receiving $25,000 from the Florida Center for Cybersecurity for a project titled: “Vulnerability and Survivability of Cyberspace: Basic Science…

UCF CCDC Team Claims Second National Title

Congratultions to the UCF CCDC Team for winning the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for the second year in a row! This is the team’s…

2014/2015 Computer Science Ph.D. Student of The Year Award Program

Congratulations to Afshin Dehghan, who received the 2014/2015 Computer Science Ph.D. Student of the Year Award. In addition, congratulations to Rahmatollah Beheshti and Solmaz Gurkan,…

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Heinrich

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Heinrich for winning a UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award. Dr. Heinrich has been instrumental in developing the CS senior design class.

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh, whose promotion to (full) professor was approved by the provost and will take place officially on August 8, 2015!

Microsoft’s Build The Shield Cybersecurity Competition

Congratulations to four teams of UCF EECS students for their strong performance at Microsoft’s Build the Sheild cybersecurity competition in Redmond, WA. UCF’s teams finished…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah (And The CRCV)

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah (and the CRCV) for receiving several new grants.

Congratulations to Drs. Niels Da Vitoria Lobo And Mubarak Shah

Congratulations to Drs. Niels da Vitoria Lobo and Mubarak Shah on receiving $402,880 from the NSF for their REU Site in Computer Vision. The grant…

CCDC Team Wins 2015 SECCDC

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah and Dr. Hassan Foroosh

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Fernando Gomez

Congratulations to Dr. Fernando Gomez, who was recognized at UCF Founder’s Day for his years of service at UCF, upon his retirement.

Congratulations to Drs. Gonzalez, Hu, And Sukthankar

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,…

2015 Build-The-Shield Cyber Security Competition

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,…

Congratulations to CS PHD Student Alvaro Velasquez And Advisor Dr. Sumit Jha

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.…

Congratulations to The UCF CCDC Team

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team competed in the virtual qualification round of the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition on Saturday, March 7th.

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta And Dr. LaViola

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…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

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…

Congratulations to PHD Student Alvaro Velasquez

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…

Article in Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences by Dr. Shaojie Zhang and Ardalan Naseri

CS PhD student Ardalan Naseri and Associate professor Shaojie Zhang are co-authors of an article that just appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy…

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley for receiving an additional $10,000 in new funding (for a total of $32K) from Soar Technology, Inc. for a project…

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha

Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha who has received $99,994 in new funding from UT-Battelle, LLC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a project titled “Algorithmic Validation of…

2014 Collegiate Cybersecurity Championship Cup

UCF was awarded the 2014 Collegiate Cybersecurity Championship Cup at the 48th annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences on January 5, 2015.

UCF Top Stories of 2014

The UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team’s success at the 2014 CCDC National Competition was one of UCF’s top stories for 2014. More information is…