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Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Monday, May 20,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola for receiving new funding in the amount of $16,000.00 from National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project titled "CAREER: Mathematical Sketching: Pen-based Tools for Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics and Physics".


Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Monday, May 13,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola on receiving $16,000.00 in new funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project titled "CAREER: Mathematical Sketching: Pen-based Tools for Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics and Physics".


Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Tuesday, May 07,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh for receiving $30,000.00 from UCF/I-4 for your project entitled "FHTC: Rapid Automated 3D Terrain Modeling from Airborne Data".


Congratulations to Alan Wright

Tuesday, May 07,2013

Congratulations to Alan Wright, an undergraduate who has worked with Dr. Shah for being given honorable mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher (Male) award for 2013. This national competition is very selective and thus honorable mention is itself a significant honor. Only 41 other male undergraduates were given honorable mention this year. Alan was an outstanding student in the Computer Vision Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program last summer, and has co-authored a paper that was accepted to IEEE CVPR, a prestigious conference in the area of Computer Vision.


Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Thursday, April 25,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah on receiving $250,000.00 in new funding from Sarnoff Corporation for a project titled "Sarnoff: Content Extraction for IARPA ALADDIN Program".


Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Tuesday, April 23,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $6,000.00 in new funding (for a total of $14,700.00) on a grant from US Army RDECOM Acquisition Center for a project titled "Taming Crowded Visual Scenes".


Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik

Tuesday, April 23,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik for receiving $99,554.00 in additional funding (for a total of $298,088) on a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "CGV: Medium: Collaborative Research: A Unified Approach to Material Appearance Modeling".


Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Tuesday, April 23,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola for receiving $95,147.00 in additional funding (for a total of $459,776.00) from National Science Foundation for a project titled "CAREER: Mathematical Sketching: Pen-based Tools for Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics and Physics".


Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Tuesday, April 23,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola for receiving $26,661.00 from James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital for a project titled "IPA: Healthcare Informatics, Implementation, Long Term Care and Aging".


Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni

Tuesday, April 23,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni for receiving $7,148.75 in new funding (for a total of $57,606.50) from General Dynamics on a grant with Stephen Fiore, Randall Shumaker titled: "RCTA FY2012 Task H8: Social Dynamics Modeling and Simulation".


Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh

Tuesday, April 16,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh on the NASA GOLD project, which as you may have seen was announced as awarded to a large team including Hassan yesterday. For more on this see: http://today.ucf.edu/55-million-grant-makes-ucf-florida-history/


Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola

Tuesday, April 16,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola on receiving $33,000 from the James A. Haley Veteran's Hospital for a grant titled "Title: IPA: Extendìng Smart Home Technology for Cognitivelv Impaired Veterans to Delay Institutionalization (Part II)".


Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan Nancy Hu

Tuesday, April 16,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan Nancy Hu for receiving $7,500 from UCF (on an "in-house research grant") to support her project titled “Computational modeling of miRNA binding interaction.”


Congratulations to Dr. Gita Sukthankar

Friday, April 12,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Gita Sukthankar on receiving $170,373.00 in new funding from DOD/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a project titled "Crowdsourcing the Anticipatory Analysis of Human Movement".


Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola and Dr. Marshall Tappen

Friday, April 12,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola and Dr. Marshall Tappen for receiving $24,766.00 from Design Interactive, Inc. as well as $8,333.00 from the Florida High Tech Corridor Council (FHTCC) for a project titled "FHTC: Naturalistic Operator Interface for Immersive Environments".


Congratulations to Lotzi Boloni

Friday, April 12,2013

Congratulations to Lotzi Boloni (with Stephen Fiore and Randall Shumaker) on receiving $5,406.00 from General Dynamics for a project titled "RCTA FY2012 Task H8: Social Dynamics Modeling and Simulation".


Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Tuesday, April 09,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah on receiving new funding in the amount of $28,069.00 from LSI Corporation for a project titled "Facial Recognition". Dr. Shah also received $300,000 in new funding for phase 2 of a project titled Content Extraction for IARPA Alladin Program from BBN Technologies.


Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez

Wednesday, March 13,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez who (in collaboration with Ron DeMara) has received $9600 for an REU supplement to his joint grant titled "Collaborative Research: Towards Life-like Computer Interfaces that Learn." The total grant funding for this research is $692,443.


Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua

Monday, March 04,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua for receiving $24,500.00 from NASA for a project titled " IT Terrestrial and Lunar Image Data Mining ".


Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah

Tuesday, February 12,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $150,000 in new funding from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Academic Research Program (NARP) for a project titled "Geo-localization of Points and Regions in Images by Pixel level 3D Position Estimation".


Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola

Tuesday, January 29,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola for receiving $10,000.00 in new funding from Infinite Z for a project titled "Dynamic 3D Stereo Visualization of Physics Concepts through a Hybrid Stylus Interface".


Congratulations to Dr. Marshall Tappen.

Tuesday, January 22,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Marshall Tappen on receiving new funding in the amount of $3,247.34 (for a cumulative total of $17,411.74) from Florida Space Institute for a project titled "Remote Sensing of Nesting Sea Turtle Tracks: Development and Application of Computer Vision Algorithms".


Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik

Monday, January 07,2013

Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik on receiving $13,500.00 in new funding (making $121,500.00 cumulative) from CG2, Inc. for a project entitled "DoD STTR Phase 2: Innovative Application of Urban ISR Imagery for High Fidelity Training Devices".



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