Awards
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Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley
Thursday, December 27,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley on receiving 120,000.00 in new funding, for a cumulative total of $270,000, from the US Army Research Office for a project titled "Training a Multiagent Hive Brain for Coordinated UGV Operations (4.4.2)".
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah
Tuesday, December 18,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $250,000.00 in new funding ($450,000 cumulative) from Chenega Federal Systems, LLC for a project titled "Video Analytic Integration".
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah
Tuesday, December 18,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $150,000.00 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. Greg Welch and Dr. Charles Hughes
Tuesday, December 18,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch and Dr. Charles Hughes on receiving $400,000.00 in new funding ($741,334.00 cumulative) from the Office of Naval Research for a project titled "3D Display and Capture of Humans for Live-Virtual Training".
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola
Tuesday, December 18,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola on receiving $15,889.00 in new funding from Intelligent Automation, Inc. for a project titled "Personalized Self-Efficacy Virtual Environment Recovery Experience (PERSEVERE)".
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah
Wednesday, November 14,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah on receiving $126,164 in new funding (out of a $252,328 grant joint with Brian Moore from Math) from DOD/Army/Army Research Office for a project titled "Collection and Analysis of Crowd Data with Aerial, Rooftop, and Ground Views".
Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez
Friday, November 09,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez for receiving $64,789.00 in new funding from the US Department of Education-FIPSE for a project entitled "Engineering a New Global Environment (ENGE - FIPSE Atlantis)", and for receiving (along with Dr. Alain Kassab) $43,721.00 (on an $87,442.00 grant) from US Department of Education-FIPSE for a project entitled "Engineering Global Leaders (FIPSE - Brazil)".
Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley
Friday, November 09,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley (along with others from the ECE division and dean's office) for receiving $40,300 in new funding (out of a $201,500 grant) from DOD for a project entitled "Hardware-Assisted Large-Scale Neuroevolution for Multiagent Learning".
Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes
Monday, October 29,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes on receiving $63,342.00 from US Department of Veterans Affairs for a project entitled "IPA: Intergovernmental Personnel Act Agreement for Charles Hughes".
Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch, Dr. Charles Hughes (and Dr. Arjun Nagendran)
Monday, October 01,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Greg Welch, Dr. Charles Hughes (and Dr. Arjun Nagendran) on receiving $268,598.00 in new funding ($134,299.00 for Welch, $53,719.60 for Hughes) from the Office of Naval Research for a project titled "A Physical-Virtual Human-Robot Interaction System for Training, Education and Rehabilitation".
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola
Monday, October 01,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola for receiving new funding in the amount of $16,875.00 from JHT, Incorporated for a project titled "Feasibility for the development of a physics, navigation, and meta gestures API for training, simulations, and entertainment".
Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang
Monday, October 01,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang for receiving $169,158.00 in new funding (and $5,191.00 from Computer Science in matching funds) from National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project titled "Identification, Discovery, and Public Archiving of RNA Structural Motifs".
Congratulations to Dr. Marshall Tappen
Monday, October 01,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Marshall Tappen for receiving new funding in the amount of $545,454.00 from National Science Foundation for a project titled "RI: Large: Collaborative Research: Reconstructive Recognition - Uniting statistical scene understanding and physics-based visual reasoning".
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah
Monday, October 01,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving funding in the amount of $250,000.00 from Sarnoff Corporation for a project titled "Sarnoff: Content Extraction for IARPA Aladdin Program". Dr. Shah also received $50,000.00 in new funding from the US Army Research Office for a project entitled "Taming Crowded Visual Scenes".
Congratulations to Dr. Aman Behal
Wednesday, September 19,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Aman Behal for receiving $598,636.00 in new funding from the US Dept of Education for a 3-year project titled "DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTELLIGENT ASSISTIVE ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS".
Congratulations to Dr. Gary Leavens
Wednesday, August 29,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Gary Leavens for receiving $325,510.00 in new funding from the NSF for a project titled "TWC: Medium: Collaborative: Flexible and Practical Information Flow Assurance for Mobile Apps". This grant is a collaboration with Dr. David Naumann of Stevens Institute of Technology.
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah
Tuesday, August 14,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $150,000.00 in new funding (on a $600,000 total grant) from Raytheon BBN Technologies for a project titled "BBN Technologies: Content Extraction for IARPA Aladdin Program".
Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee
Tuesday, August 14,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee for receiving new funding in the amount of $4,200.00 from State University of New York - Institute of Technology for a project titled "Network Diversity for Survivability of Cyberspace". (Mainak tells me that this is just the first increment on a larger $16,900 contract.)
Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes
Tuesday, August 14,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes for receiving $253,878.00 in new funding from University of Idaho for a project titled "Collaborative Research: Arbor: Comparative Analysis Workflows for Tree of Life".
Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez
Thursday, July 26,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez on receiving $16,000 in new funding on a $72,200 grant from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for a project titled: "Dependable Systems International Research and Educational Experience (DeSIRE2)".
Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola
Thursday, July 26,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola for receiving $5625 from JHT Inc. and $1,875 from an I-4 match on a project titled: “FHTC: Feasibility for the Development of a Physics, Navigation, and Meta Gestures API for Training, Simulations, and Entertainment”.
Congratulations to Dr. Marshall Tappen
Wednesday, July 11,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Marshall Tappen on receiving $8,333 in matching funds from the Florida High Tech Corridor Council for a project titled: "Theoretical Analysis and Algorithms for Activity Recognition".
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola
Wednesday, July 11,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola on receiving $75,443 in new funding on a subcontract from Brown University on a project titled: "SHF: Large: A Working Set Approach to Integrated Development Environments".
Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni
Monday, July 09,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni for receiving $48,566 innew funding from General Dynamics on a grant with Stephen Fiore, Randall Shumaker titled: "RCTA FY2012 Task H8: Social Dynamics Modeling and Simulation".
Congratulations to Dr. Charlie Hughes
Monday, July 02,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Charlie Hughes for two awards from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. One is for $100,000 titled "TeachME". The other is for $1,500,055 and titled: "Expansion of TeachLivE Collaborative".
Congratulations to Dr. Pawel Wocjan
Wednesday, June 20,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Pawel Wocjan for $16,000.00 in new funding from the NSF for his project titled "CAREER: Algebraic Approach to the Design of Novel Quantum Algorithms".
Congratulations to Dr. Nancy Hu
Friday, June 08,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Nancy Hu on receiving a CAREER award from the NSF, $259,609 for a project titled " CAREER: A Computational Framework to Study Epigenetic Regulation".
Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh
Tuesday, May 22,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh for receiving $30,000.00 in new funding from from Jackson Technologies, LLC for a project titled "Airborne Multi-Sensor Visual Data Processing".
Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev
Tuesday, May 22,2012
Small: Collaborative Research: Programming Interface And Runtime For Self-Tuning Scalable C/C++ Data Structure".
Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola
Tuesday, May 15,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola for receiving $16,000.00 from the National Science Foundation a project titled "REU Supplement to Major: Enhancing Creativity and Authoring in STEM Education-Based Virtual Worlds through Concept-Oriented Design".
Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez
Tuesday, May 15,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez for receiving $6,000.00 (from a $12,000 grant, joint with Ron DeMara) from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "REU Supplement to Collaborative Research: Towards Life-like Computer Interfaces that Learn".
Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev
Monday, April 23,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev for receiving $37,176 in new funding from Sandia National Laboratories for a grant titled "Tools for Enabling Automated Simulator Validation".
Congratulations to Drs. Greg Welch and Charlie Hughes
Monday, April 23,2012
Congratulations to Drs. Greg Welch and Charlie Hughes for receiving $171,334.00 from the Office of Naval Research for a project titled "3D Display and Capture of Humans for Live-Virtual Training".
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah
Monday, April 16,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $200,000.00 in new funding from Chenega Federal Systems, LLC for a project titled "Video Analytic Integration", and for 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
Thursday, April 12,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $52,000.00 from Kitware for a project titled: "Persistent Stare Exploitation and Analysis System (PerSEAS)".
Founders' Day Convocation
Wednesday, April 04,2012
Congratulations to Arup Guha for receiving the CECS college award for excellence in undergraduate teching, and to Mubarak Shah for receiving both the College and overall University awards for Excellence in Research.
Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik
Tuesday, April 03,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik for receiving $97,322.00 in new funding from the NSF for a grant titled: "CGV: Medium: Collaborative Research: A Unified Approach to Material Appearance Modeling".
Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola
Tuesday, April 03,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola for receiving $16,000.00 in new funding for his grant "CAREER: Mathematical Sketching: Pen-based Tools for Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics and Physics".
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah, Niels da Vitoria Lobo, and Raul Sukthankar
Tuesday, April 03,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah and Niels da Vitoria Lobo (and Raul Sukthankar) for receiving $59,440 more from the NSF for a project titled: " REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduate in Computer Vision".
Congratulations to Dr. Ali Orooji
Friday, March 23,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Ali Orooji for receiving $18,000 from Walt Disney World Co. for a project titled: "Propertv Management System - Guest Module"
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah, Niels da Vitoria Lobo, and Rahul Sukthankar
Wednesday, March 21,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah, Niels da Vitoria Lobo, and Rahul Sukthankar for receiving $359,770 from the NSF for a project titled: " REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduate in Computer Vision ".
Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang
Wednesday, March 21,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang for receiving $7500 from the UCF ORC for a project titled " IH: Computational Methods for discovering post-transcriptional control elements in Prosophila 3’ UTR".
Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev
Wednesday, March 21,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev for receiving $7500 from the UCF ORC for a project titled: " IH: ECODE: A Hardware Software Co-Design Framework for Data Intensive Applications".
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah
Monday, March 19,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $150,000.00 from Raytheon BBN Technologies for a project titled "BBN Technologies: Content Extraction for IARPA Aladdin Program".
Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola
Saturday, March 17,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola for receiving $30,000 in new funding from the James A. Haley Veteran’s Hospital for a project titled: "VR and Gaming Project Exploration."
Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni
Wednesday, March 14,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni for receiving $11,315 from General Dynamics a grant titled "RCTA - FY 2011 H10 Dynamics of Operating within Social Environments."
Congratulations to Dr. Annie Wu
Wednesday, March 14,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Annie Wu for receiving $8,265 from General Dynamics for a grant titled "RCTA - FY 2011 H8 Dynamics of HR Military Teams & Organizations."
Congratulations to Dr. Marshall Tappen
Wednesday, March 14,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Marshall Tappen for receiving $25,000 from Lockheed Martin for a grant titled "Theoretical Analysis and Algorithms for Activity Recognition".
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah
Wednesday, February 29,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $23,437 in additional funding on an existing grant titled: "Video Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) - Phase II".
Congratulations to Dr. Marshall Tappen
Monday, February 20,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Marshall Tappen for receiving $25,000 in new funding from Lockheed Martin Corp. for a project titled: "Theoretical Analysis and Algorithms for Activity Recognition".
Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang
Friday, February 17,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Shaojie Zhang for being selected to receive a UCF award from the ORC for $7500 for a project titled "Computational methods for discovering post-trascriptional control elements in Drosophila 3'UTR."
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola
Monday, February 13,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Joeseph LaViola for receiving $93,732 in new funding from the NSF for his grant titled: "CAREER: Mathematical Sketching: Pen-based Tools for Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics and Physics".
Congratulations to Dr. Pawel Wocjan
Monday, January 23,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Pawel Wocjan for receiving $80,000.00 from National Science Foundation for his project entitled "CAREER: Algebraic Approach to the Design of Novel Quantum Algorithms".
Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh
Monday, January 23,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh for receiving $40,000.00 from Proactive Technologies, LLC for his project entitled "Networked Immersive Technologies for Simulation and Training".
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah
Monday, January 23,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $125,000.00 from Sarnoff Corporation for his project entitled "Sarnoff: Content Extraction for IARPA Aladdin Program".
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah
Monday, January 09,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah on receiving $33,333.00 from E&G - I-4 for a project entitled "Sparse Learning for Action Recognition in Video".
Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh
Monday, January 09,2012
Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh on receiving $24,000.00 (out of a $200,000 grant joint with Dr. Richard Eastes and others) from m NASA Headquarters for a project entitled "GOLD SALMON project".
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