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Congratulations to the IEEE PES Scholarship Winners
Thursday, December 22,2011
Congratulations to the IEEE PES Scholarship Winners: David Wade, Homa Amini Manesh, Fevri Tokouete, and Jing Zou.
Communications of the ACM
Saturday, December 17,2011
The cover story in the Dec. 2011 issue of Communications of the ACM is "Visual Crowd Surveillance through a Hydrodynamics Lens" (http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2043174.2043192). This is coauthored by Brian Moore (UCF Math), Saad Ali (SRI), Ramin Mehran (UCF CS), and Mubarak Shah (UCF CS). Ramin Mehran is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Vision Lab run by Dr. Mubarak Shah, Agere chair professor of Computer Science. The article describes how to use inputs from video cameras to monitor "crowds of hundreds or thousands" of people. The goal is to "cue security personnel to individuals or events of interest in crowded scenes."
Congratulations to Dr. John Shen
Thursday, December 08,2011
Congratulations to Dr. John Shen on receiving the 2011 IEEE Florida Council Outstanding Engineer Award.
Congratulations to Dr. Chatterjee and his Students
Tuesday, December 06,2011
Congratulations to Dr. Chatterjee and his group for receiving the Best Paper Award at the recently concluded IEEE PIMRC conference, held in Ottawa, Canada. The title of the paper is "Performance based Channel Allocation in IEEE 802.22 Networks" and is co-authored by Dr. Chatterjee's students Saptarshi Debroy and Shameek Bhattacharjee.
Congratulations to Ricky Elias
Thursday, December 01,2011
Congratulations to Ricky Elias for being selected as one of the L-3 Engineers of the Year for 2011. Of the twelve thousand engineers eligible for this recognition, thirty-nine nominations were down selected for final consideration by the council. Of those, 12 selectgions were made, including Ricky.
Congratulations to Dr. Shah
Monday, November 14,2011
Dr. Mubarak Shah, Agere Chair Professor in the CS division, won the College of Engineering and Computer Science Advisory Board's "Faculty Award." This award recognizes Dr. Shah's distinguished accomplishments as a teacher, researcher, and leader. At the award ceremony, held on November 4, 2011, the Chair of the advisory board's awards committee J. Greg Hanson praised Dr. Shah's accomplishments in all these areas, noting that Dr. Shah is very active in mentoring students at all levels, from postdocs to high school students. He also pointed out that Dr. Shah is the 22nd most frequently cited researcher in the world in the area of computer vision. He also noted Dr. Shah's leadership in funding in the college and the large number of Ph.D. students he supervises. Dean Marwan Simaan added that wherever he goes, people know about Dr. Shah and his research. The dean stated that Dr. Shah is a great asset to the University and to our college and added that he was very proud to recognize Dr. Shah's many accomplishments.
Congratulations to Dr. Shah
Monday, November 14,2011
Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving the College advisory board's award for his outstanding research, teaching, and service.
Congratulations to Tiffani Williams
Monday, November 14,2011
Tiffani Williams, a Ph.D. graduate from UCF in Computer Science, was awarded the 2011 Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award. The award was presented at the 2011 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. The citation recognizes her research in the area of bioinformatics and high performance computing, and also recognizes her commitment to the advancement of women and members of underrepresented groups in computing. See http://gracehopper.org/2011/conference/2011-award-winners/#denton for more details.
Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola's Group
Friday, November 11,2011
Congratulations to Dr. Joe LaViola's group. Their paper "Teach Me to Dance: Exploring Player Experience and Performance in Full Body Dance Games" was accepted to the 8th Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2011) and won best paper award. This paper was authored by Miko Charbonneau, Andrew Miller and Dr. LaViola. 124 papers were submitted and 32 were accepted.
Congratulations to Dr. John Shen
Monday, November 07,2011
Congratulations to Dr. John Shen on receiving the 2011 IEEE Orlando Section Outstanding Engineer Award
Congratulations to Shuyu Chen
Monday, November 07,2011
Congratulations to Shuyu Chen (advised by Dr. Jiann-Shiun Yuan), Haitao Cheng and Ya Shen (advised by Dr. Xun Gong) on receiving 2011 IEEE Orlando Section Graduate Student Scholarships.
Congratulations to Steven Feldman
Friday, October 28,2011
Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev's student, Steven Feldman, whose poster submission made it to the finals of the NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge and will be published by the journal Science.
Shaojie Zhang Helping to Solve Skin Cancer Puzzle
Monday, October 24,2011
A partnership between CECS's Shaojie Zhang, Ph.D., Computer Science assistant professor, and Ranjan Perera, Ph.D., an associate professor at Sanford - Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona (Sanford - Burnham), could lead to better treatments for people with melanoma -- a deadly skin cancer. (Click here for more information.)
Dr. Shah Receives 2011 CECS Advisory Board Award for Faculty Excellence
Monday, October 17,2011
Dr. Mubarak Shah was recommended unanimously for this important award by the Board’s Awards Committee and was selected to receive the 2011 CECS Advisory Board Award for Faculty Excellence. The CECS Advisory Board Award for Faculty Excellence recognizes one CECS faculty member each year who has demonstrated outstanding performance during the three to five previous academic years. Consideration is given to meritorious recognition by peers at the national level, outstanding accomplishments in research and/or education, or superb administrative performance.
Congratulations to Dr. Ken Stanley
Saturday, September 24,2011
Congratulations to Dr. Ken Stanley, who has just been named an ACM Distinguished Speaker. More information about this program is available here.
UCF ISUE Lab
Wednesday, August 31,2011
Check out the UCF ISUE lab, which is featured on Microsoft's CODING4FUN Web site. Click here.
Congratulations to Dr. Ken Stanley
Monday, August 22,2011
Congratulations to Ken Stanley on receiving a patent: Rosario, M. and Stanley, K. O. (Patent Granted June 21, 2011). System and Method for Evolving Music Tracks. United States Patent 7,964,783.
Congratulations to Dr. Niels da Vitoria Lobo
Friday, August 19,2011
Congratulations to Niels da Vitoria Lobo on a patent that was just issued, titled: "Self Correcting Tracking of Moving Objects in Video", US patent 7983448 B1.
Congratulations to Dr. Anwar Sadat
Wednesday, August 17,2011
Dr. Anwar Sadat, a UCF graduate in 2004, has been promoted to Analog Design Manager at Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas. Anwar Sadat received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCF under Dr. Yuan's supervision.
Congratulations to Dr. Jia Di
Wednesday, August 17,2011
Dr. Jia Di, a UCF graduate in 2004, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Jia Di received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCF under Dr. Yuan's supervision.
Award Modification
Thursday, August 04,2011
Additional funding in the amount of $38,437 awarded from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project titled "Non-Linear Characterization of the Stretch Reflex Arc and its Neuromodulation"
Dr. LaViola and Students Featured in Video
Monday, August 01,2011
Prof. Joe LaViola and PhD students Arun Kulshreshth and Miko Charbonneau are featured in a video about the Sony Move.Me interface: Click Here
Summer Research Programs
Monday, August 01,2011
Summer Research Programs Give Students Taste of Careers, UCF. Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley, Amy Hoover, and Paul Szerlip
Tuesday, July 19,2011
Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley, Amy Hoover, and Paul Szerlip for receiving the Best Paper Award for their paper titled, "Interactively Evolving Harmonies through Functional Scaffolding" in the Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011) in Dublin, Ireland. GECCO was held this year from July 12th to July 16th
Invitation to Dr. Wu
Sunday, July 17,2011
Dr. Thomas Wu was invited to teach a short course on Synchronous Machine at the Air Force Research Laboratory from July 11 to 13, 2011"
Congratulations
Tuesday, July 12,2011
Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Wu on his promotion to Professor, and to Drs. Xun Gong and Jun Wang on their promotions to Associate Professor."
Keynote by Dr. N. Deo
Thursday, July 07,2011
Dr. N. Deo is giving a keynote titled, "Finding Communities in Web-like Complex Networks". The keynote address at the International Conference in Applied Computer Science (ACS), Sept. 15-18, 2010, Malta"
Keynote by Dr. N. Deo
Thursday, July 07,2011
Dr. N. Deo is giving a keynote titled, "Local Search for Indentifying Communities in Large Random Graphs" Plenary Lecture at Statistics 2011 Canada/IMST2011 Conf., July 1-4, 2011, Montreal
An Invitation for Dr. Shah
Thursday, July 07,2011
Dr. Mubarak Shah is invited to give a keynote speech titled, "COCOA System for the Analysis of Airborne Videos" at the 8th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems in Inria Sophia Antipolis, France, in September 2011.
Students Buid a Virtual Recreation of the '64 World's Fair
Retirement Reception for Dr. Bernard DeLoach
Dr. Bernard C. DeLoach Jr. receives an award for his twenty years of service as a Courtesy Professor in the Department of EECS.
EECS Moves Dramatically to 57 in Graduate Ranking
The Department of EECS is ranked 57th in Electrical Engineering graduate programs according to the 2010 U.S. News & World Report America's Best Graduate Schools! Last year, EE was 65 on the list and was UCF's highest ranked graduate program. For five straight years, EE has moved up in these prestigious rankings.
Howard Lance, Harris CEO, receives honorary Doctor of Science
Harris Corp. Receives UCF Research Award from EECS
The 2009 Industry Research Sponsor Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science was been presented to long-time partner, Harris Corporation at the School's 2009 EECS Industry Day on April 24. Dr. Issa Batarseh, EECS
Chair, presented Mr. Craig Miller, vice president of research at Harris Corp., with this year's annual award, which recognizes one company for its consistent support of research activities at the school.
"The UCF Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is playing a key role in expanding the technology base of Central Florida and in preparing the highly skilled workforce upon which Harris and other technology companies rely," said Kent Buchanan, chief technology officer of Harris and vice president of Engineering for its Government Communications Systems business. "Harris has had a strong relationship with UCF for many years and some 690 graduates are employed at every level of our organization. We are honored to receive the 2009 Industry Research Sponsor award."
