Faculty

The UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science has witnessed unprecedented faculty growth over the past few years and the spring 2025 semester is no exception. Eleven additional faculty members, including one with a joint appointment, will join the college this semester, after 17 new hires in fall 2024. The increase in faculty is part…

Pegasus Professors Issa Batarseh and Ronald DeMara have been recognized for their contributions to the field of engineering with prestigious industry honors from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Batarseh has been named the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies while DeMara has been elevated to the rank…

Pegasus Professor of Electrical Engineering Issa Batarseh has been invited to join the Invention Ambassadors Program sponsored by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the U.S. Patent Trademark Office. This prestigious program is open to fellows and honorary members of NAI as well as innovators at NAI member institutions. The goal is to showcase…

The walls in Reza Abdolvand’s office are mostly bare. A few dozen books sit indiscreetly on the lower shelves of a bookcase. There is no evidence of Abdolvand’s induction into the National Academy of Inventors or of his 15 U.S. patents for micro- and nano-devices — they’re literally and figuratively invisible. Abdolvand would rather turn…

The UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science is making an impact in areas such as hypersonic technology, nanomedicine and biomedical engineering, and robotics and autonomous systems – and has hired a new group of faculty who will enhance its reputation in these fields. Seventeen new faculty members will join four of the six departments…

Twelve new faculty members are joining the UCF Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for the 2023-2024 academic year. This highly-qualified group of researchers and educators brings a wide range of expertise in their respective fields, from security and artificial intelligence in VLSI technology to micro- and nanoscale devices and materials for extreme environments,…

A team of UCF researchers in collaboration with Duke Energy has won an inaugural Department of Energy competition designed to illuminate new ways of processing data in the energy sector. The Sun Team – consisting of two electrical and computer engineering department faculty, Wei Sun and Qun Zhou Sun, statistics department faculty member Hsin-Hsiung Huang,…

Two UCF professors are being honored as 2022 fellows by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a prestigious national distinction. The IEEE announced its new cohort of 311 fellows earlier this month. Their fellowships bring the total number of IEEE fellows at UCF to 17, underscoring the national prominence of UCF professors among…