Awards

Raj Mittra, a courtesy professor in the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded the Distinguished Radio Science Award by the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science (USNI-URSI). The inaugural award is a prestigious honor that recognizes the overall impact of a researcher’s career in the field of radio…

Congratulations to assistant professor Kenle Chen! He has received an NSF CAREER award for his research, Non-Reciprocally-Coupled Load-Modulation Platform for Next-Generation High-Power Magnetic-Less Fully-Directional Radio Front Ends. The project aims to establish the theoretical foundation and practical design methodologies for high-power magnetic-less fully-directional RF front-ends based on NRC-LM.

Six faculty members were lauded for being leaders and making impacts in their fields during UCF’s annual Luminary Awards. The Luminary Awards are designed to recognize some of UCF’s brightest stars who shine a positive light on UCF and on their respective fields, as well as illuminate a path of discovery for those who will…

To understand a university’s role in shaping the future of the world, a closer look at the 16 University of Central Florida alumni who were recently honored by the College of Engineering and Computer Science is a good start. Industry leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists — and a retired NASA astronaut-turned-artist — were honored Oct. 14 for…

Lockheed Martin Awards Research Grant to Rickard Ewetz Lockheed Martin Corporation has awarded a $150K research grant to UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering associate professor Rickard Ewetz, Ph.D., to investigate robust intelligent systems based on explainability. The one-year project will involve two Ph.D. students and several undergraduate researchers. Neural network models have surpassed…

Congratulations to Ashkan Farhangi! Where would we be without our graduate teaching assistants? The grads our faculty rely upon to prepare lectures, teach classes and mentor our students – duties they perform in addition to working on their own research – are amongst the most impactful individuals in the department. To honor their contributions, the…

Muhammad Rashed has been selected to receive the prestigious David T. and Jane M. Donaldson Memorial Graduate Scholarship for the 2022-2023 academic year. The scholarship is awarded to a CECS graduate student demonstrating outstanding academic and research achievements and comes with a monetary award of $4,000. “I am sincerely honored to have been selected for…

UCF Awards Five ECE Faculty with Promotions and Tenure Consideration for promotion and tenure takes nearly an entire academic year as faculty are evaluated on three main areas: research, teaching, and service Eighty-nine UCF faculty received promotions and another 48 earned tenure status for the 2021-22 cycle following a rigorous evaluation process. The Department of…

Brian Kim, an assistant professor in the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been recognized by the National Science Foundation with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for his research proposal, Superresolution Neurochemical Probe Using Stochastic Neurotransmitter Localization. The NSF CAREER is a highly-competitive grant awarded to up-and-coming faculty researchers who serve…

Recent graduate Christopher Clifford ’21 was one of 26 students honored by UCF with the Order of Pegasus. Awarded each spring, the distinction is the university’s most prestigious student honor. Clifford, an electrical engineering major with a bioengineering minor, was president of the Type 1 Group at UCF, a community that helps students transition to…