Awards

Electrical and computer engineering professor Nazanin Rahnavard, Ph.D. received UCF’s Award for Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students at this year’s Founders Day Honors Convocation. The honor is given to faculty who demonstrate unprecedented dedication in guiding their Ph.D. students on their academic and professional journeys. “I am extremely honored and humbled to be recognized…

Assistant professor Zhishan Guo was one of five UCF faculty honored with UCF’s Reach for the Stars award. The honor recognizes early-career professionals with highly successful research and creative activity with a national or international impact. It is second only to the Pegasus Professor Award, UCF’s highest faculty honor. Together this year’s honorees have secured…

All nine eligible programs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science ranked in the top 50 for public institutions, and top 75 overall. UCF is one of the best universities in the nation for students looking to continue their education and advance their careers in a wide range of professional areas, including computer science…

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…

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Zhishan Guo on receiving the Best Industry Solution Award at RTSS 2021 for the work entitled “Toward Real-Time Guaranteed Scheduling for Autonomous Driving Systems.” This is part of the ongoing efforts led by Associate Professor Yaser Fallah and Assistant Professor Zhishan Guo on Certifiable Autonomous Driving. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)…

Congratulations to Drs. Brian Kim and Mingjie Lin October 19, 2021 Dr. Kim and Dr. Lin has received a Defense University Research Instrumentation Project (DURIP) award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to investigate a new bio-security and bio-computing paradigm using neurotransmitter secretions from living cells. This research leverages how electroactive neurotransmitter…

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Kim October 19, 2021 Dr. Kim has received an NSF award from the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) to develop a novel neurochemical-electrophysiology sensor technology that can simultaneously monitor neurochemical and neural spike activities. The new neurochemical-electrophysiology technology will provide label-free, multisite, and long-term monitoring of neuronal synaptic…

Dr. Yuksel has received an NSF award from the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) to investigate techniques to realize 3D mesh networks composed of hybrid radio and optical wireless links for the purpose of wireless access provisioning under challenged infrastructure.

Dr. Atia has received an NSF award from the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) to explore new ways to design learning and inference methods that are robust to distributional uncertainty and data corruption.

Congratulations to Prof. Qifeng Li for his NSF award under the Environmental Sustainability program.