Faculty

  Professor Reza Abdolvand has built a career defined by invention, impact and daring ideas. Among them is a system that converts radio waves into electricity, capable of powering small electronic devices or measuring signal strength. Breakthroughs like these have earned him 15 patents and, most recently, national recognition among the world’s leading innovators. Abdolvand…

UCF graduate students who need help navigating their educational journey now have a new resource to turn to: The Graduate Enrichment Mentoring Initiative, also known as GEMiNi. The goal of GEMiNi is to create impactful mentorships that support the personal, professional and academic growth of students in master’s or doctoral programs. The initiative was created…

  A UCF electrical engineering professor has been honored with a fellow designation by an international engineering society. Professor Xun Gong has been recognized for his impactful contributions to the electrical engineering field by being selected as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The global institution boasts nearly a half…

UCF computer science major Julia Moras knows firsthand about living with epilepsy. Now, through a new interdisciplinary education and research effort, she’s examining through her undergraduate honors thesis how artificial intelligence (AI) might help fellow patients better predict an epileptic seizure. Moras is part of new UCF research and educational opportunities created by Laura Brattain, a biomedical engineer…

  In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), complex photo editing can be done with the click of a button. Whether you want to remove an object from the background, change the color of your shirt or make your face appear flawless, AI can transform your pictures with simple text-to-image commands. Editing videos with those same…

The use of an artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model like ChatGPT may be free for the end user, but it doesn’t come without an economic or environmental cost. One run of an AI model can cost up to $500,000 on the cloud and produce emissions that equate to the burning of more than 11,400 pounds of…

NASA’s senior technical executive for space electrical/power systems has come to UCF, bringing unparalleled expertise and a powerful vision for the engineers and researchers of SpaceU. The college’s first-ever professor of practice, three-time Knight Christopher Iannello ’94 ’99MS ’01PhD, has joined the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a bold mission: to advance…

  As the technology industry grows each year, so does the need for experts who create innovations that fuel this sector and educate the workforce that powers it.   With this demand in mind, UCF’s College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) has broken a hiring record with a total of 39 new faculty members joining…

The early-career professors were recognized for their excellence with significant research funding as part of a prestigious and highly competitive annual U.S. National Science Foundation grant program. Three UCF faculty were named 2025 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award winners while two recent faculty hires transferred their CAREER projects…

A student engineering project that began with using artificial intelligence (AI) to track cafeteria forks transformed into a system that will help Orlando Health surgeons perform robotic surgeries more efficiently. Laura Brattain, a UCF biomedical engineer, mentored six College of Engineering and Computer Science seniors, who developed the AIMS (AI for Medical Surgery) system that keeps track of…