PhD Students

Akash Hari Bharath is the first student to be selected for the Student Professional Activities Service Award for Region 3 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.   The motto of the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is “Charged to Empower and Serve.” Doctoral student Akash Hari Bharath has exemplified that motto…

  For computer engineering major Kamalakkannan Ravi ’20MSCpE ’25PhD, the goal was never to just earn a doctorate — it was to build artificial intelligence (AI) systems people could trust in the moments that matter most. That bold vision found its momentum at UCF. As a student, Ravi was drawn to a university that encouraged big questions and…

UCF researchers are developing powerful possibilities for industrially aligned research to support advances in healthcare with organ-on-a-chip (OOC) technology. OOC is built on a miniature glass wafer with human cells that mimics the function of human organs. The chips contain tiny channels lined with living cells, allowing researchers to study how tissues respond to medications, infections…

Two graduate student teams from the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering won awards at the 2025 International Microwave Symposium design competitions, held last month in San Francisco. The winning electrical engineering student team members — Niteesh Bharadwaj Vangipurapu, Pingzhu Gong and Jiachen Guo from Professor Kenle Chen’s research group, and Sanjida Sultana, Ignacio…

The program prepares qualified electrical engineering and computer science doctoral students to work at Research 1 universities. In an effort to prepare doctoral students for careers in academia, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has launched the Future Faculty Laureates Program. The goal is to recognize and prepare engineering students interested in careers at…

Computer engineering doctoral student Ishraq Tashdid has been selected for a UCF Trustee Fellowship. This award, worth $25,000 per year for four years, is given to outstanding graduate students who are newly enrolled at UCF for their terminal degree. “Being a recipient of the Trustee Fellowship is an incredible honor, and I feel both humbled and motivated,”…

  While the majority of the new graduates at commencement will be leaving a college campus for good, a select few will head to a new campus. This time however, they’ll be teaching classes, starting their own labs and advising graduate students. Four students from the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have earned…

  Every year on the first Wednesday of April, UCF honors the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of our people on Founders’ Day, our annual celebration of the employees, faculty and students who keep reaching for the stars. More than 150 faculty members were recognized across the university, including several from the College of Engineering and…

  Six papers by UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers were presented at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), held from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2, 2023, in San Francisco. This year, UCF had the most first-authored papers among all U.S. institutions, ahead of Georgia Tech, which had five first-authored papers.…

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…