May 1, 2024
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…
April 3, 2024
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…
November 28, 2023
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.…
August 24, 2022
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…
April 6, 2022
Alumni from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering received university-level research excellence awards at the annual Founders Day Convocation. The honors are awarded to those who have displayed exceptional quality and contributions in their completed theses and dissertations. Shraddha Nehate ‘16MS ’21PhD received the Award for Outstanding Dissertation for “Characterization of Hydrogenated Boron Carbide…
July 14, 2016
The research aspirations of University of Central Florida engineering student Heather Lawrence, who wants to discover ways to teach computers to analyze and fend off cyber attacks to reduce the burden on human defenders, will advance with some help from a scholarship awarded to only seven student veterans in the nation.
April 19, 2016
ECE Ph.D. student Ricardo Lovato (advised by Xun Gong) received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for a 3-year period. Congratulations! For the 2016 competition, NSF received close to 17,000 applications, and made 2,000 award offers.
March 25, 2016
ECE Ph.D. student Ricardo Lovato (advised by Xun Gong) received the Student Paper Competition Honorable Mention award (as well as $1,000 travel funds) in 2016 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation which will be held at Fajardo, Puerto Rico, 6/26/16-7/1/16. Congratulations!
March 10, 2016
ECE Ph.D. students Tianjiao Li and Mahmoud Shirazi (advised by Xun Gong) received the best student paper award in 2016 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT) which was held at Cocoa Beach, FL, 2/29/16-3/2/16. Congratulations!
March 18, 2013
ECE Ph.D. students Kalyan Karnati and Tianjiao Li (both advised by Xun Gong) received the student paper competition honorable mention award (out of 139 participants) in 2013 IEEE AP-S International Symposium. Congratulations!