2016 News

Congratulations to Yier Jin for his DoE Early Career Award.

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.

Congratulations to Mingjie Lin for receiving an NSF CAREER award.

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.

Congratulations to Dr. Yuan! At the founders’ day, he has received the 2016 Pegasus Professor Award, highest academic honor of excellence at UCF.

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!

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!

Congratulations to Dr. Xun Gong on receiving the Research Initiative Award (RIA) and Reach for the Star Award in 2016

Congratulations to Dr. George Atia for receiving an NSF CAREER award for his proposal entitled “Inference-Driven Data Processing and Acquisition: Scalability, Robustness and Control.”