2022 News

Six faculty members were lauded for being leaders and making impacts in their fields during UCF’s annual Luminary Awards. The Luminary Awards are designed to recognize some of UCF’s brightest stars who shine a positive light on UCF and on their respective fields, as well as illuminate a path of discovery for those who will…

To understand a university’s role in shaping the future of the world, a closer look at the 16 University of Central Florida alumni who were recently honored by the College of Engineering and Computer Science is a good start. Industry leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists — and a retired NASA astronaut-turned-artist — were honored Oct. 14 for…

Lockheed Martin Awards Research Grant to Rickard Ewetz Lockheed Martin Corporation has awarded a $150K research grant to UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering associate professor Rickard Ewetz, Ph.D., to investigate robust intelligent systems based on explainability. The one-year project will involve two Ph.D. students and several undergraduate researchers. Neural network models have surpassed…

ECE Associate Professor Arthur Weeks Retires After 35 Years at UCF Art Weeks receives an award of appreciation for his years of service to UCF, presented by Sam Richie on behalf of the ECE family The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted a celebration of service to honor associate professor Dr. Arthur “Art” Weeks,…

Congratulations to Ashkan Farhangi! Where would we be without our graduate teaching assistants? The grads our faculty rely upon to prepare lectures, teach classes and mentor our students – duties they perform in addition to working on their own research – are amongst the most impactful individuals in the department. To honor their contributions, the…

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…

The UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to announce that professor Reza Abdolvand, Ph.D., has been appointed chair of the department. His tenure will begin Aug. 8, 2022. “I am humbled and honored by the trust that the search committee, my colleagues, and the dean have placed in me. Our department has…

From left to right: Rodolfo Valiente Romero, Kurt Wilson, Owen Burns, Megan “Miché” Moraes, Nitish Gupta, Zhishan Guo, Yaser P. Fallah, Mahdi Razzaghpour, Nicholas Gray, Sudharsan Vaidhun Research by three ECE students from the Real-Time and Intelligent Systems (RTIS) lab – Ph.D. students Abdullah Al Arafat and Sudharasan Vaidhun, and undergraduate student Kurt Wilson –…

UCF Awards Five ECE Faculty with Promotions and Tenure Consideration for promotion and tenure takes nearly an entire academic year as faculty are evaluated on three main areas: research, teaching, and service Eighty-nine UCF faculty received promotions and another 48 earned tenure status for the 2021-22 cycle following a rigorous evaluation process. The Department of…

Brian Kim, an assistant professor in the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been recognized by the National Science Foundation with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for his research proposal, Superresolution Neurochemical Probe Using Stochastic Neurotransmitter Localization. The NSF CAREER is a highly-competitive grant awarded to up-and-coming faculty researchers who serve…