REU

Thirty Year Celebration

• REU Picture Book
• Agenda
• List of Attendees

On July 17th, The Center for Research in Computer Vision will host the 30-Year Reunion Celebration at UCF. This will start with a dinner party at Dr. Mubarak Shah's home on the evening of Sunday, July 16th, followed by a full-day celebration of events on Monday, July 17th. These events will include a breakfast and luncheon, speakers, panel discussions, and will close with a banquet dinner. UCF President, Provost, VP of Research and Dean of CECS will open the daylong event.

The national site for Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Computer Vision has been funded by NSF for the last thirty years through a series of 12 grants starting in 1987 for total amount of $2.8 million. Every year ten undergraduates from all over the country participate in this summer program at UCF.

During the last twenty-nine years more than 290 undergraduate students from more than 68 different schools all over the U.S. have participated in this program at UCF. These undergraduates have co-authored more than 80 research papers (in reputed journals ike PAMI, PR, CVGIP, and conferences like ICCV, CVPR, ICPR).

Approximately half of these participants have gone to graduate schools, fifteen students have written Honors in the Major Theses, several participants are now faculty members at different universities, and several participants have started their own companies. This year also, ten more undergraduate students will participate in this program from across the U.S.

We have been trying to reach out to all 300 students, so if you know of anybody who has participated in our REU Summer Program, but has not received the invite, please feel free to let us know their contact information.

REU Picture Book

Agenda

Sunday, July 16, 2017

Time	Description
7:00 - 9:30 PM	Welcoming Dinner at Dr. Mubarak Shah's Home, 4141 Gabriella Lane, Winter Park, FL

Monday, July 17, 2017

UCF Main Campus

Time	Description
8:00 - 9:00 AM	Breakfast, Alumni Center Congressional and State Representation Remarks at 8:45 AM
9:00 - 9:30 AM	Introduction from Provost Whittaker, Dean Elizabeth Klonoff, Dean Dooley, Dean Michael Georgiopoulos, Alumni Center Welcome: Dr. Mubarak Shah: 3 Minutes President John Hitt: 3 Minutes CECS Dean Michael Georgiopoulos: 3 Minutes Undergraduate Dean Elizabeth Dooley: 3 Minutes Director of Undergraduate Research, Dr. Kimberly Schneider: 2 Minutes Deputy Asst. Director of NSF for CISE, Erwin Gianchandani: 10 minutes
9:30 - 10:30 AM	One Minute Madness Alumni Introductions, Alumni Center
10:30 - 10:50 AM	Coffee Break, Alumni Center
10:50 - 11:15 AM	First Decade (Mubarak Shah, Kevin Bowyer), Alumni Center
11:15 - 12:00 PM	Keynote Talk by Shree Nayar from Columbia University, "Computational Imaging", Alumni Center
12:00 - 12:30 PM	Break/Walk to Live Oak Center
12:30 - 2:00 PM	Lunch, Live Oak Center, Talk at 1:50 PM by Maha Sallam, REU '89: "Decisions, informed or instinctive, which is better? Experiencing the REU program and where it led"
2:00 - 2:10 PM	Walk to HEC 101
2:10 - 3:30 PM	Poster Session and Spotlights, Harris Engineering Center (HEC 101)
3:30 - 3:45 PM	Walk to Alumni Center
3:45 - 4:05 PM	Talk by Adam Hoover, REU '91, "REU 25 Years Later: A journey to NIH research in energy intake", Alumni Center
4:05 - 4:25 PM	Second Decade (Niels da Vitoria Lobo, Louise Stark, Takis Kasparis), Alumni Center
4:25 - 4:45PM	Talk by Ankur Datta, REU '01, Alumni Center
4:45 - 5:05PM	Third Decade (Ulas Bagci, Ali Borji, Boqing Gong), Alumni Center
5:05 - 5:45PM	Panel Session: Essential Ingredients of Running a Successful REU Program, Alumni Center Renee Bryce from University of Texas Daniela Raicu from DePaul University Damla Turgut from University of Central Florida
5:45 - 6:30 PM	Walk to Live Oak Center
6:30 - 9:00 PM	Banquet Dinner, Live Oak Center; Key Note, Dr. Moshe Vardi from Rice University "Humans, Machines, and Work: The Future is Now"

List of Attendees Celebrating 20 Years of REU at UCF

PI

Dr. Mubarak Shah

UCF CO-PIs

Dr. Niels da Vitoria Lobo
Dr. Rahul Sukthankar

Former UCF PIs

Dr. Louise Stark
University of Pacific

Dr. Takis Kasparis
UCF

Non-UCF PIs

Renee Bryce
Daniela Raicu

UCF Personnel

Provost Dale Whittaker
Dean Klonofff, Graduate Studies
Dean Dooley, Undergrad Studies
Dean Georgiopoulos, CECS

Keynote Talk

Moshe Vardi
Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering
Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
Rice University

Distinguished Guests

Dr. Harriet Taylor
Program Director
National Science Foundation

Former REU Students

Name	Affiliation	REU Program Year
William Allen	Assistant Professor - FIT	1991
Jacueline Nelson Andreozzi		2009
Rubba Ashwas		2015
Robert Augustine		2008
Jigna Bhatt	Software Engineer	2001
Randy Bolling		1989
Ivette Carreras		2012
Si Chen		2014
Ankur Datta	Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ.	2002
Daniel DeBlasio		2006
David Diel	Scientific Systems Co. Inc	2001
Kevin Duarte		2016
Paul Finkel		2012
Neil Gealy		2010
Manisha Gupta		2016
Jay Hackett	Government Communications Systems Division Engineer - Harris Corporation	1987
Emily Hand		2011
Connie Harper	Software Developer, UCF
Lance Hartung		2009
Adam Hoover	Associate Professor - Clemson University	1991
Patrick Hynes		2010
Bonnie Kaiser	Medicomp, Inc (www.Medicompinc.com)	1990
Ian Lawrance		1995
Amari Lewis		2014
Glenn Martin	Institute for Simulation & Training, University of Central Florida	1990
Joshua Michalczak		2010
James Painter		2007
Christina Peterson		2013
Rusty Phillips	Data Transfer Solutions	1999
Corey Pittman		2011
Taylor Rassmann		2011
Vladimir Reilly	UCF	2005
Antonio Rodriguez		2010
Maha Sallam	Vice President, Director of iCAD
Misrak Seifu		2014
Sahil Shah		2011
Shvetal Shah		1996
Joshua Sheetz		2007
Michael Sollami	Analyst, Warisan Capital	2005
Melanie Sutton	Associate Professor - University of West Florida	1990
Thomas Swift		2011
Kevin Tang		2009
Karunya Tota		2015
Ruben Villegas		2012
Arjun Watane		2014
Fatameh Yaziananari		2014
Adam B. Yeh		2007
Nancy Zanaty		2011