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Dr. Chen Chen gave a keynote on “Advancing healthcare through visual intelligence and collaborative AI” at the AIMed Conference 2025. This conference was held in San Diego from November 9-12, 2025.  Dr. Chen had the opportunity to share some of the latest work on visual intelligence, multimodal learning, and privacy-preserving AI for healthcare. The conference brought […]

UCF researchers have 20 papers accepted into the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, that will be held at the San Diego Convention Center Tuesday, December 2 through Sunday, December 7. The conference was founded in 1987 and is now a multi-track interdisciplinary annual meeting that includes invited talks, demonstrations, symposia, and oral […]

The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) will be held in Suzhou, China from November 4th to November 9th, 2025. EMNLP 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2025 has a goal of curating […]

The new university-wide initiative brings together top faculty, industry partnerships and cross-campus collaboration to position UCF as a national leader in AI. By Courtney Gilmartin ’10 ’16MA | July 30, 2025 [Original Article]   The University of Central Florida has launched the Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI), a bold initiative that will elevate UCF’s leadership in this transformative technology. […]

ICCV is the premier international computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and tutorials. Members of UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV), Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Aii) and their collaborators had a record number of 19 papers accepted into the (ICCV 2025) conference that will take place in Honolulu, Hawaii […]

Announcing the Final Examination of Matias Mendieta for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science

Dr. Pingkun Yan worked as a post-doctoral researcher under Dr. Mubarak Shah’s supervision from June 2005 to December 2007. He has since worked at Philips Research as a Senior Member Research Staff and Clinical Site Senior Scientist & Project Leader; Chinese Academy of Sciences as a Research Professor; and NIH as a Special Volunteer before […]

Patent No. 12,334,116 | UCF Ref. No. 2024-005-02 Issued June 17, 2025 The University of Central Florida proudly announces that a new U.S. patent has been issued to UCF researchers Dr. Nazmul Karim, Dr. Nazanin Rahnavard, Dr. Umar Khalid, and Dr. Chen Chen for their invention titled, “Image Diffusion Framework for Text-Guided Video Editing.” This […]

Mr. Song Wang University of Virginia Thursday, July 17, 2025 2:00PM – 3:00PM R1 101A | Zoom Abstract As machine learning systems are increasingly deployed in dynamic and real-world environments, it is crucial to ensure their ability to generalize beyond the conditions seen during training, such as new data distributions and novel tasks. In this […]

Mr. Haoteng Yin Purdue University Thursday, July 10, 2025 1:00PM – 2:00PM TCII 222 | Zoom Abstract Graph learning is a critical driver of advances in scientific discovery, business modeling, and AI-assisted decision-making. However, two fundamental roadblocks hinder its broader adoption: the scalability of powerful, subgraph-based learning methods, and the critical need to protect sensitive […]