Faculty

CRCV is pleased to announce Dr. Chen Chen has joined our center as an Assistant Professor as of July 1, 2021. He has an h-index of 44 as of July 2021 according to his Google Scholar profile. He is ranked among the top 2% of scientists in the world by a recent Stanford University study (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918). He […]

CRCV Assistant Professor, Dr. Yogesh Rawat, captained a UCF-CMU team in the herox Automated Streams Analysis for Public Safety (ASAPS) Challenge. They competed and won a $30,000 prize for Topic 4 of Contest 1 on Extraction-to-analysis systems approach across all data categories as did another team led by Roy Hayes. The National Institute of Standards […]

http://humaninevents.org In this grand challenge, we focus on very challenging and realistic tasks of human-centric analysis in various crowd & complex events, including subway getting on/off, collision, fighting, and earthquake escape (cf. Figure. 1). To the best of our knowledge, few existing human analysis approaches report their performance under such complex events. With this consideration, […]



CRCV Professor, Dr. Ulas Bagci, has been awarded the SAIC professorship in the Department of Computer Science for a period of 5 years. This appointment is in addition to his academic appointment and is in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments and national and international recognition in his discipline. Furthermore, it has the strong support of […]

CRCV Professor, Dr. Ulas Bagci, has been awarded NIH’s prestigious R01 funding. The title of his grant is “Cyst-X: Interpretable Deep Learning Based Risk Stratification of Pancreatic Cystic Tumors”, and a total of award more than $2.5M. Dr. Bagci has obtained this funding from National Cancer Institute (NCI) of NIH, the nation’s leader in cancer […]

CRCV is pleased to announce Dr. Abhijit Mahalanobis has joined our center as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Abhijit Mahalanobis is recently hired faculty at CRCV. He joined UCF from Lockheed Martin, where he was a Senior Fellow of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. His primary research areas are in Systems for Information processing, Computational Sensing and Imaging, and […]