Research

The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning. UCF IAI Faculty and their collaborators had 23 papers accepted into the (ICLR 2026) conference that will take place in Rio de […]

February 10, 2026 IAI Faculty Dr. Yogesh Rawat, Dr. Shruti Vyas, and IAI graduate students will be presenting at the Spark STEM Fest presented by UCF Office of Research at the Orlando Science Center from February 14-16, 2026. Exhibition Title: “AI in Action: From Real-Time Perception to Scientific Discovery” Location: Level 4 – Dino Digs […]

Team Marque, led by Institute of Artificial Intelligence Director Mubarak Shah, beat 8,400 teams in a global challenge to predict behavioral responses from brain data, allowing them to contribute to future advancement of EEG research. By Marisa Ramiccio ’11 | December 15, 2025 [ORIGINAL ARTICLE]   UCF researchers Mubarak Shah, Yue Wen, Abhilash Durgam, Qiushi Fu, Helen […]

Original Article   From smart-assistant robots that can feed people cereal to Mars-ready rovers built by UCF’s robotics club, the university is developing the minds and machines that will shape our future. What if your day ran on robots? You wake up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee made by a humanoid robot perfectly […]

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 EMNLP 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for Natural Language Processing.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 […]

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 […]