2025 News

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 […]

Final Oral Examination for Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science) Akash Kumar Monday, October 13, 2025 2:00PM – 3:00PM [Bifold] Dissertation Deep learning has significantly advanced visual understanding tasks like object detection, tracking, and spatio-temporal grounding, benefiting fields such as autonomous vehicles, surveillance systems, and robotics. While large-scale labeled datasets have been crucial to this success, […]

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 EMNLP 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for Natural Language Processing.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

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 […]

We’re proud to share that researchers from the University of Central Florida (UCF) have had eight papers accepted to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)—one of the top-ranked conferences in all of science, according to Google Scholar Metrics. ICML is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial […]