RESEARCH is one of the three (3) educational ‘pathways’ available to Flit-Path Cohort A1 and A2 students at UCF. During the 2019/2020 Academic year, ten (10) research faculty committed to the Flit-Path Program by offering to serve as a Research Mentor and provide research opportunities in their lab.
These faculty included:
Damian Dechev, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Joseph LaViola, Jr., PhD, Professor, Department of Computer Science
Mingjie Lin, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fei Liu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Aziz Mohaisen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Sumanta Pattanaik, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Nazanin Rahnavard, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pamela Wisniewski, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Wei Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Cliff Zou, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
The 2019/2020 Flit-Path Research Pathway students included:
Xioajin Dai, CS (Mentor – Dr. Fei Liu)
Research:
“Accessing the Value of Domain Knowledge in Meeting Summarization Systems”
Timothy Dinh, IT
Mentor – Dr. Pamela Wisniewski)
Research:
“Evaluating a Space Vehicle User Interface using UX Methodologies”
Mykola Maslych, CS
Mentor – Dr. Joseph LaViola, Jr.Research:
“Moving Toward an Ecologically Valid Data Collection Protocol for 2D Gestures in Video Games”
Dan Merino – Graduated Fall 2019 (Mentor – Dr. Aziz Mohaisen)