The increase in remote work and e-learning sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic means more people are reading in digital formats, from eye-straining, small-text documents to PDFs that have embedded pictures and graphics. But there’s a bigger problem – the technology…
Read More Current disinfectant products for killing viruses like coronavirus take minutes to fully sanitize surfaces, which isn’t practical on high-contact areas such as door handles, elevators and bannisters. That’s why the University of Central Florida is co-developing a new, rapid-acting, long-lasting…
Read More Storm surges sometimes can increase coastal sea levels 10 feet or more, jeopardizing communities and businesses along the water, but new research from the University of Central Florida shows there may be a way to predict periods when it’s more…
Read More UCF hit a milestone in sponsored research funding in 2020, generating $204.5 million by the close of the fiscal year on July 31. That’s up from $192.1 million last year and a 40 percent increase since 2016. The College of Engineering and…
Read More Computer Science Professor Mubarak Shah was recently awarded a $1 million grant to advance his cutting-edge work in the area of machine vision learning (artificial intelligence) and develop a system to thwart attacks on such systems. Shah, the director of…
Read More A research team with the University of Central Florida’s Center for Research in Computer Vision recently won a competition to improve computer vision by creating technology that can automatically track behavior in long security videos. The competition, called the Activities…
Read More UCF was selected to receive four awards from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office, the most of any university this year. Of those four awards, three are for research led by CECS faculty. The awards total $9.64…
Read More New research from the University of Central Florida has identified physiological features that could make people super-spreaders of viruses such as COVID-19. In a study appearing this month in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers in UCF’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace…
Read More Every year, UCF takes technologies developed on campus to the national TechConnect Conference for exposure and this year one of them earned one of the top awards of the conference. The 2020 TechConnect Defense Innovation Award is a recognition for…
Read More A University of Central Florida researcher is working to make portable devices and electric vehicles stay charged longer by extending the life of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries powering them. Assistant Professor Yang Yang is doing this by making the batteries…
Read More Eight UCF students earned a $5,000 scholarship with their award-winning plan to keep college students engaged in extracurricular activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. UCF College of Business students Armando Barrial, Tomas Daza, Maria Pacheco Naranjo, Karen Ortiz and UCF College…
Read More One small crack in an aircraft component can lead to major problems. The cracks can grow fast and damage metal components to the point of failure, but they are often hard to detect. In an effort to stop this problem…
Read More Video monitoring, crowd surveillance, and detecting and identifying hard-to-see objects and anomalies in medical images are among the many tedious human tasks that can be performed or enhanced using computer vision technology with remarkable speed and accuracy – and it’s…
Read More Before you ever step into a new coffee shop, years of urban planning have gone into building that brick-and-mortar building in your neighborhood. Urban planning is a multi-faceted discipline in which planners collect data points from targeted areas to determine…
Read More A University of Central Florida researcher is part of a new study showing that artificial intelligence can be nearly as accurate as a physician in diagnosing COVID-19 in the lungs. The study, recently published in Nature Communications, shows the new technique…
Read More We’re thrilled to share that Mohamed Abdel-Aty Ph.D., chair of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, recently received the highest honor given by the Transportation Research Board (TRB): the Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award. He will receive…
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