Overview The UCF Strategic Investment Program invests in core academic activities to support President Alexander N. Cartwright’s vision that UCF will become a “University for the Future” as a top public institution and the world’s leading public metropolitan research university. The investments align with areas of strategic emphasis identified by UCF’s strategic plan as approved by its Board of Trustees. Through the Artificial Intelligence Initiative, close to thirty new AI faculty will be hired, who will be tenured in 5 different colleges: College of Engineering and Computer Science, College of Medicine, College of Sciences, College of Optics and Photonics and College of Business. To apply for one of these positions, please click here. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the world and everyday lives — from facial recognition on phones to smart home devices to security measures implemented for online banking. By some estimates, the global artificial intelligence market will grow sixteen fold from 2020 to 2028, reaching nearly $1 trillion. UCF seeks to be a leading AI research and workforce provider in offering a top-quality education in this field for undergraduate and graduate students. An interdisciplinary team led by Mubarak Shah, professor of Computer Science, will pursue groundbreaking technologies to benefit society and strengthen AI research, security and commercialization in Orlando, state of Florida and the nation. The team includes experts from Engineering, Medicine, Business, Optics and Sciences. It will leverage strengths in AI and computer vision to expand into other core areas, such as robotics, natural language processing, speech recognition and machine learning, and applications. Among the goals are to conduct research to advance future AI industries and to bring together a diverse range of practitioners who will help prepare Florida for the momentous societal challenges and opportunities associated with AI. Aii News The need for SAFERR AI: Why we can’t yet be 100% reliantSeptember 8, 20242024 NewsBy Sofia Sutter, The Charge (Nicholson Student Media) Sep 8, 2024 (Original Article) Dr. Amrit Singh Bedi, UCF assistant professor, held a lecture on Tuesday afternoon in the L3Harris Engineering Center to discuss where society stands in artificial intelligence (AI) development. Bedi’s lecture, “Artificial Intelligence for Everything: Are We There Yet?”, was a segment of…...Read MoreUCF Researchers Have 5 Papers Accepted in IROS 2024September 5, 20242024 NewsUCF researchers have 5 papers accepted into the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024) (https://eccv.ecva.net/) conference will be held October 14 – 18, 2024 at ADNEC in Abu Dhabi ,UAE. IROS is one of the largest and most important robotics research conferences in the world, attracting researchers, academics, and industry…...Read MoreALL IN ON AIAugust 29, 20242024 NewsFrom spotting cancer to managing road traffic, here’s how some local industries use the burgeoning technology. By Ryan Lynch – Staff Writer, Orlando Business Journal Aug 29, 2024 Original Article The chief digital and information officer with Orlando Health said the health system is using the growing technology to help detect nodules in patients, something it has…...Read MoreUCF Researchers Have 20 Papers Accepted in ECCV 2024August 21, 20242024 NewsThe 18th European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2024 is a biennial premier research conference in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, managed by the European Computer Vision Association (ECVA). It is held on even years and gathers the scientific and industrial communities on these areas. The first ECCV was held in 1990 in Antibes, France,…...Read MoreUCF Researchers Receive $1.2M DARPA Grant to Improve Autonomous Systems TrainingJuly 15, 20242024 NewsThe AI technologies developed will allow autonomous systems, such as drones and self-driving cars, to navigate unexpected variables. By Marisa Ramiccio ’11 | July 15, 2024 UCF Department of Electrical Engineering researchers Yue Wang and George Atia received a $1.2 million DARPA grant to expand autonomous systems training over the next 1.5 years. (Photo by…...Read MoreNine Papers Accepted at CVPR 2024May 22, 20242024 NewsThe IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is the premier annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. With its high quality and low cost, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers. It will be held at the Seattle Convention…...Read MoreSix Papers Accepted at ICML 2024May 8, 20242024 NewsThe 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024) will be held in Vienna, Austria, July 21st – 27th. Members of UCF’s Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Aii) and their collaborators have 6 accepted papers into the ICML 2024 conference. The h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. According to Google…...Read MoreThree Papers Accepted at ICLR 2024February 6, 20242024 NewsThe 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. Members of UCF’s Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Aii) and their collaborators had three papers accepted into the (ICLR 2024) conference that will take…...Read More Events Oct 7 12:00 pm Next Steps for Generative AI Speaker: Dr. Ser-Nam Lim From: UCF Department of Computer Science Abstract I will first go through the work on generative AI that my students and collaborators have been working on. These works answer in general the question "What can Generative… Nov 4 12:00 pm On representing (mixed-integer) linear programs by graph neural networks Speaker: Dr. Jialin Liu From: UCF Department of Statistics & Data Science Abstract This presentation explores the connection between Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and mathematical optimization. Our recent findings reveal that by defining a Linear Programming (LP) problem on a… Archived Events Aii Kickoff This event was held on Friday, October 7, 2022 at 5pm in HEC 101. All UCF faculty interested in any aspects of AI were encouraged to attend. Dr. Shah made a brief presentation about the aim of Aii and talked about Aii Postdocs program, then opened up the meeting for Q&A. Click here to see the slides presented at the Kickoff and here to download the video. https://www.crcv.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Aii-Kickoff-Meeting.mp4 [Back to top]