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 Fourteen Papers Accepted at CVPR 2025April 10, 20252025 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. This year’s conference will be held at the Music City Center, Nashville, TN from June 11-15, 2025. Members of UCF and their collaborators have 14 accepted…...Read More15 Papers Accepted in ICLR 2025February 25, 20252025 NewsUCF researchers had 15 papers accepted into the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, that will be held at Singapore Expo Thursday, April 24 through Monday, April 18th 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…...Read MoreResearch Team Secures DARPA Grant for Advancing Biomolecular Condensate ExplorationFebruary 20, 20252025 NewsWe are excited to announce that our research team has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to advance the understanding of biomolecular condensates using physics-informed machine learning. The project, titled “Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Explore Biomolecular Condensates,” is led by Dr. Aniket Bhattacharya (PI),…...Read MoreDr. Amrit Singh Bedi Interviewed by Local News on Navigating the Ethical landscape of AIFebruary 6, 20252025 NewsDr. Amrit Sing Bedi was interviewed by Katrina Scales of News 6 WKMG about “Navigating the ethical landscape of artificial intelligence”. The piece aired at 4:30pm on Wednesday, February 5 and the related article can be found here...Read MoreUCF Researchers Have 12 Papers Accepted in NeurIPS 2024October 17, 20242024 NewsUCF researchers had a 12 papers accepted into the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, that will be held at the Vancouver Convention Center Tuesday, December 10 through Sunday, December 15. The conference was founded in 1987 and is now a multi-track interdisciplinary annual meeting that includes invited talks, demonstrations, symposia, and oral…...Read MoreThe 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 More Events Seeing Beneath the Surface: Vision-Enabled Robots for Long-term Ocean MonitoringDr. Xiaomin Lin Johns Hopkins University Monday, May 5, 2025 10:00AM – 11:00AM HEC 101A | Zoom Abstract Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are transforming marine research, defense, and industrial applications. However, significant challenges persist in enabling robust perception, energy-efficient operation, and adaptive autonomy in dynamic underwater environments. This talk explores…...Read MorePedagogy Meets AI: Challenges and Innovations in LLM-Powered LearningMr. Shashank Sonkar Rice University Thursday, May 8, 2025 11:00AM – 12:00PM R1 101 | Zoom Abstract The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, particularly large language models, is fundamentally reshaping how we learn and interact with knowledge, offering unprecedented opportunities to develop intelligent systems that enhance human learning at scale. However, realizing this potential requires…...Read More 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]