December 15, 2025
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…
November 23, 2025
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…
November 19, 2025
Dear UCF Community, Are you skilled in South Asian instrumental improvisation? We are seeking musicians from the UCF community to contribute to a research project focused on creating a small, high-quality symbolic music dataset. Project Goal We aim to develop a curated dataset of non-metric instrumental improvisations from South Asian musical traditions—particularly (but not limited to)…
November 13, 2025
Fellowships begin Fall 2026 Fellowship recipients have been notified. Please check back for a list of recipients. The University of Central Florida’s Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI) invites applications from highly motivated candidates to pursue a Ph.D. in applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We seek individuals aspiring to explore unique applications of AI and…
November 11, 2025
Updated: 6:05 PM EST Nov 11, 2025 Jesse Pagan Anchor Original Article “We want to be able to use AI and medical ultrasound to understand the triggers of back pain better, so that can help us to tailor each individual with better treatment plans,” Dr. Laura Brattain said. ORLANDO, Fla. —We’ve all been there;…
November 10, 2025
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…
November 6, 2025
The Cardiovascular Center of Florida (CVCFL) Annual Symposium is a high-level event that brings together leading cardiovascular physicians to present industry-leading experiences and trends. This year’s event was held at Lake Nona Wave Hotel on November 1, 2025 where Dr. Shah delivered the keynote speech.
October 29, 2025
The University of Central Florida (UCF) is expanding its commitment to Artificial Intelligence (AI) fluency with the introduction of two new special topics courses for the Spring 2026 semester: CAP 1931: Artificial Intelligence for All and PAD 3930: AI for the Workplace. These interdisciplinary courses are designed to make AI knowledge accessible to students across all majors, regardless of…
October 28, 2025
The Downtown Orlando Partnership and Innovate Orlando will be holding an engaging Downtown Business Forum: The Practical Application of AI for Business where the Director of IAI, Dr. Mubarak Shah, will serve as one of 5 panelists. This interactive session takes place on October 29, 2025 from 8am – 10am at UCF Downtown – Dr.…
October 22, 2025
The paper “Safety Without Semantic Disruptions: Editing-free Safe Image Generation via Context-preserving Dual Latent Reconstruction” has been selected as the Best Paper Award winner at the SaFeMM-AI Workshop held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025. This recognition highlights UCF’s continued excellence in advancing responsible and secure AI research. The winning…