Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering & Computer Science
Secondary Joint Appointment with Department of Computer Science
University of Central Florida
4328 Scorpius Street
Orlando, FL 32816
Office: HEC 244
Email: sernam@ucf.edu
Brief Bio
Sernam’s background is in Computer Vision and the field of AI. He pursued and earned a PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2005. Sernam spent a decade at GE Research working on different areas of Computer Vision including video recognition, 3D reconstruction, representation, and visual matching. At GE Research, Sernam started as a Research Scientist, then took a role as the Computer Vision Lab Manager, and finished his career there as a Senior Principal and Director. During his tenure at GE, he was also the PI of IARPA CORE3D and a prolific contributor of many other government research grants including DARPA, NIJ, ONR, etc. From 2018-2023, Sernam managed multiple AI teams at Meta (formerly Facebook) that conduct research in Computer Vision, NLP and other areas of AI with a focus on applying and scaling to huge amounts of data on the Meta platform. Sernam’s work has accomplished impactful production outcomes in ensuring safety in the Aviation and Power industry as well as detecting misinformation and other integrity issues on the Meta platform. Most recently, Sernam lead projects focused on AI for user to content recommendations, as well as search engines that include the intersection of Large Language Models (LLM) and Computer Vision. Sernam has published over 100 peer-refereed papers, with more than half in top AI venues.
Joining UCF in Fall 2023.