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Biography
Mubarak Shah is the founding director of the Center for Research in Computer Vision at UCF. Shah’s laboratory focus is how to build computer systems with intelligence, video surveillance, visual tracking, human activity recognition for manufacturing, medical diagnosis and security. He has authored multiple books and published extensively in the field of computer vision. He has also served as editor-in-chief of a leading computer vision journal and as associate editor for several others.
Shah is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, SPIE and IAPR. His honors include the ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing and UCF’s Pegasus Professor award.
He has mentored more than 50 graduate students and leads a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision. He also mentors high school students through a Department of Defense apprenticeship program.
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- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers National Academy of Inventors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics), International Association for Pattern Recognition, Association for Computing Machinery
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