Research News

These six researchers are proving that groundbreaking work doesn’t take decades — just vision, drive and the courage to think differently.

Associate Professor Dazhong Wu will receive a nearly $500,000 grant to improve the additive manufacturing testing and inspection process.

The breakthrough enables larger capacities for quantum information using complex states of light that are less affected by imperfections, paving the way for potential innovations in medicine, materials science, data management and security.

The Pegasus Professor of electrical engineering will receive the award during the Founders’ Day event on April 1.

Pegasus Professor Gregory Welch’s decades of service have had a sustained impact, helping to strengthen the global virtual reality community and earning recognition from the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community.

The virtual reality pioneer, who has earned the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Lifetime Achievement Award, continues to push boundaries and ask questions like, “What can we create next?”

Agere Chair Professor Carolina Cruz-Neira and Pegasus Professor Gregory Welch have been honored by the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy, receiving lifetime achievement and service awards, respectively, for their significant contributions to immersive technology.

Meta funding will support research on gamified muscle-based human-computer interaction while embedding ethics directly into engineering design.

UCF and a group of valued partners are leading a research event to explore how space medicine and commercial space flight are transforming the future of human health.