Bold, Relentless, Rising: Meet UCF’s 2026 Reach for the Stars Honorees These six researchers are proving that groundbreaking work doesn’t take decades — just vision, drive and the courage to think differently.
UCF Researcher Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award to Develop Novel 3D Printing Technique Associate Professor Dazhong Wu will receive a nearly $500,000 grant to improve the additive manufacturing testing and inspection process.
UCF Researchers Receive Meta Support to Study Motor Learning in EMG-Based Interfaces Meta funding will support research on gamified muscle-based human-computer interaction while embedding ethics directly into engineering design.
UCF Selected for National Endowment for the Humanities Project on AI in Education As the only institution in Florida selected for an NEH award this year, UCF researchers will explore a new generative AI learning community for faculty and graduate students.
UCF Doctoral Grad Heads to Harvard Medical School to Advance AI-Driven Clinical Tools Kamalakkannan Ravi will begin a research fellowship focused on trustworthy artificial intelligence and rare disease detection.
How to Impress on Your Job Interview Experts from UCF’s Kenneth G. Dixon Career Development Center share pro tips on giving yourself the best chance at landing a job offer.
The Mind to Move Mountains Ilkin Isler ’22MS ’25PhD left the familiarity of home in Turkey to study AI at UCF — a daring choice that resulted in research improving the assessment of cancerous tumors and supporting better patient care.
Forbes 2026 30 Under 30 Winner: Capacitech Joe Sleppy ’18 is enabling power hungry industrial facilities and AI data centers with Capacitech’s rapid-response, modular and space-conscious power resilience products.
Could AI Lead to The Fountain of Youth? UCF computer scientist Yu Tian wants to discover real solutions for longer, healthier lifespans, and the team he directs in the AI and Imaging in Medicine (AIM) lab might not be far off from doing exactly that.
UCF Researcher, Nonprofit Create AI-Powered Tool to Reduce Florida Overdoses Through her collaborative research with Project Overdose, Kendall Cortelyou helped develop an online dashboard to prevent fatal drug overdoses by alerting local authorities to the presence of prevalent drugs in the community.
