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Advancement and Congratulations

  • 31 January 2023: Professor DeMara elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) with citation “For outstanding contributions in computer systems design and architecture with emphasis on emerging computing devices for machine learning, adaptive and reconfigurable hardware, and digitization of STEM education.”
  • 18 November 2022: Congratulations to Harshavardhana Reddy Thummala for passing M.S. dissertation defense.
  • 12 September 2022: Congratulations to 2022 Ph.D. graduate Hossein Pormeidani for starting work as Senior GPU Performance Engineer, at Samsung Electronics.
  • 15 August 2022: Congratulations to 2020 Ph.D. graduate Soheil Salehi for commencing Assistant Professor of ECE at University of Arizona
  • 12 July 2022:  Professor DeMara serving as General Co-Chair of ACM/IEEE GLSVLSI-2023
  • 12 July 2022: Congratulations to Shadi Sheikhfaal for full-time employment at MixComm as a Digital Designer.
  • 30 June 2022: Congratulations to Soheil Salehi for full-time employment at University of Arizona as Assistant Professor of ECE.
  • 15 April 2022: Professor DeMara recognized with UCF Teaching Initiative Program (TIP) Award: for “sustaining high levels of teaching effectiveness” University of Central Florida, 2021 – 2022.
  • 15 April 2022: Professor DeMara recognized with Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Award: for “outstanding contributions to the scholarship of teaching and learning within discipline or to the teaching and learning community” University-level, University of Central Florida, 2021 – 2022.
  • 15 February 2022: Professor DeMara recognized with UCF Research Initiative Award (RIA): “for outstanding research, scholarly, and creative activity” University of Central Florida, 2021 – 2022.
  • 20 December 2021: Congratulations to Mousam Hossain on winning Best poster presentation in Design and Automation Conference Young Fellows (DAC-YF) program.
  • 01 December 2021:  Professor DeMara serving as Program Co-Chair of ACM/IEEE GLSVLSI-2022.
  • 27 October 2021: Congratulations to Hossein Pourmeidani for passing Ph.D. dissertation defense.
  • 01 September 2021: Congratulations to Meghana Reddy Vangala for passing M.S. dissertation defense.
  • 07 May 2021: Congratulations to NSF REU Daniel Mulvaney for graduating with BSEE Degree Summa Cum Laude and extend best wishes at L3 Harris Corporation.
  • 07 May 2021: Congratulations to NSF REU Natesha Ramdahni for graduating with BSEE Degree Summa Cum Laude and extend best wishes at Lenovo Corporation.
  • 19 April 2021: Congratulations to Mousam Hossain on receiving the Danny Craig Endowed Scholarship.
  • 19 April 2021: Congratulations to Hossein Pourmeidani on receiving the Frank M. Hubbard Engineering Endowed Scholarship.
  • 29 March 2021: Congratulations to Shadi Sheikhfaal for passing Ph.D. dissertation defense.
  • 22 January 2021: Congratulations to Mousam Hossain for receiving UCF Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching at the ECE Department.
  • 29 October 2020: Our paper titled “Towards Ultra-Efficient QCA Reversible Circuits” has become one of the most cited articles published since 2017, in Microprocessors and Microsystems Journal.
  • 24 September 2020: Professor DeMara recognized as a “Top Five Published Faculty” at UCF, spanning Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Research Centers, Medical School, and 13 College Units housing more than 200 degree programs.
  • 21 July 2020: Congratulations to May 2020 Ph.D. graduate Soheil Salehi for selection as NSF-Sponsored CI Postdoctoral Fellow under Prof. Houman Homayoun of UC-Davis in August 2020.
  • 15 July 2020: Congratulations to Daniel Mulvaney on receiving an undergraduate intern offer from L3Harris Technologies.
  • 19 Jun 2020: Congratulations to Paul Wood on receiving an undergraduate intern offer from Intel Corporation.
  • 01 May 2020: Congratulations to Adedoyin Adepegba on receiving an undergraduate intern offer from Intel Corporation.
  • 22 April 2020: Congratulations to Adrian Tatulian on receiving the Daniel D. Hammond Engineering Endowed Scholarship.
  • 01 April 2020: Professor DeMara receives Pegasus Professor, which is the highest academic recognition available to a faculty member at UCF.
  • 18 March 2020: Congratulations to Professor DeMara for receiving UCF Award for Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students.
  • 17 March 2020: Professor DeMara to serve on the Technical Program Committee of the  IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD-2020).
  • 17 March 2020: Congratulations to Mousam Hossain for receiving UCF Award for Best Tutor of Evaluation and Proficiency Center.
  • 16 March 2020: Congratulations to Adrian Tatulian for passing M.S. dissertation defense.
  • 13 March 2020: Professor DeMara to serve on the Technical Program Committee of the 9th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA-2020).
  • 08 March 2020: May 2019 Ph.D. graduate in Arman Roohi to become Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, commencing August 2020.
  • 02 March 2020: Congratulations to Soheil Salehi for passing Ph.D. dissertation defense.
  • 22 January 2020: Professor DeMara to serve on IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI-2020).
  • 18 January 2020: Professor DeMara to serve on IEEE Computer Society Awards Committee – Education Track for 2020.
  • 5 January 2020: Professor DeMara to serve on the Technical Program Committee of the ACM Annual Southeast Conference (ACMSE-2020).
  • 12 December 2019: Professor DeMara serving on Editorial Board of IEEE Spectrum for two-year term: 2020-2021.
  • 14 November 2019: Congratulations to Adedoyin Adepegba on being selected as a recipient of WINGS (Wise Investment iN Graduate Success) participant for the Fall 2019 semester.
  • 19 September 2019: Congratulations to Shadi Sheikhfaal on a Best Poster Award of CAPSL 2019.
  • 19 September 2019: Congratulations to Gustavo Camero on becoming a McNair Scholar.
  • 19 September 2019: Congratulations to Paul Wood on receiving the Alireza Shahnami Scholarship.
  • 19 September 2019: Congratulations to Adedoyin Adepegba on receiving the Leonard T. Murphy Scholarship.
  • 07 May 2019: Congratulations to Adedoyin Adepegba on receiving the AT&T Wireless Endowed Scholarship.
  • 07 May 2019: Congratulations to Adedoyin Adepegba on receiving the Kris and Bill Sammons Engineering Scholarship.
  • 07 May 2019: Congratulations to Soheil Salehi on receiving the Frank Hubbard Engineering Endowed Scholarship.
  • 05 May 2019: Congratulations to Soheil Salehi on receiving a Ph.D. Forum travel grant to attend the ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC).
  • 12 April 2019: New Ph.D. graduate Ramtin Zand to become Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of South Carolina commencing August 2019.
  • 06 April 2019: New Ph.D. graduate Faris Alghareb to become Assistant Professor of ECE at Ninevah University commencing August 2019.
  • 05 April 2019: Congratulations to Adedoyin Adepegba for receiving the 2019 UCF Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence (SURE) Judges’ Choice Award.
  • 26 March 2019: Professor DeMara serving Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Emerging Topics in Computing (IEEE-TETC).