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National Fellowships

(Societies of highest distinction for the college and departments)

  • National Academy of Engineering

Carolina Cruz-Neira
Department of Computer Science

 

James Baker (CS), Carolina Cruz-Neira (CS), Peter J. Delfyett (ECE – joint), Nicholas Garber (CECE), Deborah Nightingale (IEMS), Gavriel Salvendy (IEMS), Marwan Simaan (ECE), Elaine Weyuker (CS)

  • National Academy of Inventors

Alexander N. Cartwright
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Alexander Cartwright (ECE), Issa Batarseh (ECE), Peter J. Delfyett (ECE-joint), Guifang Li (ECE-joint), Sudipta Seal (MSE), Mubarak Shah (CS-CRCV), Marwan Simaan (ECE), M.J. Soileau (ECE-joint)

 

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science

Issa Batarseh (ECE), Alexander Cartwright (ECE), Ni-Bin Chang (CECE), Narsingh Deo (CS-Emeritus), Charles Reilly (IEMS), Debra Reinhart (CECE-Emeritus), Sudipta Seal (MSE), Mubarak Shah (CS-CRCV), Marwan Simaan (ECE), Zhihua Qu (ECE)

 

  • American Society for Engineering Education

Marwan Simaan (ECE)

 

Issa Batarseh (ECE), Ni-Bin Chang (CECE), Carolina Cruz-Neira (CS), Peter J. Delfyett (ECE-joint), Narsingh Deo (CS-Emeritus), Avelino Gonzalez (CS-Emeritus), Kien Hua (CS), W. Linwood Jones (ECE), Guifang Li (ECE-joint), Abhijit Mahalanobis (CS), Donald Malocha (ECE – Emeritus), Wasfy B. Mikhael (ECE), Zhihua Qu (ECE), Mubarak Shah (CS-CRCV), Marwan Simaan (ECE), Yan Solihin (CS), M.J. Soileau (ECE-joint), Elaine Weyuker (CS)

 

  • American Society of Civil Engineers

Mohamed Abdel-Aty (CECE), Necati Catbas (CECE), Ni-Bin Chang (CECE), Essam Radwan (CECE-Emeritus), Debra Reinhart (CECE-Emerit)

 

Ali Gordon (MAE), Alain Kassab (MAE), Ranganathan Kumar (MAE), Yoav Peles (MAE)

 

  • ASM International

Sudipta Seal (MSE), Yongho Sohn (MSE)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Association of Computing Machinery

Narsingh Deo (CS – Emeritus), Elaine Weyuker (CS)

 

  • Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

Waldemar Karwowski, Charles Reilly

 

Additional Society Fellowships

(Expertise areas within departments)

 

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Subith Vasu (MAE) **Associate Fellow**

 

  • American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

Sudipta Seal (MSE)

  • American Society for Engineering Management

Timothy Kotnour (IEMS)

  • American Society for Quality

Ahmad Elshennawy

 

  • American Vacuum Society

Sudipta Seal (MSE)

 

  • The Electrochemical Society

James Fenton (MSE), Sudipta Seal (MSE), Kalpathy Sundaram (ECE)

 

  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Waldemar Karwowski (IEMS)

 

  • Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications

Narsingh Deo (CS – Emeritus), Ron Dutton (CS – Emeritus)

  • Institute of NanoTechnology

 

Sudipta Seal (MSE)

 

  • International Air and Waste Management Association

David Cooper (CECE – Emeritus)

 

  • International Association of Pattern Recognition

Mubarak Shah (CS-CRCV)

 

  • International Ergonomics Association

Waldemar Karwowski (IEMS)

 

  • SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics)

Alexander Cartwright (ECE), Mubarak Shah (CS-CRCV), Ni-Bin Chang (CECE)

  • Wessex Institute of Technology

Alain Kassab (MAE)

 

  • World Academy of Ceramics

Sudipta Seal (MSE)

 

Florida-Wide Honors

 

  • Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL) – Mohamed Abdel-Aty (CECE) – 2020 inductee, James Baker, NAE (CS), Alexander Cartwright (ECE) – 2022 inductee, Carolina Cruz-Neira, NAE (CS), Peter J. Delfyett, NAE (ECE – joint), Nicholas Garber, NAE (CECE), Waldemar Karwowski (IEMS) – 2020 inductee, Deborah Nightingale, NAE (IEMS), Gavriel Salvendy, NAE (IEMS), Sudipta Seal (MSE) – 2021 inductee, Mubarak Shah (CS-CRCV) – 2020 inductee, Marwan Simaan, NAE (ECE), Elaine Weyuker, NAE (CS)
  • Florida Academy of Inventors Hall of Fame – Issa Batarseh (ECE), Sudipta Seal (MSE)

 

 

Early Career Faculty Honors

 

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award – Mainak Chatterjee (CS), Gita Sukthankar (CS)
  • DARPA Computer Science Study Group or Panel – Kenneth Stanley (CS), Gita Sukthankar (CS)
  • DARPA/MTO Young Faculty Award – Abhijit Mahalanobis (CS), Yoav Peles (MAE), Subith Vasu (MAE)
  • of Energy Young Investigator/Early Career Award – Jun Wang (ECE)
  • NAE Frontiers of Engineering Selections – Necati Catbas (FOE-U.S.-Europe), Niels da Vitoria Lobo (CS), Sudipta Seal (MSE), The late Alareza Sayedi (selected for 2015)
  • NSF CAREER Awards – George Atia (ECE), Hyoung Jin Cho (MAE), Yaser Fallah (ECE), Paul Gazzillo (CS), Ranajay Ghosh (MAE), Xun Gong (ECE), Mark Heinrich (CS), Haiyan Nancy Hu (CS), Helen Huang (MAE), Tengfei Jiang (MSE), Yeonwoong “Eric” Jung (MSE), Kelly Kibler (CECE), Brian Kim (ECE), Akihiro Kushima (MSE), Kawai Kwok (MAE), Joseph LaViola, Jr. (CS), Mingjie Lin (ECE), Fei Liu (CS), Ryan McMahan (CS), Nina Orlovskaya (MAE), Shawn Putnam (MAE), Junjian Qi (ECE), Mehdi Razavi (COM/ MSE joint), Yongho Sohn (MSE), Yan Solihin (CS), Gita Sukthankar (CS), Sharma Thankachan (CS), Jayan Thomas (MSE/NSTC), Rajan Vaidyanathan (MSE), Azadeh Vosoughi (ECE), Thomas Wahl (CECE), Jun Wang (ECE), Liqiang Wang (CS), Pawel Wocjan (CS)
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards – Sudipta Seal (MSE), Yoav Peles (MAE)
  • S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency Young Investigator Award – Subith Vasu (MAE)

 

Journal Editorships

 

Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering

 

Mohamed Abdel-Aty; Editor-In-Chief:  Accident Analysis & Prevention

Haitham Al-Deek: Assoc. Editor: Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems

Ni-Bin Chang: Associate Editor: Journal of Environmental Informatics, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Steven Duranceau; Associate Editor: Desalination and Water Treatment

Nikos Makris: Editor: Earthquakes and Structures

Debra Reinhart: Associate Editor: Waste Management

Omer Tatari: Subject Editor: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Springer

Kelly Kibler: Associate Editor: Journal of Hydrology

 

 

 

Computer Science

 

Ladislau Bölöni: Member of editorial board: International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (Inderscience)

Mainak Chatterjee: Member of Editorial Board: Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier), Member of Editorial Board: Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier)

Carolina Cruz-Neira: Chief Editor: Frontiers Journal, VR in Industry

Associate editor: Computers and Graphics

Damian Dechev: Associate Editor: Cluster Computing (Springer)

Haiyan (Nancy) Hu: Member of editorial board: The International Journal on Bioinformatics and Biotechnology

Kien A. Hua: Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Associate Editor: International Journal of Advanced Information Technology

Associate Editor: International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications

Charles Hughes: Associate Editor: Entertainment Computing, Review Editor: Frontiers in Virtual Reality (Industry section), Member of Scientific Board: Journal of Cybertherapy and Rehabilitation

Joseph J. LaViola, Jr.: Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, Associate Editor: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Elsevier)

Gary T. Leavens: Editorial Board Member: Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (Springer-Verlag), Associate Editor: Journal of Object Technology (online), Assistant editor: Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) (published by Springer-Verlag)

Fei Liu: Standing Review Committee: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing

Abhijit Mahalanobis: Associate Editor: Applied Optics journal (Optical Society of America)

Ryan McMahan; Associate Editor: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

David Mohaisen: Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Associate Editor: Computer Communication (Elsevier), Area Editor: ETRI Journal (Wiley), Co-Editor-in-Chief: EAI Transactions on Security and Safety

Yogesh Singh Rawat: Associate Editor: Machine Vision and Applications (Springer)

Dirk Reiners: Associate editor: Frontiers Journal, VR in Industry, Associate editor: Frontiers Journal, Technologies for VR

Mubarak Shah: Series Editor: Video Computing, International Book Series (Kluwer Academic Publishers)

Yan Solihin: Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Damla Turgut: Associate Editor: Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), Associate Editor: Wiley’s International Journal of Communications Systems, Associate Editor: International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Associate Editor: Infocommunications Journal, Associate Editor: Guest Editor of the special issue on Cognition in Software Defined Sensor Networks for the Next Generation Cellular Services special issue in Elsevier Cognitive System Research Journal

Sharma V. Thankachan: Guest Editor: Special Issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics for the BIOKDD 2019 Workshop

Pamela Wisniewski: Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Social Computing

Annie S. Wu: Editorial Board Member: Evolutionary Computation Journal (MIT Press), Editorial Board Member: Memetic Computing Journal (Springer)

Shibu Yooseph: Editorial Board Member: Microbiome Journal

Shaojie Zhang: Associate Editor: Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Specialty Section of Frontiers in Genetics, Editor: Frontiers in Non-Coding RNA

 

 

Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

 

Waldemar Karwowski: Editor:  Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Service Industries, Editor-in-Chief:  Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

Tim Kotnour: Associate Editor, Journal for Enterprise Transformation

Michael Proctor: Associate Editor, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation

Petros Xanthopoulos: Associate Editor, Optimization Letters, (Springer); Associate Editor, International Journal of Biomedical Data Mining (Omics Online)

Qipeng Zheng: Associate Editor, Energy Systems

 

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Jan Gou: Associate Editor, International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials

Alain Kassab: Associate Editor, Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering

Engineering Analysis, Advances in Boundary Elements

Ranganathan Kumar: Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Thermal Sciences and Engineering Applications

Faissal Moslehy: Associate Editor, Journal of Management and Engineering Integration

Yoav Peles: Associate Editor, Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering (NMTE)

Editorial Board member, Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer

 

University Honors

 

  • UCF Pegasus Professors – Mohamed Abdel-Aty (CECE), Issa Batarseh (ECE), Michael Georgiopoulos (ECE), Avelino Gonzalez (CS- Emeritus), Kien Hua, Charles Hughes (CS), Jayanta Kapat (MAE), Waldemar Karwowski (IEMS), Alain Kassab (MAE), Ranganathan Kumar (MAE), Donald Malocha – (ECE – Emeritus), Debra Reinhart, Sudipta Seal, Mubarak Shah, Yongho Sohn, Martin W. Wanielista (CECE – Emeritus), Zhihua Qu, Jiann-Shiun Yuan
  • UCF Trustee Chair Professorship – Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Sudipta Seal, Mubarak Shah