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Our Mission

A bold, university-wide initiative, the UCF Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI) unites renowned faculty who advance AI across disciplines and colleges — enhancing students’ experiences while driving discovery that positively impacts industry, the economy and society.

UCF continues to fuel strong momentum in AI — from machine learning to mathematics, computer vision to healthcare and more. This future-focused institute propels us to the forefront of AI research and education, solidifying our place among the most innovative universities in the nation.

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“AI is massively transforming how we live, work and learn. As Florida’s Premier Engineering and Technology University, UCF is uniquely positioned to lead in this critical space. This initiative reflects our broader commitment to grow research, scale our areas of excellence and prepare students to lead in a technology-driven future.”

— Alexander N. Cartwright, UCF President

Pioneering AI Technology:
Trustee Chair of Computer Science Mubarak Shah is the Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence. He established the esteemed — currently ranked No. 11 nationally (CSRankings) — computer vision program at UCF, where he’s been a professor for almost 40 years. Shah is known for groundbreaking work in computer vision, including the UCF‑101 human action recognition dataset.

Impact and Momentum:
Under Shah’s leadership, the institute is poised to lead AI’s transformation of innovation and workforce development — leveraging UCF’s strengths and scaling a unified AI enterprise, nationally and globally.

“The Institute for Artificial Intelligence unites UCF’s AI strengths under one roof, creating a platform for high-impact research and talent development. By bringing together leading faculty, motivated students and forward-thinking industry partners, the institute will unlock new possibilities across disciplines.”

— Mubarak Shah, Director of the UCF Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Trustee Chair of Computer Science

Our Faculty

News

Atomic Vision: UCF Researchers Create New AI Model for Molecular Analysis

February 13, 2026

Professor Shruti Vyas’ new AI model could accelerate research by enabling researchers to see the shape of molecules, which could improve drug discovery and development. By Andrew Miller | February 13, 2026 Original Article At the UCF Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI), researchers have developed MolVision, a new artificial intelligence (AI) vision language (VLM) model capable of accurately…...

IAI Researchers Have 23 Papers Accepted in ICLR 2026

February 10, 2026

The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning. UCF IAI Faculty and their collaborators had 23 papers accepted into the (ICLR 2026) conference that will take place in Rio de…...

Orlando Science Center’s Spark STEM Fest

February 10, 2026

February 10, 2026 IAI Faculty Dr. Yogesh Rawat, Dr. Shruti Vyas, and IAI graduate students will be presenting at the Spark STEM Fest presented by UCF Office of Research at the Orlando Science Center from February 14-16, 2026. Exhibition Title: “AI in Action: From Real-Time Perception to Scientific Discovery” Location: Level 4 – Dino Digs…...

UCF India Center Names Dr. Amrit Singh Bedi Faculty of the Year

February 9, 2026

February 9, 2026 The UCF India Center has announced the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Faculty member Dr. Amrit Singh Bedi as the recipient of its inaugural Faculty of the Year Award, recognizing exceptional leadership, service, and contributions to the Center’s mission of advancing ideas, education, and research on contemporary India. Selected through a highly competitive…...

UCF Team Places in Top 10 at Global Machine Learning Competition

December 15, 2025

Team Marque, led by Institute of Artificial Intelligence Director Mubarak Shah, beat 8,400 teams in a global challenge to predict behavioral responses from brain data, allowing them to contribute to future advancement of EEG research. By Marisa Ramiccio ’11 | December 15, 2025 UCF researchers Mubarak Shah, Yue Wen, Abhilash Durgam, Qiushi Fu, Helen…...

Robots in the Real World

November 23, 2025

Original Article From smart-assistant robots that can feed people cereal to Mars-ready rovers built by UCF’s robotics club, the university is developing the minds and machines that will shape our future. What if your day ran on robots? You wake up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee made by a humanoid robot perfectly…...

Call for Musicians: Curating a South Asian Improvisation Dataset

November 19, 2025

Dear UCF Community, Are you skilled in South Asian instrumental improvisation? We are seeking musicians from the UCF community to contribute to a research project focused on creating a small, high-quality symbolic music dataset. Project Goal We aim to develop a curated dataset of non-metric instrumental improvisations from South Asian musical traditions—particularly (but not limited to)…...

UCF Institute of Artificial Intelligence AI For All Doctoral Fellowships

November 13, 2025

Fellowships begin Fall 2026 Fellowship recipients have been notified. Please check back for a list of recipients. The University of Central Florida’s Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI) invites applications from highly motivated candidates to pursue a Ph.D. in applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We seek individuals aspiring to explore unique applications of AI and…...

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Events

Topological Descriptors in Graph Representation Learning: From Persistent Homology to Scalable Embeddings

Dr. Astrit Tola Florida State University Tuesday, March 3, 2026 1:00PM – 2:00PM SPRK 229 (Formerly Global) | Zoom Abstract The intersection of algebraic topology and machine learning has opened new avenues for understanding the multi-scale structural properties of complex data. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at capturing local neighborhood information, they often fail…...

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