Jayanta Kapat Ph.D.

June 10, 2026
Jayanta Kapat Ph.D., is Pegasus Professor and Trustee Chair in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida, and the founding Director of Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research (CATER). He obtained B.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur in India in 1984, MS from Arizona State University in 1988 and Sc.D. […]

Amrit Singh Bedi, Ph.D.

May 20, 2026
Amrit Singh Bedi is an assistant professor in the UCF Department of Computer Science. Before coming to UCF, Bedi was a research assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He worked as a research associate within the computational and information […]

Shaurya Agarwal.PhD

May 20, 2026
Shaurya Agarwal is currently (2024-present) an Associate Professor in the Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering Department at the University of Central Florida. He joined UCF in 2018 as an assistant professor and key member of the Future City Initiative. He is the founding director of the Urban Intelligence and Smart City (URBANITY) Lab and currently […]

Naveen Eluru, Ph.D.

January 24, 2022
Naveen Eluru, Ph.D. is a professor for the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering (CECE). Graduating with his Ph.D. from The University of Texas, Austin in 2010, Dr. Eluru has been teaching at UCF since 2014. Dr. Eluru’s research interests include transportation planning, sustainable urban design, transportation safety and advanced econometric modeling. Dr. Eluru […]

Woo Hyoung Lee, Ph.D.

November 30, 2021
Woo Hyoung Lee, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH in 2009. Before joining UCF, Dr. Lee was an ORISE postdoctoral research fellow at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research Laboratory in […]