Hassan Foroosh

Hassan Foroosh is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF), directing the Computational Imaging Laboratory (CIL). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from INRIA-UNSA, France (1996). Prior to UCF, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at UC Berkeley (2000–2002) and an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park (1997–2000).

Research Interests: His work focuses on Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing. Notable contributions include LiDAR-based perception, adversarial attacks on detectors, medical imaging analysis, and dataset design for action recognition. His research is supported by NASA, NSF, ONR, and industry partners.

Publications & Impact: Over 130 peer-reviewed papers, including influential work on super-resolution techniques, transformer networks for 3D object detection, and adversarial machine learning. His recent work explores analytical reasoning in LLMs and multimodal fusion in sports analytics.

• Awards: Pierro Zamperoni Award (2004), Best ICPR Paper (2004), Sun Microsystems Academic Excellence Award (2004).
• Labs/Teams: Director of the Computational Imaging Lab (CIL), UCF.
• Grants: Active funding from NASA, NSF, and industry collaborators.