{"id":84584,"date":"2018-06-21T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T15:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=84584"},"modified":"2023-11-17T15:44:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T20:44:57","slug":"2-ucf-students-receive-frost-scholarships-study-university-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/2-ucf-students-receive-frost-scholarships-study-university-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"2 UCF Students Receive Frost Scholarships to Study at 海角直播 of Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"
Two UCF students pursuing master’s degrees recently received Frost Scholarships to study at the 海角直播 of Oxford in England during the upcoming academic year. The scholarships for Joey Velez-Ginorio \u201918<\/strong> and Michael Dieffenbach \u201918<\/strong> cover all university fees and a grant for living costs of about $19,000.<\/p>\n Velez-Ginorio, a 2017 Goldwater Scholar, caught the attention of Oxford with his work in artificial intelligence research. Velez-Ginorio is interested in building programs and machines that think as the human brain does, and he hopes to continue developing his research at Oxford.<\/p>\n \u201cBy studying people and how they accomplish certain tasks so well, you can apply that to machines,\u201d says Velez-Ginorio.<\/p>\n Velez-Ginorio is majoring in computer engineering<\/a> and minoring in mathematics<\/a> and will pursue a master\u2019s degree in mathematics<\/a> focusing on programming languages and computer science.<\/p>\n The McNair Scholar\u2019s passion for research lead him to encourage others to get involved. Through working with the Academic Advancement Programs office at UCF and the organization SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos\/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science), Velez-Ginorio helps make research opportunities more accessible to underrepresented students.<\/p>\n After completing the master\u2019s program at Oxford, Velez-Ginorio will pursue his doctorate in brain and cognitive sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n