{"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 Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ Students Receive Frost Scholarships to Study at University of Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"
Two Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ students pursuing master’s degrees recently received Frost Scholarships to study at the University 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 Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ 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