Brent Pappas

Service


October 2025

UCF CS Grad Symposium 2025 Student Panelist. Orlando, Florida.

  • Early PhD Advice: Recommended that new graduate students remain humble and start honing their communication skills immediately after starting a PhD.
August 2025

UCF GradLaunch PhD Panelist. Orlando, Florida.

  • Advising: Instructed new graduate students how to manage their time and organize their day in order to be productive researchers.
August 2025

UCF "Surviving Graduate School" Panelist. Orlando, Florida.

  • Community engagement: Taught prospective graduate students how to become active in the UCF community.
June 2025

Camp Connect Lab Leader. Orlando, Florida.

  • Human Computer Interaction Lessons: Gave primary school students hands-on training with biometric equipment, including respiration belts, EDA and ECG sensors, fNIRS headbands, and eye-tracking sensors.
May 2025

UCF Graduate School Info Session PhD Panel. Orlando, Florida.

  • Advising: Answered undergraduate students’ questions about UCF’s Computer Science PhD program.
April 2024

UCF CECS Senior Design Judge. Orlando, Florida.

  • Judging: Assessed capstone projects for seniors of the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
October 2022

UCF CECS Career Kickoff Alumni Mentor. Virtual.

  • Mentoring: Advised UCF freshmen on goal-setting, resume-building, and overall professionalism.
May 2024

NAC - NAPC Volunteer. Orlando, Florida.

  • Competition setup: Moved computers and cables to the competition room for the 2024 North American Championship and Programming Camp (NAC-NAPC), hosted at UCF.
2024

OOPLSA 2024 Artifact Evaluation Committee Member. Virtual.

  • Artifact Review: Reviewed code associated with papers accepted to OOPLSA 2024. Distinguished reviewer.
June 2023

Camp Connect Lab Leader. Orlando, Florida.

  • Javascript lessons: Taught primary school students the basics of computer programming in JavaScript.
Nov - Dec 2022

EuroSys 2023 Sahdow Program Committee Member. Virtual.

  • Paper review: Reviewed submissions to EuroSys 2023.
June 2021

Camp Connect Lab Leader. Orlando, Florida.

  • Computer programmming lessons: Engaged primary school students in computer programming lessons through a series of programming-themes games.