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James Anderson, Assistant Professor of Instruction
ENG 215 | 813-974-3032 | Email
Research: Electrical and Healthcare Networks, Cybersecurity

Marvin Andujar, Assistant Professor
ENB 316 | 813-974-8421 | Email
Research: Brain-computer interfaces, brain-robot interaction, personal informatics, ubiquitous computing, symbiotic interaction, affective computing

Shaun Canavan, Assistant Professor
ENB 315 | 813-974-3137 | Email
Research: Computer vision, face and sketch recognition, expression analysis, human computer interaction, facial feature detection and tracking
Sriram Chellappan, Professor
ENB 317 | 813-974-1379 | Email
Research: Socio-technical systems, cybersecurity, smart health, mobile networking, cyber-physical systems, mobile and wireless computings
Awards: NSF CAREER (2013)

Ken Christensen, Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Affairs
ENB 319 | 813-974-4761 | Email
Research: Performance evaluation of computer networks, high-speed packet switch architectures, energy-efficient networks (green networks)
Awards: NSF CAREER (1998), USF CSE Broadening Participation in Computing Award (2022), USF Kosove Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Service Award (2017), USF Excellence in Innovation Award (2009), USF Teaching Incentive Program Award (1998)

Suey-Chun (Roger) Fang, Associate Professor of Instruction
ENG 016 | 813-974-2398 | Email
Research: Data modeling, data warehousing, information systems, deductive databases, visual programming

William Gauvin, Professor of Practice
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Research: Malware analysis techniques using machine learning, Cyber Threat Information Sharing (CTIS) aggregation, replication and autodetection/mitigation

Alessio Gaspar, Associate Professor
ENB 343E | 813-974-2932 | Email
Research: Evolutionary algorithms, computing education research, computer assisted learning, intelligent tutoring systems

Dmitry B. Goldgof, Distinguished University Professor and Vice Chair
ENB 326 | 813-974-4055 | Email
Research: Medical image analysis, image and video processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, ethics and computing, bioinformatics and bioengineering
Awards: AAIA Fellow (2018), AIMBE Fellow (2017), AAAS Fellow (2016), IAPR Fellow (2010), USF Excellence in Innovation Award (2020)

Lawrence Hall, Distinguished University Professor
ENB 330 | 813-974-4195 | Email
Research: Intelligent systems, machine learning/data mining, fuzzy logic in intelligent systems, artificial intelligence in visual pattern recognition
Awards: AIMBE Fellow (2018), AAAS Fellow (2013), IAPR Fellow (2010), IEEE Fellow (2003)

William Hendrix III, Assistant Professor of Instruction and Undergraduate Program Coordinator for Computer
Science and Computer Engineering
ENB 301C | 813-974-7453 | Email
Research: Graph algorithms, parallel computing

Isabela M. Hidalgo, Assistant Professor of Instruction
ENB 301B | 813-974-6048 | Email
Research: Human-computer interaction, programming languages

Henrick Jeanty, Assistant Professor of Instruction
ENG 017 | 813-974-1982 | Email
Research: Technical analysis algorithm, optical character recognition

Robert Karam, Assistant Professor
ENB 341 | 813-974-4184 | Email
Research: Hardware security, reconfigurable computing, bioimplantable devices (algorithms & digital hardware)

Srinivas Katkoori, Associate Professor
ENB 258 | 813-974-5737 | Email
Research: High-level synthesis, low power synthesis, radiation tolerant VLSI design and CAD
Awards: NSF CAREER (2001), USF Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award (2013), USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (2007), USF Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award (2003)

Gene Louis Kim, Assistant Professor
ENB 376 | (813)-396-2882 | Email
Research: Gene's research aims to integrate the benefits of neural and symbolic methods for modeling language meaning which supports automatic parsing and computer reasoning while being informed by linguistic semantics.
Awards: University of Rochester Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Fellow (2015-2017)

Seungbae Kim, Assistant Professor
ENB 311 |(813)-396-2881| Email
Research: Artificial intelligence, Graph neural networks, Machine learning (Fairness and Explainability), Social network analysis, Applied data science

Valentina Korzhova, Assistant Professor of Instruction
ENB 343G | 813-974-0909 | Email
Research: Computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition

Wanwan Li, Visiting Assistant Professor
ENB 343K| 3217329405 | Email
Research: Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Augmented Virtuality, Edutainment & e-Training, Procedural Modeling, Computational Design, Deep Learning, Sketch-Based Interface, Brain-Computer Interface

John Licato, Assistant Professor
ENB 301D | 813-974-6212 | Email
Research: Artificial Intelligence, natural language processing (NLP), computational cognitive modeling, cognitive science and robotics, automated theorem provers, argumentation, human reasoning
Awards: AFOSR Young Investigator’s Award (2017)

Jay Ligatti, Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions
ENB 333 | 813-974-0908 | Email
Research: Runtime Security Mechanisms, Authentication, Policy Composition, Injection Attacks, Enforceability Theory, Type Systems, Subtyping, Policy-Specification Languages
Awards: NSF CAREER (2008), Best-paper award at ACM PLDI (2007), Test of Time Award at ACM CCS (2015)

Yao Liu, Associate Professor
ENB 336 | 813-974-1079 | Email
Research: Network security, wireless technologies
Awards: NSF CAREER (2016)

Ankur Mali, Assistant Professor
ENB247A | Email
Research: Trustworthy AI, Deep learning theory, Natural language processing, Memory augmented neural networks, Physics informed NNs, Bio-inspired neural architectures, and Lifelong learning.
Prasant Mohapatra Professor, Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs
ENB 320| Email
Research: Computer networks, wireless networks, mobile systems and communications, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity.
Awards: Certificate of Recognition for Research Response to Community Crisis, APLU (2021), Distinguished Professor of UC Davis (2019), Distinguished Alumnus Award, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India (2015), Biju Patnaik Lifetime Scientific Excellence Award, Government of Odisha, India (2015), Fellow of AAAS (2013), HP Labs Innovation Award (2011, 2012, 2013), Outstanding Engineering Faculty Research Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis (2011), Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award, Pennsylvania State University (2008).

Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, Associate Professor
ENB 338 | 813-974-2671 | Email
Research: Fault diagnosis and tolerance in cryptography, cryptographic engineering, computer arithmetic
Awards: USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2020), USF Nexus Initiative Global Award (2019), USF College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Research Achievement Award (2018)

John Murray-Bruce, Assistant Professor
ENB 117A | Email
Research: Computational imaging, PDE-constrained inverse problems, computational sensing, sampling theory and applications

Tempestt Neal, Assistant Professor
ENB 310 |813-396-9353 | Email
Research: Scalable biometrics, mobile biometrics, computer vision, authorship attribution, human-centered authentication, soft biometric classification, emotion recognition
Awards: NSF CAREER (2023), McKnight Junior Faculty Fellow (2021)

Xinming (Simon) Ou, Professor
ENB 339 | 813-974-4522 | Email
Research: Cyber security, cyber physical systems, programming languages, cloud computing, human aspects of computing
Awards: NSF CAREER (2010)

Marbin Pazos-Revilla, Assistant Professor of Instruction and Systems Administrator
ENB 343C | 813-974-5043 | Email
Research: Cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, internet of things, engineering education

Les A. Piegl, Professor
ENC 2501 | 813-974-5234 | Email
Research: Computer-aided design, geometric modeling, computer graphics and analysis, design of geometric algorithms
Awards: William Mong Research Fellow The University of Hong Kong (2003), Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (1985), USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (1991), USF Teaching Incentive Program Award (1993)

Richard Rauscher, Professor of Practice
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Research: Network/IoT security related to healthcare environments, optimization of basic/clinical research data flows/data warehousing/"big data", quantum computing as applied to life sciences and healthcare

Dayane Reis, Assistant Professor
ENB 318 |(813)-396-2837| Email
Research: VLSI, low power design, AI accelerators, emerging technologies, hardware security
Awards: Best paper award at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and Low Power Design in 2018 (ISLPED’18), Cadence Women in Technology (WIT) Scholar 2018/2019

Sudeep Sarkar, Distinguished University Professor and Department Chair
ENB 345 | 813-974-2113 | Email
Research: Computer vision and image analysis, automated sign language, recognition biometrics and human identification, perceptual organization for grouping and segmentation, Bayesian methods
Awards: NAI Fellow (2017), AIMBE Fellow (2016), NSF CAREER (1995), USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (1998)

Schinnel Small, Assistant Professor of Instruction and Undergraduate Program Coordinator for Information
Technology
ENB 343F | 813-974-2126 | Email
Research: Programming languages, computer architecture, visual analytics

Yu Sun, Professor
ENB 331 | 813-974-7508 | Email
Research: Intelligent systems, robotics, cyber physical systems and virtual reality, computer vision, medical image processing, deep learning
Awards: USF Excellence in Innovation Award (2018), USF Neuroscience Collaborative Award (2010)

Yicheng Tu, Professor
ENB 340 | 813-974-2114 | Email
Research: Database systems, multimedia systems, distributed systems
Awards: NSF CAREER (2013), USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2014), USF Outstanding Faculty Award (2014)

Philip Ventura, Associate Professor of Instruction
ENG 211 | 813-974-0552 | Email
Research: Computer science education, pedagogy of object orientation, objects-first introductory CS curricula

Jing Wang, Professor of Instruction and Director of Broadening Participation in Computing
ENC 3501 | 813-974-6897 | Email
Research: Computer animation, broadening participation in computing, undergraduate computer science and engineering education
Awards: USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award (2020), Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of South Florida (2011)

Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs
ENB 314 | 813-974-4905 | Email
Research: Biologically-inspired robotics, cognitive robotics, humanoid robots, multi-robot systems

Julia Woodward, Assistant Professor
ENB 332 |(813)-396-2828 | Email
Research: Human-centered computing, human-computer interaction, natural user interfaces, child-computer interaction, mobile computing, multimodal interaction, learning technologies
Awards: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2019)

Attila A. Yavuz, Associate Professor
ENG 117 | 813-974-0419 | Email
Research: Applied cryptography, privacy enhancing technologies, light-weight cryptography, cyber-security for critical cyber-infrastructures (e.g., internet of things and cloud systems), network security
Awards: NSF CAREER (2017-2023), Cisco Research Awards (2019,2020, 2022), USF Excellence in Innovation Award (2022), USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2020), USF College of Engineering’s Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2020)

Yan Zhang, Assistant Professor of Instruction
ENB 343A | 813-974-9653 | Email
Research: Congestion control and energy optimization in data center networks, content delivery acceleration over wide area networks, energy efficient networking

Hao Zheng, Associate Professor
ENB 312 | 813-974-4757 | Email
Research: Hardware/Software testing and verification, embedded systems, computer architecture, VLSI design, electronic design automation
Awards: NSF CAREER (2006), Best Paper Award, the 21st International SPIN Symposium of Model Checking of Software (2014), USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2007)
Adjunct Faculty

Carol Hoeke
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Emeritus Faculty

Harvey Glass, Emeritus Professor
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Research: Operating systems, programming languages, embedded systems design

Abraham Kandel, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
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Research: Applied fuzzy logic and computational intelligence, software testing and productivity, decision-making in uncertain environments, data mining
Rangachar Kasturi, Douglas W. Hood Professor Emeritus
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Research: Computer vision, pattern recognition, document image analysis

Rafael Perez, Professor
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Research: Artificial intelligence, neural networks, genetic algorithms

Dewey Rundus, Emeritus Professor
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Research: Human-computer interaction

Murali Varanasi, Emeritus Professor
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Research: Coding theory, computer arithmetic
Affiliated Faculty

Jean-Francois Biasse, Affiliated Faculty
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Peter R. Mouton, Affiliated Faculty
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Matthew Peterson, Affiliated Faculty
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Paul Sanberg, Affiliated Faculty
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Ankit Shah, Affiliated Faculty
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