People
Faculty
Dr. Patricia Anzalone, CPEM
Professor of Instruction & MSEM Program Director
Research Interests: Engineering Management, Human-Machine systems Engineering, Quality
and Continuous Improvement, and Safety Engineering Office: ENC 2202 | Phone:
813-974-5573

Dr. Hadi Charkhgard
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Multi-Objective Optimization, Operations Research, Integer Programming,
and Artificial Inteligence
Office: ENC 2509 | Phone: 813-974-2090 |Website

Dr. Jamie Chilton
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Research Interests: Engineering Education, Engineering Management, Productivity, Economics,
and Entrepreneurship
Office: ENG 009 | Phone: 813-974-7918

Dr. Tapas K. Das
Professor
Department Chair
Research Interests: Pandemic Mitigation, Healthcare Engineering, and Electric Power
Systems & Policy
Bio | Office: ENC 2403|Phone: 813-974-5585

Dr. Changhyun Kwon
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Transportation Systems Analysis, Service Operations, and Risk
Management
Office: ENC 2506 | Phone: 813-974-5588|Website

Dr. Susana Lai-Yuen
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Deep learning, Machine Learning, Image Analysis, Computational
Geometry, and Engineering Education
Office: ENC 2505 | Phone: 813-974-5547 | Website

Dr. Trung Le
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Data-Driven and Sensor-based Modeling, Bio-instrumentation and
Bio-signal Processing, Predictive analytics
Office: ENC 2200 | Website

Dr. Mingyang Li
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Data Science and Informatics, Bayesian Statistics, Reliability
and Quality, and Heathcare Analytics
Office: ENC 2203|Phone: 813-974-5579 | Website

Dr. Kingsley Reeves
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director
Research Interests: Education Engineering, Lean Six Sigma, and Engineering Education
For Student Appointments
Office: 2405 | Phone: 813-974-3352 | Website

Dr. Alex Savachkin
Associate Professor
Graduate Director (IE)
Research Interests: Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems
Bio | Office: ENC 2201 | Phone: 813-974-5577

Dr. Ankit Shah
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Cybersecurity Analytics, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Adversarial
Machine Learning, Combinatorial Optimization, and Stochastic Dynamic Programming
Website | Office : ENC 2211 | Phone: 813-974-5584

Dr. Walter Silva
Assistant Professor of Instruction & Director of Graduate Certificate Programs.
Research Interests: Pandemic Mitigation, Data Analytics, Applied O.R., and Engineering
Education
Office: ENG 010 | Phone: 813-974-9442

Dr. Michael Weng
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Applied O.R., Computer Numeric Methods, and Scheduling
Office: ENC 2211 | Phone: 813-974-5575

Dr. Ali Yalcin
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Health and Engineering Systems Modeling, Analytics Applications,
and Engineering Education
Bio & Website |Office: ENC 2213 | Phone: 813-974-5590

Dr. José Zayas-Castro
Professor
Research Interests: Healthcare Systems Engineering, Economic and Cost Systems, Manufacturing
and R&D strategy, Engineering Education, and Engineering Entrepreneurship
Office: ENC 3509 | Phone: 813-974-5589