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December 21, 2020 Collaborative paper wins award at 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems

December 18, 2020 Dr. Adriana Iamnitchi recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member

December 11, 2020 Fall 2020 Computer Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduates

December 7, 2020 Shamaria Engram makes CSE history

December 3, 2020 Canavan and Uddin winners in IEEE FG 2020 EmoPain Challenge

December 1, 2020 CSE Ph.D. student MD Taufeeq Uddin won the grand prize for the PepsiCo Data Science Innovation Challenge 

December 1, 2020 Lawrence Hall elected to IEEE Board of Directors 

November 18, 2020 USF Computer Science and Engineering Receives Grant to Attract and Retain More Women Computer Scientists

November 18, 2020 Lawrence Hall gives keynote at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

October 21, 2020 Sriram Chellappan’s paper receives ACM CSCW Honorable Mention Award

October 12, 2020 Attila Yavuz receives USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award

October 5, 2020 Simon Ou receives IEEE DSN Test of Time Award for “Using Bayesian networks for cyber security analysis”

October 1, 2020 USF researchers win top prize in the Upscaling Euro Data Cube COVID-19 contest organized by the European Space Agency

September 29, 2020 Attila A. Yavuz receives second Cisco Award for “Trustworthy and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Platforms”

September 24, 2020 Paul Rosen awarded collaborative National Institutes of Health (NIH) R34 grant to test smartphone apps for self-management of adolescent asthma

September 24, 2020 Sriram Chellappan investigator for National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to identify disease-carrying mosquitoes with smartphone

September 16, 2020 John Licato receives USF award for Blackness and Anti-Black Racism Research Grant

September 15, 2020 Yao Liu awarded $500,000 NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace grant

September 11, 2020 Computing Education Research & Evolutionary Algorithm Lab awarded $377,012 NSF grant

September 4, 2020 Yu Sun and Dmitry Goldgof receive R21 collaborative grant from NIH's National Institute of Nursing Research

August 11, 2020 Marvin Andujar Awarded $80,205 NSF EAGER award

August 3, 2020 CSE Researchers Design AI Algorithms to Automate Vector Surveillance

June 23, 2020 Sudeep Sarkar Awarded Collaborative National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant to build computer vision/AI algorithms that understand events from videos

June 1, 2020 Sylvia Thomas (EE), Tempestt Neal (CSE), Graphaware, Inc. Awarded $200,000 NSF Grant

May 29, 2020 Tempestt Neal Awarded $25,000 Grant as Part of USF’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Effort

May 29, 2020 Sudeep Sarkar Awarded $24,925 Grant as Part of USF’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Effort

May 21, 2020 AI+X researchers win COVID-19 Custom Script Contest from the European Space Agency

May 21, 2020 CSE graduate students Dante Tezza and Sarah Garcia receive the Generation Google scholarship

May 20, 2020 Sarah Garcia receives SMART scholarship

May 20, 2020 Hunter Morera receives Alfred P. Sloan scholarship

May 6, 2020 Robert Karam, Srinivas Katkoori, and Mozaffari Kermani Awarded $500,000 NSF Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace Education Grant

May 6, 2020 Mozaffari Kermani awarded $500,000 NIST Grant

May 6, 2020 CSE Student Blanche Pinto receives AfterCollege Engineering & Tech Student Scholarship and Golden Bull Award

May 4, 2020 USF CSE chosen to be a BRAID affiliates institution

May 1, 2020 CSE Students Alexander Palasek and Jody Rutter Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa

April 24, 2020 USF CSE Alum, Cindy Bethel, gets appointed to the Computing Research Association

April 23, 2020 CSE student Willie McClinton receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award

March 9, 2020 Dr. Jing Wang was awarded the 2020 WLP Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award

March 9, 2020 CSE student organizations participate in Engineering Expo 2020

February 10, 2020 CSE Students Akash Singh and Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov named MLH Top 50 Hackers for 2020

December 13, 2019 Fall 2019 Induction Ceremony

November 22, 2019 John Morgan receives Outstanding Undergraduate Advising Award

November 22, 2019 Yao Liu awarded the Test of Time Award at the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

November 20, 2019 CSE Whitehatters Computer Security Club places in the top third nationally at the Department of Energy’s CyberForce Competition

November 6, 2019 USF CSE Whitehatters Computer Security Club won second place at the Raymond James Capture the Flag Competition

October 25, 2019 USF Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Blanche Pinto awarded the 2019-2020 Nutanix Women in Technology Scholarship

October 21, 2019 USF Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. students Sarah Garcia and Jorge Adorno Nieves awarded GMiS Scholarships

October 18, 2019 CSE Society of Competitive Programmers elevates USF's status in the hacking community

October 9, 2019 CSE participates in Hispanic Heritage Month

October 8, 2019 Trent Callahan and Trevor Ammons each awarded a $1,500 NSF travel grant

October 8, 2019 Tempestt Neal accepted into the ACM Future of Computing Academy

October 8, 2019 Simon Ou awarded a $42,000 U.S. Navy STTR grant

October 8, 2019 Yu Sun awarded a $334,823 NSF Grant to continue robotics research

September 23, 2019 Stereology Resource Center, Inc. awarded $736,172 NSF Phase II grant

August 22, 2019 Intel gifts $40,000 to USF Foundation in support of Hao Zheng’s research

August 19, 2019 Saurabh Hinduja will present at the 2019 IEEE Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference

August 13, 2019 Tracy Miller awarded the SMART Scholarship

July 7, 2019 Sheikh Ariful Islam awarded conference travel grant

July 3, 2019 Troi Williams awarded a 2019 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant

June 25, 2019 Dmitry Goldgof and Mehran Mozaffari Kermani awarded USF Nexus Initiative Grants

June 25, 2019 Attila Yavuz awarded the Cisco Research Center Award

June 20, 2019 Engineering Alum Honors His Father with a Scholarship Fund

June 11, 2019 Sudeep Sarkar, Mauricio Pamplona Segundo, and Earnest Hansley place second in the Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge

June 11, 2019 Doctoral Student ATM Golam Bari Elevated to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member

June 6, 2019 USF Computer Science and Engineering Students Awarded Graduate Fellowships

May 28, 2019 Giovanni Ciampaglia awarded $300K NSF Grant

May 20, 2019 Graduate Students Present at VA 21st Annual Research Day

May 6, 2019 USF Hosts Its Second Annual Hackathon

April 12, 2019 2019-2020 Computer Science and Engineering Scholarship Awardees

March 11, 2019 USF Students Win 2019 Knighthacks

March 11, 2019 Association for Computer Machinery Builds Smart Mirror for 2019 Engineering Expo

March 1, 2019 2018 Distinguished University Professor Lecture: Dr. Dmitry Goldgof

February 25, 2019 CSE Participates in Black Heritage Month

February 18, 2019 Alumni Accomplishment - Himanshu Thapliyal ‘11

February 14, 2019 Giovanni Ciampaglia is guest panelist on 1A

February 5, 2019 CSE Partners with The National Center for Women & Information Technology

February 4, 2019 CSE Participates in Synapse Summit 2019

January 3, 2019 Diego Fabiano Santalices Receives Honorable Mention for CRA Undergraduate Researcher Award 2019

December 11, 2018 WiCSE Officers Participate in 2018 Great American Teach-in

November 27, 2018 Miguel Labrador awarded $225K NINR for HeartMapp Project

November 27, 2018 Society of Competitive Programmers at Cal Hacks

November 27, 2018 In Memory of Nagarajan “Ranga” Ranganathan

November 8, 2018 Whitehatters Student Computer Security Club Competes in National Cybersecurity Competition

November 6, 2018 CSE Publications in ACM Symposium on Computer and Communications Security

November 5, 2018 Alumni Accomplishment - Lakecia Gunter ‘95

November 1, 2018 Alumni Accomplishment - Jeremy Blackburn ‘14

October 30, 2018 Mind & Machine: Flying Drones with Your Brain

October 29, 2018 Inventors Network through the National Academy of Inventors

October 9, 2018 Department of Computer Science and Engineering and WICSE at TAPIA 2018

October 3, 2018 Whitehatters Place Third in A-ISAC Collegiate Aviation-themed Capture The Flag (CTF) Challenge

September 17, 2018 Department Advisory Board Meeting for 2018

September 17, 2018 Sriram Chellappan, co-PI, for a $750K NSF grant with UCF

September 14, 2018 Steven Díaz Hernández named Class of 2018 HENAAC Scholar

September 12, 2018 Alumni Accomplishment - Christopher "Gus" Eggert '14 

September 10, 2018 Mehran Mozaffari Kermani awarded $300K NSF grant as part of a $1.2 million multi-university project

September 6, 2018 Sudeep Sarkar is Panel Moderator for TiE Tampa Bay

September 6, 2018 CSE PhD Student Sarah Garcia featured in Adobe Internship Video

September 4, 2018 Xinming Ou and Jarred Ligatti awarded $500K NSF grant as part of a $1.2 million multi-university project

August 31, 2018 CSE's Inaugural WoW Event a Success

August 21, 2018 Week of Welcome: Class of 2022 Mixer

August 16, 2018 Yu Sun awarded $173,338 NSF Grant

August 16, 2018 Yu Sun awarded USF Excellence in Innovation Award

July 31, 2018 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Poster Competition

July 31, 2018 Lawrence Hall on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

July 23, 2018 USF ranks 31st out of 150 for Major League Hacking (MLH)

July 6, 2018 Alumni Accomplishment - Vijay Narayanan '98

July 6, 2018 Rodrigo Caldas named SOFWERX Intern of the Week

June 20, 2018 Florida Center for Cybersecurity Partners with USF and SOFWERX to Support Student Research into Smart Safehouses

June 12, 2018 Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Contribute to USF's Patent Record

June 12, 2018 2018 - 2019 Computer Science and Engineering Scholarship Awardees

June 11, 2018 Laura Owczarek named as Outstanding Staff for the College of Engineering

June 11, 2018 Dmitry Goldgof named Distinguished University Professor

May 29, 2018 ATM Golam Bari recipient of an International Travel Grant to the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence conference

May 15, 2018 Diego Fabiano and Shaun Canavan research on 3D facial expressions accepted to ICIP

May 14, 2018 Five Seniors presented Senior Project "Mixed Reality C-130 Loadmaster Simulation for CAE USA"

May 14, 2018 Alumni Accomplishment - Ashok Murugavel '03

April 30, 2018 Amber Imeh, Jessica Nguyen, and My Nguyen recipients of WLP Scholarships

April 27, 2018 Whitehatters Group Places Second in Capture the Flag Competition

April 23, 2018 Marvin Andujar represents USF at USA Science & Engineering Festival

April 23, 2018 Love Kumar Sah selected as winner in Graduate Student Research Symposium

April 20, 2018 Sudeep Sarkar granted United States Patent 9,877,668

April 20, 2018 Professors Dmitry Goldgof and Lawrence Hall along with Moffitt researcher Dr. Robert Gillies were granted United States Patent 9,940,709

April 18, 2018 Farhath Zareen to present poster at WISE Workshop

April 18, 2018 Ralph Tindell honored for commitment to teaching and service

April 17, 2018 Song Fang hired at The University of Oklahoma

April 17, 2018 Schinnel Small represents CSE at Black Girls Code Dinner

April 17, 2018 Lawrence Hall elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

April 16, 2018 Shakil Mahmud selected for NSF-sponsored travel grant

April 12, 2018 Marvin Andujar presents at Synapse Summit

April 10, 2018 Sudeep Sarkar and team take third prize at IARPA-sponsored international intelligence competition

March 29, 2018 USF's First National Hackathon Competition 

March 28, 2018 Flit-Path "Cohort A" scholarships granted to twenty-six pre-CS, CpE, and IT students

March 28, 2018 Willie McClinton awarded first place for presentation at 2018 ERN Conference, Washington, DC

March 20, 2018 Mauricio Pamplona Segundo and Sudeep Sarkar interviewed for The Next Platform

March 19, 2018 Srinivas Katkoori and team awarded $50,000 NSF ICorps Grant

March 4, 2018 Two Students Develop Study App with the Student Innovation Incubator at USF

February 6, 2018 Adjunct Instructor and Two Students Attend SheHacks at Boston University

February 6, 2018 Department of Computer Science and Engineering achieves higher ranking for MSIT Program

February 2, 2018 Flit-Path "Cohort B" scholarships granted to twelve pre-CS, CpE, and IT students

January 31, 2018 Professor Goldgof and the Engineering Faculty Receive Research Achievement Awards

January 31, 2018 Shaun Canavan awarded $50,000 from AWS Machine Learning Research Awards Program 

January 24, 2018 Qua'on Thomas on the USF Student Spotlight 

January 10, 2018 Dmitry B. Goldgof Received the National Science Foundation SSTR Phase I Grant

December 11, 2017 Computer Science and Sociology Researchers Team Up for DARPA Grant

October 24, 2017 Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Grace Hopper 2017

October 12, 2017 John Licato awarded AFOSR Young Investigator's Program Award

October 11, 2017 Lawrence Hall awarded IEEE SMC Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award

October 3, 2017 Collaborative Paper granted Best Paper Award

October 2, 2017 Student Team awarded Honorable Mention at IEEE Vast Challenge 2017

October 2, 2017 Faculty Receive NSF Grant to Detect Cyberbullying

September 30, 2017 Sudeep Sarkar awarded William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award

September 27, 2017 Cell Phone Users to Help Protect Water Supply

September 25, 2017 Jay Ligatti awarded Excellence in Innovation Award

September 20, 2017 Master's thesis by CSE student is in top 25 theses accessed on ProQuest

September 18, 2017 Alfredo Weitzenfeld awarded $494,420 from NSF

September 1, 2017 Sriram Chellappan awarded $28,000 from NSF

August 31, 2017 Yu Sun receives five new patents in the last year

August 28, 2017 Wellness App created by CSE students has a successful pilot

August 22, 2017 CSE welcomes Joshua Pericles, 2017 Tillman Military Scholar

August 15, 2017 Rangachar Kasturi awarded IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award

August 15, 2017 Adriana Iamnitchi and Yao Liu granted Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award

August 5, 2017 REU Program Travels to Oviedo, Spain

July 14, 2017 Student Ran Rui awarded Best Paper Runner-Up at SSDBM2017

June 27, 2017 Ashley Suh awarded CREU for research

June 10, 2017 Four CSE students awarded the A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Award

June 7, 2017 CSE faculty patent featured in recent USF news article

June 1, 2017 Shanie Lightbourne named as outstanding staff for the College of Engineering

May 25, 2017 Dr. Hao Zheng received $30,000 from Intel for supporting graduate research

May 23, 2017 Scholarships awarded to 8 undergraduate and 2 graduate students

May 11, 2017 Graduate student Ghada Zamzmi featured as IAPR “The Next Generation”

May 5, 2017 Patent granted to two Department faculty and two CSE graduate students 

May 4, 2017 Congratulations to Dave Armitage on his retirement after 15 years of service

April 22, 2017 Graduate student Rekha Govindaraj receives Provost’s Teaching Assistant Award

April 20, 2017 Flit-Path “Cohort B” scholarships granted to twenty pre-CS, CpE, and IT students

April 20, 2017 Flit-Path “Cohort A” scholarships granted to fourteen pre-CS, CpE, and IT students

April 16, 2017 Alumnus Jeremy Ramos receives College Outstanding Young Alumni Award

April 2, 2017 Osniel Quintana earns Goldwater Honorable Mention

March 31, 2017 Dr. Labrador pioneers the first ever NSF-funded overseas summer REU program

March 30, 2017 Department announces updates to MSIT program

March 23, 2017 Yao Liu awarded a Department of Defense DURIP grant

March 18, 2017 Alumnus co-founded company Unifi rakes in $17.5 million in new funding

March 17, 2017 Shamaria Engram awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award

March 16, 2017 Computer Engineering graduate program ranked 48th in US News & World Report

March 6, 2017 Department faculty receive Florida Center for Cybersecurity Collaborative Seed Awards

March 2, 2017 Department faculty honored at AAAS Fellows Luncheon

February 22, 2017 Professor Labrador collaborates with College of Nursing on improving heart failure care

February 5, 2017 William Hendrix receives USF STEER grant to attend ACM SIGCSE conference

February 1, 2017 Sam Hawkins, graduate student, awarded Editor's Choice

February 1, 2017 Dmitry Goldgof Elected as AIMBE Fellow

December 16, 2016  VuEssense Ince. has joined USF's Tampa Bay Technology Incubator

December 14, 2016  Sudeep Sarkar selected as Fellow in the National Academy of Inventors

December 10, 2016 Department Faculty co-organize the first Florida Security Workshop

December 10, 2016 Sriram Chellappan traveling to Bangladesh and India to give invited talks

December 1, 2016  Professors Goldgof, Sarkar and Sun received DOD/VA funding

November 29, 2016  CSE ranked #1 in University for Faculty Awards

November 21, 2016  Dmitry Goldgof named Fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

November 21, 2016  Yao Liu's Discovery of Using Radio Waves to Steal WiFi Passwords Featured in the Press

November 14, 2016  Sudeep Sarkar Named Chairperson of CSE 

November 11, 2016  College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Research Achievement Award

October 25, 2016  Department faculty awarded NSF grant

October 3, 2016  Professor Goldgof profiled in IEEE Systems, Man, & Cybernetics magazine

July 7, 2016  Patent granted to two Department faculty and CSE graduate students 

June 27, 2016  Xinming Ou Travels to Portugal to Give an Invited Talk at GraMSec 2016

June 10, 2016  Two Department faculty and CSE alumni receive patent

June 10, 2016  Larry Hall travels to China to give invited talks

June 7, 2016  Department Graduate Students Win Awards at DAC PhD Forum

May 31, 2016  Department Faculty Partner with CBT Holding to Study and Apply VTE

April 22, 2016  Paul Rosen and international collaborators receive Best Paper Award at IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 

April 6, 2016  Shamaria Engram awarded a National GEM Consortium PhD Fellowship

March 31, 2016  USF Robobulls qualify for RoboCup World Championship

March 25, 2016  USF students are finalists in Embedded Security Challenge at CSAW Conference 2015 

March 11, 2016  Paul Rosen receives awards at International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications Awards

February 29, 2016  Yu Sun receives NSF grant

February 24, 2016  Swaroop Ghosh receives ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award

February 16, 2016  Assistant Professor Yao Liu awarded NSF CAREER award

January 19, 2016  Sudeep Sarkar elected as AIMBE Fellow

December 16, 2015  NSF Grant Awarded to Multi-Department Faculty

December 9, 2015  Paul Rosen awarded ALMA Development Project grant from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory

December 7, 2015  Swaroop Ghosh invited to serve on Senior Editorial Board of IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS)

November 17, 2015 Swaroop Ghosh receives College of Engineering Outstanding Research Achievement Award

November 8, 2015  Swaroop Ghosh receives 2015 DARPA Young Faculty Award Recipient

November 4, 2015  Swaroop Ghosh receives USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award

November 4, 2015  Jay Ligatti receives Test of Time Award

October 28, 2015  Sudeep Sarkar on team creating new form of computing using circular nanomagnets

October 26, 2015  Sudeep Sarkar co-author of Nature paper

September 11, 2015  Two Department Faculty Receive NSF Grant

September 8, 2015  Associate Professor Anda Iamnitchi awarded NSF grant

August 28, 2015  Paul Rosen receives NSF grant

June 25, 2015  CSE professors awarded NSF Grant

June 3, 2015  Rangachar Kasturi receives 2015 Richard E. Merwin Distinguished Award