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USF Launches Florida’s First AI-Named College: The Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Computing
Central Florida Lifestyle Magazine calls the opening of USF’s Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing “a bold step to prepare students for careers in emerging technologies and national security — sectors experiencing exponential growth and urgent workforce needs.”
September 22, 2025
Choosing Computer Science Over Medicine
Isadora Grasel grew up surrounded by medicine. Her parents are doctors, her uncle practices medicine and her great-grandfather was a World War II physician in Germany. She thought she might follow the same path. Saving lives and serving others was something she felt called to do.
September 18, 2025Artificial Intelligence, Computing, Research
Turning Ideas into Algorithms
As one of USF’s first master’s students studying AI, Charitie Martino wants to fuse computer modeling with how the mind works. She wants to take those hard-to-pin-down concepts in psychology – things like memory, attention, and learning – throw them into models that AI computers can test, and measure to see what happens.
September 16, 2025Artificial Intelligence, Research
Preparing for the next wave of cyberthreats: USF and Cisco Research at the forefront of post-quantum cybersecurity research
The University of South Florida’s Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing is joining forces with Cisco Research and leading researchers from Purdue, Rutgers and Northeastern to prepare for the next wave of cyberthreats in post-quantum cybersecurity.
From Criminology to Cybersecurity
When Eduarda Koop was growing up in Brazil, she used to joke that she wanted to be a hacker. She never imagined that it could actually become a career path.
September 15, 2025Cybersecurity
From hurricanes to hidden threats: advanced computing research that can save people and the planet
With more than three decades of experience in academia and industry, including work at NASA in the 1990s, Chandra Kambhamettu believes that deep research and real-world problem solving aren’t mutually exclusive. They’re inseparable.
August 25, 2025Artificial Intelligence, Research
USF tech can see around corners, through obstacles
Typical X-ray machines, including those found in hospitals and airports, can scan objects from about three feet away. Researchers at the University of South Florida have achieved 97% accuracy at a mile.
August 20, 2025Artificial Intelligence, Computing, Research
Curiosity, Code, and a Cyber Path
Before she could say motherboard, Michelle McAveety was playing with computers. From tinkering on an early MacIntosh computer while sitting in a booster seat to building PCs with her dad at the age of 6 to programming in high school, the USF computer engineering major has grown up surrounded by wires, code and curiosity.
August 18, 2025Cyberherd, Cybersecurity
From Scratch Projects to Google Internship
Google intern Anzhelika Kurnikova spent her summer working in New York City, contributing to real-projects for a global technology giant. “I can’t share all the details,” she said, “but we are focused on making sure the systems work well and can scale. It is less about what is flashy and more about what is functional.”
Chatbots learned to write from us. Can AI now change the way we think?
In this CBC article, faculty member John Licato says the amount of AI and bot-generated content we're consuming is higher than it's ever been, and will likely increase. That could bring challenges: "When you have AI that's continually trained on its own data, things like biases get worse after multiple generations. Mistakes get worse after every generation," he says.
August 14, 2025
USF building new college for AI, cybersecurity with help from major benefactor
Our new college launches this month and in this WTVT FOX 13 story, naming donor Arnie Bellini says USF is uniquely positioned to house the artificial intelligence and cybersecurity programs.
August 14, 2025
USF CyberHerd captures first place at world’s largest hacker conference
The University of South Florida’s CyberHerd team claimed first place at DEF CON 33’s “Adversary Wars” Capture the Flag, capping the competitive team’s debut at what is widely regarded as the largest hacking and security conference in the world.
August 13, 2025Cyberherd, Cybersecurity