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From bias to creativity: USF labs to bring breakthrough AI research to EMNLP 2025
This year’s EMNLP follows a steady pattern of Bellini College research appearing in top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ACL. USF faculty members’ continued presence at EMNLP underscores the momentum of the college’s research agenda and affirms its impact. It also fosters new collaborations.
October 6, 2025Artificial Intelligence, Research
Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers
What characteristics drive scientific discovery? Experience is often seen as key, with success coming from years of knowledge building and collaboration. Nature featured work from faculty member Raiyan Abdul Baten in this piece. He found that research teams with high fractions of beginners tend to be more disruptive and innovative.
October 2, 2025Research
Inaugural Advisory Board Meeting
The inaugural meeting of the college's Academic Advisory Board was held in September, bringing together distinguished leaders from industry to help shape programs, highlight workforce needs, and strengthen partnerships.
October 1, 2025Research
Persistence pays off: USF IT student earns Silicon Valley role
Carlos Trevisan has never been satisfied just knowing that something works. " I want to understand how it works,” says the USF Information Technology major. “I’ve been interested in computers since I was a kid, starting when I was 9 years old when I built my own server.” This led him on a long journey, till he recently received a full-time software engineering position -- a full year before graduation. He will be a full-time ServiceNow employee in California starting in July 2026.
October 1, 2025Artificial Intelligence, Computing
Shifting missions: How one Marine found a future in cybersecurity at USF
Whether it is building computer networks, bringing shoes to children who had none, or protecting systems that safeguard nations, Powers’ story and mission are linked to service. Powers is an example of the type of graduate student that USF’s Bellini College is attracting: resilient leaders with real-world experience, eager to gain advanced technical expertise.
September 29, 2025Cybersecurity
4 takeaways from Spotlight Tampa Bay on artificial intelligence
The Tampa Bay Times hosted a free community conversation around AI, in partnership with the Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg. Here’s what panelists said.
September 26, 2025Artificial Intelligence
Explaining the black box: USF Bellini doctoral student helps clinicians decipher voice AI reasoning
When you visit a doctor, you expect clear answers. But what happens when artificial intelligence joins the conversation? USF doctoral student Mohamed Ebraheem is working at the crossroads of medicine and computer science to make “voice AI” a tool that physicians and patients can trust.
September 22, 2025Artificial Intelligence, Research
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