Faculty

Research: Real-Time and Cyber-Physical Systems, Autonomous Systems, Formal Methods, Parallel and Distributed Systems, and Algorithms and Theory of Computation.

Office Hours: TBA

Research: Internet of Things security, cloud security, and machine learning

Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM (In Person or Teams)

Research: Cybersecurity, Systematic Security Analysis and Evaluation

Office Hours: Friday 11:10 AM to 12:10 PM, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Research:Electrical and Healthcare Networks, Cybersecurity

Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 3:30 PM to 4:40 PM (In Person in Office and on Teams)

Research: Network science, human-computer interaction, machine learning/deep learning, computational social science, affective computing, natural language processing, and graph data mining. His research focuses on building technology to enhance humans' soft skills and collective performances.

Office Hours: Thursday 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (In Person at ENG 116)

Research: Computer vision, face and sketch recognition, expression analysis, human computer interaction, facial feature detection and tracking

Office Hours: TBA

Research: Technology, ethics, and regulation and her research focuses on algorithmic liability, data governance, AI risks and children and responsible AI in general

Office Hours: Wednesday 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (In Person) or by appointment

Research: Socio-technical systems, cybersecurity, smart health, mobile networking, cyber-physical systems, mobile and wireless computings

Awards: NSF CAREER (2013)

Office Hours: Thursday 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM, Friday 8:45 AM to 10:45 AM

Research: AI/ML Safety, Multimodal Generative AI, Generative AI for Social Media Harm Mitigation, and Cooperative AI systems.

Office Hours: Tuesday 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM

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)

Office Hours: By appointment (In Person or Teams)

Research: Data modeling, data warehousing, information systems, deductive databases, visual programming

Office Hours: Monday 1:30pm - 4:30pm (In Person)

Research: performant, resilient , and cohesive hardware‑software ecosystems

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (In Person at ENB 301C)

Research: Evolutionary algorithms, computing education research, computer assisted learning, intelligent tutoring systems

Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 7:45 PM to 8:30 PM (CHE100), Thursday 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM (Online), or by appointment

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

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 11:00am to 12:00pm, or by appointment

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)

Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM and 1:45 PM to 2:30 PM (In Person), Monday 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM (TEAMS), or by email appointment

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)

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (ENB 330) or by appointment

Research: Human-robot interaction (HRI), robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), cognitive science, explainable AI, robot explanation, mobile manipulation, natural language generation and pragmatics, references, assistive robotics

Office Hours: TNA (On Parental Leave)

Research: Human-computer interaction, programming languages

Office Hours: Wednesday 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (In Person), or by appointment (Teams)

Research: Exploring the influence of olfactory-based computing systems and interactions on human cognitive experiences and abilities.

Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 10:00am - 12:00pm (Teams)

Research: High-Performance Computing and Communication; Machine Learning Systems; High-Performance Deep Learning; Distributed and Parallel Computing/Systems; Big Data Management and Reduction

Awards: First Place Award, ACM Student Research Competition, SC 2023; Best Paper Finalist, HPDC 2025; Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award, UC Riverside (2025); Dean's Distinguished Fellowship, UC Riverside (2022)

Office Hours: Wednesday 4:45 PM to 7:45 PM

Research: Technical analysis algorithm, optical character recognition

Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM (In Person)

Research: AI-enabled biological discovery, using machine learning, deep learning, and foundation models to unlock new insights from molecular biology data

Office Hours: Monday 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Tuesday 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Thursday 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Research: IoT Security, Emerging OS Security, Privacy Policy analysis

Awards: 2023 Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering & Science (COVES) Policy Fellow, CCI Symposium 2023 Best Poster, ACM CODASPY 2019 Best Paper Award

Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM (Teams), or by appointment

Research: biotechnology, environmental sustainability, generative AI for the fashion industry, software engineering, and education

Awards: Best Paper Award at AISys in 2024

Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM (In Person)

Research: optical flow estimation, 3D modeling, dynamic scene understanding, and biomedical image analysis

Awards: NSF CAREER Award, Senior Member of the IEEE, NASA's Outstanding Scientist Award in 1996, "Test of Time" award from Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision

Office Hours: TBA

Research: Hardware security, reconfigurable computing, bioimplantable devices (algorithms & digital hardware)

Office Hours: Thursday 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Research: biometrics, cybersecurity, generative AI, and trustworthy AI, particularly in healthcare

Awards: NSF CAREER Award, Best Paper Award from the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Computer Design

Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00pm-4:00pm

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)

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)

Office Hours: Monday 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Tuesday 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM (ENB 376)

Research: Artificial intelligence, Graph neural networks, Machine learning (Fairness and Explainability), Social network analysis, Applied data science

Office Hours: TBA

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)

Office Hours: NA (Sabbatical)

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)

Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM (In Person), or by appointment (In Person or Teams)

Research: Trustworthy AI, Deep learning theory, Natural language processing, Memory augmented neural networks, Physics informed NNs, Bio-inspired neural architectures, and Lifelong learning.

Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM (Online)

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).

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)

Office Hours: TBA

Research: Computational imaging, PDE-constrained inverse problems, computational sensing, sampling theory and applications

Office Hours: TBA

Research: Biometrics; Applied Smart Sensing; Applied Artificial Intelligence; Inclusive Cybersecurity; Human-Centered Computing

Awards: NSF CAREER (2023), McKnight Junior Faculty Fellow (2021)

Office Hours: TBA

Research: the philosophical and technical differences between AI-generated and human-generated content

Office Hours: TBA

Research: Cyber security, cyber physical systems, programming languages, cloud computing, human aspects of computing

Awards: NSF CAREER (2010)

Office Hours: Monday & Thursday 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM (ENC 2501)

Research:Computer vision (biometric recognition, remote sensing, video analysis, 3D vision); machine learning (few-shot learning, distribution modeling)

Awards: IET Biometrics Best Paper Award, The IET Premium Awards 2020, IET 2020

Office Hours: Monday 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM (ENB 343H)

Research: Scalable machine learning-based microarchitecture simulators, instruction embeddings for fast simulation, and system design frameworks that optimize computing from the program level to the hardware level

Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 1:30pm - 3:00pm (In Person)

Research: Cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, internet of things, engineering education

Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM (Teams by default or In Person by appointment)

Research: Trustworthy machine learning, Out-of-distribution generalization, Optimization and Graph Theory

Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Research: Bioinformatics, generative deep learning

Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM (Teams or In Person), or by appointment

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

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (In Person or Teams), or by appointment

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

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 1:30pm - 3:00pm (In Person)

Research: Mobile Wireless Sensing Systems, Human-Computer Interaction Applications, Smart Home and Internet of Things Applications, Mobile Authentication, Novel Biometrics, Smart Home and Internet of Things Security.

Office Hours: TBA

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)

Office Hours: Email Hoda Bizri (hbizri@usf.edu) for appointment

Research: Electrical design automation, medical image processing and hardware and software co-design

Awards: ASP-DAC Research Award; Best Poster award at the Student Research Forum at ASP-DAC

Office Hours: Wednesday 3:30pm to 5:30pm (In Person)

Research: Programming languages, computer architecture, visual analytics

Office Hours: Tuesday 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM (In Person)

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)

Office Hours: Wednesday 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM (Online), Friday 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM (Online)

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Research: Smart Health Systems, Human Factored Design, IoT, Mobile Computing, App Development, and Machine Learning

Office Hours: Monday 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Teams), Thursday 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM (In Person)

Research: Utilization of Deep Learning & Large Language Models for Education and Medicine

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM or by appointment

Research: Database systems, multimedia systems, distributed systems

Awards: NSF CAREER (2013), USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2014), USF Outstanding Faculty Award (2014)

Office Hours: Friday 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM or by appointment

Research: Computer science education, pedagogy of object orientation, objects-first introductory CS curricula

Office Hours: Tuesday 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM (Teams), Wednesday 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (Teams)

Research: LLM Agents,Security and Privacy, Sensing and its data management.

Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

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)

Office Hours: Monday 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM, Thursday 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Research Interests: Machine learning-based intrusion detection systems, adversarial machine learning, federated learning, privacy-preserving machine learning, differential privacy, IoT security, and cyber-physical system security.

Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (In Person, ENB 316)

Research: Biologically-inspired robotics, cognitive robotics, humanoid robots, multi-robot systems

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

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)

Office Hours: NA (On maternity leave)

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)

Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM (Teams), or by email appointment

Research: Data science, image processing, machine learning, deep learning

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, or by appointment

Research: Integrating advanced AI technologies into wireless communication systems to enable sensing capabilities, high-speed performance, and seamless connectivity

Office Hours: Monday 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM (In Person)

Research: Congestion control and energy optimization in data center networks, content delivery acceleration over wide area networks, energy efficient networking

Office Hours: Monday 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM (Online), or by appointment

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)

Office Hours: Tuesday & Wednesday 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (In Person, ENB 312)

Research: artificial intelligence and deep learning models to analyze multimodal electronic health records (EHRs), clinical notes, imaging, and biological data

Awards: Best Poster Presentation, BioDiscovery Institute Expo

Office Hours: Monday 9:00am to 12:00pm (Online), or by appt

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)