Graduate
Pathway to MSCS Faculty
Dr. James Anderson
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Dr. Jim Anderson received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. He then went on an earned an MBA from The University of Texas, Dallas. He has published over 125 books including CRC Press's "Software Defined Networking". Jim has worked for 16 different companies during his 33 year career including startups as well as Boeing, Siemens, Alcatel, Verizon, AAA, and Amgen. He has had opportunities to teach at Florida Atlantic University, The University of South Florida, and Florida Polytechnic University. Despite his busy work schedule, Jim has been able to publish 5 papers and has been an invited speaker 8 times. Jim has been an active member of the IEEE for over 30 years and has held numerous leadership positions at both the local and regional level. Jim has been a member of Toastmasters for 22 years. He manages 5 highly successful blogs and is the owner of LinkedIn's most successful product management user group. His favorite movie is "The Fugitive", he owns a 70 lb Boxer and he is a fairly good cook.
Dr. Zachariah Beasley
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Dr. Zachariah Beasley received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of South Florida with a focus on sentiment analysis in peer review. He is a USF STEER STEM Scholar and has received the ASEE State of Engineering Education in 25 Years Award and the USF Spirit of Innovation Award. Dr. Beasley is the author of ten peer-reviewed papers, a reviewer of three software engineering and natural language processing textbooks, and a member of ACM. He plays the guitar at his church and has spent five summers as a volunteer English teacher in Taiwan. Dr. Beasley joined the University of South Florida in August of 2020 as an Assistant Professor of Instruction, and his research interests include natural language processing and data mining.
Dr. Kenneth Christensen
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Ken Christensen is Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Affairs in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. His research interests are at the intersection of networks and energy in the area of energy-efficient computing and communications systems, and application of communications to improving the storage, distribution, and use of energy in small grids. This research has been funded by NSF, Cisco, Google, and KETI. Ken has graduated eight PhD students and 25 MS students. Five of his PhD graduates are tenured faculty in US and Latin American universities. Ken is one of the founders, and currently President, of The Pledge of the Computing Professional–an organization founded in 2011to promote and recognize the ethical and moral behavior and responsibilities of graduates of computing-related degree programs. Fifty-seven US institutions are members of the Pledge. Ken received the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1991, MS from North Carolina State University in 1983, and BS from the University of Florida in 1981. From 1983 to 1995 he was employed at IBM Research Triangle Park. He joined USF as an assistant professor in 1995. In 1999 he was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation. He has over 100 journal and conference publications and 13 U.S. patents. Ken is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Florida, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM and ASEE. Ken is an ABET EAC Program Evaluator.
Dr. Alessio Gaspar
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Dr. Alessio Gaspar is an Associate Professor with the University of South Florida’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering, lead of the USF Computing Education Research & Evolutionary Algorithms Lab(CEREAL). He received his Ph.D. in computer science in 2000 from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (France). Before joining USF, he worked as visiting professor at the ESSI polytechnic and EIVL engineering schools (France) then as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg’s Computer Science department (Switzerland). Dr. Gaspar is an ACM SIGCSE, SIGITE and SIGEVO member and regularly serves as reviewer for international journals & conferences and as panelist for various NSF programs. His research interests include Evolutionary Algorithms and Computing Education Research, with applications to Computer Assisted Teaching and Learning. This work has been so far funded by the National Science Foundation under programs such as CCLI, IUSE, and ATE. His technology interests include System Administration with Linux, Programming (mostly Java, JavaScript, Python), Web App Development (e.g., Flask), and open source in general.
Dr. William Hendrix
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Dr. William Hendrix is an Assistant Professor of Instruction and Undergraduate Coordinator for the Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs at USF. He received his PhD at North Carolina State University and taught at Northwestern University for two years before moving to USF in 2015. He is passionate about teaching and learning and is very excited to be a part of the Bridge to Computing program.
Dr. Srinivas Katkoori
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Srinivas Katkoori is a Computer Science and Engineering faculty at USF, Tampa, FL. His research expertise is Internet-of-Things (IoT), smart embedded systems, smart transportation, smart healthcare, VLSI CAD, Low Power VLSI Design, etc. Dr. Katkoori has directed 17 doctoral dissertations and 45 Master’s Theses in the general discipline of Embedded Systems Design and Optimization.
To date, he published over 130 peer-reviewed journal/conference papers, 1 edited book, and 5 book chapters. Five peer-reviewed papers he has co-authored were nominated for best paper awards at 2003 ASP-DAC, 2014 IFIP/IEEE VLSI SOC, 2019 AsianHOST, 2020 IEEE iSES, and 2021 IFIP IoT Conferences of which two received best paper awards at 2020 IEEE iSES and 2021 IFIP IoT conference.
Among notable professional service, Dr. Katkoori served Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on VLSI (2006-10), IEEE ESL (2020-current), IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (2020-current), and IFIP Working Group 10.5 vice-chair (2015-2021), General Chair of the 2019 and 2022 IFIP IoT Conferences, 2020 and 2022 IEEE ISES, Program Chair of ICCE (2020, 2021), IFIP IoT Conference (2021), and ISVLSI (2021), ACM SIGDA Board (2010-2013) as Treasurer. Dr. Katkoori serves on TPCs of several VLSI and embedded international conferences and is a peer reviewer for many smart embedded systems journals and conferences.
Dr. Katkoori is recognized with 2013 USF Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award, 2002-03 USF Outstanding Research Award, 2005 IEEE Florida Council Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, 2005 IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award, and 2012 ACM SIGDA Service Award.
Dr. Katkoori received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1998. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE. As of Feb 2022, per Google Scholar, his research publications have 2327 citations, with a h-index of 23, and i10-index of 53.
Dr. Marbin Pazos Revilla
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Dr. Pazos Revilla currently serves as Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Computer Science and Engineering department and has taught a variety of courses, particularly in the field of Cybersecurity and Information Technology. He also serves as Director of Infrastructure and Systems Administrator. Prior to joining USF, Dr. Pazos Revilla served as adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering and Technology Specialist at Tennessee Technological University, where he taught Process Controls and co-authored Engineering Education initiatives, like Mobile Learning Environment and Systems Infrastructure (MoLE-SI), combining virtualization infrastructure, flex-spaces, and modern pedagogical approaches to enhance the learning experience of students in engineering.
Dr. Pazos Revilla is passionate about education and problem solving, and is very excited to be a faculty member of the Pathways to Computing program as it presents a unique opportunity to a diverse population of students, as we, as a society at large, face the need to provide diverse and multidisciplinary type of solutions to global challenges in healthcare, infrastructure, biotechnologies, education, cyberspace, agriculture, the environment, and several other areas where the Computer Science, particularly through the Pathways to Computing program, would provide a natural and exciting opportunity to help materialize everyone’s contributions to these global challenges, regardless of the field they feel passionate about.
Dr. Jing Wang
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Dr. Jing Wang is a professor of Instruction at University of South Florida and she also serves as the Director of Broadening Participation in Computing in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at USF. She received her PhD in 2005 from Vanderbilt University. Her research interests are computer animation, undergraduate computer science and engineering education, and broadening participation in computing. Throughout her career, Dr. Wang has been actively involved in the important mission of recruiting and mentoring women in computer science and engineering. She serves as the faculty advisor of Women in Computer Science and Engineering student organization since 2013 and has created multiple programs for mentoring and outreach. She is a recipient of 2011 USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching award and 2020 USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award.