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News Archive 2020 - 2021
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Outstanding Graduate Student Awards |
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Lawrence Hall receives the 2021 IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award |
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Collaborative paper earns Best Paper award at Affective Movement Recognition Challenge
and Workshop at ACII 2021 |
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Yicheng Tu Receives NIH Grant for Interdisciplinary Scientific Simulation Research |
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Collaborative grant funded by NIDILRR/Administration for Community Living |
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Collaborative NSF grant will provide scholarships for USF CSE students |
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Two Doctoral Students Awarded 2021 Computing Innovation Fellowships |
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CSE PhD students win Duolingo Award |
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Collaborative team earns Distinguished Paper at SOUPS 2021 |
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USF researchers launch social media campaign to identify risk of mosquito-borne diseases
in Tampa Bay |
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USF inventors post record patent numbers, ranking in the nation’s top 10 university
producers |
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Nighojkar and Licato’s paper accepted at prestigious 2021 ACL-IJCNLP Annual Meeting |
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Simon Ou featured in Tampa’s 83 Degrees Media online magazine |
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Ciampaglia and Licato Win Best Paper Award at 1st International Workshop on Knowledge
Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis |
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Collaborative Paper Accepted at Wiki Workshop 2021 |
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CSE PhD Student Brooks Olney one of Research Category Winners in the USF graduate
student research symposium |
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Tenex Software Establishes the Matthew Moreno Scholarship to Honor his Memory |
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Sudeep Sarkar Elected to Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida |
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Sudeep Sarkar named Distinguished University Professor |
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New CSE student organization: Girls Who Code College Loop |
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CSE Student Delong Yang to be Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa |
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Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia Appointed to NASEM Committee |
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Collaborative Paper earns 2020 IET Biometrics Premium Award |
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Tempestt Neal and Shaun Canavan awarded $261,996 NSF grant |
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CSE students win big at 2021 Hackabull |
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CSE Graduate Student Qi Zheng Receives USF GSS Fellowship |
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USF CSE Alumna Dr. Shetay Ashford-Hanserd Receives NSF CAREER Award |
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CSE Instructor Zachariah Beasley selected as 2020/1 STEER Scholar |
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CSE PhD student Sameera Horawalavithana and collaborators win NASN 2021 Grand Challenge |
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CSE’s MSIT Program Ranked No. 12 By U.S. News & World Report |
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Cutting-edge innovations to fight disease, enhance learning win USF’s Excellence in
Innovation Awards |
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CSE PhD student Troi Williams receives Koerner Family Foundation research award |
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CSE Alumna, Ghada Zamzmi, Selected as One of 10 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under
35 MENA |
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Collaborative paper wins award at 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic
Systems |
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Dr. Adriana Iamnitchi recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member |
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Fall 2020 Computer Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduates |
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Shamaria Engram makes CSE history |
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Canavan and Uddin winners in IEEE FG 2020 EmoPain Challenge |
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CSE Ph.D. student MD Taufeeq Uddin won the grand prize for the PepsiCo Data Science
Innovation Challenge |
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Lawrence Hall elected to IEEE Board of Directors |
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Lawrence Hall gives keynote at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man
and Cybernetics |
| Sriram Chellappan’s paper receives ACM CSCW Honorable Mention Award October 21, 2020 CSE Professor Sriram Chellappan co-authored a paper with Farhana Shahid, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology; Shahinul Hoque Ony, BRAC University; Takrim Rahman Albi, BRAC University; Alabi Mehzabin Anisha, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology titled “Learning from Tweets: Opportunities and Challenges to Inform Policy Making During Dengue Epidemic.” |
| Attila Yavuz receives USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award October 12, 2020 CSE Assistant Professor Attila Yavuz is one of 19 USF Faculty who have been recognized with the Outstanding Research Achievement Awards. |
| Simon Ou receives IEEE DSN Test of Time Award for “Using Bayesian networks for cyber
security analysis” October 5, 2020 CSE Professor Simon Ou, along with Peng Xie, Jason H. Li, Peng Liu, Renato Levy, received the Test of Time award for their project called “Using Bayesian networks for cyber security analysis.” |
| USF researchers win top prize in the Upscaling Euro Data Cube COVID-19 contest organized
by the European Space Agency October 1, 2020 Mauricio Pamplona Segundo, CSE postdoctoral researcher at the USF Institute for Artificial Intelligence + X, Cole Hill, CSE graduate student, and Sudeep Sarkar, CSE Professor and AI+X co-director, partnered up with Rodrigo Minetto, UTFPR Professor, Allan Pinto, UNICAMP postdoc researcher, and Ricardo Da Silva Torres, NTNU Professor to participate and win the COVID-19 Custom Script upscaling competition. |
| Attila A. Yavuz receives second Cisco Award for “Trustworthy and Privacy-Preserving
Machine Learning Platforms” September 29, 2020 Attila A. Yavuz, CSE Assistant Professor, Director of the Applied Cryptography Research Laboratory and the Co-Director of Center for Cryptographic Research at USF, received the Cisco Award for his research project entitled “Trustworthy and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Platforms”. |
| Paul Rosen awarded collaborative National Institutes of Health (NIH) R34 grant to
test smartphone apps for self-management of adolescent asthma September 24, 2020 Dr. Paul Rosen (MPI), in collaboration with Dr. Amy Alman (PI, COPH), Dr. Marisa Couluris (MPI, Pediatrics), Dr. Claudia Parvanta (Co-I, COPH), Dr. Sanghoon Park (Co-I, Education), and Dr. Henian Chen (Co-I, COPH) received an R34 grant from the National Institutes of Health. |
| Sriram Chellappan investigator for National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to identify
disease-carrying mosquitoes with smartphone September 24, 2020 CSE Professor and Director of Social Computing Research Lab Sriram Chellappan is an investigator on project titled “SCH: INT: Surveillance and Control of Mosquito-Borne Diseases through Automated Species Identification and Spatiotemporal Modeling.” |
| John Licato receives USF award for Blackness and Anti-Black Racism Research Grant September 16, 2020 CSE Assistant Professor John Licato receives award for anti-racism efforts at USF. Licato is Primary Investigator on a project titled "Argumentation Games to Cognitively Inoculate Against Anti-Black Bias,” with co-PI David Ponton from the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies. |
| Yao Liu awarded $500,000 NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace grant September 15, 2020 CSE Associate Professor Yao Liu received a $500,000 NSF grant from the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program for the project "SaTC: TTP: Small: Creating Content Verification Tools to Protect Document Integrity.” |
| Computing Education Research & Evolutionary Algorithm Lab awarded $377,012 NSF grant September 11, 2020 The USF Computing Education Research & Evolutionary Algorithm Lab (CEREAL) has been awarded an NSF grant from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program to further study how evolutionary principles may be leveraged to improve teaching & learning. |
| Yu Sun and Dmitry Goldgof receive R21 collaborative grant from NIH's National Institute
of Nursing Research September 4, 2020 USF CSE Department and USF Health have received an R21 grant from the National Institute Of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in support of the research project titled "A Multimodal Approach for Monitoring Prolonged Acute Pain in Neonates." |
| Marvin Andujar Awarded $80,205 NSF EAGER award August 11, 2020 CSE Assistant Professor Marvin Andujar received the NSF EAGER award for his research project titled "EAGER: Immersive Brain Painting for College Students with ADHD." |
| CSE Researchers Design AI Algorithms to Automate Vector Surveillance August 3, 2020 CSE doctoral student Mona Minakshi and her advisor Sriram Chellappan co-authored a paper that is accepted for publication in Nature Scientific Reports. |
| Sudeep Sarkar Awarded Collaborative National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant to build
computer vision/AI algorithms that understand events from videos June 23, 2020 CSE Professor Sudeep Sarkar is the lead of a collaborative NSF grant for the project “Understanding Events from Streaming Video – Joint Deep and Graph Representations, Commonsense Priors, and Predictive Learning.” |
| Sylvia Thomas (EE), Tempestt Neal (CSE), Graphaware, Inc. Awarded $200,000 NSF Grant June 1, 2020 USF Electrical Engineering Associate Professor Sylvia Thomas (PI) and Computer Science, Engineering Assistant Professor Tempestt Neal (Co-PI), with Alessandro Negro (Co-PI) from Graphaware, Inc. were awarded a one-year $200,000 NSF grant |
| Tempestt Neal Awarded $25,000 Grant as Part of USF’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Research
Effort May 29, 2020 CSE Assistant Professor Tempestt Neal received a grant for a project titled “Exploring Racial Disparities in the Treatment, Perceptions, and Tracking of COVID-19 Through Automated Stigma Detection and Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Data.” |
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Sudeep Sarkar Awarded $24,925 Grant as Part of USF’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Research
Effort |
| AI+X researchers win COVID-19 Custom Script Contest from the European Space Agency May 21, 2020 Dr. Mauricio Pamplona Segundo, Dr. Rodrigo Minetto, and Dr. Sudeep Sarkar, and co-director of AI+X Institute, were the sixth week’s winners of the COVID-19 Custom Script Contest launched by the European Space Agency (ESA). |
| CSE graduate students Dante Tezza and Sarah Garcia receive the Generation Google scholarship May 21, 2020 CSE graduate students Dante Tezza and Sarah Garcia each received the Generation Google Scholarship. Tezza and Garcia are Ph.D. students working with Assistant Professor Marvin Andujar in the Neuro-Machine Interaction lab. |
| Sarah Garcia receives SMART scholarship May 20, 2020 CSE graduate student Sarah Garcia received the SMART scholarship. This scholarship was “established as a concentrated effort to enhance the Department of Defense (DoD) workforce with talented, innovative and brilliant scientists, engineers and researchers.” |
| Hunter Morera receives Alfred P. Sloan scholarship May 20, 2020 CSE graduate student Hunter Morera received a scholarship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Minority Ph.D. (MPHD) program. |
| Robert Karam, Srinivas Katkoori, and Mozaffari Kermani Awarded $500,000 NSF Secure
& Trustworthy Cyberspace Education Grant May 6, 2020 CSE faculty Robert Karam (PI), Srinivas Katkoori (Co-PI), and Mehran Mozaffari Kermani (Co-PI) have been awarded a $500,000 NSF Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace Education grant for their project SaTC: EDU: Improving Student Learning through Competitive Embedded System Security Challenges. |
| Mozaffari Kermani awarded $500,000 NIST Grant May 6, 2020 USF Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Mehran Mozaffari Kermani is the Principal Investigator (PI) for a 4-year, $500,000 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) federal agency grant. |
| CSE Student Blanche Pinto receives AfterCollege Engineering & Tech Student Scholarship
and Golden Bull Award May 6, 2020 CSE graduate student Blanche Pinto recently received the AfterCollege Engineering & Tech Student Scholarship as well as the Golden Bull Award. |
| USF CSE chosen to be a BRAID affiliates institution May 4, 2020 USF CSE is one of a handful of computing programs chosen to be an AnitaB.org BRAID Affiliates Institution in 2020. |
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CSE Students Alexander Palasek and Jody Rutter Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa |
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USF CSE Alum, Cindy Bethel, gets appointed to the Computing Research Association |
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CSE student Willie McClinton receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Award |
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Dr. Jing Wang was awarded the 2020 WLP Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award |
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CSE student organizations participate in Engineering Expo 2020 |
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CSE Students Akash Singh and Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov named MLH Top 50 Hackers for 2020 |