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News Archive 2019 - 2020
| 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 |
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Fall 2019 Induction Ceremony |
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John Morgan receives Outstanding Undergraduate Advising Award |
| Yao Liu awarded the Test of Time Award at the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and
Communications Security November 22, 2019 Computer Science and Engineering Associate Professor Yao Liu was awarded the Test of Time Award at the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security for the paper titled “False Data Injection Attacks against State Estimation in Electric Power Grids.” |
| CSE Whitehatters Computer Security Club places in the top third nationally at the
Department of Energy’s CyberForce Competition November 20, 2019 In their first appearance at the Department of Energy’s CyberForce Competition, the Whitehatters Computer Security Club (WCSC) placed in the top third nationally (31 out of 104). |
| USF CSE Whitehatters Computer Security Club won second place at the Raymond James
Capture the Flag Competition November 6, 2019 The USF Computer Science and Engineering Whitehatters Computer Security Club (WCSC) won second place at the Raymond James Capture the Flag Competition on October 19th, beating our rivals at UFC by 382 points. |
| USF Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Blanche Pinto awarded the 2019-2020
Nutanix Women in Technology Scholarship October 25, 2019 USF Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Blanche Pinto was awarded the 2019-2020 Nutanix Women in Technology Scholarship in the amount of $7,500. |
| USF Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. students Sarah Garcia and Jorge Adorno
Nieves awarded GMiS Scholarships October 21, 2019 USF Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Ph.D. students Sarah Garcia and Jorge Adorno Nieves were each awarded a 2019 Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) scholarship. |
| CSE Society of Competitive Programmers elevates USF's status in the hacking community October 18, 2019 The Computer Science and Engineering student organization Society of Competitive Programmers (SCP) is transforming USF into a competitive hacking school. |
| CSE participates in Hispanic Heritage Month October 9, 2019 On September 18, USF Computer Science and Engineering hosted the event “Latinx Coders: Expanding our Reach in Computing” as part of USF’s Hispanic Heritage Month. |
| Trent Callahan and Trevor Ammons each awarded a $1,500 NSF travel grant October 8, 2019 USF Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) undergraduate students Trent Callahan and Trevor Ammons have each been awarded a $1,500 NSF travel grant to attend the upcoming 2019 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigators’ (SaTC PI) Meeting. |
| Tempestt Neal accepted into the ACM Future of Computing Academy October 8, 2019 USF Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Tempestt Neal has been accepted into the ACM Future of Computing Academy (FCA). |
| Simon Ou awarded a $42,000 U.S. Navy STTR grant October 8, 2019 USF Computer Science and Engineering Professor Simon Ou was awarded a $42,000 grant from Aptima, Inc. for a U.S. Navy STTR phase I project. |
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Yu Sun awarded a $334,823 NSF Grant to continue robotics research |
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Stereology Resource Center, Inc. awarded $736,172 NSF Phase II grant |
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Intel gifts $40,000 to USF Foundation in support of Hao Zheng’s research |
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Saurabh Hinduja will present at the 2019 IEEE Affective Computing and Intelligent
Interaction Conference |
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Tracy Miller awarded the SMART Scholarship |
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Sarkar, Labrador, Subramanian granted United States Patent No. 10,321,855 Hao Zheng is part of a Multi-University Project Awarded a $1M NSF Grant USF Health Neurology and VuEssence collaborate on stroke early-detection test Sheikh Ariful Islam awarded conference travel grant |
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Troi Williams awarded a 2019 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant |
| Dmitry Goldgof and Mehran Mozaffari Kermani awarded USF Nexus Initiative Grants June 25, 2019 USF Department of Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished University Professor and Vice Chair Dmitry Goldgof was awarded a $13,100 University of South Florida Nexus Initiative (UNI) grant to conduct collaborative research for the project entitled “Automated assessment of pain in neonates.” |
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Attila Yavuz awarded the Cisco Research Center Award |
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Engineering Alum Honors His Father with a Scholarship Fund |
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Sudeep Sarkar, Mauricio Pamplona Segundo, and Earnest Hansley place second in the
Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge |
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Doctoral Student ATM Golam Bari Elevated to Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member |
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USF Computer Science and Engineering Students Awarded Graduate Fellowships |
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Giovanni Ciampaglia awarded $300K NSF Grant |
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Graduate Students Present at VA 21st Annual Research Day |
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USF Hosts Its Second Annual Hackathon |
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2019-2020 Computer Science and Engineering Scholarship Awardees |
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USF Students Win 2019 Knighthacks |
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Association for Computer Machinery Builds Smart Mirror for 2019 Engineering Expo |
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2018 Distinguished University Professor Lecture: Dr. Dmitry Goldgof |
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CSE Participates in Black Heritage Month |
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Alumni Accomplishment - Himanshu Thapliyal ‘11 |
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Giovanni Ciampaglia is guest panelist on 1A |
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CSE Partners with The National Center for Women & Information Technology |
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CSE Participates in Synapse Summit 2019 |
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Diego Fabiano Santalices Receives Honorable Mention for CRA Undergraduate Researcher
Award 2019 |