People
Faculty
Summer 2018 Office Hours
ENB 316 | 813-974-8421
Research: Brain-computer interfaces; brain-robot interaction; personal informatics; ubiquitous
computing; symbiotic interaction; affective computing
Shaun Canavan, Assistant Professor
ENB 315 | 813-974-3137
Research: Computer vision; face and sketch recognition; expression analysis; human computer
interaction; facial feature detection and tracking
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor Ciampaglia will start in Fall 2018.
Sriram Chellappan, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator for Cybersecurity
ENB 317 | 813-974-1379
Research: Socio-technical systems; cybersecurity; smart health; mobile networking; cyber-physical
systems; mobile and wireless computings
Ken Christensen, Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Affairs
ENB 319 | 813-974-4761
Research: Performance evaluation of computer networks; high-speed packet switch architectures;
energy-efficient networks (green networks)
Suey-Chun (Roger) Fang, Instructor II
ENB 301A | 813-974-2398
Research: Data modeling; data warehousing; information systems; deductive databases; visual
programming
Alessio Gaspar, Associate Professor
ENB 343E | 813-974-2932 
Research: Evolutionary algorithms; computing education research; computer assisted learning;
intelligent tutoring systems
Dmitry B. Goldgof, Professor and Vice Chair
ENB 326 | 813-974-4055 
Research: Medical image analysis; image and video processing; computer vision and pattern recognition;
ethics and computing; bioinformatics and bioengineering
Lawrence Hall, Distinguished University Professor
ENB 330 | 813-974-4195
Research: Intelligent systems; machine learning/data mining; fuzzy logic in intelligent systems;
artificial intelligence in visual pattern recognition
William Hendrix III, Instructor I and Undergraduate Program Coordinator for Computer Science and Computer
Engineering
ENB 301C | 813-974-7453 
Research: Graph algorithms; parallel computing
Isabela M. Hidalgo, Instructor I
ENB 301B | 813-974-6048 
Research: Human-computer interaction; programming languages
Adriana Iamnitchi, Professor
ENB 334 | 813-974-5357 
Research: Distributed systems; computational sociology
Henrick Jeanty, Instructor I
ENB 318 | 813-974-1982 
Research: Technical analysis algorithm; optical character recognition
Robert Karam, Assistant Professor
ENB 341 | 813-974-4184
Research: Hardware security; reconfigurable computing; bioimplantable devices (algorithms &
digital hardware)
Rangachar Kasturi, Douglas W. Hood Professor
ENC 3501 | 813-974-3561 
Research: Computer vision; pattern recognition; document image analysis
Srinivas Katkoori, Associate Professor
ENB 258 | 813-974-5737
Research: High-level synthesis; low power synthesis; radiation tolerant VLSI design and CAD
Valentina Korzhova, Instructor I
ENB 343G | 813-974-0909
Research: Computer vision; image processing; pattern recognition
Miguel Labrador, Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs
ENB 332 | 813-974-3260 
Research: Ubiquitous sensing; computer networks
Jason Lewis, Instructor I
ENB 343D | 813-974-3032
Research: Cybersecurity; digital forensics; computer science/cybersecurity education
John Licato, Assistant Professor
ENB 301D | 813-974-6212
Research: Computational modeling of cognitive reasoning; cognitive science and robotics; automated
theorem provers; artificially intelligent reasoners
Jay Ligatti, Professor
ENB 333 | 813-974-0908
Research: Software security; programming languages
Yao Liu, Associate Professor
ENB 336 | 813-974-1079 
Research: Network security; wireless technologies
Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, Assistant Professor
ENB 338 | 813-974-2671
Research: Fault diagnosis and tolerance in cryptography; cryptographic engineering; computer
arithmetic
Tempestt Neal, Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor Neal will start in Fall 2018.
William Oropallo, Instructor I
Instructor Oropallo will start in Fall 2018.
Xinming (Simon) Ou, Professor
ENB 339 | 813-974-4522
Research: Cyber security; cyber physical systems; programming languages; cloud computing; human
aspects of computing
Rafael Perez, Professor
ENB 320 | 813-974-3437 
Research: Artificial intelligence; neural networks; genetic algorithms
Les A. Piegl, Professor
ENC 2501 | 813-974-5234 
Research: Computer-aided design; geometric modeling; computer graphics and analysis; design
of geometric algorithms
Paul A. Rosen, Assistant Professor
ENB 311 | 813-974-2282 
Research: Data visualization; computer graphics; human computer interaction; visual literacy
education; computing entrepreneurship
Sudeep Sarkar, Professor and Department Chair
ENB 345 | 813-974-2113 
Research: Computer vision and image analysis; automated sign language; recognition biometrics
and human identification; perceptual organization for grouping and segmentation; Bayesian
methods
Schinnel Small, Instructor I and Undergraduate Program Coordinator for Information Technology
ENB 343F | 813-974-2126
Research: Programming languages; computer architecture; visual analytics
Yu Sun, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
ENB 331 | 813-974-7508 
Research: Intelligent systems; robotics; cyber physical systems and virtual reality; computer
vision; medical image processing; deep learning
Yicheng Tu, Associate Professor
ENB 340 | 813-974-2114 
Research: Database systems; multimedia systems; distributed systems
Philip Ventura, Instructor II
ENB 343C | 813-974-0552
Research: Computer science education; pedagogy of object orientation; objects-first introductory
CS curricula
Jing Wang, Instructor II
ENB 310 | 813-974-6897 
Research: Computer animation; K-12 outreach; undergraduate computer science and engineering
education
Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Professor
ENB 314 | 813-974-4905 
Research: Biologically-inspired robotics; cognitive robotics; humanoid robots; multi-robot
systems
Attila Yavuz, Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor Yavuz will start in Fall 2018.
Yan Zhang, Instructor I
ENB 343A | 813-974-9653
Research: Congestion control and energy optimization in data center networks; content delivery
acceleration over wide area networks; energy efficient networking
Hao Zheng, Associate Professor
ENB 312 | 813-974-4757 
Research: Hardware/Software testing and verification; embedded systems; computer architecture;
VLSI design; electronic design automation
Adjunct Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
Harvey Glass, Emeritus Professor
Research: Operating systems; programming languages; embedded systems design
Abraham Kandel, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Research: Applied fuzzy logic and computational intelligence; software testing and productivity;
decision-making in uncertain environments; data mining
Nagarajan Ranganathan, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Research: VLSI system design; VLSI design automation power estimation and optimization; computer
architecture; heterogeneous computing bioinformatics
Dewey Rundus, Emeritus Professor
Research: Human-computer interaction
Murali Varanasi, Emeritus Professor
Research: Coding theory; computer arithmetic
Courtesy Faculty
Dave Armitage, Courtesy Faculty
Robert Gillies, Courtesy Faculty
Matthew Peterson, Courtesy Faculty
Paul Sanberg, Courtesy Faculty
John Skvoretz, Courtesy Faculty