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USF COMPUTER SCIENCE and ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
BRAIN-DRONE RACE at USF Researchers of the Neuro-Machine Interaction Lab at CSE are testing their brain-controlled drones and virtual drone for the upcoming Brain-Drone Race. Page 15
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Letter from the Department Chair Hello, The single, most important piece of news that we are proud to share at this time is that University of South Florida (USF) is now a Preeminent State Research University in Florida – a recognition of the institution’s high performance and national excellence. USF, which started in 1956, joins Florida’s only two other veteran preeminent research universities, University of Florida and Florida State University. With more than $568 million in annual expenditures, as one of the nation’s top 30 public universities for research, and as America’s fifth-leading public university in generating new United States utility patents, we are proud to have earned our place. We in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, housed in the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida are not without our own accomplishments. Back in 2010, our Department was ranked in the top one-third of all Computer Science programs by the NRC Research Quality metric in the data-based assessment of research-doctorate programs. In 2018, we have forged ahead. •
USF CSE is in the top sixth (rank 31) of Computer Science departments at US public university, according to most recent Academic Analytics data based on Scholarly Research Index using default weights for grants, articles, conferences, awards, and citations.
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The most recent US News & World Report ranked our Computer Engineering program in the top-50 among public universities.
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The graduate Masters of Science in Information Technology program was ranked 23rd for online IT programs by the 2018 US News & World Report.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “seven out of the ten largest STEM occupations were computer related. With employment of nearly 750,000, applications software developers were the largest STEM occupation. Computer user support specialists and computer systems analysts each accounted for over a half a million job.” We prepare students for these professions. Our graduates are in top companies in the region and nationwide, such as CAE, JP Morgan, Raytheon, GM, Google, IBM, Intel, and Raymond James, to name a few. We offer degrees in four different majors- the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybersecurity, the Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Technology, and the Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering. In Academic Year 2017-2018 the Department awarded 295 BS degrees, 67 MS degrees, and 12 Ph.D. degrees. Total undergraduate enrollment, including pre-majors, is currently approximately 2000 students, or about 1/3 of the total population of undergraduate students in the College of Engineering.
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The Department has a strong focus on Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) for under-represented minorities. In Academic Year 2017-2018, 8.3% of BS degrees awarded went to Black students, and 19.2% went to Hispanic students, this is more than double the national average for these two groups for computer science. In the same year, 13.5% of BS degrees awarded went to women students; this is below the national average of 19.2%. The Department has seen a growth in degrees awarded to women students (from 10.1% in Academic Year 2011-2012). The Department has a strong emphasis on increasing the number of women students and has a very active Women in Computer Science and Engineering (WiCSE) student organization. Great faculty members make for great departments. Our Department has 28 tenure-stream faculty and 11 full-time instructors. Our faculty includes IEEE, AAAS, IAPR, and AIMBE Fellows, 12 NSF CAREER award recipients, and two Distinguished University Professors. Our faculty values research, teaching, and service. Multiple faculty members have been awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching awards from the University. Our faculty members are very involved with service to professional societies (such as IEEE-CS and ACM) and the community. Faculty members are currently executing $9.6 million in active external research grants, each spanning 3 to 5 years, of which $5.6 million are from NSF, $2.3 million are from the Department of Defense, and the rest from NIH, NIST, industry, and state sources. The research clusters in the department include: •
AI and Cognitive Computing (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Robotics, Human-Computer Interfaces, and Affective Computing)
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Big-Data Science Algorithms (Biomedical Imaging, Machine Learning, Databases, Visualization, Social Networks, and Efficient Computing Platforms)
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Computer Architecture (VLSI, Ubiquitous Sensing Networks, Distributed Computing, Parallel Processing, and Biomedical Devices)
We have teaching and research assistantships available for all Ph.D. students that include a stipend and tuition waiver. For undergraduates, we offer a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, undergraduate teaching assistantships, many scholarships, connections for internship opportunities with companies in the Tampa Bay area, and the opportunity to do meaningful capstone design projects in conjunction with local companies. Our students have access to many state of the art computing facilities, including Mini-Circuits Design-for-X Lab, computer engineering and cybersecurity labs, and a more than 100 node GPU cluster for Deep learning. We are located in the beautiful Tampa Bay area, which has several of the top-ranked beaches in the world, a sunny climate, and many opportunities for recreation as well as cultural activities. We look forward to welcoming you on campus sometime soon. Sincerely, Sudeep Sarkar Professor and Chair
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New Major in Cybersecurity will Help Secure the Cyber Realm By Brad Stager
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he prevalence of computers in society has brought great ease to modern living by putting just about anyone or anything within reach of our keyboardtapping fingertips. But that also means information traveling on the Internet is within reach of criminals whose online tactics range from sending emails promising deposits of enticing sums of money into your bank account to coordinated efforts that access sensitive information or harm vital infrastructure like electrical power facilities. Knowing the threats that exist is just the first step in countering them. After that it becomes a matter of who to call on to solve a problem like blocking existing vulnerabilities to hackers. According to Computer Science and Engineering Professor and Chair Sudeep Sarkar there are not enough people who can effectively respond to cyber threats. “Securing the cyber world is a huge problem and there is a tremendous shortage of technical talent,” he says.
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To help fill the need for a trained cybersecurity workforce, a new major in cybersecurity in the College of Engineering is teaching students how to achieve online security and protect digital assets whether it involves personal bank records, state secrets, or critical national infrastructures. The major is the first of its kind at USF. Some universities have cybersecurity concentrations within another major such as computer science or information technology, according to Sarkar. “Nationally, we are at the forefront of creating a cybersecurity program,” said Sarkar. About 40 students enrolled when the first semester of the new undergraduate program began this spring and those students are likely to readily find work in the field after graduating. U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics project a 28-percent increase in the number of cybersecurity jobs between 2016 - 2026 and the Florida Center for Cybersecurity reports in The State of Cybersecurity
in Florida that employers were trying to fill 12,641 cybersecurity jobs between October 2016 and September 2017, as the Sunshine State is apparently a favorite online destination for cybercriminals. The FBI’s 2016 Internet Report ranks Florida third in terms of money lost ($88 million) by residents to cyber criminals. “There is a lot of need for cybersecurity professionals in Florida,” says Sarkar. The high demand for cybersecurity workers and a limited supply of them means that graduates going into the field earn high salaries performing a variety of jobs. The median annual salary for information security analysts in 2017 was $95,510, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook. One characteristic of online crime is that it often exploits human behavior, such as curiosity about what clicking on a link in an email might lead to. Sarkar says that is why the curriculum will be a “technically-rooted interdisciplinary program” crossing academic boundaries to address the technical, personal, and societal dimensions related to cybersecurity. “It’s a very collaborative program. There will be courses in business the students will take and courses in ethics and policy as well. There will be technical depth and also breadth because cybersecurity is a problem that requires understanding human elements as well as how humans interact with technology.” Sriram Chellappan, an accomplished cybersecurity faculty member in the department, has led a team of cybersecurity experts to develop the curriculum, guided by recommendations from the U.S. National Cyber Education Project and ABET Cybersecurity Accreditation Guidelines, along with input from outside consultants.
departments at USF, who might teach specialized courses in the program in the future. The department also has a strong relationship with the Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FC2 ) located on the USF Tampa campus, collaborating on research and sharing faculty. Sarkar says the new program is another opportunity to work with the center, which is state-funded to promote education and workforce training in the field as well as conduct research. “FC2 is supporting us in this effort,” says Sarkar. FC2 offers interdisciplinary master’s degrees and graduate certificates in cybersecurity through USF Innovative Education (InEd). Word is spreading that the cybersecurity profession provides an opportunity to do meaningful and interesting work with plenty of high-salary jobs available to choose from. Sarkar says he has seen evidence of that among students. “There’s a lot of interest. We had an information session and the room was full, a lot of students showed up,” according to Professor Ken Christensen, associate chair for undergraduate affairs. College alumni are also hearing about the new major and are interested. “They are approaching me to comment on the program and expressing ideas about what needs to be part of the curriculum,” he says. “They have needs and they know what kind of technical skills they would really love to have. The local industry is really excited about it.” Prospective students interested in learning more about the Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity can contact Christensen at 813-974-4761 or christen@cse.usf.edu.
While the major is new, the department has long been involved in cybersecurity research through cutting-edge, high-impact, externally funded research conducted by Professors Xinming (Simon) Ou, Jay Ligatti, Yao Liu, Sriram Chellappan, Robert Karam, and Mehran Kermani. There are also other cybersecurity researchers in other
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CSE students and staff attended the Grace Hopper Conference in Orlando.
Professor Ghosh Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Grace Hopper 2017 By Gabrielle Pata
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iCSE is a student organization focused on gathering female students who are majoring, or interested, in computer science and engineering, and cybersecurity and information technology to provide support, career guidance, opportunities to discuss relevant topics and social outings. Dr. Jing Wang, instructor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and faculty advisor of the organization, describes it as an important support group.
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after attending a workshop on programming language. “I remember the atmosphere of the meeting being very laid back with a lot of women present,” Bogle says. “Often times, in my engineering classes, I can count less than 10 women in attendance in comparison to the larger number of men, which could be intimidating and sometimes made me feel out of place.”
“Our chapter at USF gives female students, undergraduate and graduate, an environment to talk about their challenges and how it feels to be a minority in the engineering field,” Wang says.
Bogle says that going to the WiCSE meetings and seeing that there were other women studying and interested in programming made her feel more comfortable. As treasurer, she got to network and meet many women in the field, while also making important decisions on how to help WiCSE’s members.
Taleah Bogle, WiCSE’s treasurer and upcoming president for 2018-2019, can attest to feeling like a minority in the engineering major as she recalls memories from the first WiCSE meeting she attended. She joined early in 2017
As president, Bogle wants to continue to spread the word about WiCSE so more students can experience the comforting feeling she felt during her first meeting. “I intend to help incoming women in IT and computer
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science feel like they belong and give them the tools they need to succeed,” she says. Wang also encourages all students with an interest in computer science and engineering (CSE) to consider joining WiCSE. “There is no membership fee, so if they register and sign up to our organization, they can come to our events for free,” she says. “I would also like to note that we welcome both female and male students – it’s very important that male students support this effort as well.” Wang helped form WiCSE five years ago. The CSE department chair asked if she was interested in starting a student organization for their female students. Wang got one of her graduate student T.A.s on board to be the president, and the organization soon developed into a small group. Two years later, they applied to make it an official student organization and quickly expanded to become a group that currently has 238 members. Now, members of WiCSE are provided many opportunities to attend workshops and conferences, socialize and participate in mentoring programs. WiCSE offers weekly career workshops and technical workshops. During career workshops, companies visit and talk about the kind of career opportunities they have for the
students. The technical workshops provide students the opportunity to get critiques on their resumes and tips on how to prepare for interviews. Workshops are hosted by local companies such as Accusoft, FairWarning, JP Morgan & Chase and CITI Group. Wang is in charge of the Industry Mentoring program, which is when mentors from local technology companies come to have a luncheon and small group mentoring session with the students. She says that students are often recruited through this program, which is collaborated with CAE, a global company with offices in Tampa, that provides training solutions for making flying safer. Members also get to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. During the 2017 conference, WiCSE members listened and learned from keynote speakers, attended technical and professional workshops, traversed through career fair and interviewed with companies. “We sent a big group of about 18 to 20 students and some faculty members to the Grace Hopper conference last semester,” Wang says. “It’s an interesting event for female students to gather to get to know each other and be in an environment that focuses on fostering female engineers and
female computer scientists.” Bogle says her favorite memories with WiCSE involve the community outreach program, called WiCSEKids, where members visit local schools ranging from elementary to high school to promote STEM education, awareness and computing. The goal is to encourage young girls to consider these majors. “We went to a local middle school for ‘The Great American TeachIn’ where a few of us spoke to the students about different careers within computer science and IT to show them how much technology is involved in their daily activities,” Bogle says. “It was a wonderful experience showing the students how much they can do with that degree and that they aren’t just limited to programming.” When WiCSE starts back up in the fall semester of 2018, Bogle plans to have a new Peer Mentorship program in place for new and existing members. She hopes the program will give older students the chance to share their experience and give advice to younger students who are just coming into the major or that are still adjusting in order to guide them in the right direction. Bogle also plans to launch a WiCSE Boot Camp, which will help members build their technical skills to become more appealing to recruiters. Interface
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Licato (right) and students in the AMHR lab.
Enhancing Reality via Artificial Intelligence By Brad Stager
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t can seem like there’s nothing more real these days than artificial intelligence; the ability of technology to acquire, process and use information in much the same way we use our natural intelligence to make sense of the world and respond with decisions. Algorithms and neural networks created by engineers make machines educable and put smart cars on our roads, Internetconnected refrigerators in our kitchens and disembodied personal assistants with names like Alexa and Siri in our lives. With the term “powered by AI” becoming as ubiquitous a commercial catch-phrase as “all natural ingredients,” clearly identifying institutional leaders and innovators in the field from those trading on the technology’s marketing cachet is not always easy. According to Professor and Computer Science and Engineering Chair Sudeep Sarkar,
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the teaching and research conducted at the College of Engineering is distinguishing itself among artificial intelligence researchers. “We have lots of AI research going on and people in our research community know us,” says Sarkar, who has been investigating the AI-related fields of computer vision, image processing, and pattern recognition since his graduate studies. Sarkar received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University before coming to USF in 1993. The AI areas of focus at the College are expansive and transdisciplinary, with computer science research projects that range from parsing social media for meaningful data to mining vast amounts of digital imagery for geographical information.
How smart technology and people interact is the focus of the Social Computing Research (SCoRe) lab. Directed by Associate Professor Sriram Chellappan, the SCoRe lab conducts research about that relationship between humans and machines, especially in terms of health, information privacy and security considerations. Projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) include Activity Recognition from Wearable Devices for Healthcare which “designs algorithmic techniques for classifying complex human activities from wearable devices emplaced on multiple external locations in the human body,” according to the SCoRe website. Chellappan is also the principal investigator for an NSF grant to research ways of mining data
involves using multimodal data collection methods, such as imagery and 4D facial data, to analyze and classify human emotions. Canavan recently received an unrestricted grant and promotional credit from Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of its Machine Learning Research Program. Advanced methods of human emotion analysis have the potential to improve medical diagnoses and could be of interest to law enforcement.
from social media use by adolescents to develop non-intrusive and privacy preserving methods of detecting cyberbullying as well as several securityrelated projects funded by defense and intelligence agencies.
of image analysis and tissue classification, especially in cases of burns, bedsores and cancer. The department’s work in image analysis and classification recently yielded a patent from the U.S. Department of Commerce to a USF research team that includes Computer Science and Engineering professors Dmitry Goldgof and Lawrence Hall, as well as Robert Gillies of the Center of Excellence in Cancer Imaging and Technology at Moffitt Cancer Center. The patent is for “Systems and methods for diagnosing tumors in a subject by performing a quantitative analysis of texture-based features of a tumor object in a radiological image.” The invention is part of long-term ongoing collaboration between department and Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute on advanced computational approaches to cancer screening and diagnosis.
Pursuing the goal of better decision-making through AI leads Assistant Professor John Licato and his Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning (AMHR) team to ask questions like “How can artificial intelligence make people better reasoners,” and “How can AI help us reason better?” That line of inquiry, as expressed on the AMHR homepage, runs through areas of interest such as cognitive science, computational psychology, philosophy of mind and machine learning to knowledge that may result in ways to improve the reasoning of AIinfused technology. Licato’s research has attracted the support of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), twice receiving funding through the AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP), an achievement that Sarkar says is noteworthy. “They actually renewed his grant and he got it twice; nobody gets it twice.” Going beyond quantitative analysis and reasoning to research the emotional aspects of Artificial Intelligence is what interests Assistant Professor Shaun Canavan who is a member of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition group. His research
Using AI to process digital imagery in meaningful ways has historically attracted a lot of research interest for its potential value in improving security of facilities through biometrics such as facial and gait recognition, as well as medical applications
Recognizing visual patterns may seem like looking for a needle in a haystack when it comes to finding the right algorithm to perform those kinds of AI operations, but Sarkar and two postdoctoral researchers, Rodrigo Minetto and Mauricio Pamplona Segundo, used 12 algorithms to identify places and landscape features around the globe from a database of more than one million images and related metadata. The project, called Hydra, was in response to an international AI research competition sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to automate classification of imagery for applications Continued on next page
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in areas such as land use and emergency disaster responses. The USF team placed third out of nearly 70 competitors. Sarkar says the algorithms the teams produced are of great interest to the competition’s sponsor. “IARPA is like the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) of the intelligence community,” said Sarkar. Tracking the movement of information on social media platforms is the basis for a $1.7 million transdisciplinary project between CSE and DARPA called “Modeling Information Diffusion Processes with Deep Learning Algorithms.” In an email announcing the grant, Sarkar says the research examines a subject that hasn’t received much attention and could help promote beneficial aspects of social media. “Understanding how various types of information spread in diverse environments can help spot and address the spread of incorrect information, with proven consequences to areas such as population health, emergency response, and economics.” The project is part of the government agency’s Computational Simulation of Online Social Behavior (SocialSim)
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program, which seeks to accurately simulate online social behavior through computer modeling. The grant combines the analytical power of computer science with the reasoning and context that the social sciences provide. Representing those two disciplines are Computer Science and Engineering Professor Anda Iamnitchi, who is the primary investigator for the grant and her collaborators, Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Lawrence Hall and Distinguished University Professor of Sociology John Skvoretz. According to Hall, who has been a long-time proponent of AI research, the project could offer a variety of insights into online behavior and the day-to-day world. “You may predict who the influencers are for particular types of interactions. For example, AI via clustering has the possibility of grouping data in ways that are informative. So, you may find all people who ride bicycle brands X and Y and belong to a group who change out their tires in a few months after purchase. This would tell you something about the bikes,” said Hall. The growth in AI-related goods
and services means opportunity for students entering the field, according to Sarkar, who says he gets a lot of phone calls from industry recruiters about their needs. “I’ve had calls from startup companies in other parts of the country who want to move to Tampa and they’re asking me how they can get students; so there’s a surge going on in the tech world that’s drawing companies here.” The CSE department is responding to the industry trend by hiring faculty with interests in AI such as Licato and Canavan, who each came to the College in fall 2017. As AI technology continues to grow in capability and prevalence in the things we use, Sarkar says ethical considerations need to be part of the process and that the department is updating its ethics course. “We want our students to understand that we cannot just be a technologist because AI is affecting many different aspects of human life.” He adds that while there is a need to consider the implications of artificial intelligence, the benefits are substantial. “AI technologies that are being worked on will make life more comfortable for all of us.”
CSE Student News
From left: Amber "Damien" Imeh, Computer Engineering; Jessica Nguyen, Computer Science and Engineering; and My Nguyen, Computer Science and Engineering.
Amber “Damien” Imeh, Jessica Nguyen, and My Nguyen recipients of WLP Scholarships Amber “Damien” Imeh, junior, Computer
Both scholarships are Women in Leadership and
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Ellen Asherman Scholarship. Jessica Nguyen,
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junior, double major in Computer Science and
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Engineering, was awarded the WLP Endowed Scholarship. My Nguyen, senior, double major in
Congratulations Amber “Damien”, Jessica, and My!
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Undergraduate Student News Ashley Suh (Co ’18) awarded CREU for research Ashley Suh was awarded a $3,000 stipend for her research project, “Using Persistent Homology to Drive Interactive Graph Drawing,” from the Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU). In addition to this, she will receive up to $1,500 for student travel and/or research supplies. The proposal for funding was submitted by Dr. Paul Rosen, who will be Suh’s faculty mentor throughout her research. Suh and Rosen’s project involves working to develop a new method for drawing and interacting with graphs, such as for a social network. The challenge with many graphs is that their highly interconnected nature causes them to look like a hairball when drawn. Their project uses a technique called “persistent homology” to identify important structures in the data. Those structures are then interactively selected and used to “pull apart” the hairball, enabling clearer analysis of the graph. The CREU program is sponsored by the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W).
Diego Fabiano and Shaun Canavan research on 3D facial expressions accepted to ICIP Under the supervision of Assistant Professor Shaun Canavan, Diego Fabiano’s research paper on recognizing 3D facial expressions was accepted to the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
Whitehatters Group Places Second in Capture the Flag Competition The College of Engineering Whitehatters Computer Security Club (WCSC) placed second during the first annual Raymond James Financial Capture the Flag (CTF) competition. The Whitehatters and its rivals had to exploit security vulnerabilities in websites and network services, reverse engineer software and cryptography systems, perform digital forensics and data recovery, and break into physical security systems such as mechanical and electronic safes.
Flit-Path “Cohort A” scholarships granted to twenty-six pre-CS, CpE, and IT students Twenty-six first-year students have been awarded a four-year $20,000 scholarship as part of the Department’s NSF S-STEM Flit-Path project. The scholarships are part of a $5 million, five-year grant from NSF awarded to USF, UCF, and FIU in support of the collaborative Florida IT Pathways to Success project.
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Willie McClinton awarded first place for presentation at 2018 ERN Conference, Washington, DC Undergraduate student Willie McClinton was awarded first place for his oral presentation. McClinton is an undergraduate research assistant in CSE’s Neuro-Machine Interaction Lab under the guide of Assistant Professor Marvin Andujar.
CSE at SheHacks at Boston University Patricia Wilthew, Amber Hamlet, and adjunct instructor Richard Rauscher attended SheHacks at Boston University January 26-28. SheHacks is an event dedicated to femme empowerment in a male-dominated tech industry. During a 36-hour hackathon, women and femme non-binary individuals participate in workshops, learn new languages and programming.
Qua’on Thomas on the USF Student Spotlight Junior Qua’on Thomas was featured in a USF video compiled for the Florida Legislature. Thomas’s work ethics and academic talents have been recognized by the Bright Future’s Medallion Scholarship and Pell Grant. Thomas is also the secretary of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).
Graduate Student News Love Kumar Sah selected as winner in Graduate Student Research Symposium Love Kumar Sah, doctoral student under the supervision of Srinivas Katkoori, is one of two College of Engineering winners in the 10th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, held by USF Office of Graduate Studies.
Ran Rui awarded Best Paper Runner-Up at SSDBM2017 Ran Rui was awarded Best Paper Runner-up at the 29th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM2017, Chicago) for a paper titled “Fast Equi-Join Algorithms on GPUs: Design and Implementation”. The paper is co-authored by Ran’s PhD advisor, Yicheng Tu.
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Summer 2017
2017-2018 PhD Graduates
Martin Llofriu Alonso Robotics Scientist – iRobot
Rajmadhan Ekambaram Machine Learning Engineer – Agshift Mona Fathollahi Senior System Engineer – Qualcomm Hady Ahmady Phoulady Assistant Professor – University of Southern Maine
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Pratool Bharti R& D Manager – Communication Concepts Integration, Inc.
Hamidreza Farhidzadeh Machine Learning Research Engineer – TeraRecon, Inc. Samuel Hawkins Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Moffitt Cancer Research
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Peyman Behzadnia Volunteer Research Assistant – University of Southern Maine Yueng De La Hoz Data Scientist – TAO Connect Earnest Hansley Retired Colonel – U.S. Army William Oropallo Instructor I - University of South Florida
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Brain-Drone Race at USF February 9, 2019 Brain-Drone Racing is a universal sport that allows people with disabilities (people in a wheelchair, upper or lower limb differences, etc.) to compete in the same race with someone who is considered healthy, because the brain is only needed. Also, this sport integrates virtual reality, drones, and neuro technologies. The e-sport version of the sport consists of controlling a virtual drone with the brain. The Brain-Drone Race will be free event for USF students and invited High Schools. There will be a maximum entrance fee of $10.00 for Tampa, surrounding residents, and other attendees. Students and visitors will be able to interact with brain-controlled virtual drones and mini drones prior to the race. During the race, they will be able to witness the world’s first lap-based Brain-Drone Race. The Brain-Drone Race at USF will be an official match of the Brain-Drone Racing League and will be held on February 9th, 2019 at the USF Yuengling Center. Invited racers will imagine a movement in their brain to fly the drone. Furthermore, those who are attending the race (high school students, locals, and other attendees), but are not competing will have the opportunity to: •
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Simulation where participants control virtual drone with the brain during qualifiers.
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USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award recipients.
Faculty News and Awards Marvin Andujar represents USF at USA Science & Engineering Festival Assistant Professor Marvin Andujar was invited to showcase the work of his Neuro-Machine Interaction Lab at the 2018 USA Science & Engineering Festival, held April 7-8 in Washington D.C. Andujar gave demonstrations of his lab’s research, technology, and drones to over 200 children.
Schinnel Small represents CSE at Black Girls Code Dinner Instructor Schinnel Small attended the Black Girls Code Dinner, hosted by the USF chapter of the National Council of Negro Women and sponsored by the College of Engineering and the Wawa Foundation. The Black Girls Code event honored women who have shown exemplary scholastic achievements in the STEM fields, as well as women who have used their STEM knowledge and skills to inspire young African American women to pursue interest in the STEM fields.
Lawrence Hall elected to AIMBE College of Fellows Distinguished University Professor Lawrence Hall has been elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Hall is a leading pioneer in the field of image analysis through machine learning, especially in medical applications. His seminal work significantly advanced the diagnosis and treatment of lung and brain tumors. In 2013, he helped develop a revolutionary new method to more accurately and efficiently obtain boundaries of lung nodules that is reproducible and significantly reduces human error, which is crucial for optimal radiation
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oncology. He was also among the earliest researchers to explore the application of complex algorithms and pattern recognition methods to MRI data in the early 1990s, with emphasis on segmenting regions of brain tumors, which has contributed to improved diagnostic capabilities for tumors over the previously visual interpretations. In 1998, he helped develop a system that automatically segments and labels glioblastoma-multiforme tumors—the most common brain tumor in adults—in MRI scans. In 2017, he proposed a new method to improve the accuracy of the PAP test in diagnosing cervical cancer, which has outperformed other state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, he developed a new method to identify the subregions of malignant glioblastoma tumors in MRI scans and to quantify their characteristics to help predict survival time. He has authored over 250 publications, with 18,899 citations and an h-index of 50. He is a Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, and IAPR. He holds a PhD in computer science from Florida State University, an M.S. in mathematics from Florida State University, and a bachelor of science from Florida Institute of Technology.
Marvin Andujar presents at Synapse Summit Marvin Andujar, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and his lab, the Neuro-Machine Interaction Lab, showcased the brain-controlled simulated drone and 3D environments in an Oculus Rift. Synapse Summit attendees flew a simulated drone with their thoughts. Attendees also navigated a simulated wheelchair in a 3D environment in the oculus rift.
Sudeep Sarkar and team take third prize at IARPA-sponsored international intelligence competition New artificial intelligence technology designed by computer scientists at the University of South Florida is revolutionizing how satellite images are scanned and analyzed, paving the way for faster, more accurate intelligence monitoring and natural disaster response. The computer program, called Hydra, is an ensemble of convolutional neural networks designed for automatic land use classification. USF researchers developed the program for the Functional Map of the World (fMoW) Challenge, an international competition sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). The USF team placed third out of nearly 70 entries from around the world.
Professor Goldgof Receives Research Achievement Award Professor and Vice-Chair Dmitry Goldgof received the Outstanding Research Achievement Award. The award recognizes scholarly accomplishments of national and international distinction made by faculty researchers through significant discovery and innovation, high impact publications, patents and technology transfer, prestigious research awards, contributions in leadership at the national and international level, and consistent / continuous research impact and productivity.
Dmitry Goldgof named Distinguished University Professor Dmitry Goldgof, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has demonstrated a highly distinctive record of accomplishments in the area of computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing. He is a major global expert in biomedical image analysis with significant applications in MRI, CT, PET and microscopy images, radiomics, and bioinformatics. These cutting edge, interdisciplinary technologies pioneered by Professor Goldgof, are key for properly diagnosing the nature and extent of cancer and brain disorders, and other medical conditions, having the potential to save many lives through proper diagnoses and clinical outcome evaluations.
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Adriana Iamnitchi and Yao Liu granted Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award Professor Adriana Iamnitchi and Associate Professor Yao Liu, were each selected to receive the Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award from the Research Council at USF Research & Innovation. The award includes a $2,000 grant.
Collaborative Paper granted Best Paper Award A collaborative paper, between the University of South Florida and three other universities, entitled “Enabling New Computation Paradigms with HyperFET - An Emerging Device,” published in the January - March 2016 edition of the journal IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (TMSCS), was awarded the Best Paper Award for 2017. The collaborative effort included Nagarajan Ranganathan, now a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus. The paper involved the minds of accomplished scholars from the Pennsylvania State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of South Florida. The full list of co-authors is as follows: Wei-Yu Tsai, Xueqing Li, Matthew Jerry, Baihua Xie, Nikhil Shukla, Huichu Liu, Nandhini Chandramoorthy, Matthew Cotter, Arijit Raychowdhury, Donald M. Chiarulli, Steven P. Levitan, Suman Datta, John Sampson, Nagarajan Ranganathan, and Vijaykrishnan Narayanan.
Sudeep Sarkar awarded William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award Professor and Chair Sudeep Sarkar was selected as a recipient of the William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award by the Florida Education Fund. Sarkar was nominated by his student, Earnest Hansley, Ph.D. (Co ’18), and recognizes his contribution to the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program.
Jay Ligatti awarded Excellence in Innovation Award Professor Jay Ligatti, was selected to receive the Excellence in Innovation Award from USF Research & Innovation. Instrumental achievements in obtaining this award were: a patent protecting hardware against power-analysis; a patent enabling users to log in to systems securely, without entering passwords or fingerprints, by having multiple of their devices collaboratively respond to cryptographic challenges, in a technique co-authentication; two grants totaling $253,590, one of which led to the development of new methods for generating cryptographic keys, which are now being described in a provisional patent application; and Intel’s adoption of his control-flow integrity (CFI) technology, for constraining software to execute along well-defined paths.
Rangachar Kasturi awarded IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award After being nominated for this award, it was granted to Douglas W. Hood Professor Rangachar Kasturi by a committee for “seminal research in document image analysis and graphics recognition, and for outstanding leadership to the international pattern recognition community.” This award is very prestigious and is only given out every two years to an individual who has made outstanding contributions in the field of Document Analysis and Recognition.
Mauricio Pamplona Segundo and Sudeep Sarkar interviewed for The Next Platform Postdoctoral Scholar Mauricio Pamplona Segundo and Department Chair Professor Sudeep Sarkar were featured in The Next Platform on February 28, 2018 for their work with geographic information systems.
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n March 2014, UCF, USF, and FIU were awarded $4,858,413 of legislatively appropriated funds by the Board of Governors to address the gap in the demand and supply of workers in the state of Florida in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, and Management Information Systems. The project, titled “CSIT (UCF-USF-FIU) TEAm� was one of four applications selected for funding under the Targeted Educational Attainment (TEAm) Grant Initiative. The
Engineering, Information Technology, and Management Information Systems for UCF, USF, and FIU combined.
goal of the CSIT project was a 67% increase in yearly undergraduate degree production with academic year 2012-2013 as the benchmark year and academic year 2017-2018 as the final target year. UCF was the lead university for this project.
tenure-track faculty, full-time instructors, and adjunct instructors. The funding also enabled an increase in the number of funded graduate teaching assistants. This growth in faculty size and number of teaching assistants allowed the Department to offer more courses and sections to support the growth in enrollment. Furthermore, because of the great synergism between the three institutions, UCF, USF, and FIU received an NSF $5 million, 5-year (2016-2021) S-STEM grant to increase the success of academically talented and financially needy students in the computing-related disciplines. The USF share of this NSF grant is funding over $1 million in scholarships for undergraduate students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Technology.
For the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at USF, the production of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Technology graduates increased from 164 graduates in academic year 2012-2013 to 295 graduates in academic year 2017-2018. This was an 80% increase in yearly degrees awarded, a greater increase than the overall project. Overall, for the entire CSIT project the increase was 70% in yearly undergraduate degree production in Computer Science, Computer
Department undergraduate enrollment increased from 390 students in Spring 2013 to 860 students in Spring 2018, a growth of 120%. The funding from this project enabled the Department of Computer Science and Engineering to hire additional
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2017 New Faculty Marvin Andujar - Assistant Professor Marvin Andujar received his PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is a pioneer in the area of brain- computer interface, in particular, using it to control drones. He is recipient of a $300K grant from Intel to support his dissertation research. Dr. Andujar is already recognized by prestigious fellowships, namely NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and GEM Fellowship, and is a Generation Google Scholar and Intel Scholar. To date, Dr. Andujar has published 11 papers in highly competitive, peer- reviewed journals and conferences.
Shaun Canavan - Assistant Professor Shaun Canavan received his PhD from SUNY, Binghamton. His research involves analyzing video and other 3D/range data for a wide range of applications in hand gesture interfaces for next generation virtual and augmented reality systems, sign language interfaces for communicating with the deaf, sketch recognition for police photo lineup, and gaze detection for autism. He has published 18 papers, including one selected for a best paper collection and one “Most Cited Image and Vision Computing Article.” He also holds a patent for his invention.
Robert Karam - Assistant Professor Robert Karam received his PhD from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and previously worked as a biomedical engineer at L. Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. Dr. Karam’s expertise is in bioimplantable systems, hardware security of IoT, and reconfigurable computing. He received the best paper award at the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, and has published 12 journal and 15 conference papers. His research is highly interdisciplinary and he is looking forward to building collaborations with USF Health, the VA, and Biological Sciences.
John Licato - Assistant Professor John Licato was an assistant professor at Indiana University- Purdue University, Fort Wayne. He researches AI, automated reasoning/argumentation, and cognitive robotics, collaborating with experts in psychology and philosophy. He has published 31 papers and is recipient of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator’s Program Award (roughly $450K). During his doctoral studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he received the RPI Founder’s Award of Excellence. He is also a co-PI on an AFOSR grant with RPI and UIUC.
Mehran Mozaffari Kermani - Assistant Professor Mehran Mozaffari Kermani was an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a recipient of the prestigious NSERC Post- Doctoral Research Fellowship and several faculty awards. A leading expert in cryptographic hardware security, Dr. Mozaffari Kermani publishes high-impact research in the top journals of his field. He has published 47 papers, and has been granted a total of roughly $1.2M from federal funding agencies, namely, DoD Army Research Lab and NIST. He serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE TVLSI, the IEEE TCAS I, and the ACM TECS.
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2018 New Faculty Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia - Assistant Professor Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia is interested in information quality in cyber-human systems, in particular trustworthiness and reliability of information in intelligent systems. Prior to joining USF, he was an assistant research scientist at the Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI), and has worked for the Wikimedia Foundation and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. His work has been covered in major news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Wired, MIT Technology Review, NPR, and CBS News, to cite a few. He holds a Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Lugano in Switzerland and a Laurea degree from Sapienza University of Rome in Italy.
Jason Lewis - Instructor Jason R. Lewis received his PhD from the Clemson University in 2007 and then entered law enforcement. Dr. Lewis was a computer crimes investigator with a local law enforcement agency and was assigned to a regional federal electronic crimes task force. In 2013 Dr. Lewis re-entered academia, joining the faculty of the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver). While there, Dr. Lewis started CU Denver’s digital forensics certificate program, and he created several courses in digital forensics. In 2015 Dr. Lewis took a position as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science with the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), where he was tasked with starting their cybersecurity program. While at UVI Dr. Lewis created the University’s undergraduate concentration in cybersecurity, as well as an online bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity.
Tempestt Neal - Assistant Professor Tempestt Neal received her PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville. Dr. Neal’s expertise lies in behavioral biometric recognition using online data sources; her research interests also include authorship attribution, mobile behavior analytics, and computer vision. During her graduate studies, she was a participant in the NSF CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, and a recipient of the Delores Auzenne Dissertation Award. She has 12 publications in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, journals, and books.
William Oropallo - Instructor William Oropallo received his Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of South Florida, working with Dr. Les Piegl where he developed a point cloud approach to object slicing for 3D printing. He joined the University as an instructor shortly after graduation. William also has worked for many years as a web development consultant.
Attila Yavuz - Assistant Professor Attila A. Altay Yavuz was an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University. He was a member of the security and privacy research group at the Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center North America. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. He is interested in the design, analysis, and application of cryptographic techniques to enhance the security of computer networks and systems. Attila A. Yavuz is a recipient of NSF CAREER Award. He has been granted roughly $1M funding in his share and $2.2M in total. His research on privacy enhancing technologies and intravehicular network security are in the process of technology transfer with worldwide deployments. He has authored more than 45 research articles in top conferences and journals along with several patents.
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CSE Student Groups • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Club
• cCouncil
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE - CS)
• Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN)
• Society of Competitive Programmers (SCP)
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Tech (SHPE TECH)
• Whitehatters Computer Security Club (WCSC)
• Women in Computer Science and Engineering (WiCSE)
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Active Research Grants Andujar, Marvin Workshop: Student Travel to CHI Mentoring (CHIMe) 2018 NSF $25,825.00 5/1/2018-4/30/2019 Barbeau, Sean (PI); Ligatti, Jarred Enhancing Cybersecurity in Public Transportation FDOT $292,995.00 12/18/2017-06/30/2019 Canavan, Shaun Amazon Machine Learning Research Award: Analysis of Human Emotions using Multimodal Data Amazon $150,000.00 Chellappan, Sriram CAREER: Human Behavior Assessment from Internet Usage: Foundations, Applications and Algorithms NSF $303,799.00 08/17/2015-01/31/2019 Chellappan, Sriram Doolittle /Sofwerx Research Program Doolittle Institute $565,338.00 7/10/2017-7/31/2018 Chellappan, Sriram (PI); Fisk, Nathan SaTC: CORE: Small: A Privacy Preserving Meta-Data Analysis Framework For Cyber Abuse Research Foundations, Tools and Algorithms NSF $514,333.00 9/1/2017-8/31/2020 Chellappan, Sriram EAGER: PPER: Collaborative: CellphoneEnabled Water Citizen Science for Data And Knowledge Generation and Sharing: WatCitSci NSF $28,000.00 1 1/1/2017-10/31/2018 Christensen, Kenneth (PI); Rafael Perez Collaborative Research: Florida IT Pathways to Success (Flit-Path) NSF $1,527,307.00 10/1/2016-9/30/2021 Dubey, Rajiv (PI); Quillen, William; Reed, Kyle; Diamond, David; Sarkar, Sudeep MRI: Acquisition of a CAREN Virtual Reality System for Collaborative Research in Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies NSF $537,245.00 09/01/2012- 08/31/2019
Dubey, Rajiv (PI); Reed, Kyle; Alqasemi, Redwan; Sarkar, Sudeep Achieving Autonomy by Learning from Sensor-Assisted Control in a WheelchairBased Human-Robot Collaborative System NSF $496,383.00 09/01/2018- 08/31/2021 Fawcett, Timothy (PI); Walton, Joseph; Krischer, Jeffrey; Eddins, Ann; Christensen, Kenneth CC*DNI Networking Infrastructure: Campus Research Network - High Bandwidth Private Network Path for Research Data from Experiment to Analysis and Back Again at USF NSF $495,645.00 01/01/2016-12/31/2018 Ghosh, Swaroop (PI); Katkoori,Srinivas Threshold- Defined Logic Engines for Camouflaging DOTI $625,000.00 9/15/2015- 9/14/2019 Goldgof, Dmitry Informatics Tools for Optimized Imaging Biomarkers for Cancer Research & Discovery NIH, Moffitt Cancer Center, $108,996 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2018
Karam, Robert Conscious Ambulatory Bladder Monitoring to Understand Neural Control of Lower Urinary Tract Function NIH/Cleveland Clinic Foundation $27,273.00 2/1/2018- 11/30/2018 Labrador, Miguel (PI); Sun, Yu REU Site: An REU Site on Ubiquitous Sensing NSF $366,408.00 01/01/2015- 12/31/2018 Labrador, Miguel (PI); Sun, Yu REU Site: REU Site on Ubiquitous Sensing NSF $439,215.00 08/01/2016-07/31/2020 Licato, John Great Computational Intelligence: Mature and Further Applied Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute $64,260.00 3/15/2017-3/14/2022
Licato, John Active Formalization in Artificial and Human Reasoners AFOSR $150,000.00 1/1/201812/31/2020
Goldgof, Dmitry (PI); Sarkar, Sudeep; Sun, Yu An Automated Pressure Ulcer Monitoring System to Improve Pressure Ulcer Outcomes for Veterans with SCI Tampa Veterans Administration $127,838.00 9/30/2016-9/29/2019
Lin, Pei-Sung (PI); Katkoori, Srinivas; Wang, Zhenyu; Kourtellis, Achilleas Integration of a Robust Automated Pedestrian Detection System for Signalized Intersections FDOT $249,467.00 10/2/20176/30/2019 Liu, Yao CAREER: A Pathway to Virtual Channel Camouflage Wireless Security NSF $297,053.00 3/1/16-2/28/21
Goldgof, Dmitry (PI); Hall, Lawrence Microscope-based Technology for Automatic Brain Call Counts Using Unbiased Methods Stereology Resource Center, Inc. $101,000.00 1/1/2018-12/31/2018
Liu, Yao Towards Wireless Physical Layer Security Leveraging Massive and Distributed MIMO Radios ARO $200,078.00 4/15/2017- 4/14/2019
Iamnitchi, Adriana (PI); Skvoretz Jr., John BIGDATA:IA:F: Structural Anoymization Techniques for large, Labeled and Dynamic Social Graphs DARPA $661,289.00 3/1/16-2/28/19 Iamnitchi, Adriana (PI); Hall, Lawrence; Skvoretz Jr., John Modeling Information Diffusion Processes with Deep Learning Algorithms AFOSR $545,490.00 10/12/201710/11/2021
Mozaffari Kermani, Mehran Emerging Side-Channel Resistant and Resource-Friendly Elliptic Curve Algorithms and Architectures FAU $30,262.00 7/28/2017-7/27/2020
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Mozaffari Kermani, Mehran Efficient Algorithms and Architectures for Post-Quantum Cryptography FAU $31,348.00 9/15/2017-9/14/2020 Mozaffari Kermani, Mehran Design for Fault Attack Resiliency of Lightweight Cryptographic Architectures for Deeply-Embedded Systems NIST $144,297.00 11/1/201710/30/2019 Natarajan, Bala (PI); Ou, Xinming; Das, Sanjoy; DeLoach, Scott CPS: Synergy: Architecture for Future Distribution Systems Including Active Consumers with Rooftop Solar Generation NSF $700,000.00 10/01/201509/30/2019 Ou, Xinming Modeling Security/Safety Interactions in Buildings for Com positional Security/Safety Control DOI/Kansas State University $250,000.00 10/1/2015-1/15/2019 Ou, Xinming SaTC: CORE: Small: Collaborative: Data-driven Approaches for Largescale Security Analysis of Mobile Applications NSF $200,000.00 8/15/2017-7/31/2020 Ou, Xinming (PI); Lende, Daniel; Ligatti, Jay SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: Understanding Security in the Software Development Lifecycle: A Holistic, Mixed-Methods Approach NSF $500,000.00 09/01/201808/31/2021 Phillips, Bei (PI); Rosen, Paul III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Topological Data Analysis for Large Network Visualization NSF $777,369.00 09/01/201508/31/2019 Rosen, Paul Andrew III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Topological Data Analysis for Large Network Visualization NSF/University of Utah $339,979.00 9/1/2015-8/31/2019
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Sanberg, Paul (PI); McDevitt, Valerie; Fountain, Michael; Sarkar, Sudeep I-Corps Sites: University of South Florida: Catalyzing Research Translation NSF $299,708.00 04/01/201503/31/2019 Sanberg, Paul (PI); Zayas-Castro, Jose; Sarkar, Sudeep; McDevitt, Valerie I-Corps Sites: Type II - I-Corps Site at University of South Florida Tampa NSF $80,000.00 10/01/201809/30/2020 Sarkar, Sudeep, Xinming Ou + PIs at Florida Universities Collaborative Cybersecurity Research at Florida SUS Institutions 2017 Florida Center for Cybersecurity $723,734.00 7/1/2017- 12/31/2018 Sarkar, Sudeep, Yao Liu + PIs at Florida Universities 2017-18 Capacity Building Program Florida Center for Cybersecurity $733,862.00 7/1/2018-12/31/2019 Sun, Yu RI: Small: Functional Object-Oriented Network for Manipulation Learning NSF $398,529.00 08/15/201407/31/2019 Sun, Yu EAGER: Characterizing Physical Interaction in Instrument Manipulations NSF $299,887.00 03/01/201602/28/2019 Sun, Yu CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Wearable Fingertip Haptic Devices for Virtual and Augmented Reality: Design, Control, and Predictive Tracking NSF $173,338.00 08/01/201807/31/2021 Sun, Yu Developing Deep Neural Networks to Detect Objects and Their Distances EvaTech and Florida High Tech Corridor $29,634.00 8/7/201812/31/2018
Tu, Yicheng CAREER: Enabling high-throughput data management in scientific domains NSF $499,882.00 06/01/201305/31/2019 Tu, Yicheng (PI); Pandit, Sagar; Ligatti, Jay; Sarkar, Sudeep; Ghosh, Swaroop II-New: A Research Platform for Heterogeneous, Massively Parallel Computing NSF $679,798.00 07/01/201506/30/2019 Wang, Hsiao-Lan (PI); Katkoori, Srinivas I-Corps: Use of eHealth to Personalize Exergame Prescriptions NSF $50,000.00 04/01/201809/30/2019 Weitzenfeld, Alfredo RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Experimental and Robotics Investigations of Multi-Scale Spatial Memory consolidation of Complex Environments NSF $494,420.00 9/1/2017-8/31/2021 Weitzenfeld, Alfredo CRCNS US-French Research Proposal: Collaborative Research: A replay-driven model of spatial sequence learning in the Hippocampus-PFC network using reservoir computing NSF $391,576.00 10/01/201409/30/2019 Wisniewski, Pamela (PI); Chellappan, Sriram; De Choudhury, Munmun; MacMillan, Karl PFI-RP: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Detecting Adolescent Online Risks. NSF $750,000.00 09/15/201808/31/2021 Zhang, Qiong (PI); Wells, Eric; Ou, Xinming; Lu, Qing; Mohebbi, Shima CRISP Type 2: Integrative Decision Making Framework to Enhance the Resiliency of Interdependent Critical Infrastructures NSF $1,963,542.00 09/01/201608/31/2020
Patents 2016-2018 RESEARCHERS
PATENT NO. & TITLE
Indika Upashantha Pathirage, Redwan Alqasemi, Rajiv Dubey, Karan Khokar, Elijah Anderson Klay
9,389,685 Vision Based Brain-Computer Interface Systems for Performing Activities of Daily Living
Jarred Adam Ligatti, Dmitry Goldgof, Cagri Cetin, JeanBaptiste Subils
9,659,160 Systems and Methods for Authentication Using Multiple Devices
Jarred Adam Ligatti, Dmitry Goldgof, Cagri Cetin, JeanBaptiste Subils
9,380,058 Systems and Methods for Anonymous Authentication Using Multiple Devices
Rekha Govindaraj, Swaroop Ghosh
9,543,013 A 6T-2 MTJ Ternary Content Addressable Memory
Sudeep Sarkar, Ravichandran Subramanian, Miguel A.
9,877,668 Orientation Invariant Gait Matching
Swaroop Ghosh, Anirudh Srikant Iyengar, Jae-Won Jang
9,728,241 Non-Volatile Flip-Flop with Enhanced Scan Capability to Sustain Sudden Power Failure
Swaroop Ghosh, Anirudh Srikant Iyengar, Kenneth Ramclam
9,859,018 Physically Unclonable Function Based on Domain Wall Memory and Method of Use
Swaroop Ghosh, Seyedhamidreza Motaman
9,818,466 A Robust Slope Detection Technique for STTRAM and MRAM Sensing
Yu Sun, Adrian S. Johnson
9,520,072 Systems and Methods for Projecting Images onto an Object
Yu Sun, Jaime E. Sanchez, Xiaoning Qian, Bingxiong Lin
9,646,423 Systems and Methods for Providing Augmented Reality in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Yu Sun, Yu Lin
9,649,764 Systems and Methods for Planning a Robot Grasp That Can Withstand Task Disturbances
Yu Sun, Yuongqiang Huang
9,764,469 Generating Robotic Trajectories with Motion Harmonics
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Leadership Sudeep Sarkar, PhD
Sriram Chellappan, PhD
Dmitry Goldgof, PhD
Schinnel Small, PhD
Ken Christensen, PhD
William Hendrix III, PhD
Chair
Vice Chair
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs
Undergraduate Program Director for CyS
Undergraduate Program Director for IT
Undergraduate Program Director for CS/CpE
Yu Sun, PhD
Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs
Advising
Staff
John Morgan, PhD
Laura Owczarek
Department Undergraduate Advisor Marjorie Fontalvo Department Undergraduate Advisor
Academic Services Administrator *recipient of the College of Engineering 2018 Outstanding Staff Award
*The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is
Gabriela Franco
the only department in the College of Engineering with two
Graduate Program Specialist
dedicated advisors.
Mayra Morfin Undergraduate Program Specialist My Nguyen Webmaster Jose Ryan – Systems Administrator
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Advisory Board Dave Allen Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer Raymond James Financial
Brad Lawrence Architect Microsoft
Alan Brannan Director, Engineering CAE
Gary Leavens, PhD Professor and Chair University of Central Florida
Kevin Bowyer, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science & Engineering Notre Dame University
Ayush Parashar Co-founder and VP of Engineering Unifi Software
Nancy Crews, PhD Owner Manufacturing and Engineering Sidney Fernandes Vice President and CIO University of South Florida
Jeremy L. Rasmussen CTO and Cybersecurity Director Abacode Maha Sallam, PhD President VuEssence
Recognizing a Student Leader We would like to share a special
The Peer Mentoring program will be
“thank you” to My Nguyen, who will
launched in Fall 2018.
be graduating December 2018. Not only has My served as Department
My’s energetic leadership has created
Webmaster since 2017, but she also
opportunities for female students
served as President of WiCSE for the
in our department to participate in
2017-2018 academic year. Because
extracurricular activities, receive and
of her leadership, WiCSE grew to be
provide support to fellow members
a very active organization, holding
regarding coursework, job opportunities,
weekly general body meetings
and general counseling advice. She has
and hosting workshops with local
made a significant contribution to creating
companies. My’s initiative led to the development of the Computing Partners Program, an
strong relationships between WiCSE members, faculty, staff, and job recruiters.
effort designed to gain sponsorship from local companies. My has initiated two new programs within WiCSE –
My, you will be missed, but we know you have great
WiCSEkids and peer mentoring. WICSE kids focuses on
adventures in store and will find success wherever you go!
working with local elementary, middle, and high schools. WiCSEkids visited Greco Middle School during Great American Teach-in day 2017. Peer Mentoring offers senior members the opportunities to mentor junior members. Interface
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