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Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She is the Director of the Bilingual Language and Literacy Laboratory whose main mission is to identify best language assessment and intervention practices for bilingual children at risk of academic difficulties. She specializes in oral language and emergent literacy development and in prevention of academic difficulties in bilingual children and is a bilingual speech-language pathologist.

Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Occupational Health Psychology training concentration affiliated with the NIOSH-funded Sunshine Education and Research Center for Health, Safety, and Wellness. Her research interests include remote work, work-family issues, career development, and occupational health.

Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Lead Researcher, Center for Assistive, Rehabilitation, and Robotics Technology (CARRT). His reseach interests include: rehabilitation robotics, assistive technologies, human-robot interaction, robot controls, virtual/augmented reality simulation, graphical user interfaces, haptic interfaces, and brain-machine interfaces.

Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Director of the Auditory Rehabilitation and Clinical Trials laboratory. She is an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association certified audiologist with license to practice in the state of Florida. Her research focuses on hearing health policy and aging, hearing health care access and utilization, and hearing loss and cognition.

Professor in the College of Nursing and College of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences and Director of Ph.D. Program. Research interests include Women's Cardiovascular Health Behavior Change Interventions Cardiovascular Critical Care Quality of Life and Cardiac Surgery Genetic-Environment Interactions Cardiac Rehabilitation.

Dr. Ram J. Bishnoi is a psychiatrist in Tampa, Florida. He received his medical degree from N.H.L Municipal Medical College and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Dr. Ram J. Bishnoi has expertise in treating anxiety disorders, depression, dementia, among other conditions.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Morsani College of Medicine and Director of the iMH Lab. His research integrates implementation science and biomedical informatics approaches to improve the assessment and treatment of anxiety, depression, PTSD, stress, and sleep across the developmental spectrum, with a particular focus on developing and evaluating health technology solutions to improve access and quality of care (e.g., telemedicine, mHealth, virtual reality).

Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include affecting computing; biometrics; computer vision; image processing; pattern recognition; human computer interaction.

Vice Provost for Strategic Planning, Performance, and Accountability and Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her clinical specialty is audiological rehabilitation in children and adults. Her recent research focuses on issues related to treatment efficacy, including hearing aid intervention and post-hearing aid fitting intervention strategies.

Professor and Interim Director of School of Aging Studies, Director of Ph.D. Program, Academic Director of Center for Hospice, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Studies. Research interests in palliative, hospice and end-of-life care, and palliative care education in assisted living with a specific focus on providers of persons living with dementia.

Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Vice Chair. His research interests include medical image analysis; image and video processing; computer vision and pattern recognition; ethics and computing; bioinformatics and bioengineering.

Associate Professor in the College of Medicine Internal Medicine. Halade lab research focuses on 1) study of heart failure etiology with an integrative approach focusing on splenic leukocytes and heart; 2) measurement of inflammatory mediators that impair cardiac repair and resolving lipid mediators that facilitate cardiac repair after heart attack; 3) role of resolution receptor in inflammation-resolution processes in heart failure; and 4) translate our findings for use in human therapy, considering risk factors such as obesity, diabetes, aging, and co-medications (oncological drugs).

Distinguished University Professor in the School of Aging Studies. His research focuses on stress, coping, and adaptation in older adults and their family members. Most of his research has examined the experiences of family caregivers who often face potentially overwhelming chronic strain.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests are human-robot interaction (HRI), robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), cognitive science, explainable AI, robot explanation, mobile manipulation, natural language generation and pragmatics, references, assistive robotics.

Director of the Obesity, Diabetes, and Aging Research Center of the Morsani College of Medicine and Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Her research has addressed the physiological, cellular, and molecular defects underlying the development of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes mellitus and their prevention. She was the first President of The Obesity Society (USA) and also served as the first President of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (World Obesity Federation).

Research interests Bayesian methodology and Markov chain Monte Carlo, joint models for longitudinal and survival data, mixture of multilevel models for skewed-longitudinal data, quantile regression for longitudinal and survival data, parametric and nonparametric mixed effects models for skewed-longitudinal data, missing data analysis and Measurement error modelling, HIV/AIDS dynamic modelling and prediction, biostatistics to public health and medicine, in particular HIV/AIDS, modelling ODE dynamic system for health research, clinical research of infectious diseases and AIDS, and community-based data analysis.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair Faculty, Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, USF Center for Microbiome Research, and Institute for Microbiomes . Her research program is focused on determining the role of microbiome and its metabolites in predicting human health conditions as well as determining the role of different microbiome modifiers on ameliorating these conditions. Current research is specifically focused on discovering the importance of gut microbiome-based biomarkers in aging related conditions.

Meritoriously Retired Research Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies with the College of Community and Behavioral Sciences. His research interests lie within the area known as Gerontechnology, specifically in the development and use of telesurveillance and cognitive prosthetics, to support the physical, social, and community health and well-being needs of adults to facilitate aging-in-place. Current research focuses on the use of advanced technologies for the remediation of cognitive impairment related to dementia and traumatic brain injuries.

Associate Professor of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering. Research has focused on developing advanced statistical models and computational tools, integrated with domain knowledge, to improve system performance modeling, analysis, monitoring, diagnostics, prognostics, and decision-making.

Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the founder/director of the Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning (AMHR) Lab, and owner of the startup company Actualization.AI. He is an artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) researcher primarily interest in human-level reasoning (cognitive).

Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research has been mainly focused on theoretical and system perspectives on communication, network, and security. Recent research is also focused on machine learning and AI for security and security for AI.

Professor in the School of Aging Studies, Associate Director of the Ph.D. Program, and the Director of Positive Aging Lab (PAL). Research focuses on examining the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of integrative healthcare interventions to improve outcomes in both clinical and community settings. Current research investigates the role of innovative integrative health interventions in promoting positive aging among middle-aged and older adults.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the founder/director of the Cyber Identity and Behavior Research (CIBeR) Lab. Research interests include biometrics, applied smart sensing, applied artificial intelligence, inclusive cybersecurity, human-centered computing.

Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Research interests include computer vision (biometric recognition, remote sensing, video analysis, 3D vision); machine learning (few-shot learning, distribution modeling).

Assistant Professor Instructional Technology in the Department of Educational and Psychological Studies at the College of Education. Conducts interdisciplinary research in Computer Science and Education, seeking how to support an inclusive and equitable teaching and learning environment with AI technologies. His research explores the intersections of technology, data, and pedagogy, focusing on data mining technologies and AI algorithms to model students’ learning processes and identify key influential factors.

Research Assistant Professor, Director of the Health Care Administration and Aging Sciences Internship Program and Interim Director of the Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging. Research interest is primarily long-term care policy and practice and communication concerning decision-making, disaster planning, and advance care planning for older adults.

Clinician-scientist in the Department of Otolaryngology and Principal Investigator and Director in the Auditory Rehabilitation and Clinical Trial Laboratory (ARCT Lab). Assistant Professor in both the Department of Otolaryngology and the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Research interests include speech perception, auditory rehabilitation, evidence-based practice, and the effects of various disorders and interventions on the auditory and vestibular systems.

Gastroenterology and IM Digestive Fellowship and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Deputy Director of the Sunshine Education and Research Center. Current research topics of interest include the work-life interface (e.g., work as it relates to sleep, exercise, and romantic relationships in addition to work-family) and the long-term impact of work on health as we age, with special attention to health disparities and the well-being of marginalized groups.

Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Research interests include robotics, deep learning, haptics, computer vision, human computer interaction (HCI), and medical applications.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Research interests include Smart Health Systems, Human Factored Design, IoT, Mobile Computing, App Developing, and Machine Learning.

Assistant Professor on the tenure-track in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Primary research interest lies in Trustworthy AI, with a specific focus on interdisciplinary studies involving AI and Security. Research interests include machine learning-based intrusion detection systems, adversarial machine learning, federated learning, privacy-preserving machine learning, differential privacy, IoT security, and cyber-physical system security.

Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs. His research interests include biologically-inspired robotics, cognitive robotics, multi-robot systems, human-robot interaction, robot learning, robot navigation, spatial cognition, reinforcement learning, spatio-temporal learning, and computational neuroscience.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of The Engaging Computing Design (EnCoDe) Research Lab. This lab focuses on comprehending how both adults and children use and conceptualize technology to design more effective user experiences. Research interests include human-centered computing, human-computer interaction, natural use interfaces, child-computer interaction, mobile computing, multimodal interaction, learning technologies.

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and the Director of the USF Center for Microbiome Research and the Microbiomes Institute. The focus of his laboratory is investigating whether and how a leaky gut caused by disturbances in the gut microbiome contributes to the risk of dementia and other age-related chronic disorders.

Program Director of Advance Air Mobility at the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) and Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She also serves as the Director of National Institute for Congestion Reduction. Her research interest focuses on air traffic management, performance evaluation of NextGen initiatives, and integrated airspace with new entrants.