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News Archive 2021 - 2023
Note: This archive is not being updated anymore. All later news items are archived here.
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Professor Licato interviewed about the future of Human-like AI Minds CSE Assistant Professor Licato touched on these and other questions in a recent podcast interview with Meghan McCarty Carino on Marketplace, a public media outlet covering a range of topics. |
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USF scientists create a dashboard to integrate mosquito tracking data FOX News 13 covered the efforts of CSE Professor Sriram Chellappan and Assistant Professor Ryan Carney, who recently created www.mosquitodashboard.org, a global dashboard to help track disease-carrying mosquitoes. |
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Professor Hall and Professor Licato were interviewed by ABC News about AI Legislation Distinguished University Professor Hall and Assistant Professor Licato were interviewed online by ABC News about the need for legislation concerning Artificial Intelligence. |
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USF CSE Prof. Katkoori and students granted a US patent for a novel PUF Design CSE Professor Katkoori and Alumni Rohith Challa (MS, 2018) and Dr. Arif Islam (PhD, 2020), are granted US patent No. 11,537,755 issued on Dec. 27, 2022, for an SR Flip-Flop based Physical Unclonable Function for Hardware Security. This patent presents a PUF design that relies on the race-around condition of the cross-coupled path in an SR-FF configuration to create randomness for use in IP protection and hardware security. |
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Dr. Ankur Mali publishes a paper in Nature Communications Computer Science and Engineering assistant professor Dr. Mali has published a paper in Nature Communications titled “Using a physics-informed neural network and fault zone acoustic monitoring to predict lab earthquakes” (reference: Nat Commun 14, 3693 (2023).) The paper describes a machine learning based method for predicting laboratory earthquakes using micro-failure events and temporal evolution of fault zone elastic properties. |
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CSE Congratulates its Spring 2023 Outstanding Graduates For spring 2023, the outstanding graduates were John Meeks (computer science), Comfort Anyanwu (computer engineering), Kayley Burinski (cybersecurity), and Patric Damiens (information technology). |
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CSE Alumnus is NSBE Houston Chapter Young Engineer of the Year Qua Thomas, a CSE alumnus, was featured in an employee spotlight by the Fortune 500 oil company, Chevron. |
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USF provost is a noted computer science and engineering educator and researcher The University of South Florida’s standing as a leading research university was boosted by appointing a prominent computer science and engineering researcher and educator as its new provost and executive vice president of academic affairs. |
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Girls Who Code wins 2 awards at Spring 2023 Engineering Banquet Computer Science and Engineering senior Richa Kakar accepted two awards on behalf of the student organization Girls Who Code (GWC) at the engineering banquet held by E-Council in the Marshall Center. |
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USF CSE student wins first place in JointJam 2023 CSE student Christopher Brandt (Junior, Computer Science) won first place in JointJam 2023, held on March 31st. |
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Dr. Licato Wins NSF Award to Study Human Reasoning and AI Dr. Licato, Assistant Professor of CSE and Director of the Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning (AMHR) Lab, has recently received an NSF award of $150K for his project: EAGER: Grounding Natural Language Inference in Cognitive Processes. |
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CSE graduates recognized in spring 2023 graduation USF conferred more than 7,100 degrees in spring commencement ceremonies. Two outstanding graduates (to a total of 12) were from CSE. |
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Dr. Licato Interviewed on IHeartRadio Dr. Licato was interviewed by Ross Kaminsky on KOA radio about AI generated spam. |
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USF Whitehatters win Neon Temple CTF a second year in a row Students from the USF Whitehatters Cyber Security Club won first place in a CTF Tournament at BSides Tampa X 2023. BSides Tampa is an Information Technology Security Conference sponsored by the Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)² and hosted by USF. |
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CSE Computing Partners review student's resumes On March 23, 2023 over seventy USF Computer Science and Engineering Students had their resumes reviewed by Tech Industry Leaders and Recruiters from Computing Partners Program member companies. |
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USF CSE Students Win First Place in ICPC Southeast Division 2 “This year was our second time participating in the ICPC,” said Ali Aslanbayli, President of the USF SCP. In 2022, they competed against 42 teams in Miami. However, the competition nearly tripled in size to 119. “While last year we were able to secure the 5th place, this time we beat all of our expectations and won the 1st place.” |
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Kevin Dennis Wins the Student Best Paper award at IEEE TPS Professor Ligatti and his student Kevin Dennis collaborated with researchers from MIT. The resulting work won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS). |
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Rapid7 USF Cybersecurity Lab featured in Dark Reading The Rapid7 Cyber Threat Intelligence Laboratory at USF will provide data on real-world threats for faculty and students to use in their research. |
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Two CSE PhD Students received the Dissertation Completion Fellowship |
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Four CSE Student Organizations participated in the USF Engineering Expo |
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Professor Tempestt receives an NSF CAREER Award Assistant Professor Tempestt Neal received an NSF CAREER award for her project, “Inclusive Cybersecurity Through the Lens of Accessible Identity and Access Management (I-CLAIM).” |
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USF CSE students place as finalists at two cybersecurity competitions Team Protosec took second place at Saint Leo University's CTF tournament, and PhD candidates Brooks Olney and Farhath Zareen took fourth place at the international competition HeLLoCTF. |
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USF CSE graduate student wins best doctoral consortium award at an International Conference PhD candidate Saandeep Lakshminarayan won best doctoral consortium award at the IEEE International Conference 2023 on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Doctoral Consortium. |
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Nitesh Chawla, PhD was named a Fellow of the ACM Nitesh Chawla, PhD, a USF CSE Alumnus and researcher in the field of machine learning, has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). |
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USF Researchers unveil an Unforgeable Alibi App on Fox News Dr. Sriram Chellappan from USF CSE and Dr. Balaji Padmanabhan from the Muma College of Business unveiled a smartphone app: “Here I Am” on FOX News. |
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Alumni recieves Honorable Mention from CSGS Ms. Ruchitha Chinthala, a recent PhD graduate of USF CSE, received an honorable mention for her thesis at the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS). |
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An NSF grant will help USF recruit students to fight cybercrime This year, the National Science Foundation is providing more than $29 million in new funding to support the development of a cybersecurity workforce. |
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USF CSE awards two CSE pathways scholarships in 2022 Tuesday, December 6, 2022A part of the Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) initiative, the scholarship helps students overcome the costs of transferring into Computer Science. |
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HackJam Fall '22 Students compete in a series of complex coding and design challanges for awesome prizes! |
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Corporate Partners of USF take a look at Students' Resumes A resume Review event for CSE Studends, hosted in cooperation with Amazon Pay, CAE, JPMorgan & Chase, Raymond James |
Ausmita Sarker, advised by Professor Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, wrote her PhD dissertation on "Secure Hardware Constructions for Fault Detection of Lattice-based Post-quantum Cryptosystems," and Ruchitha Chinthala, co-advised by Professor Srinivas Katkoori (CSE) and Carmen S. Rodriguez (Nursing), wrote her MS thesis on "An Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Approach for Remote Assessment of Head and Neck Cancer Patients."
Ten CSE students awarded Amazon Cybersecurity Scholarship |
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USF researchers awarded $5 Million grant to study AI models for the U.S. military For military planners concerned with optimizing the deployment and use of resources, artificial intelligence is seen as a useful tool. How AI can be developed and tested for use in military operations will be the focus of study for an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of South Florida Institute for Artificial Intelligence + X (AI+X) from Computer Science and Engineering, Industrial Management and Systems Engineering, and Psychology. |
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Yu Sun featured on Robohub Podcast |
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New brain-painting method developed at USF being tested for ADHD treatment |
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CSE Graduate Adriana Ladera awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship |
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USF CSE Students Lead Team to Second Place at 2022 National Centers of Academic Excellence
NSA Cyber Exercise |
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CSE To Introduce New Pathway To Computing Graduate Certificate Program |
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CSE Students win Hackabull 2022 |
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CSE Computing Partners Program Resume Review Event was a Success |
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CSE Students Compete at regional 2022 International Collegiate Programming Contest |
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Attila A. Yavuz receives third Cisco Research Grant |
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CSE Alumni Ransford Hyman receives 2021 Adobe Founders Award |
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Six USF faculty members recognized with Excellence in Innovation Awards |
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CSE Alumni Nitesh Chawla named IEEE Fellow |
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Alessio Gaspar receives 2020/21 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award |
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Srinivas Katkoori and collaborators receive best paper award at IFIT IoT 2021 |
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Outstanding Graduate Student Awards |
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Lawrence Hall receives the 2021 IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award |
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Collaborative paper earns Best Paper award at Affective Movement Recognition Challenge
and Workshop at ACII 2021 |
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Yicheng Tu Receives NIH Grant for Interdisciplinary Scientific Simulation Research |
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Collaborative grant funded by NIDILRR/Administration for Community Living |
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College of Engineering students win first place at IEEE BigData Cup 2021 |
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Collaborative NSF grant will provide scholarships for USF CSE students |
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Two Doctoral Students Awarded 2021 Computing Innovation Fellowships |
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CSE PhD students win Duolingo Award |
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Collaborative team earns Distinguished Paper at SOUPS 2021 |
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USF researchers launch social media campaign to identify risk of mosquito-borne diseases
in Tampa Bay |
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USF inventors post record patent numbers, ranking in the nation’s top 10 university
producers |
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Nighojkar and Licato’s paper accepted at prestigious 2021 ACL-IJCNLP Annual Meeting |
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Simon Ou featured in Tampa’s 83 Degrees Media online magazine |
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Ciampaglia and Licato Win Best Paper Award at 1st International Workshop on Knowledge
Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis |
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Collaborative Paper Accepted at Wiki Workshop 2021 |
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CSE PhD Student Brooks Olney one of Research Category Winners in the USF graduate
student research symposium |
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Tenex Software Establishes the Matthew Moreno Scholarship to Honor his Memory |
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Sudeep Sarkar Elected to Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida |
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Sudeep Sarkar named Distinguished University Professor |
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New CSE student organization: Girls Who Code College Loop |
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CSE Student Delong Yang to be Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa |
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Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia Appointed to NASEM Committee |
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Collaborative Paper earns 2020 IET Biometrics Premium Award |
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Tempestt Neal and Shaun Canavan awarded $261,996 NSF grant |
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CSE students win big at 2021 Hackabull |
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CSE Graduate Student Qi Zheng Receives USF GSS Fellowship |
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USF CSE Alumna Dr. Shetay Ashford-Hanserd Receives NSF CAREER Award |
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CSE Instructor Zachariah Beasley selected as 2020/1 STEER Scholar |
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CSE PhD student Sameera Horawalavithana and collaborators win NASN 2021 Grand Challenge |
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CSE’s MSIT Program Ranked No. 12 By U.S. News & World Report |
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Cutting-edge innovations to fight disease, enhance learning win USF’s Excellence in
Innovation Awards |
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CSE PhD student Troi Williams receives Koerner Family Foundation research award |
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CSE Alumna, Ghada Zamzmi, Selected as One of 10 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under
35 MENA |