• The Department has 28 tenure-stream faculty and 11 full-time instructors.

• The BS in Cybersecurity major started in Spring 2018, resulting in four major choices: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybersecurity.

• Faculty members are currently executing $9.6 million in active external research grants from NSF, DoD, NIH, NIST, industry, and state sources. Twelve Department faculty members are NSF CAREER awardees.

• The Department awarded 295 BS degrees, 67 MS degrees, and 12 PhD degrees in academic year 2017.

• USF CSE is in the top sixth (rank 31) of Computer Science departments at U.S. public universities, according to most recent Academic Analytics data based on Scholarly Research Index.* *uses default weights for grants, articles, conferences, awards, and citations.

• In 2018, the Florida Board of Governors designated USF Tampa as a Preeminent State Research University, placing USF in the most elite category among the state’s 12 public universities.

Research Benchmarks

BS in Computer Science (134)BS in Computer Engineering (45)BS in Information Technology (116)MS in Computer Science (49)MS in Computer Engineering (7)MS in Information Technology (11)PhD in Computer Science and Engineering (12)

2017-2018 Degrees

Department of Computer Science and Engineeringwww.usf.edu/engineering/cse

Marvin Andujar, Brain-computer interfaces; AI and Cognitive Computing Generation Google Scholar and Intel Scholar

Shaun Canavan, AI and cognitive computing; facial feature detection and tracking

John Licato, Computational modeling of cognitive reasoning; artificially intelligent reasoners AFOSR Young Investigator Program Awardee

Robert Karam, Hardware security; reconfigurable computing; bioimplantable devices

Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, Fault diagnosis and tolerance in cryptography; cryptographic engineering; computer arithmetic NSERC Postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University

“Tampa Bay is home to 19 corporate headquarters with over $1 billion in annual revenue, eight of which are

Fortune 1000 companies.1 Tampa is also home to USSOCOM. Tampa is the nation’s second-fastest-growing

tech hub.2 Send us your best students. We are hiring tenure stream faculty and full-time instructors.”1Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce • 2Tampa Bay Tech

Tempestt Neal, Scalable biometrics; mobile biometrics; AI and Cognitive Computing NSF Cyber Corps Fellow

Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Computational social science; network science; data science

Attila Yavuz, Applied cryptography; privacy enhancing technologies; light-weight cryptography; cybersecurity NSF CAREER Awardee

William Oropallo (Instructor), NURBS; point clouds; geometric algorithms

Jason Lewis (Instructor), Cybersecurity; digital forensics; computer science cybersecurity education

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