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Research: Electrical and Healthcare Networks, Cybersecurity

Research: Brain-computer interfaces, brain-robot interaction, personal informatics, ubiquitous computing, symbiotic interaction, affective computing

Research: Socio-technical systems, cybersecurity, smart health, mobile networking, cyber-physical systems, mobile and wireless computings

Awards: NSF CAREER (2013)

Research: AI/ML Safety, Multimodal Generative AI, Generative AI for Social Media Harm Mitigation, and Cooperative AI systems.

Research: Performance evaluation of computer networks, high-speed packet switch architectures, energy-efficient networks (green networks)

Awards: NSF CAREER (1998), USF CSE Broadening Participation in Computing Award (2022), USF Kosove Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Service Award (2017), USF Excellence in Innovation Award (2009), USF Teaching Incentive Program Award (1998)

Research: Malware analysis techniques using machine learning, Cyber Threat Information Sharing (CTIS) aggregation, replication and autodetection/mitigation

Research: Medical image analysis, image and video processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, ethics and computing, bioinformatics and bioengineering

Awards: AAIA Fellow (2018), AIMBE Fellow (2017), AAAS Fellow (2016), IAPR Fellow (2010), USF Excellence in Innovation Award (2020)

Research: Intelligent systems, machine learning/data mining, fuzzy logic in intelligent systems, artificial intelligence in visual pattern recognition 

Awards: AIMBE Fellow (2018), AAAS Fellow (2013), IAPR Fellow (2010), IEEE Fellow (2003)

Research: Exploring the influence of olfactory-based computing systems and interactions on human cognitive experiences and abilities.

Research: IoT Security, Emerging OS Security, Privacy Policy analysis

Awards: 2023 Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering & Science (COVES) Policy Fellow, CCI Symposium 2023 Best Poster, ACM CODASPY 2019 Best Paper Award

Research: High-level synthesis, low power synthesis, radiation tolerant VLSI design and CAD

Awards: NSF CAREER (2001), USF Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award (2013), USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (2007), USF Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award (2003)

Research: Gene's research aims to integrate the benefits of neural and symbolic methods for modeling language meaning which supports automatic parsing and computer reasoning while being informed by linguistic semantics.

Awards: University of Rochester Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Fellow (2015-2017)

Research: Artificial Intelligence, natural language processing (NLP), computational cognitive modeling, cognitive science and robotics, automated theorem provers, argumentation, human reasoning

Awards: AFOSR Young Investigator’s Award (2017)

Research: Runtime Security Mechanisms, Authentication, Policy Composition, Injection Attacks, Enforceability Theory, Type Systems, Subtyping, Policy-Specification Languages

Awards: NSF CAREER (2008), Best-paper award at ACM PLDI (2007), Test of Time Award at ACM CCS (2015)

Research: Network security, wireless technologies  

Awards: NSF CAREER (2016)

Research: Computer networks, wireless networks, mobile systems and communications, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity.

Awards: Certificate of Recognition for Research Response to Community Crisis, APLU (2021), Distinguished Professor of UC Davis (2019), Distinguished Alumnus Award, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India (2015), Biju Patnaik Lifetime Scientific Excellence Award, Government of Odisha, India (2015), Fellow of AAAS (2013), HP Labs Innovation Award (2011, 2012, 2013), Outstanding Engineering Faculty Research Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis (2011), Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award, Pennsylvania State University (2008).

Research: Fault diagnosis and tolerance in cryptography, cryptographic engineering, computer arithmetic 

Awards: USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2020), USF Nexus Initiative Global Award (2019), USF College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Research Achievement Award (2018)

Research: Biometrics; Applied Smart Sensing; Applied Artificial Intelligence; Inclusive Cybersecurity; Human-Centered Computing

Awards: NSF CAREER (2023), McKnight Junior Faculty Fellow (2021)

Research: Cyber security, cyber physical systems, programming languages, cloud computing, human aspects of computing 

Awards: NSF CAREER (2010)

Research: VLSI, low power design, AI accelerators, emerging technologies, hardware security

Awards: Best paper award at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and Low Power Design in 2018 (ISLPED’18), Cadence Women in Technology (WIT) Scholar 2018/2019

Research: Mobile Wireless Sensing Systems, Human-Computer Interaction Applications, Smart Home and Internet of Things Applications, Mobile Authentication, Novel Biometrics, Smart Home and Internet of Things Security.

Research: Computer vision (biometric recognition, remote sensing, video analysis, 3D vision); machine learning (few-shot learning, distribution modeling)

Awards: IET Biometrics Best Paper Award, The IET Premium Awards 2020, IET 2020

Research: Computer vision and image analysis, automated sign language, recognition biometrics and human identification, perceptual organization for grouping and segmentation, Bayesian methods  

Awards: NAI Fellow (2017), AIMBE Fellow (2016), NSF CAREER (1995), USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (1998)

Research: Intelligent systems, robotics, cyber physical systems and virtual reality, computer vision, medical image processing, deep learning

Awards: USF Excellence in Innovation Award (2018), USF Neuroscience Collaborative Award (2010)

Research: Utilization of Deep Learning & Large Language Models for Education and Medicine 

Research: Database systems, multimedia systems, distributed systems 

Awards: NSF CAREER (2013), USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2014), USF Outstanding Faculty Award (2014)

Research: Computer animation, broadening participation in computing, undergraduate computer science and engineering education

Awards: USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award (2020), Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, ßÙßÇÂþ»­ (2011)

Research: LLM Agents,Security and Privacy, Sensing and its data management.

Research Interests: Machine learning-based intrusion detection systems, adversarial machine learning, federated learning, privacy-preserving machine learning, differential privacy, IoT security,  and cyber-physical system security.

Research: Human-centered computing, human-computer interaction, natural user interfaces, child-computer interaction, mobile computing, multimodal interaction, learning technologies 

Awards: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2019)

Research: Applied cryptography, privacy enhancing technologies, light-weight cryptography, cyber-security for critical cyber-infrastructures (e.g., internet of things and cloud systems), network security

Awards: NSF CAREER (2017-2023), Cisco Research Awards (2019,2020, 2022), USF Excellence in Innovation Award (2022), USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2020), USF College of Engineering’s Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2020)

Research: Hardware/Software testing and verification, embedded systems, computer architecture, VLSI design, electronic design automation

Awards: NSF CAREER (2006), Best Paper Award, the 21st International SPIN Symposium of Model Checking of Software (2014), USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2007)

Research: Computer-aided design, geometric modeling, computer graphics and analysis, design of geometric algorithms 

Awards: William Mong Research Fellow The University of Hong Kong (2003), Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (1985), USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (1991), USF Teaching Incentive Program Award (1993)