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Two USF faculty members receive honors from National Academy of Inventors

Dr. Barry Bercu and Dr. Sylvia Thomas earn one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for academic inventors, being recognized for their breakthrough discoveries and inventions advancing diagnosis and treatment for challenging diseases.

December 8, 2022Honors and Awards, Innovation

A new study performed at the analyzes how emotion-expressing AI chatbots have the potential to impact customer service. This comes as online retailers make greater use of artificial intelligence chatbots to simplify customer service tasks and substitute their human counterparts.

December 8, 2022Innovation, Research

Bots with feelings: Study explores deploying AI chatbots with emotions in customer service

As online retailers increasingly use artificial intelligence chatbots to streamline customer service tasks and replace their human counterparts, new research from the examines how emotion-expressing AI chatbots can impact customer service.

December 6, 2022Innovation, Research

Education and physics professors from the St. Petersburg campus are working with developers from the Advanced Visualization Center in Tampa to help students better comprehend complicated theories on subjects like gravity and electromagnetism. A recent $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding the creation of augmented reality (AR) simulations to propel understanding and educational results.

December 6, 2022Innovation

USF Health Taneja College of Pharmacy students Siegrid Pregartner and Laura Borgerding, launched a startup, Janus AI, and designed an AI tool that aids in the early detection of Alzheimer’s. Their focus is to provide patients suffering from the disease more time to make healthcare decisions before the disease hijacks their mental acuity and motor skills.

December 2, 2022Health, Innovation

The is working on securing a patent for technology to better help users confirm their location and identity, all through the sound of their voice. The tech, dubbed “Here I am,” began as a brainchild of USF professors Sriram Chellappan and Balaji Padmanabhan in 2018.

November 28, 2022Innovation

Research at the university can become high-grossing patents, new business ventures and high-tech employment opportunities.

November 23, 2022Innovation, Research

The Florida Inventors Hall of Fame and museum on the campus of the is using the Great American Teach-In Thursday to launch its new program called IGNITE.

November 17, 2022Innovation

Tia Boyd and her colleagues at the ’s (USF) Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) created the Transportation Equity Toolkit, which helps communities, municipal governments, metropolitan planning organizations, transportation agencies, and other entities — such as higher education institutions — identify gaps in their transportation and mobility practices and infrastructure.

November 16, 2022Innovation

New USF patent creates digital alibis

Researchers at the are in the process of licensing a new, patented technology that can more accurately confirm an individual’s identity and location using their voice. The technology, dubbed “Here I am,” creates an unforgeable, encrypted digital certificate on a user’s cellular device.

November 14, 2022Innovation

Sriram Chellappan developed technology to use your voice to prove you are where you say you are and create a digital alibi, and his reasons sprung from the need for justice. He teamed up with USF business professor Balaji Padmanabhan to create the "Here I Am" app.

November 11, 2022Innovation

In a collaboration, the and the burgeoning St. Petersburg Innovation District are pursuing a grant from the National Science Foundation that would funnel $160 million into marine science innovation in the city.

November 8, 2022Innovation

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