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Faculty Office Location Email Office Hours
Alfenas Reis, Dayane ENB 318 dayane3@usf.edu MW, 10:00am-11:30am (in-person)
Anderson, Jim ENG 215 jmanderson@usf.edu COP 3515: MW 9:30am - 10:30pm (in person), CGS 2060: MW 3:30pm - 4:30pm (in person)
Andujar, Marvin ENB 316 andujar1@usf.edu MW: 1:00pm - 2:30pm (in person)
Baten, Raiyan Abdul ENG 116 rbaten@usf.edu R, 2:00pm - 5:00pm (in person)
Canavan, Shaun ENB 315 scanavan@usf.edu MW 1:00pm-2:30pm (Teams)
Chellappan, Sriram ENB 317 sriramc@usf.edu MF: 9:00am to 10:30am (in person)
Chhabra, Anshuman BEH307 anshumanc@usf.edu T 2:00pm-3:00pm (in person, CIS 6930: Topics in NLP)
Christensen, Kenneth ENB 319 christen@cse.usf.edu Email for an appointment
Fang, Suey-Chyun "Roger" ENG 016 fang1@usf.edu M 9:30am-12:30pm
Gaspar, Alessio ENB 343E alessio@usf.edu TR 6:15pm - 7:00pm in ULH101, W 6:00-7:30pm (Teams), other times by appointment
Goldgof, Dmitry ENB 326 goldgof@mail.usf.edu Email for an appointment
Hall, Lawrence ENB 330 lohall@mail.usf.edu MW 11:00-12:00, R 1:00-2:00pm (in person)
Han, Zhao ENB 255 zhaohan@usf.edu MW 2:30-3:30pm and 4:45-5:15pm (in person)
Hidalgo, Isabela ENB 301B imoura@usf.edu T 11:00am - 2:00pm (in person)
Hoeke, Marilynn "Carol" Teams hoeke@usf.edu MW 7:00pm - 9:00pm (Teams), other times by appointment
Hollingsworth, Scot Teams scoth@usf.edu By appointment only
Holloman, Amanda BEH313 akholloman@usf.edu Tuesday & Thursday @ 10a - 12p, 2p - 3p (by appointment)
Kafle, Kaushal BEH309 kafle@usf.edu TR 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (in person), other times by appointment
Karam, Robert ENB 341 rkaram@usf.edu MW 1:30 - 3:00 PM
Katkoori, Srinivas ENB 258 katkoori@usf.edu MW 2:00-4:00pm (in person)
Kim, Seungbae ENB 311 seungbae@usf.edu R 9:00pm - 12:00pm (in person or Teams)
Korzhova, Valentina ENB 343G korzhova@cse.usf.edu TR 12:00pm - 1:30pm (in person)
Licato, John ENB 301D licato@usf.edu R 12:30pm - 3:30pm (in-person)
Ligatti, Jarred ENB 333 ligatti@usf.edu T 3:30pm-6:30pm (in person), other times by appointment
Liu, Yao ENB 336 yliu21@usf.edu W 8:30am - 11:30am
Mali, Ankur ENB247A ankurarjunmali@usf.edu TR 2:00 - 3.30pm (in person), other times by appointment
Mozaffari Kermani, Mehran ENB 338 mehran2@usf.edu M 8:00am - 11:00am
Murray-Bruce, John ENG117A murraybruce@usf.edu M 9:00am - 11:00am (in-person), W 2 PM - 3 PM (Teams)
Neal, Tempestt ENB 310 tjneal@usf.edu TW 10:00am - 11:30am (in person)
Ou, Xinming "Simon" ENB 339 xou@usf.edu T 10:00am-12:00pm (in person)
Pamplona Segundo, Mauricio ENB343H mauriciop@usf.edu W 2:00pm - 5:00pm (in person)
Pazos-Revilla, Marbin ENB343C marbin@usf.edu W 2:00pm - 4:30 pm (in person, Teams optional by apointment)
Rahman, Taseef ENG 214 taseefr@usf.edu TR 10:00am - 11:30am (teams/in person)
Rauscher, Richard ENB343B rrauscher@usf.edu TR 10:00-12:00 pm (in person)
Ren, Yili ENB 378 yiliren@usf.edu MW 1:30pm-3:00pm (in person)
Small, Schinnel ENB 343F sksmall@usf.edu T 10:00am - 1:00pm (in person), other times availble by email request
Sun, Yu ENB 331 yusun@usf.edu W 9:00am - 10:30am (Teams), F 2:30pm - 4:00pm (in person)
Templeton, John ENB 247 jtemplet@usf.edu TR 1:00 - 3:00pm (in person), other times available by appointment
Topsakal, Oguzhan BEH317 topsakal@usf.edu MW 12:00pm – 2:00pm, other times available by appointment
Tu, Yicheng ENB 340 tuy@usf.edu T 1:00pm-2:00pm (online); F 2:00pm-4:00pm (in person)
Ventura, Philip ENG 211 pventura@usf.edu MW 11:00am-12:30pm Teams
Wang, Guangjing BEH311 guangjingwang@usf.edu T 2:00pm - 5:00 pm, other times available by appointment
Wang, Jing ENC 3501 jw@usf.edu M 9:30am - 10:30am (Teams), R 12:00 - 2:00pm (in perosn or Teams)
Wang, Ning ENB 343k ningw@usf.edu MW 1:30pm-3:00pm, through Teams and in person
Weitzenfeld, Alfredo ENG 122B aweitzenfeld@usf.edu TR 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Woodward, Julia ENB332 juliaevewoodward@usf.edu TR 1:00pm - 2:30pm (in-person), other times available by appointment
Yavuz, Attila Teams and ENG 107 attilaayavuz@usf.edu TR 10:30am - 12:00pm
Yi, Hye-Seon ENG 216 hsyi@usf.edu TR 10:00am - 11:00am
Zhang, Yan ENB 343A yzhang16@usf.edu TR 10:30am - 12:00pm (in person), other times available by email appointment
Zheng, Hao ENB312 haozheng@usf.edu On sabattical. By email appointment only.
James Anderson

James Anderson
Associate Professor of Instruction, Coordinator: Cybersecurity & Information Technology programs

ENG 215 | Email
813-974-3032 

Research & Awards

Research: Electrical and Healthcare Networks, Cybersecurity

Marvin Andujar

Marvin Andujar
Assistant Professor

ENB 316 | Email
813-974-8421

Research & Awards

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

Raiyan Baten

Raiyan Abdul Baten
Assistant Professor

ENG 116 | Email
813-396-2273

Research & Awards

Research: Network science, human-computer interaction, machine learning/deep learning, computational social science, affective computing, natural language processing, and graph data mining. His research focuses on building technology to enhance humans' soft skills and collective performances.

Shaun Canavan

Shaun Canavan
Associate Professor

ENB 315 | Email
813-974-3137

Research & Awards

Research: Computer vision, face and sketch recognition, expression analysis, human computer interaction, facial feature detection and tracking

Sriram Chellappan

Sriram Chellappan
Professor

ENB 317 | Email
813-974-1379

Research & Awards

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

Awards: NSF CAREER (2013)

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Anshuman Chhabra
Assistant Professor

BEH 307 | Email

Research & Awards

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

Ken Christensen

Ken Christensen
Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Affairs

ENB 319 | Email
813-974-4761

Research & Awards

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

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

Suey Chun Roger Fang

Suey-Chun (Roger) Fang
Associate Professor of Instruction

ENG 016 | Email
813-974-2398 

Research & Awards

Research: Data modeling, data warehousing, information systems, deductive databases, visual programming

William Gauvin

William Gauvin
Professor of Practice

ENB 343B | Email

Research & Awards

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

Alessio Gaspar

Alessio Gaspar
Associate Professor

ENB 343E |Email
 813-974-2932

Research & Awards

Research: Evolutionary algorithms, computing education research, computer assisted learning, intelligent tutoring systems

Dmitry Goldgof

Dmitry B. Goldgof
Distinguished University Professor and Vice Chair

ENB 326 | Email
813-974-4055

Research & Awards

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), ±«Óãtv Excellence in Innovation Award (2020)

Lawrence Hall

Lawrence Hall
Distinguished University Professor

ENB 330 | Email
813-974-4195

Research & Awards

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)

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Zhao Han
Assistant Professor

ENB 255 | Email
813-396-0979

Research & Awards

Research: 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

Isabela Hidalgo

Isabela M. Hidalgo
Assistant Professor of Instruction

ENB 301B | Email
 813-974-6048

Research & Awards

Research: Human-computer interaction, programming languages

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Amanda Holloman
Assistant Professor of Instruction

BEH 313 | Email 

Research & Awards

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

Hendrick Jeanty

Henrick Jeanty
Assistant Professor of Instruction

ENG 017 | Email
813-974-1982

Research & Awards

Research: Technical analysis algorithm, optical character recognition

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Kaushal Kafle
Assistant Professor

BEH 309 | Email 

Research & Awards

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

Robert Karam

Robert Karam
Associate Professor

ENB 341 | Email
813-974-4184

Research & Awards

Research: Hardware security, reconfigurable computing, bioimplantable devices (algorithms & digital hardware)

Srinivas Katkoori

Srinivas Katkoori
Professor

ENB 258 | Email
813-974-5737

Research & Awards

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

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

Gene Louis Kim

Gene Louis Kim
Assistant Professor

ENB 376 | Email
813-396-2882

Research & Awards

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)

Dr. Kim

Seungbae Kim
Assistant Professor

ENB 311 | Email
813-396-2881

Research & Awards

Research: Artificial intelligence, Graph neural networks, Machine learning (Fairness and Explainability), Social network analysis, Applied data science

Valentia Korzhova

Valentina Korzhova
Assistant Professor of Instruction

ENB 343G | Email 
813-974-0909

Research & Awards

Research: Computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition

John Licato

John Licato
Associate Professor

ENB 301D | Email
813-974-6212 

Research & Awards

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)

Jay Ligatti

Jay Ligatti
Professor

ENB 333 | Email
813-974-0908

Research & Awards

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)

Yao Liu

Yao Liu
Professor

ENB 336 | Email
813-974-1079

Research & Awards

Research: Network security, wireless technologies  

Awards: NSF CAREER (2016)

Ankur Mali

Ankur Mali
Assistant Professor

ENB 247A | Email
813-396-2826

Research & Awards

Research: Trustworthy AI, Deep learning theory, Natural language processing, Memory augmented neural networks, Physics informed NNs, Bio-inspired neural architectures, and Lifelong learning. 

Provost Mohapatra

Prasant Mohapatra 
Professor, Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs 

ENB 320| Email

Research & Awards

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).

Mehran Mozaffari Kermani

Mehran Mozaffari Kermani
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions

ENB 338 | Email
813-974-2671 

Research & Awards

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

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

John Murray-Bruce

John Murray-Bruce
Assistant Professor

ENG 117A | Email

Research & Awards

Research: Computational imaging, PDE-constrained inverse problems, computational sensing, sampling theory and applications

Tempestt Neal

Tempestt Neal
Associate Professor

ENB 310 | Email
813-396-9353

Research & Awards

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

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

Xinming (Simon) Ou

Xinming (Simon) Ou
Professor

ENB 339 | Email
813-974-4522

Research & Awards

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

Awards: NSF CAREER (2010)

Marbin Pazos-Revilla

Marbin Pazos-Revilla
Assistant Professor of Instruction

ENB 343C | Email
813-974-5043

Research & Awards

Research: Cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, internet of things, engineering education

rahman

Taseef Rahman
Assistant Professor of Instruction

ENG 214 | Email
813-396-2274

Research & Awards

Research: Bioinformatics, generative deep learning

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Richard Rauscher
Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of Computing

ENB 343B | Email

Research & Awards

Research: Network/IoT security related to healthcare environments, optimization of basic/clinical research data flows/data warehousing/"big data", quantum computing as applied to life sciences and healthcare

Dr. Dayane

Dayane Reis
Assistant Professor

ENB 318 | Email
813-396-2837

Research & Awards

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

 

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Yili Ren
Assistant Professor

ENB 378 | Email
813-396-2303

Research & Awards

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.

 

Segundo

Mauricio Pamplona Segundo
Associate Professor of Instruction

ENB 343H | Email

Research & Awards

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

 

Sudeep Sarkar

Sudeep Sarkar
Distinguished University Professor and Department Chair

ENB 345 | Email 
813-974-2113

Research & Awards

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), ±«Óãtv Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (1998)

 

Schinnel Small

Schinnel Small
Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of Broadening Participation in Computing

ENB 343F | Email
 813-974-2126

Research & Awards

Research: Programming languages, computer architecture, visual analytics

Yu Sun

Yu Sun
Professor

ENB 331 | Email 
813-974-7508

Research & Awards

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

Awards: ±«Óãtv Excellence in Innovation Award (2018), ±«Óãtv Neuroscience Collaborative Award (2010)

 

TEMPLETON

John Templeton
Assistant Professor

ENB 247 | Email
813-396-0962

Research & Awards

Research: Smart Health Systems, Human Factored Design, IoT, Mobile Computing, App Development, and Machine Learning

 

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Oguzhan Topsakal
Associate Professor of Instruction

BEH 317 | Email
(813) 396-0636

Research & Awards

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

Yicheng Tu

Yicheng Tu
Professor

ENB 340 | Email 
813-974-2114

Research & Awards

Research: Database systems, multimedia systems, distributed systems 

Awards: NSF CAREER (2013), ±«Óãtv Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2014), ±«Óãtv Outstanding Faculty Award (2014)

Philip Ventura

Philip Ventura
Associate Professor of Instruction

ENG 211 | Email
813-974-0552 

Research & Awards

Research: Computer science education, pedagogy of object orientation, objects-first introductory CS curricula

Jing Wang

Jing Wang
Professor of Instruction

ENC 3501 | Email 
 813-974-6897 

Research & Awards

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

Awards: ±«Óãtv Women in Leadership & Philanthropy Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award (2020), Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, ±«Óãtv (2011)

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Guangjing Wang
Assistant Professor

BEH 311 | Email 

Research & Awards

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

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Ning Wang
Assistant Professor

ENB 343K | Email
813-396-2297

Research & Awards

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.

Alfredo Weitzenfeld

Alfredo Weitzenfeld
Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs

ENB 314 | Email 
813-974-4905

Research & Awards

Research: Biologically-inspired robotics, cognitive robotics, humanoid robots, multi-robot systems

Dr. Woodward

Julia Woodward
Assistant Professor

ENB 332 | Email
813-396-2828

Research & Awards

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)

Yavuz Attila

Attila A. Yavuz
Associate Professor

ENG 117 |  Email
813-974-0419

Research & Awards

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), ±«Óãtv Excellence in Innovation Award (2022), ±«Óãtv Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2020), ±«Óãtv College of Engineering’s Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2020)

Hye Yi

Hye Seon Yi
Assistant Professor of Instruction

ENG 216 | Email
813-396-0721

Research & Awards

Research: Data science, image processing, machine learning, deep learning

Yan Zhang

Yan Zhang
Assistant Professor of Instruction

ENB 343A | Email
813-974-9653 

Research & Awards

Research: Congestion control and energy optimization in data center networks, content delivery acceleration over wide area networks, energy efficient networking

Hao Zheng

Hao Zheng
Associate Professor

ENB 312 | Email 
813-974-4757

Research & Awards

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), ±«Óãtv Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2007)

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Biasse

Jean-Francois Biasse

Email

Kevin Kwait

Kevin Kwiat

Email

Pete Mouton

John McHugh

Email

Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson

Email

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Arman Sargolzaei

Email

 Ankit Shah

Ankit Shah

Email


Adjunct Faculty

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Carol Hoeke

Email 

scott

Scott Hollingswood


Distinguished University Professor Emeritus

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Abraham Kandel

Email

Research & Awards

Research: Applied fuzzy logic and computational intelligence, software testing and productivity, decision-making in uncertain environments, data mining


Emeritus Faculty

ADF

Harvey Glass

Email

Research & Awards

Research: Operating systems, programming languages, embedded systems design

ADF

Rangachar Kasturi
Douglas W. Hood Professor Emeritus

Email

Research & Awards

Research: Computer vision, pattern recognition, document image analysis

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Rafael Perez

Email

Research & Awards

Research: Artificial intelligence, neural networks, genetic algorithms 

Piegl

Les A. Piegl

Email

Research & Awards

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), ±«Óãtv Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (1991), ±«Óãtv Teaching Incentive Program Award (1993)

 

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Dewey Rundus

Email

Research & Awards

Research: Human-computer interaction

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Murali Varanasi

Email 

Research & Awards

Research: Coding theory, computer arithmetic