Dongsheng Luo

Dr. Luo research bridges the areas of artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. He is particularly interested in developing robust, integrative, and explainable tools that extract clean and human-understandable knowledge from noisy and heterogeneous network data, focusing on but not limited to application fields of neuroscience, system management, and biomedicine.

Xueqiang Wang

Dr. Wang’s research interests lie in the broad areas of mobile/IoT security, software supply chain security, and cybercrime. In particular, his current research focuses on safeguarding end-users and developers by identifying new attack vectors, and developing data-driven security analysis methodologies to quantify and measure their security and privacy impacts.

Ning Xie

Dr. Xie is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Florida International University. His research interests are in many aspects of algorithmic and complexity theory, including property testing, local computation algorithms, Fourier analysis of Boolean functions, circuit complexity and coding theory. His research has been supported by NSF, US Army Research Office, U.S. Air Force […]

Marie Lluberes-Contreras

Marie Lluberes-Contreras is in her first year as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Her research explores binarization algorithms for gene expression profiles and the effect that different binarizations of gene expression profiles have in the resulting Boolean representation of the gene regulatory network. She has proposed […]

Yogesh Rawat

Dr. Yogesh S Rawat is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Research in Computer Vision at the University of Central Florida. His research interests lie in the intersection of Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Multimedia Computing. Real-world is inherently sequential in nature and therefore most of the real-world application domains, such as security, personal […]

Gary Leavens

Gary Leavens is a professor in the department of Computer Science at UCF. After joining UCF in August 2007, he became associate chair in 2008, and was department chair from 2010-2021. He led a successful faculty cluster proposal in cyber security and privacy. His research is in formal methods.Previously Dr. Leavens was a professor of Computer […]

Rémi Mégret

Dr. Mégret is an associate professor in Computer Science at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus (UPR-RP). His expertise is in computer vision and machine learning. During his tenures at Bordeaux Institute of Technology, France then at UPR, he has contributed to multiple national and international collaborative research projects with both academia and industrial […]

Gita Sukthankar

Dr. Gita Sukthankar received her Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon and an A.B. in psychology from Princeton University. She is a recipient of AFOSR Young Investigator, DARPA CSSG, and NSF CAREER awards, as well as numerous UCF awards for research excellence.  Her current research centers on multi-agent systems, human-robot interaction, computational social […]

Qian Lou

Dr. Qian Lou possesses expertise in privacy-enhancing techniques, e.g., Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), privacy-preserving machine learning, and efficient deep learning systems, attesting to his knowledge and skills in these specialized fields. His research has had a significant impact on the product design of real-world privacy-preserving machine learning as a service. For example, his work on […]

Amin Kharraz

Dr. Amin Kharraz is an assistant professor of computer science and the director of Systems Security Lab (SecLab) at Florida International University. His research focuses on building systems to facilitate a data-driven approach to systems security problems such as evasive code, malware, and web attacks. His research applies empirical methods to rigorously analyze emerging threats […]