Robert D. Frisina IEEE Fellow Awarded: 2023 Robert D. Frisina, Ph.D. is a Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Global Center for Hearing & Speech Research. He holds joint professorships in the departments of Medical Engineering;  Chemical, Biological & Materials Engineering; and Communication Sciences and Diso...READ MORE

Richard Heller IEEE Fellow Awarded: 2023 Richard Heller, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Engineering at the University of South Florida. Heller is recognized as a pioneer in developing efficient delivery systems for plasmid DNA and chemotherapeutics, and the leading expert in gene electrotransfer. He demonstrated that plasmid DNA can...READ MORE

Julia Koets National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship Awarded: 2023 Julia Koets is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of South Florida. She is the author of three books: The Rib Joint, a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist, PINE, a Florida Book Award winner, and Hold Like Owls, a South Carolina Poetry Book Award winner. Her essays and...READ MORE

Cihan Cobanoglu Hannes Werthner Lifetime Achievement Award Awarded: 2023 Dr. Cihan Cobanoglu is the Dean and McKibbon Endowed Chair Professor of the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (SHTM) in the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida (USF), who also serves as the Director of the M3 Center for Hospitality Technology and Innovation. Dr. Co...READ MORE

Robert H. Bishop AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award Awarded: 2023 Dr. Bishop is the Dean of Engineering and Founder and Chief Scientist of the Institute of Applied Engineering at the University of South Florida where he holds a full professor position in the Department of Electrical Engineering. A pioneering leader in aerospace technologies and engineering...READ MORE

Jacob Gayles AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program Awarded: 2023 Jacob Gayles started his undergraduate research on electrical transport in DNA molecules and computational studies of semiconductors. As an undergraduate, he was a McNair scholar and received the John W. Nagle Outstanding Senior Award from California State University Northridge. He published three p...READ MORE

Mia Naeini NSF CAREER Award Awarded: 2023 Dr. Naeini is an Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida (USF) since Fall 2017. Before joining USF, she was an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Texas Tech University (TTU). Dr. Naeini received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical an...READ MORE

Karen Liller AAHB Fellow Awarded: 2023 Dr. Karen Liller is presently a full tenured professor in the College of Public Health specializing in public health and injury prevention. Dr. Liller holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in medical technology, technical education, and education (curriculum and instruction with a focus area of p...READ MORE

Tempestt Neal NSF CAREER Award Awarded: 2023 Dr. Tempestt Neal is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of South Florida and the founder/director of the Cyber Identity and Behavior Research (CIBeR) Lab. Dr. Neal’s research focuses on biometrics and smart sensing for person identificat...READ MORE

Jianfeng Cai AIMBE Fellow Awarded: 2023 Jianfeng Cai, Ph.D., is a USF Preeminent Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of South Florida.  He obtained his B.S. and M.S. at Nanjing University, and received a Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. The research in his laboratory is...READ MORE