Team

Faculty

Yasin Yılmaz, PhD Associate Professor Electrical Engineering Department University of South Florida Tampa, FL

PhD Students

• Justin McMillen, PhD student, jmcmillen[at]usf.edu, 1/2023- , remote sensing, anomaly detection
• Hamza Karim, PhD student, hamzakarim[at]usf.edu, 8/2022- , video anomaly detection
• Sabeen Ahmed, PhD student, ahmeds5[at]usf.edu, 8/2022- , medical image processing, co-advised by Dr. Ghulam Rasool (Moffitt Cancer Center)
• Aakash Tripathi, PhD student, aakashtripathi[at]usf.edu, 8/2022- , medical image processing, co-advised by Dr. Ghulam Rasool (Moffitt Cancer Center)
• Furkan Mumcu, PhD student, furkan[at]usf.edu, 1/2022- , adversarial machine learning, video anomaly detection
• Shatha Abudalou, PhD student, shathaa[at]usf.edu, 8/2021- , medical image processing, co-advised by Dr. Yoga Balagurunathan (Moffitt Cancer Center)
• Salman Sadiq Shuvo, PhD student, salmansadiq[at]usf.edu, 1/2018- , reinforcement learning, smart grid, energy systems, socioeconomic systems

MS and BS Students

• Madhusudhan Venkatarangaiah, 8/2022-, USF Electrical Engineering, Medical Image Processing
• Mohamed Gadalla, 12/2022-, USF Electrical Engineering, Remote Sensing
• Anil Mumbuc, 11/2022-, USF Computer Science, Automatic Speech Recognition
• Shawn Sheng, 10/2022-, USF Electrical Engineering, Automatic Speech Recognition
• Lokman Bekit, 10/2022-, USF Electrical Engineering, Video Anomaly Detection
• Timothy Nassar, 9/2020-12/2020, USF Electrical Engineering, Video Anomaly Detection

Alumni

• Keval Doshi, PhD, "Video Anomaly Detection: Practical Challenges for Learning Algorithms", 8/2017-5/2022, USF (next job: Applied Scientist, Amazon Prime Video, Seattle, WA)
  
• Almuthanna Nassar, PhD, "Adaptive Network Slicing in Fog RAN for IoT with Heterogeneous Latency and Computing Requirements: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach", 8/2017-8/2021, USF (next job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Moffitt Cancer Center → Senior Staff Data Scientist, Walmart Labs, Seattle, WA)
  
• Mehmet Aktukmak, PhD, "Multimodal Data Fusion and Attack Detection in Recommender Systems", 8/2017-12/2020, USF (co-advised with Dr. Ismail Uysal, next job: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor → Senior AI Engineer, Intel, CA)
  
• M. Necip Kurt, PhD, "Data-Driven Quickest Change Detection", 9/2016-6/2020, Columbia University (co-advised with Dr. Xiaodong Wang, next job: Research Scientist, Samsung → Research Scientist, Amazon)
  
• Mahsa Mozaffari, M.Sc., "Online Nonparametric Anomaly Detection for High-Dimensional Systems", 8/2017-8/2020, USF (currently PhD student at Rochester Institute of Technology)
  
• Muqbil Almuqbil, M.Sc., "Speaker Verification from Short Utterances", 8/2018-8/2020, USF (currently PhD student at USF)
  
• Motahareh Pourbehzadi, Visiting PhD student, "Energy Management and Cybersecurity in Smart Grid", 8/2019-8/2020, USF (currently PhD student at USF Business School)
  
• Ammar Haydari, M.Sc., "Sequential Decision Making in Intelligent Transportation Systems", 8/2017-7/2019, USF (currently PhD student at University of California, Davis)
  
• Abdullah Taher, M.Sc., "Sequential Joint Detection and Estimation", 1/2017-8/2018, USF, (currently PhD student at Penn State University)