Meet our Members
Core Faculty Members
Jean-François Biasse
Jean-Francois Biasse is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. His research interests are the mathematical aspects of cryptography. At USF, he has taught MAD4471 (Introduction to Cryptography & Coding Theory) as well as MAT5932 (Applied Cryptography). He is the recipient of the CAREER award of the National Science Foundation. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, The Florida Center for Cybersecurity and Simon Foundation
Giacomo Micheli
Giacomo Micheli is an assistant professor at USF. His research interests spans from pure number theory to applied algebra, with particular emphasis on applications to cryptography and coding theory.
Attila
Yavuz
Attila Yavuz is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. His research interests are the practical applications of cryptography. At USF, he has taught COP4931 (Information Privacy and Trustworthy Systems) and CIS4930 (Privacy-Preserving and Trustworthy Cyber-Infrastructures). He is the recipient of the CAREER award of the National Science Foundation. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and Bosch.
Mehran Kermani
Mehran Mozaffari Kermani is an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Engineering Department (College of Engineering) at University of South Florida, where he is the PI for the Cryptographic Engineering and Hardware Security Lab. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TVLSI (2016-present), the IEEE TCAS I (2016-present), and the ACM TECS (2015-present). He has been Guest Editing (Cryptographic Engineering and Hardware Security) special issues for the IEEE TCBB.
Affiliated Faculty
Ruthmae
Sears
Dr. Sears is an associate professor at the University of South Florida. She has also 4 years of experience teaching at the high school level (the age group of the CodeBreakHERS campers).Currently, she coordinates developmental mathematics courses (Introduction to College Mathematics and Intermediate Algebra) and is the coordinator of the Bachelor’s (Grades 6-12) and Masters program in mathematics education. She serves as a lead sectional judge for the Florida VEX Robotics competition.
Shivendu Shivendu
Attila Yavuz is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. His research interests are the practical applications of cryptography. At USF, he has taught COP4931 (Information Privacy and Trustworthy Systems) and CIS4930 (Privacy-Preserving and Trustworthy Cyber-Infrastructures). He is the recipient of the CAREER award of the National Science Foundation. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and Bosch.