The UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science is making an impact in areas such as hypersonic technology, nanomedicine and biomedical engineering, and robotics and autonomous systems – and has hired a new group of faculty who will enhance its reputation in these fields.
Seventeen new faculty members will join four of the six departments for the fall semester. They bring an expertise in areas such as biomedicine, nanomaterials, optoelectronics, semiconductor devices and quantum computing. The addition of this group follows the hiring of more than 30 faculty members during the past academic year, reflecting the college’s goals of providing quality education and producing innovative research.
The Department of Computer Science is welcoming one of the 17 new faculty members, Assistant Professor Shubra Kanti Karmaker Santu. Karmaker previously served as an assistant professor of computer science and software engineering at Auburn University, where his research focused on big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and information retrieval. He earned his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.