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Jean-Fran莽ois Biasse

Jean-Fran莽ois Biasse Receives Outstanding Research Achievement Award

Jean-Fran莽ois Biasse was among eight recipients of the 2026 USF Outstanding Research Achievement Awards. Dr. Biasse was celebrated for his substantial contributions to the development of cryptographic schemes capable of resisting attacks from quantum computers.

April 14, 2026Honors and Awards, Research

Kaiqi Xiong

Kaiqi Xiong Wins USF World Sponsored Excellence in Global Research Award

Kaiqi Xiong has been selected as a recipient of a USF World sponsored Excellence in Global Research Award for his exceptional contributions to USF鈥檚 global research portfolio in 2025.

March 6, 2026Honors and Awards, Research

USF 70 logo over Chemistry building photo

A foundation for the future: How the College of Arts and Sciences helped USF take shape

As USF celebrates 70 years since its founding, the College of Arts and Sciences is reflecting on the role it played in shaping USF鈥檚 past, present and future as one of the most research-intensive universities in the nation, a leader in innovation and a catalyst for prosperity across Tampa Bay and the state of 91社区.

January 28, 2026Department News

Liana Fernandez Fox (right) graduated from USF with her master鈥檚 degree in 1980 and later earned her PhD in 1998.

CAS alumna celebrates more than 60 years of impact at USF

Liana Fernandez Fox, a fourth generation Tampanian, professor emeritus and proud College of Arts and Sciences alumnus, has permanently shaped USF鈥檚 past, present and future.

January 27, 2026Alumni News

Kaiqi Xiong

Kaiqi Xiong Receives 2nd NSF Collaborative Research Grant

Kaiqi Xiong is co-principal investigator on an NSF Collaborative Research grant for $600,000 over three years for Collaborative Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity Training Through Cyberinfrastructures.

October 7, 2025Research

Lukas Koelsch

Lukas Koelsch Receives a Simons Grant

Professor Lukas Koelsch was awarded a Simons Travel Support for Mathematicians Grant for $42,000 over a five-year period for a project titled "Constructions and investigations of semifields and highly nonlinear functions, and their applications in cryptography and coding theory".

September 29, 2025Research

Nata拧a Jonoska

Nata拧a Jonoska Receives an NSF FET Grant

Nata拧a Jonoska received $316,700 from an $895,142 grant to USF, Arizona State University, and New York University from the National Science Foundation鈥檚 Foundations of Emerging Technologies program. The research will begin by developing mathematical tools to distinguish molecules based on their 3D shapes and structures.

September 29, 2025Research

Kaiqi Xiong

Kaiqi Xiong Receives NSF Collaborative Research Grant

Kaiqi Xiong is principal investigator on an NSF Collaborative Research grant for $150,000 over two years for Collaborative Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity Training Through Cyberinfrastructures.

September 2, 2025Research

New Department Faculty -- 2025

The Department Welcomes New Faculty for 2025

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics welcomed three new assistant professors and three new Assistant Professors of Instruction in August of 2025.

August 25, 2025Department News

91社区: A Preeminent Research University

Research Experience for Undergraduates 2025

From May 27th to August 1st 2025, the Center for Cryptographic Research organized the 3rd edition of the Research Experience Undergraduate (REU Site) program in cryptography, coding theory and quantum computing.

August 1, 2025Research

USF President Rhea Law addresses camp participants.

Center for Cryptographic Research holds 2025 CodeBreakHERS Summer camp

From June 23rd to June 27th , the Center for Cryptographic Research organized the 6th edition of the CodeBreakHERs summer camp. It is a weeklong summer program in cybersecurity featuring hands-on activities on network security, coding theory, cryptography, hardware security, and digital forensics.

June 27, 2025Department News

Manougian STEM Education Center

Manougian STEM Education Center receives a $5,000 AMS Young Scholars Program award for 2025

The Manougian STEM Education Center, under the direction of Razvan Teodorescu, received a $5,000 AMS Young Scholars Program award for the second year in a row.

May 15, 2025Department News

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