Dr. Sriram Chellappan is Cyber Florida’s academic director of research and a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, Florida. Previous to his appointment at USF, he was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology where he directed the SCoRe (Social Computing Research) Group. His primary interests lie in many aspects of how Society and Technology interact with each other, particularly within the realms of Smart Health and Cyber Security. He is interested in mobile and wireless networking, cyber-physical systems, and distributed and cloud computing. Dr. Chellappan’s research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Department of Education, Army Research Office, National Security Agency, DARPA, and Missouri Research Board. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the Ohio State University in 2007. Dr. Chellappan received the NSF CAREER Award in 2013, the Missouri S&T Faculty Excellence Award in 2014, the Missouri S&T Outstanding Teaching Commendation Award in 2014, and the Missouri S&T Faculty Research Award in 2015.

Research Interests

Socio-technical systems; cybersecurity; smart health; cyber-physical systems; mobile and wireless computing

Teaching Interests

4930/6930: Information Security and Privacy in Distributed Systems;
6611: Operating Systems

Education

PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University (2007)

Honors and Awards

Missouri S&T Outstanding Teaching Commendation Award (2015)
Missouri S&T Faculty Research Award (2015)
Missouri S&T Faculty Excellence Award (2014)
NSF CAREER Award (2013)

Key Activities

Invited Speaker at International Conference on Orange Technologies (ICOT) (December 2015)
Invited Speaker at International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS) (June 2015)
Technical Program Committee Member, Percom 2016, Infocom 2016, AINA 2016, MSN 2015
IEEE Member