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The University of South Florida, USF recently announced an honor to Srinivas Katkoori, PhD, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Tampa Campus for distinguished contributions to the field of smart and cyber secure internet-of-things, particularly for novel techniques for securing and designing custom edge hardware.
USF recognizes Professor Katkoori with the Outstanding Research Achievement Award as part of its Faculty members recognition. It is the largest internal recognition of its kind at USF with awarded faculty member receiving $2,000 and recognition for their accomplishments at an awards ceremony.
“USF faculty continually demonstrate their skills in conducting high-impact research and innovation to advance frontiers of knowledge, solve global problems, mentor and empower students, and improve lives. We are honored, each year at this time, to shine a spotlight on a few who made stand-out and transformative achievements during the past calendar year,” said Vice President for USF Research & Innovation Sylvia Wilson Thomas.
Professor Srinivas Katkoori focuses on smart and secure design of internet-of-things (IoT) systems. In 2023, he was awarded a highly competitive and prestigious five-year NSF grant of $3,702,920, the largest cybersecurity grant awarded to USF to date. This grant trains 28 undergraduate and graduate domestic scholars in the latest cybersecurity technologies who will serve the government upon graduation. Katkoori made significant contributions to secure design of hardware with unique physical unclonable function, novel algorithm for automated platooning for connected vehicles.
In 2023, Katkoori published one peer-reviewed journal paper and eight peer-reviewed conference papers. One of his papers was nominated and received best paper award at 2023 IEEE Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES). Only four out of 140 submissions received this recognition. A US patent on secure hardware design was issued on November 7, 2023.
