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Institute Director

Dr. Prasant Mohapatra serves as the ×îÐÂÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Provost and Interim Vice President of USF Research and the Director of the USF Institute for Advanced Discovery and Innovation. Prior to joining USF, he served as the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Davis, where he was instrumental in leading and achieving the aspiration goal of one billion dollars in annual research awards. He was also a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and served as Department Chair, Dean, Vice Provost, and Associate Chancellor at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Mohapatra has also held Visiting Scientist/Professor positions at Intel Corporation, AT&T, Siemens, Panasonic Technologies, Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore, National ICT Australia, University of Padova, Italy, Yonsei University and KAIST, South Korea. Dr. Mohapatra is an accomplished researcher in the fields of wireless networks, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity, and he co-holds eight U.S. patents. He has published more than 400 papers in reputed conferences and journals on these topics. Dr. Mohapatra's research has been funded through collaborative grants totaling about 90 million US dollars from the National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, US Army Research Labs, Intel Corporation, Siemens, Panasonic Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Raytheon, ARM Research, Bosch, and EMC Corporation. Dr. Mohapatra received his doctoral degree from Penn State University in 1993 and received an Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award in 2008. He also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. Dr. Mohapatra received an Outstanding Research Faculty Award at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Mohapatra was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He has served on the editorial board of the leading journals in the areas of computer science. He has served as the Program Chair and General Chair and has been on several international conferences' program/organizational committees. He also serves on various industrial advisory and governing boards. He also received multiple HP Labs Innovation awards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of AAAS. He has been inducted into the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida and the Pan American Academy of Engineering.

Institute Manager

Colleen Parker is the Assistant Director for the Office of Advanced Recognition & Engagement, and Program Manager for the USF Institute for Advanced Discovery and Innovation (IADI). She leads and manages all strategic initiatives and recruitment for the Institute, and is liaison for the Institute to the university and the wider community, including developing relationships at local, state, national, and international levels, and intra-university collaborations. She also directs the functional, technical, logistical and communications operations for the Faculty Honors Program and is the Program Manager for I-Corps @ USF. Originally from Oregon and New York, she joined ×îÐÂÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ in 2015, following nearly two decades in senior level positions in proprietary education and information technology solutions firms. She earned her B.A. in International Studies from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. In addition to her work at USF, she volunteers as the immediate past president of Seminole Heights Community Gardens.

Communications and Marketing Officer

Kelsey Deck, Communications and Marketing Officer – Kelsey Deck joined ×îÐÂÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ in 2017 and is responsible for financial and logistical coordination as well as communications for the Institute. She also works on a wide array of additional initiatives for USF Research and in 2019 received the USF Quiet Quality Award. She holds a bachelor's degree in Communication Studies from Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

Institute Founder

Dr. Paul R. Sanberg is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, USF Morsani College of Medicine and the Founder of the Institute. He was also former Senior Vice President for Research & Innovation at USF, where he has worked for 32 years. He was one of the original pioneers in the discovery and use of adult stem cells to repair the brain and nervous system. He helped lead the team who found that stem cells could be safely and ethically obtained from human umbilical cord blood, and developed procedures for intravenous delivery that could penetrate the blood-brain barrier. His research also revealed brain areas damaged by stroke or neurological disease were able to be regenerated—a discovery reversing centuries of scientific understanding. He is a highly cited author, and his more than 700 articles and 14 books have received more than 40,000 citations. He has been granted 170 U.S. and foreign patents, a number of which have been licensed, and developed many pharmaceutical and cellular therapeutics based on his research. He holds numerous awards for his work, including being named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Sigma Xi; American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering; IEEE; Biomedical Engineering Society; Royal Societies of Chemistry, Public Health, Biology and Medicine; American Psychological Association; International Behavioral Neuroscience Society; and American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair. He has also received significant awards including the George F. McClure Citation of Honor from IEEE-USA, and a Pioneer Award from the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, of which he is an Inductee. He is the founder and President of the National Academy of Inventors. He earned his B.S. degree, with honors, from York University (Canada); his M.S. degree from the University of British Columbia (Canada); and his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the Australian National University.

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Contact USF IADI 

USF Institute for Advanced Discovery & Innovation
3702 Spectrum Boulevard, Suite 165
Tampa, Florida 33612-9445

Colleen Parker, Institute Manager
Phone: +1-813-974-5169
Email: colleenp@usf.edu