
Tempestt Neal
Assistant Professor
University of South Florida (USF)
Director, Cyber Identity and Behavior Research Lab
Biography
Dr. Neal is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. She joined the department after earning her PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. Her research focuses on biometric authentication, continuous authentication, and authorship attribution.
The CIBeR Lab
Dr. Neal directs the Cyber Identity and Behavior Research (CIBeR) Lab. The group focuses on biometric recognition, implicit attribute detection, and text analytics.
- Parush Gera (PhD Student)
- Sayde King (PhD Student)
- Mohamed Ebraheem (PhD Student)
- Meghna Chaudhary (PhD Student)
- Matthew Sumpter (PhD Student)
- Nicolas Ng Wai (UG Student)
Trajectory
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PhD Computer Engineering
Biometrics and Pattern Recognition Lab
January 2015 - August 2018
2018 UF Delores Auzenne Dissertation Award
2017 - 2018 NSF CyberCorps Scholarship for Service Fellowship -
MSc Computer Science
Clemson University
June 2012 - December 2014
2012 - 2014 NSF Scholarship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
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BSc Computer Science
South Carolina State University
August 2008 - May 2012
2012 Computer Science Award
2008 - 2012 Presidential Scholar