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Important Information

Faculty and staff meeting will be October 10 at 11 a.m. in Building 15, Room 3120. Lunch will be provided. If you are not able to attend a Teams link is available for virtual attendance.

Dates & Events

• Technology Networking Night — September 9, 5-7 p.m.
• STEM & Construction Career Fair — September 20, Noon- 4 p.m.
• CAB Meeting — September 26, 8-9 a.m.
• Osprey for a Day — SoC: October 3, 11:00-11:30 a.m.

Achievements

• Associate Instructor Elise Marshall has been accepted to the Women in CyberSecurity (https://www.wicys.org/) Professional Mentorship 2025-2026 Program!
• Associate Professor Dr. Liu will be presenting his paper EPDD: Electrocardiogram-based Pulmonary Disease Detector Using Machine Learning in October at IEEESSA 2025. https://bibbase.org/network/publication/vanaparthi-interlichia-liu-nasseri-helgeson-epddelectrocardiogrambasedpulmonarydiseasedetectorusingmachinelearning-2025
• Assistant Professor Dr. Wang has an accepted paper titled "Empirical Mixnet Design" which uses game-theoretic analysis and AI tools to design mixnets. https://tturocy.github.io/papers/mixnet-20250816.pdf

Meet your Admin Team

Administrative Specialist — Gabriela Gutierrez (Gaby) Contessa Michalkiewicz

Gabriela Gutierrez (Gaby) here to help with all of your budgeting and purchase needs. She comes to us from the Dean’s Office where she handled grants for College. She has two little boys, Lucas and Noah, who both love trains and dinosaurs. 

Administrative Secretary — Contessa Michalkiewicz

Contessa Michalkiewicz is A ³ÉÈËAVÊÓƵ alumni and current graduate student. She majored in Communication: Public Relations and has worked in car sales and interned with the City of Jacksonville Special Events Marketing team.

Student Highlight

The world of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is growing at a rapid pace. The School of Computing is aware of this and offers both majors and minors in computing fields to help students find the path that is right for them.

This led Andrew Shea, a recent graduate of the ³ÉÈËAVÊÓƵ, to minor in computer science while completing his major in mathematics. Before starting his undergraduate path, Shea had an interest in mathematics, both of his parents are math teachers, and he had some exposure to higher-level mathematics at a young age. As for his minor in computer science, he took programming classes in high school and wanted to continue his studies in the subject.

After he began his undergraduate studies, he quickly realized the similarities between mathematics and computer science. Shea was known for taking very difficult courses and knew his degree would be challenging to complete. “I was always trying to pick the hardest courses, the most advanced that I could, just so I could get the most out of it,” Shea said.

This summer, his hard work paid off as he worked at a private school in his hometown in South Florida. He realized the school’s IT department was lacking, and Shea stepped up. He managed the deployment and maintenance of more than 200 student computer systems, domain controllers, servers and more. All of this came after graduating in spring 2025.

Shea credited Professor John Kelly’s Computer Networks (CNT 4504) course with giving him the skills needed to succeed this summer. He emphasized that his coursework for both his major and minor was difficult and pushed him harder than ever before. Finally, Shea said his academic career is far from over, as he is preparing to apply to graduate school for the fall 2026 semester while also searching for a job in the finance field.