Koufakou, Anna (Ph.D.)
Dr. Anna Koufakou is currently a Professor in the Department of Computing and Software Engineering. She joined FGCU as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in August 2009. She has developed and taught a great variety of courses and she has continuously made efforts to conduct research with undergraduate students. Her research areas include natural language processing, machine learning, text-based emotion recognition, offensive/abusive language detection, among other areas. She has worked with a various data and applications, from Florida Law Enforcement projects, to detecting computer network attacks, to modeling of solar panel data. She has published research in top journals such as Education and Information Technologies (EAIT) and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD). Her Ph.D. was from the University of Central Florida, and her dissertation was in scalable outlier detection for large distributed data with mixed-type attributes. She has received national awards, most notably a faculty research fellowship at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), and awards from the CRA-W: Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research.
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