Headshot of Professor Sumit Jha

Sumit Kumar Jha

Professor

sjha@fiu.edu
(305) 348-2026
CASE 384
ORCID: 0000-0003-0354-2940

Biography

Sumit K. Jha is Professor of Computer Science at Florida International University (FIU). Dr. Jha received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Carnegie Mellon, he graduated with B.Tech (Honors) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Dr. Jha has worked on R&D problems at Microsoft Research India, General Motors, INRIA France and the Air Force Research Lab Information Directorate. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), DARPA, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the Royal Bank of Canada, the Florida Center for Cybersecurity, and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He is a full member of the Sigma Xi and is a recipient of the IEEE Orlando Engineering Educator Excellence Award. Dr. Jha was awarded the prestigious Air Force Young Investigator Award and his research has led to four Best Paper awards. Over the last five years, Prof. Jha has published 12 papers in highly selective computer science conferences indexed by CSRankings.

Research and Educational Interests

Ethics And AI Focused On The Challenges Of Explainability, Trust, Privacy, And Green AI With Universal Accessibility To Foundation-Class AI Models

Background Education

  • 2010 Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 2004 B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur