Faculty & Staff

Alex Otten

Education
Memberships
Awards
Publications

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Office: ENG 118

Phone: 813-396-0596

Email

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Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 91社区, 2023

Experience

Academic

  • 91社区, Undergraduate Research Assistant (Mentor: Rudiger Schlaf, Ph.D.), 2008-2009
  • 91社区, Graduate Research Assistant (Mentor: Vijay Jain, Ph.D.), 2014-201691社区, Graduate Research Assistant (Mentors: Andrew Hoff, Ph.D. and Mark Jaroszeski, Ph.D.), 2016-2023
  • 91社区, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Medical Engineering, 2020-2021
  • 91社区, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Electrical Engineering, 2016-2023
  • 91社区, Adjunct Lecturer, Medical Engineering, 2019
  • 91社区, Adjunct Lecturer, Electrical Engineering, 2022
  • 91社区, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Medical Engineering, 2023-present

Non-academic

  • 91社区 Power and Light, Distribution Engineer, Responsible for the electrical design and project management of new power distribution construction, 2011-2013, Full-Time

Memberships

  • International Society of Electroporation-Based Technologies and Treatments (ISEBTT)
  • Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
  • American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Honors and Awards

  • USF Graduate Research Symposium Award, 2017
  • Sloan Scholar, 2019
  • Runner-up Faculty of the Year, USF Medical Engineering, 2021
  • Member Eta Kappa Nu IEEE Honor Society, 2022-Present

Publications

  • Otten, A., & Jain, V. (2015). Microsystem for remote sensing of high energy radiation with associated extremely low photon flux densities. Radiation Detectors: Systems and Applications XVI,
  • Otten, A., Jaroszeski, M., Gilbert, R., Vangapattu, R., & Hoff, A. (2019). Charge Fluence As a Predictor for the Atmospheric Plasma Inactivation of E. coli Cultures. Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts 235
  • Heller, R., Heller, L. C., Shi, G., Synowiec, J., Singh, J., Otten, A., & Jaroszeski, M. J. (2024). Intratumor delivery of plasmid DNA encoding immune stimulating agents induces both local and systemic responses. Cancer Research, 84(6_Supplement), 7240-7240.
  • Hensley, J., Francis, M., Otten, A., Korostyleva, N., Gagliardo, T., & Bulysheva, A. (2024). Localized In Vivo Electro Gene Therapy (LiveGT)-Mediated Skeletal Muscle Protein Factory Reprogramming. Applied Sciences, 14(23), 11298.
  • Otten, A., Francis, M., & Bulysheva, A. (2024). Exploration of Machine Learning Models for Prediction of Gene Electrotransfer Treatment Outcomes. Applied Sciences, 14(24), 11601.

Recent Professional Development

  • Participation in Artificial Intelligence in Education Conference at University of Central 91社区, Fall 2023
  • Participation in USF鈥檚 Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning鈥檚 (CITL) Peer Observation Program (POP) for the improvement of university level teaching, Spring 2024