ReliaQuest awards U of South Florida $1.5M to expand AI and cybersecurity education program

ReliaQuest has awarded $1.5 million to the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, to advance artificial intelligence and cybersecurity education. The gift establishes the ReliaQuest AI and Cybersecurity Professorship with a $1 million endowment and provides $500,000 to expand the USF’s ReliaQuest Labs experiential learning program to include an AI-supported software engineering track. The investment will strengthen faculty recruitment, hands-on training, and workforce preparation in the high-demand technology fields.