leadership
Damon Woodard
Director, Professor & Co-Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAIG) Lab – Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCOE) Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department
Damon Woodard
Research Interests:
Applied Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Biometrics; Computer Vision; Natural Language Processing
Domenic Forte
Associate Director, Steven A. Yatauro Faculty Fellow, Professor – HWCOE ECE
Domenic Forte
Research Interests:
Traditional & AI-Enabled CAD/EDA Tools for Hardware Security; Microelectronics Supply Chain Security & Assurance: Semiconductor IP Protection; Counterfeit Electronics Detection & Avoidance; Hardware Trojan Detection & Prevention; Reverse Engineering & Anti-Reverse Engineering; Hardware Security Benchmarking; Countermeasures Against Physical Attacks; Hardware Security Primitives; Biometrics.
MEMBERS
Warren Dixon
Dean’s Leadership Professor and HWCOE Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department
Warren Dixon
Research Interests:
Artificial Intelligence; Sustained Deep Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Concurrent Learning; Assured Autonomy; Nonlinear and Adaptive Control; Robotics.
Sid Dobrin
Director of Trace Innovation Initiative, Professor and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Chair of English (ENG) Department
Sid Dobrin
Research Interests:
Protein security (from a national security perspective); Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities; Relationships between writing and emerging technologies–such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) Applications, and Contemporary Digital & Visual/Screen Culture.
Named Digital Thought Leader by Adobe.
Bonnie J. Dorr
Professor & Director of Natural Language Processing Research Laboratory – HWCOE Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Department
Bonnie J. Dorr
Research Interests:
Artificial Intelligence; Natural Language Processing; CyberNLP (at the cross-section of cyber security and natural language processing); Multilingual Processing; Social Computing; Human-Centered Computing.
Natalie Ebner
Professor & Director of the Social-Cognitive & Affective Development (Ebner) Lab – CLAS Psychology (Psych) Department
Natalie Ebner
Research Interests:
Usable Security; Social Engineering; Phishing Attacks; Cuing developers about security blind spots in APIs; Aging and the Human Brain.
James Fairbanks
Research Interests:
Applied Category Theory; Concurrency, Database; Data Science & Informatics; Graph Algorithms & Analytics; Numerical Methods; Parallelism & High-Performance Computing; Programming Languages; Scientific Computing & Data Science; Mathematical Modeling; and Combinatorial Algorithms.
Jie Fu
Research Interests:
Machine Learning; Intelligent & Semi-intelligent Autonomous Systems; Integration of Control Theory; Cyber-Security, Cyber-physical Systems; Game-theoretic Design of Provably Correct Autonomous Systems.
Daniel A. Hahn
Professor & Associate Department Chair for Evolutionary Physiology – College of Agriculture and Life Science (CALS) Entomology & Nematology (EntNem) Department
Daniel A. Hahn
Research Interests:
Ecological and Evolutionary Psychology; Rapid Adaptation; Phenotypic Plasticity; Seasonal Biology of Insects; Pest Control.
Kyle Cameron Hartig
Associate Professor – HWCOE Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) Department
Kyle Cameron Hartig
Research Interests:
Remote Sensing; Radiation Hard Electronics; Machine Learning; Nuclear Nonproliferation/Counterproliferation; Nuclear Security; Nuclear Policy.
Amanda Hodges
Professor & Lab Director for the Biosecurity Research & Extension (BRE) Lab and the Doctor of Plant Medicine (DPM) Program – CALS EntNem
Amanda Hodges
Research Interests:
Biosecurity; Invasive Species; Integrated Plant Medicine; Entomology; Nematology.
Jim Hoover
Clinical Professor, Director of Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Center – Warrington College of Business, Marketing (MKTG) Department
Jim Hoover
Research Interests:
Forecasting; Implementations of AI with Business Applications; Methods for teaching AI and Machine Learning; and Privacy related to AI, Machine Learning and Big Data
William Inboden
Research Interests:
History and processes of the National Security Council system; American presidency; the Cold War; history and statecraft; and religion and international affairs.
Zachary D. Kaufman
Specialties:
U.S. National Security; U.S. Foreign Policy; National Security Law; International Law; Criminal Law; International and Transitional Justice; Atrocity Crimes (War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide); Africa (Rwanda)
Sanjeev Koppal
Associate Professor, a Kent and Linda Fuchs Faculty Fellow and Director of The Florida Optics and Computational Sensor (FOCUS) Lab – HWCOE ECE
Sanjeev Koppal
Research Interests:
Computer Vision; Computational Photography and Optics; Novel Cameras and Sensors; 3D Reconstruction; Physics-Based Vision; Active Illumination.
Christopher McCarty
Associate Dean at College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS), Director of UF Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR), Lead for BEBR’s Social Network Analysis (SNA) Group’s Partnership with UF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) Collaboration – Anthro
Christopher McCarty
Research Interests:
AI and Cognitive Science; Social Network Analysis; Personal Network Analysis; Collaboration Networks; Acculturation; Disasters; Survey Research.
Connie Mulligan
Professor and Director of the Human Genetics in Anthropology Lab – CLAS Anthro
Connie Mulligan
Research Interests:
Human Genetics; Population History; Epigenetics; Microbiome Variation; Complex Phenotypes; Biocultural Investigation & Perspectives; Impact of Psychological Stress; Risk & Resilience; Origin and Spread of Human Disease and Human Pathogens; Human Evolution & Adaptation.
Duncan Purves
Associate Professor, UF Research Foundation – CLAS, Philosophy (Phil) Department
Duncan Purves
Research Interests:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Predictive Policing; Ethics of AI; Ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems.
Sara Rampazzi
Assistant Professor and Director of The Cyber-Physical System Security (CPSec) Lab – HWCOE CISE
Sara Rampazzi
Research Interests:
Cyber-Physical System Security and Privacy; Autonomous System Security; Medical Device Security and Privacy; IoT security; Countermeasures Against Physical Attacks; Applied Adversarial Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence for Security
Erik Sander
Michael Durham Executive Director of the University of Florida Engineering Innovation Institute
Erik Sander
Areas of Expertise:
Aerospace Engineering; Defense; Mechanical Engineering; Nanobiotechnology; Business Development and Entrepreneurship; Technology Development; Engineering Ethics and Communication.
Sonja Schmer-Galunder
Professor of Practice, Glenn and Deborah Renwick Leadership Professor in AI and Ethics – HWCOE CISE
Sonja Schmer-Galunder
Research Interests:
Social Science, Value Alignment, AI Ethics, Responsible AI, Collective Intelligence, ML Bias, NLP and LLMs, Cultural Modeling, Prosocial Discourse and Moderation, Human-AI Teaming and Team Performance in extreme environments
David S. Siroky
Professor and Director of the Violence, Conflict, and Security Lab – CLAS, Political Science (Poli Sci) Department
David S. Siroky
Research Interests:
International Relations; Big Data and Machine Learning;
Separatist and Irredentist Nationalism; Insurgency and Counterinsurgency; Eastern Europe and Eurasia Political Relations
Ben Smith
Professor, Interim Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies – CLAS, Poli Sci
Ben Smith
Research Interests:
Research Methods for Qualitative & Quantitative Causal Inference; Politics of Resource Wealth; Ethnic Politics of Nationalist Mobilization and Ethnic Violence; Regime Change and Regime Transitions
Daisy Zhe Wang
Associate Professor, Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Professor, Director of Data Science Research Lab (DSR) – HWCOE CISE
Daisy Zhe Wang
Research Interests:
Machine Learning; Database, Data Science and Informatics; Probabilistic Databases; Probabilistic Knowledge Bases; Large-scale Inference Engines; Query-driven Interactive Machine Learning; Crowd Assisted Machine Learning.
Yu Wang
Research Interests:
Autonomy; Cyber-physical Systems; Security & Privacy; Machine Learning; Formal Methods.
Gregory Webster
R. David Thomas Endowed Professor of Psychology, Director of Web Lab – CLAS, Psych
Gregory Webster
Research Interests:
Personality Measurement and Judgment; Multilevel Modelling; Social, Romantic, and Sexual Relationships; Meta-Analysis; Social Network Analysis; Judgments about Rare Events (e.g., Hurricanes).
Joe Wilson
Research Interests:
Information Security; Machine Learning; Programming Languages; Cybersecurity; Design of Malware-ready Programs; Detection and remediation of land mines and other unexploded buried hazards.
Ronald Wilson
Research Assistant Professor & Co-Director of AAIG – HWCOE ECE
Ronald Wilson
Research Interests:
Hardware Assurance on ICs; Stylometry and Psycholinguistics for Identity Sciences; Machine Learning; Computer Vision; Natural Language Processing.
Xiang (Jacob) Yan
Professor & Director of the Just Green Transportation Lab – Civil & Coastal Engineering Department, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE)
Xiang (Jacob) Yan
Research Interests:
Using data science and artificial intelligence (Machine Learning) to make transportation more equitable and sustainable; Bridging transportation engineering; Data Science & Urban Planning; Machine Learning & AI; Spatial Big Data; Public Transport & Shared Mobility; Travel Behavior; Transport Equality; Spatial Accessibility; Transportation & Community Resilience.
Alina Zare
Professor & Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Informatics Research Institute, Director of the Machine Learning and Sensing Lab – HWCOE ECE
Alina Zare
Research Interests:
Machine Learning; Pattern Recognition; Remote Sensing; Artificial Intelligence; Image Processing.
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Reiner Dizon-Paradis
Research Interests:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Hardware Security & Assurance, Internet of Things (IoT), and Robotics.
Didem Pehlivanoglu
Research Interests:
Cognitive Aging; Affective Neuroscience; Judgment and Decision Making; Deception; Misinformation; Neural Network Modeling.
Serves as an investigator on a project focusing on application of a neural network modeling approach on the ability to detect deceptive messages (e.g., fake news).