leadership

Damon Woodard
Director, Professor & Co-Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAIG) Lab – Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department

Domenic Forte
Associate Director, Steven A. Yatauro Faculty Fellow, Professor – 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 Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department

Sid Dobrin
Director of Trace Innovation Initiative, Professor and 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 – Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Department

Natalie Ebner
Professor & Director of the Social-Cognitive & Affective Development (Ebner) Lab – Psychology (Psych) Department

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.


Daniel A. Hahn
Professor & Associate Department Chair for Evolutionary Physiology – Entomology & Nematology (EntNem) Department

Kyle Cameron Hartig
Associate Professor – Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) Department

Amanda Hodges
Professor & Lab Director for the Biosecurity Research & Extension (BRE) Lab and the Doctor of Plant Medicine (DPM) Program – EntNem

Jim Hoover
Clinical Professor, Director of Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Center – Marketing (MKTG) Department



Sanjeev Koppal
Associate Professor, a Kent and Linda Fuchs Faculty Fellow and Director of The Florida Optics and Computational Sensor (FOCUS) Lab

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

Connie Mulligan
Professor and Director of the Human Genetics in Anthropology Lab – 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 – Philosophy (Phil) Department

Sara Rampazzi
Assistant Professor and Director of The Cyber-Physical System Security (CPSec) Lab

Erik Sander
Michael Durham Executive Director of the University of Florida Engineering Innovation Institute

Sonja Schmer-Galunder
Professor of Practice, Glenn and Deborah Renwick Leadership Professor in AI and Ethics – CISE

David S. Siroky
Professor and Director of the Violence, Conflict, and Security Lab – Political Science (Poli Sci) Department


Daisy Zhe Wang
Associate Professor, Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Professor, Director of Data Science Research Lab (DSR) – CISE


Gregory Webster
R. David Thomas Endowed Professor of Psychology, Director of Web Lab – Psych



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 – ECE
POST-DOCS


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).