leadership
Research Interests: Applied Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Biometrics; Computer Vision; Natural Language Processing.
WEBSITE: https://damonwoodard.com/
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.
WEBSITE: https://dforte.ece.ufl.edu/
MEMBERS
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Sustained Deep Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Concurrent Learning; Assured Autonomy; Nonlinear and Adaptive Control; Robotics.
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.
WEBSITE: https://english.ufl.edu/sid-dobrin/
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.
Research Interests: Usable Security; Social Engineering; Phishing Attacks; Cuing developers about security blind spots in APIs; Aging and the Human Brain.
WEBSITE: https://ebnerlab.psych.ufl.edu/natalie-c-ebner-phd/
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.
WEBSITE: https://gataslab.org/
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Science, & Computational Social Science.
WEBSITE: https://www.cis.fiu.edu/faculty-staff/mark-finlayson/
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.
Website: https://fujie.ece.ufl.edu/
Research Interests: Ecological and Evolutionary Psychology; Rapid Adaptation; Phenotypic Plasticity; Seasonal Biology of Insects; Pest Control.
WEBSITE: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/people-directory/daniel-hahn/
Research Interests: Remote Sensing; Radiation Hard Electronics; Machine Learning; Nuclear Nonproliferation/Counterproliferation; Nuclear Security; Nuclear Policy.
WEBSITE: https://www.kylehartig.com/
Research Interests: Biosecurity; Invasive Species; Integrated Plant Medicine; Entomology; Nematology.
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.
WEBSITE: https://warrington.ufl.edu/directory/profiles/7650/
Research Interests: 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).
Research Interests: Separations; Imaging; Detectors; Nanomaterials; Nanotechnology; Protective and Ultra-breathable materials.
WEBSITE: https: https://pirankidambi.wixsite.com/kidambiresearchgroup
Research Interests: Computer Vision; Computational Photography and Optics; Novel Cameras and Sensors; 3D Reconstruction; Physics-Based Vision; Active Illumination.
WEBSITE: https://focus.ece.ufl.edu/team/
Research Interests: AI and Cognitive Science; Social Network Analysis; Personal Network Analysis; Collaboration Networks; Acculturation; Disasters; Survey Research.
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.
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Predictive Policing; Ethics of AI; Ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems.
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.
WEBSITE: https://sararampazzi.com/
Research Interests: Aerospace Engineering; Defense; Mechanical Engineering; Nanobiotechnology; Business Development and Entrepreneurship; Technology Development; Engineering Ethics and Communication.
WEBSITE: https://www.eng.ufl.edu/innovation/about/meet-the-team/director/
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.
WEBSITE: https://anthro.ufl.edu/2024/08/13/sonja-schmer-galunder/
Research Interests: International Relations; Big Data and Machine Learning; Separatist and Irredentist Nationalism; Insurgency and Counterinsurgency; Eastern Europe and Eurasia Political Relations.
WEBSITE: https://www.davidsiroky.com/
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.
WEBSITE: https://www.benjaminbsmith.net/
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.
Research Interests: Autonomy; Cyber-physical Systems; Security & Privacy; Machine Learning; Formal Methods.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/y-wang
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).
WEBSITE: https://www.gdwebster.com/
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.
WEBSITE: https://cise.ufl.edu/~jnw/
Research Interests: Hardware Assurance on ICs; Stylometry and Psycholinguistics for Identity Sciences; Machine Learning; Computer Vision; Natural Language Processing.
WEBSITE: https://www.ece.ufl.edu/people/faculty/ronald-wilson/
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.
WEBSITE: https://jacobyan0.github.io/
Research Interests: Machine Learning; Pattern Recognition; Remote Sensing; Artificial Intelligence; Image Processing.
POST-Docs
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Hardware Security & Assurance, Internet of Things (IoT), and Robotics.
WEBSITE: https://reinerdizonparadis.com/
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).