Director, Professor - Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department

Research Interests:

Applied Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Biometrics, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing

Associate Director, Steven A. Yatauro Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor - ECE

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.

Dean’s Leadership Professor and Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department

Research Interests:

Artificial Intelligence, Sustained Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Concurrent Learning, Assured Autonomy, Nonlinear and Adaptive Control, and Robotics.

Director of Trace Innovation Initiative, Professor and Chair of English (Eng) Department

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.

Professor & Director of Natural Language Processing Research Laboratory - Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Department

Research Interests:

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, CyberNLP (at the cross-section of cyber security and natural language processing), Multilingual Processing, Social Computing, and Human-Centered Computing.

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

Research Interests:

Usable Security, Social Engineering, Phishing Attacks, Cuing developers about security blind spots in APIs, Aging and the Human Brain

Assistant Professor - CISE

Research Interests:

Applied Category Theory, Concurrency, Database, Data Science and Informatics, Graph Algorithms & Analytics, Numerical Methods, Parallelism and High-Performance Computing, Programming Languages, Scientific Computing and Data Science,  Scientific Computing, Mathematical Modeling, Combinatorial Algorithms

Assistant Professor - ECE

Research Interests:

Machine Learning, Intelligent and Semi-intelligent Autonomous Systems, Integration of Control Theory, Cyber-Security, Cyber-physical Systems, Game-theoretic Design of Provably Correct Autonomous Systems

Assistant Professor - Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) Department

Research Interests:

Remote sensing, Radiation Hard Electronics, Machine learning, Nuclear Nonproliferation/counterproliferation, Nuclear Security, and Nuclear Policy

Professor & Lab Director for the Biosecurity Research & Extension (BRE) Lab and the Doctor of Plant Medicine (DPM) Program - Entomology & Nematology (EntNem) Dept.

Research Interests:

Biosecurity; Invasive Species; Integrated Plan Medicine; Entomology; Nematology

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

Research Interests:

AI and Cognitive Science, Social Network Analysis, Personal Network Analysis, Collaboration Networks, Acculturation, Disasters, and Survey Research

Professor and Director of the Human Genetics in Anthropology Lab - Anthro

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.

Associate Professor, NSF Program Director at the Directorate for CISE, Division of CNS, SaTC - ECE

Research Interests:

Computer Engineering, Multi-disciplinary Cybersecurity with a focus on Computer-human Interaction

Associate Professor, Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Professor, Director of Data Science Research Lab (DSR) - CISE

Research Interests:

Machine Learning, Database, Data Science and Informatics, Probabilistic databases, Probabilistic knowledge bases, Large-scale inference engines, Query-driven interactive machine learning, and Crowd assisted machine learning

Assistant Professor, Director of Smart Autonomy Lab - MAE

Research Interests:

Autonomy; Cyber-physical Systems; Security & Privacy; Machine Learning; Formal Methods

R. David Thomas Endowed Professor of Psychology, Director of Web Lab - Psych

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)

Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director - CISE

Research Interests:

Information Security, Machine Learning; Programming Languages, Cyber Security, Design of malware-ready Programs, Detection and remediation of land mines and other unexploded buried hazards.

Professor & Director of the Just Green Transportation Lab - Civil & Coastal Engineering Department, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE)

Research Interests:

Using data science and artificial intelligence (machine learning) to make transportation more equitable and sustainable; bridging transportation engineering, data science, and urban planning; Machine Learning & AI; Spatial big data; Public transport & shared mobility; Travel behavior; Transport equality; Spatial accessibility’; Transportation & community resilience.

Professor, Graduate Admission Coordinator & Director of the Machine Learning and Sensing Lab - ECE

Research Interests:

Machine Learning; Pattern Recognition; Remote Sensing; Artificial Intelligence; Image Processing.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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) 

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research Interests:

Hardware Assurance on ICs, Stylometry and Psycholinguistics  for Identity Sciences, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language processing.

Assisted in securing $1.2 million NSF award for incorporating AI hardware assurance for ICs.