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

Research Interests:

Applied Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Biometrics; Computer Vision; Natural Language Processing.

Associate Director, Steven A. Yatauro Faculty Fellow, 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; 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; 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 & Informatics; Graph Algorithms & Analytics; Numerical Methods; Parallelism & High-Performance Computing; Programming Languages; Scientific Computing & Data Science;  Mathematical Modeling; and Combinatorial Algorithms.

Assistant Professor - ECE

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.

Associate Professor & Principal Investigator for Control, Optimization, and Robotics Engineering (CORE) Lab - MAE

Research Interests:

Large-scale Machine Learning; Differential Privacy; Mobile Robotics; Assured Autonomy; Non-Convex Optimization

Assistant Professor - Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) Department

Research Interests:

Remote Sensing; Radiation Hard Electronics; Machine Learning; Nuclear Nonproliferation/Counterproliferation; Nuclear Security; 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 Plant 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; 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.

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, UF Research Foundation - Philosophy (Phil)

Research Interests:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Predictive Policing; Ethics of AI; Ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems.

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

Areas of Expertise:

Aerospace Engineering; Defense; Mechanical Engineering; Nanobiotechnology; Business Development and Entrepreneurship; Technology Development; Engineering Ethics and Communication.

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; 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; Cybersecurity; Design of Malware-ready Programs; Detection and remediation of land mines and other unexploded buried hazards.

Research Assistant Professor - ECE

Research Interests:

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

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 & Urban Planning; Machine Learning & AI; Spatial Big Data; Public Transport & Shared Mobility; Travel Behavior; Transport Equality; Spatial Accessibility; Transportation & Community Resilience.

Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Facilities and 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).