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AI Faculty Interest Survey
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| Name, Title | Dept. | AI Role | AI research interests | Areas of AI research | How do you use or plan to use AI in your teaching? | What would you like to know more about? | Are you interested in having a conversation about AI with others | |
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| Jaehan Bae, Faculty | jbae@ufl.edu | Astronomy | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | I use convolutional neural networks to find young exoplanets from observational astronomical data. | I have developed and taught AST 4930: AI and ML applications in physical sciences in 2021 Fall. | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about CNN and other ML algorithms for scientific usage. I am also interested in learning about what AI/ML related courses are available at UF and what are being taught. |
| Sean Davis | sfdavis@ufl.edu | Sport Management | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition | AI/ML applications in consumer behavior | Applications of AI | ||
| Kun Xu, Faculty | kun.xu@ufl.edu | Media Production, Management, and Technology | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Robotics, Movement | I work on human-robot interaction and focus on the effects of various social cues designed into social robots. | I use virtual reality, augmented reality, and robotic technologies in my teaching. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | yes. |
| Corinne Huggins-Manley, Faculty | ahuggins@ufl.edu | HDOSE | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Education | I work alongside developers of AI assessments to improve fairness. | Incorporating more information on where AI can be applied to assist in educational research, measurement, and evaluation. | Ethical issues, Bias | Fairness in AI assessment |
| Michael Spear, Staff | mspear@ufl.edu | Communications | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning, Robotics, Medicine, Movement | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |||
| Jason Harrington, Faculty | mathguy@ufl.edu | Mathematics | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | Motivation for learning computational math/numerical analysis. | Coding, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I would like to discuss AI in the computational math/Numerical analysis class I teach. | |
| Zachary Greenberg, Graduate Student | zfg2013@ufl.edu | Pharmaceutics | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Medicine | My AI research is molecular generation of potent aptamers or other instantiated functions, as desired. We learn on publicly available molecular information or feature engineer using quantum chemical information. Our output are individually unique molecule libraries (100-200 total points) for downstream experimental assays. | N/A | Coding, Applications of AI | I am interested in giving a seminar or leading a journal club. |
| Dan Johnson, Faculty | johnson.daniel@ufl.edu | School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Agriculture | I study forest dynamics. I use machine learning and AI to study forest health issues. I am hoping to link hyperspectral remote sensing to ground based observations of tree health. | NA | Coding, Bias, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes |
| Dan Stribling, Graduate Student | ds@ufl.edu | Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Medicine, Genomics | I work in application of Machine Learning methods to genomics data relating to oncogenic viruses. | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals | ||
| Laurie Taylor, Faculty | laurien@ufl.edu | Libraries, Center for Latin American Studies, Museum Studies, Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies Research | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition | As a Director of the Digital Library of the Caribbean, I lead efforts to digitize and digitally curate materials, which are then hosted and preserved at UF. Our teams are always looking for ways to improve content, discoverability, and usability of materials. | Collaborators interested in digital collections, and source materials for training and development | ||
| Sergei Zolotukhin, Faculty | szlt@ufl.edu | Pediatrics | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Medicine | We use ML to optimize the design of combinatorial libraries of gene therapy viral vectors. | I do not teach AI formally | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I'm interested in contacting other faculty with experience in ML-assisted 3D proteins modeling |
| Kelsey Vought, Graduate Student | kvought@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Agriculture, Law | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Karen Garrett, Faculty | karengarrett@ufl.edu | Plant Pathology Department and Food Systems Institute | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Agriculture | I design decision support methods for plant health management, including epidemic management at regional scales, and use machine learning approaches. Examples of my lab's applications are decision support for making effective and equitable crop seed systems and strategies for managing invasive species more generally. | I teach courses that include examples of machine learning and image analysis | HiPerGator | I'm interested in discussing ways to make more effective decision support systems, in general and to support global food security |
| Stephen Kostewicz, Staff | stevek@ufl.edu | UF Health IT | I have no plans to work with AI | Machine Learning, Expert Systems | I do not do research at this time | I do not teach | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | I am interested in learning how to use AI resources and applications |
| Wenbin Guo, Post Doc | wenbin.guo@ufl.edu | Digital Worlds Institute | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Medicine, Movement | He collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to automate the analysis and annotation of human motion using artificial intelligence. He builds and runs deep learning algorithms on existing human datasets of video and skeletal sequences. | AI in Android mobile App development | Coding, Hands on experiences | I am interested in how to select the best features, machine learning models or algorithms for each project. |
| Ruogu (Reanna) Fang, Faculty | ruogu.fang@ufl.edu | Biomedical Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine, Movement | AI-empowered Brain health and Neuroscience-Inspired AI | Yes, I want to build a Biomedical AI course for both UG and graduate. | Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Applications of AI | AI center in precision brain health |
| Jane Shin, Faculty | jshin2@ufl.edu | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Robotics, Agriculture | robotics sensor perception and robot motion/path planning, information-driven approaches | I will design my own course (hopefully within 2-3 years) that incorporates AI | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I'm interested in AI applications, research direction, and collaborations. |
| Aditya Singh, Faculty | aditya01@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Robotics, Agriculture, Natural resources management | I use various legacy statistical and machine learning tools in combination with UAS, airborne, and satellite remote sensing data for answering basic and applied questions in forest, wildlife, and agriculture management. I'm interested in learning more on AI-based 'replacements' for these legacy techniques to make our products more robust (and hopefully more interpretable.) | Coding, Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Shajib Ghosh, Graduate Student | shajib.ghosh@ufl.edu | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Speech or Vision Recognition | Coding, Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |||
| Bruce Shapiro, Faculty | bruce.shapiro@ufl.edu | Medicine | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Medicine | I am just getting started. | No plans yet. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Alex Settles, Faculty | alex.settles@ufl.edu | Management | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing | I have been working on a NLP project looking at news reporting about multinational firms | I plan to use AI in data analysis projects in my courses | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Applications of AI | I am interested in how AI has been used in the social sciences |
| Ira Harkness, Faculty | rhyx@ufl.edu | Materials Science and Engineering | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Fuzzy Logic | Coding, Hands on experiences, Teaching, Fundamentals | I am interested in examples of how AI has been integrated into existing courses at UF. | ||
| Garrett Fullerton, Undergraduate Student | gfullerton@ufl.edu | Biomedical Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Medicine | I design novel deep learning algorithms for the synthesis of brain perfusion imaging from noncontrast, structural imaging. | Coding, Bias, Language, Teaching | no | |
| Zhong-Ren Peng, Faculty | zpeng@ufl.edu | Urban and Regional Planning | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems | I am working on AI-enabled urban planning, transportation planning, and resilience to climate change | As one method in my research design course | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about research collaborations, and ask someone to teach one or two class period about how to incorporate AI in research design. |
| Katarina Jurczyk, Graduate Student | kjurczyk@ufl.edu | CISE | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition | So far, I've taken a course on trustworthy machine learning and thereby been introduced to machine learning. In the scope of that class, I examined whether dataset distillation could improve privacy. I've also attended a couple of NVIDIA workshops. | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Oleksandr Kondratov, Faculty | o.g.kondratov@ufl.edu | Pediatrics | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Gene therapy, AAV | I use ML/AI approaches (CNN, VAE, NLP etc.) for viral capsid modelling and acceleration of directed evolution. | I would like to summarize ML/AI application for AAV gene therapy and compare approaches side-by-side. | Coding, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | Deeply interested; I would like to discuss my project with NLP specialists and other AAV colleagues. |
| Glenn Good, Dean & Professor | ggood@ufl.edu | College of Education | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Education & Learning Sciences | I view AI to be likely to transform teaching and learning. UF is well positioned to be a leader in this critical emerging area. | Bias, Teaching, Applications of AI | ||
| Peter Kvam, Faculty | pkvam@ufl.edu | Psychology | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Medicine, Cognitive modeling | We use AI to assess behavior, including using deep neural networks to estimate the parameters of cognitive models (the cognitive models themselves being AI as well), to understand the evolution of cognitive abilities (computational evolution), and to analyze data from human behavioral and neuroimaging studies. | I teach basic concepts and applications of AI in an undergraduate laboratory course, and plan to incorporate AI-based parameter estimation in a graduate course on cognitive modeling. | Bias, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes - I would be interested in talking about applications of AI to modeling behavioral data. |
| Hannah Hardy, Undergrad Student | hannahhardy@ufl.edu | CISE | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Medicine, Law, Language, Movement | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Melanie Correll, Faculty | correllm@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | I am interested in crop modeling and integration of OMICS and environmental information into predictive tools for plant growth, development, nutrient composition and yield. | Students perform Machine Learning exercises to perform supervised and unsupervised learning for classification (and also a bit of regression analyses) on biological data. I would like to further these types of exercises, and have students work more with image classification and building predictive models. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals | Yes, I am interested in developing a UF-GitHub Repository for educational notebooks (i.e., Jupyter notebooks) in AI and use of AI tools for Agriculture/Biotech/Natural Resources applications. I would like to work with graduate students and their advisors (and Informatics Institute/HiPerGator) to develop teaching modules to showcase student "AI-based" work in these areas. Also, I am interested in working with others on using AI in food production areas (crop/plant modeling). |
| Gustavo Seabra, Faculty | seabra@cop.ufl.edu | Medicinal Chemistry | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Drug Discovery | We use AI to generate new molecules and calculate ligand-binding affinities in drug discovery projects. | I only teach a small module of computational chemistry a year, and may include a module on AI-based molecular generators. | Coding, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes, any interesting application of AI 🙂 |
| Yuqing Li, Faculty | YUQINGLI@UFL.EDU | Neurology | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine, Movement | I conduct research in the animal models and pathophysiology of neurological disorders. I am interested in using machine learning and AI to quantify animal behavior and brain imaging results. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Chaofeng Wang, Faculty | chaofeng.wang@ufl.edu | M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management | I teach an AI course | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition | My focal areas include mechanism of neural networks, uncertainty quantification and dimension reduction of data and models, explainability and interpretability of algorithms and inferences, constitutive modeling and design of materials, multi-scale simulation of the built environment under extreme events. | Coding, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Kyle Bohunicky, Staff | kbohunicky@ufl.edu | Research Development | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Agriculture, Medicine, Veterinary, Law, Language, Movement | I help to coordinate AI research opportunities and connect specific opportunities with AI researchers across the university. | Currently not teaching | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I have interest in connecting and talking to faculty about research opportunities in and around AI |
| Luis Sordo Vieira, Faculty | luis.sordovieira@medicine.ufl.edu | Medicine | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Medicine | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Divakar Karanth, Faculty | divakar.karanthh@ufl.edu | Orthodontics, College of Dentistry | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning | Automated segmentation of a CT scan, Root resorption calculation, Biomechanical planning of orthodontic tooth movement. | N/A | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes, Use of AI in Medical imaging |
| Benjamin Shickel, Faculty | shickelb@ufl.edu | Department of Medicine | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine, Language | I am primarily interested in the application of deep learning technologies for more precise, personalized, and comprehensive modeling of patient health. Moving forward, I am also interested in developing neurosymbolic clinical AI frameworks that unify human expert knowledge with data-driven representations for more generalizable and interpretable clinical decision-making. I also seek to facilitate clinical implementation of complex AI systems by prioritizing human-centric aspects of algorithmic predictions such as fairness, explainability, and trust. | I am integrating machine learning and deep learning into the instruction of programming courses. | Ethical issues, Bias | |
| Karla Saldana Ochoa, Faculty | ksaldanaochoa@ufl.edu | School of Architecture | I conduct AI research | Human Centered AI, Generative Algorithms | I am particularly interested in this integration of Artificial and Human Intelligence to have a precise and agile response to natural disasters. | My teaching and research focus on investigating the interplay of Artificial and Human Intelligence in architectural practices at building and urban scale. I am particularly interested in this integration to have a precise and agile response to natural disasters. | Coding, Applications of AI | Yes, about human-centered AI approach in design practices and generative algorithms |
| Amar Shah, Graduate Student | amarshah@ufl.edu | Engineering | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Expert Systems, Robotics, Medicine | I am interested in learning AI and apply to various disciplines. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Chloe Campbell, Staff | chloecampbell@ufl.edu | Office of the Controller | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Expert Systems | Seeking to partner with AI researchers/developers in formulating processes for assessing/identifying risks in financial transactions for enterprise wide benchmarking and reporting at the University of Florida. | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Albert De Vries, Faculty | devries@ufl.edu | Department of Animal Sciences | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Agriculture, Veterinary, Movement | Interested in developing/using AI to help make better decisions on the livestock farm. | Incorporate in the Animal Sciences undergraduate curriculum | Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | |
| Franjo Ivankovic, Graduate Student | njofrica@ufl.edu | Psychiatry | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Medicine | Applications of AI to genetic and psychiatric data. | N/A | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about research and ethics of AI applications in medicine (especially genetics, psychiatry). |
| Robert Caudle, Faculty | caudle@ufl.edu | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | I am not working with AI at this time | Medicine, Veterinary, I would like to develop rodent behavioral analyses to evaluate changes in behavior and social interactions as a result of injury or drug administration. | I am currently not doing AI research, but I am interested in developing a system for evaluating rodent behavior and social interactions in their home cage for use in evaluating pain and pain therapies. | N/A | Collaborations with AI experts. | I am interested in talking about research collaborations. |
| Bill Hughes, Faculty | william.hughes@ufl.edu | Bergstrom Real Estate Center | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning | No current AI projects but interested in adding AI tools to financial investment modeling. | Relaying AI models that produce investment valuation results. | HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in learning how to establish a HiPerGator account and start evaluating some of the datasets that we gathered. |
| Amr Abd-Elrahman, Faculty | aamr@ufl.edu | SFFGS - GCREC | I teach an AI module | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | I use machine and deep learning for image classification and object detection for ag and natural resource management applications. | I teach machine learning algorithms in one of my courses. | Coding, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |
| Thomas Smith, Graduate Student | thomassmith@ufl.edu | Wildlife Ecology and Conservation | I am just getting started with AI | Speech or Vision Recognition | Use AI to automate wildlife research through species identification and individual tracking. | Teach other wildlife researchers how to use AI to improve their data collection | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |
| Tim Young, Data Scientist | tsy@ufl.edu | UF Advancement | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Fuzzy Logic | N/A | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences | ||
| John Trainer, MD, Faculty | johntrainer@ufl.edu | Community Health and Family Medicine | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Medicine | I am an expert user of two national brands of EMR. I see vast opportunities to enhance the practice of medicine with AI mediated decision support at the bedside. I need to learn more about how to operationalize my expertise in EMR in collaboration with experts in AI. | Coding, Ethical issues, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in using AI as a decision support tool in the electronic medical record | |
| Steven Weisberg, Faculty | stevenweisberg@ufl.edu | Psychology | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine, Language, Movement, Spatial navigation, neuroscience | I use AI to predict behavior and model the brain. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | ||
| Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Faculty | amelia@digitalworlds.ufl.edu | Digital Worlds Institute | I teach an AI course | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts | Amelia WInger-Bearskin innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our community and the environment. She looks at how AI can have value based dependencies through coding practices at the builder/developer level. She works with creative applications of machine learning technologies in video, sound, ar, vr and live performance. Her applied AI lab in her former role in NYC created AI collaborations in screenwriting, music composition, simulated city care networks, visualizing convolutional neural networks in VR and AI generated art critiques. | I teach an overview course of AI + Art/Science/Fiction, where I teach students to understand the applications of AI in Art, Science and Fiction, so they know what it is, what is it used for and what is at stake. A comprehensive vision of the landscape of creative applications of AI technologies and machine learning including the software architecture of the modern AI tech stack. Fall 2022 I will be teaching Playable Patterns, a course on designing NPC/CPU/AI agents in video games and immersive interactive content. Students will learn how to model systems on natural human and non-human systems. From random number generators to flocking algorithms, designing the automated parts of a game involves finding elegant, concise, believable ways of modeling the real world. We will look to the history of computational poetics as well as to nature as we ask what animals and flowers can teach us about NPC/CPU/AI reactions in games. Students will learn to design machine intelligence that sparks life, joy, and delight for audiences interacting with new storyworlds. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in having visitors to my classes, I am also happy to visit your classrooms as well. I am interested in research related to climate justice and advance computing. Looking at the environmental impact of supercomputing and also the applications of AI to help climate justice initiatives. |
| Sobha Jaishankar, Faculty | sjaishan@ufl.edu | Research Development | I have no plans to work with AI | all of the above | Ethical issues, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Walter Leite, Faculty | walter.leite@coe.ufl.edu | School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Expert Systems | machine learning for causal inference, intelligent tutoring systems | Show applications of AI in education to students | Bias, Teaching, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about machine learning for causal inference, and about experimental studies of intelligent tutoring systems |
| Simone Marini, Faculty | simone.marini@ufl.edu | Epidemiology | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Medicine, Biology | I design AI prediction models in biology and medicine integrating heterogeneous data sources. | Ethical issues | ||
| Kristy Boyer, Faculty | keboyer@ufl.edu | Computer & Information Science & Engineering | I conduct AI research | Natural Language Processing, Education | Kristy Boyer's research focuses on how natural language dialogue and intelligent systems can support human learning across educational contexts and in achieving their wellness goals. Her research group builds computational models of the processes and phenomena during dialogue and learning, and these models drive the adaptivity of intelligent systems. The computational models in turn shed light on effective strategies for supporting human learning and wellness. Her group develops systems that support individual and collaborative learning, including tutorial dialogue systems, intelligent tutoring systems, game-based learning environments, and user interfaces for exercise. | I teach a course on spoken dialogue systems, which use AI for conversation. | AI for wellness/health/fitness | I want to find people who do research around collaboration for wellness (for example, finding training partners for one's exercise goals), and how that may be facilitated by AI. |
| Flora Iff-Noël, Faculty | f.iffnoel@ufl.edu | Classics | I teach an AI course | Ethics, Arts, Language | I co-teach a course with Dr. Rea on AI from Antiquity to today reflecting on the questions posed by AI from a humanist perspective (what is intelligence vs. artificial intelligence; what is natural vs. artificial; what is art vs. technology; what is the role of ethics in AI etc.). | Ethical issues, Bias | ||
| Samantha Brooks, Faculty | samantha.brooks@ufl.edu | Animal Sciences, UF Genetics Institute | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Agriculture, Veterinary, Movement | DNN packages to digitally label video of large animal locomotion, for quantification of complex phenotypes | examples for undergraduate researchers | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |
| Ravi Teja V, Graduate Student | rveernapu@ufl.edu | CISE | I incorporate AI in my course content | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition | Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | I am interested in implementing any AI project with the appropriate guidance. | ||
| Laura Blecha, Faculty | lblecha@ufl.edu | Physics | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals | |||
| Ning Wang, Graduate Student | wangningstar@gmail.com | Construction Management | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Language | Intelligent Building Information Spoken Dialogue System for Construction Industry | Introduce fundamental AI knowledge and NLP-related methods | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about conducting research on NLP directions. |
| Leo Hoffmann Jr, Faculty | hoffmannleo@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences | I am just getting started with AI | Agriculture, Plant Breeding | Incorporate in the breeding program to get better results from DNA and phenotyping data. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | AI in agriculture and in plant breeding. | |
| Michael Tonks, Faculty | michael.tonks@ufl.edu | Materials Science and Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition | I am using AI with my modeling and simulation results and with experimental data. We are using it for processing microstructure images, accelerating simulation results, and using experimental data to improve model predictions. | TBD | Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | I'm already having those conversations and I am good for now |
| Eleni Bozia, Faculty | bozia@ufl.edu | Classics | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Language | I work on NLP to analyze ancient Greek and Latin and find patterns in grammar and syntax. Also, currently my team and I are developing an algorithm to query every existing ancient Greek and Latin text to trace occurrences of specific content words. | I plan to design a course focused on digital and AI tools for the humanities. | Language, Teaching | |
| Fernando Alferez, Faculty | alferez@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Agriculture | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | I am interested in knowing how can I apply this to complex problems in agriculture (i.e interface between climate and tree productivity) | ||
| Conrad Cole, Post Doc | conrad.r.cole@gmail.com | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | Materials design and discovery for renewable energy conversion and storage | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Dushyant Arora, Industry collaboration | dushyant.arora@siemens.com | Siemens | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Expert Systems, Robotics, Medicine, Language | Optimization with AI applications for general applications is the overall goal. Optimization is a large topic but I can demonstrate the use for application specific use cases used in the industry. | Implement collaboration between research and industry. | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | I’m interested in speaking with Genomics application faculty. |
| Jack Barry, Post Doc | jack.barry@ufl.edu | Center for Public Interest Communications | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts | I study the impact of technology on political and economic outcomes. AI influences these areas increasingly and keeps creeping into my research, especially the ethics of using AI by the State and by corporations. | Ethics of AI, and AI's effect, or lack thereof, on political and economic outcomes. | Ethical issues, Bias, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |
| Chris Sharp, Staff | sharp.c@ufl.edu | Center for Instructional Technology & Training (CITT) | I incorporate AI in my course content | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition | I assist faculty with brainstorming how AI could affect their course content, learning analytics, and industry. | Help faculty create innovative assignments and exercises for students. For example, creating chatbots to interact with students in large-enrollment courses or using NLP to analyze class discussion content. | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes, I'd like to help create workshops and hands-on experiences for faculty to get exposure to AI concepts. Chatbots, using Juypter Notebooks, and image/text generation with CLIP and GPT-3 are topics of interest. |
| Anthony Botelho, Faculty | a.botelho@ufl.edu | School of Teaching and Learning; Institute for Advanced Learning Technologies | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Speech or Vision Recognition | My research leverages broad areas of machine learning to study learning, cognition, and behavior in educational contexts, and apply this research to build intelligent human-in-the-loop technologies to support students and teachers. | As I study how to leverage AI to support education, exploring ways of using AI tools to support instruction is a primary focus of mine. | Ethical issues, Bias, HiPerGator, Teaching | Yes, I am interested in teaching, research collaboration, or contributing to other types of supports |
| Anna Bernstein, Graduate Student | bernsteina@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I am just getting started with AI | Arts | Hands on experiences | |||
| Elizabeth Calienes, Faculty | calienes@ufl.edu | College of Journalism and Communications | I am just getting started with AI | Arts, Medicine, Communications and also Education | I am not currently involved in AI but interested | Not sure yet. | Hands on experiences, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Pablo Hernandez-Perretti, Undergraduate Student | pablo.hernandezp@ufl.edu | Computer and Information Science | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture, Veterinary | Coding, HiPerGator, Fundamentals | |||
| Catia S. Silva, Faculty | catiaspsilva@ece.ufl.edu | Electrical and Computer Engineering | I teach an AI course | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Speech or Vision Recognition | My research interests include machine learning (ML) and applied ML, data science, natural language processing, pattern recognition, and engineering education research. I am also a GitHub Campus Advisor and can help faculty integrate GitHub with their courses. | I teach several courses in AI and AI-related topics such as EEL3850 (Data Science), EEE3773 (Introduction to ML), and EEE4773/EEL5840 Fundamentals of ML. | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator | |
| Dana Cassidy, Undergraduate Student faculty | danacassidy@ufl.edu | Journalism, student researcher at the Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Journalism, News Media, “Fake News”, Misinformation, etc | I’m a journalism major earning a certificate in artificial intelligence fundamentals and applications. I strive to integrate machine learning tools in newsroom applications and products to improve information access and improve the quality of journalism. I’m both a software developer and journalist, and I will be interning with The Washington Post’s Engineering team after graduation this spring. I will be working on their News Engineering team to build AI and machine learning-based tools and applications for journalism products. I’m passionate about the ethical applications of AI and emerging technology in news. I aspire to both build and be part of conversations within this field. | N/a | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes, I am interested in speaking with students and faculty about the interdisciplinary need for technologists in journalism. |
| Yuna Kim, Graduate Student | ykim9092@gmail.com | Statistics | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition | Developed a machine learning/ deep learning model using xgboost, keras, and tensorflow in R to understand the dynamics of urban growth in Florida from 2015-2019 by incorporating lead-lag non-linear relationships amongst past urban changes in each region and its neighbors. | Bias, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | ||
| Qing Lu, Faculty | lucienq@ufl.edu | Department of Biostatistics | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | My current research mainly focuses on developing statistical/machine learning methods and software for high-dimensional genomic data analysis, and using these methods in collaborative research. One of his recent research focuses is to develop deep neural networks for high-dimensional data analysis. | I teach the introduction to statistical learning course, which covers popular methods, including deep learning, in statistical/machine learning . | HiPerGator, Applications of AI | Yes |
| Kiley Graim, Faculty | kgraim@ufl.edu | Computer and Information Science and Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Medicine, Veterinary, genomics | Coding, Ethical issues, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |||
| Ruchir Mishra, Biological Scientist III | mishraruchir@ufl.edu | Entomology | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Agriculture | Hands on experiences | |||
| Kasey Windels, Faculty | kwindels@ufl.edu | Advertising | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Natural Language Processing, Arts, Perceptions of AI use in advertising | Due to enhancements in natural language generation, recently AI has started to write copy for advertising messages – such as banner advertisements, advertisements on the Facebook platform, and email subject lines. My research examines whether consumers trust advertisements written by AI more or less than advertisements written by humans. Using expectancy-confirmation theory, my research examines how consumers rate their expectations of ads made by human vs. AI compared to their perceptions of ads made by human vs. AI. | HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Andrew D. Hanson, Faculty | adha@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Agriculture | Extracting meaningful patterns from the mutations in enzymes evolved by directed evolution. | Fundamentals | I am already in dialog with Xiaochen Xian and others in UF's Synthetic Biology working group (which I coordinate). | |
| Lan Hoang-Minh, Faculty | hoang@ufl.edu | Neurosurgery | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Medicine | Coding, Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Niall Murphy, Faculty | n.murphy@ufl.edu | Dentistry | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | Using AI for analysis of biomedical data | Interested in AI for deeper data analysis | ||
| Kimberly Parikh, Graduate Student | kutuk@ufl.edu | College of Nursing | I am just getting started with AI | Medicine, Movement | Interested in colleagues' research on AI and assessment of joint inflammation | Assessment of joint inflammation | Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | |
| Tong Geon lee, Faculty | tonggeonlee@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Robotics, Agriculture | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Ivy Munoko, Faculty | ivy.munoko@warrington.ufl.edu | Fisher School of Accounting | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Business | I am interested in interdisciplinary AI research with business implications | I teach the use of AI/ML in auditing using python | Hands on experiences | interdisciplinary AI Research |
| Samuel Anyaso-Samuel, Graduate Student | sanyasosamuel@ufl.edu | Biostatistics | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Medicine | Statistical analysis of time-to-event data | Teaching, Applications of AI | I am interested in collaborating on projects involving time-to-event data analysis. | |
| Mina Ghorbani, Alumni | mghorbani01@gmail.com | College of Dentistry | I teach an AI module | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Medicine, Dentistry | Using AI to help better diagnosis and teach students | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals | ||
| Crystal Marull, Faculty | Cmarull@ufl.edu | Spanish and Portuguese Studies | I am not working with AI at this time | Language | I have done nothing with AI but I am interested in how it can change language learning. | To improve language learning. | Language, Fundamentals | |
| Elizabeth Gadsby, PhD, Alumna | egadsby@egadinnova.com | eGad Innovation, LLC | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Medicine | Addressing data disparities in cardiovascular health | Provide general understanding of AI fundamentals and applications to promote UF's AI Initiative | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Yu Wang, Faculty | yuwang1@ufl.edu | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Robotics | My research aims to develop learning-based control/decision-making algorithms for autonomous system. | I teach on course on reinforcement learning and system control. | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about any research/teaching collaboration. |
| Alina Zare, Faculty | azare@ufl.edu | Electrical and Computer Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture, Medicine | I develop new AI algorithms and apply them to a variety of data modalities - with a primary focus on remote sensing. | I teach two AI courses: Introduction to Machine Learning and Foundations of Machine Learning | building collaborations | |
| Kejun Huang, Faculty | kejun.huang@ufl.edu | CISE | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | Unsupervised learning: algorithm design and performance analysis | I teach Machine Learning in the CISE dept. | Applications of AI | Yes. I'm interested in collaborating on projects that involve AI. |
| Navid Asadi, Faculty | nasadi@ece.ufl.edu | ECE - FICS Research | I conduct AI research | Cyber Security, Medicine | Using AI to intelligently perform imaging for electronics assurance. | PHIKS course includes modules where I put in details of AI for the application of physical assurance using various modalities. | Applications of AI | |
| Zhe Jiang, Faculty | zhe.jiang@ufl.edu | Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Agriculture, Medicine, Transportation | Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI for Spatiotemporal Data in interdisciplinary applications, e.g., Earth sciences, transportation, agriculture, public health, etc. | I teach "Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Data". | Applications of AI | Yes, I am interested in collaborating in an interdisciplinary proposal team on AI for Interdisciplinary Applications where spatiotemporal data are involved. |
| Ana Martin-Ryals, Faculty | admartin@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Agriculture | I would like to use AI to improve process control and monitoring in bioprocessing/waste treatment systems. | I would like to incorporate AI modules and examples into my course to demonstrate how AI can be applied for process control and decision making. | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals | I would be interested in speaking/collaborating with faculty to develop AI modules and activities to use in my teaching. |
| Mindy McAdams,Faculty | mmcadams@ufl.edu | Journalism | I teach an AI course | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Public understanding of AI; media coverage of AI | Claims about AI in the media can convey an accurate or inaccurate impression to the public. Journalists covering AI research, products, uses by government agencies, etc., need to examine claims by tech firms, etc., rather than merely repeat such claims. My focus is on teaching the next generation of journalists. | My course covers the history, development, and uses of AI, with many materials drawn from media coverage. | Applications of AI | Yes. I'm especially interested in hearing reactions to or assessments of media coverage of AI controversies or breakthroughs or deployments in healthcare, crime/courts, employment/hiring, etc., etc. |
| Weihuang Xu, Graduate Student | weihuang.xu@ufl.edu | Electrical and Computer Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | I developed AI models for agriculture applications including plant root segmentation, tracing roots, calculate root features (diameter, length, area, etc.), fertilizer recommendation, yield prediction, etc.. We used data including RGB image, remote sensing data, HSI, etc.. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | ||
| Patrick F Musgrave, Faculty | pmusgrave@ufl.edu | Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Robotics | We're currently interested in physical reservoir computing (RC), which is a form of neural network. Physical RC is also known as morphological computation. In physical RC, the "computation" is done by the physical body instead of the software. We're implementing these techniques as a sensing method in nonlinear fluid-structure interaction problems; specifically, bio-inspired underwater propulsion and compliant aerospace vehicles. | Coding, HiPerGator, Fundamentals | Yes, I'm interested in learning about the AI research other faculty are doing. | |
| Prabhat Mishra, Faculty | prabhat@ufl.edu | Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Quantum Computing | (1) Explainable AI for interpreting the outcome; (2) Automated detection and localization of malicious software (malware, ransomware); (3) Verified AI to ensure the AI systems are trustworthy; (4) Hardware acceleration of AI systems and architectures; (5) AI based design and verification of secure and trustworthy computer systems. | One AI module in embedded systems and computer architecture courses. | HiPerGator | |
| Eugene Li, Undergrad | lieugene@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Neuroscience, Computer Graphics | I work in a lab that is trying to use ML to fuse aerodynamic data and produce uncertainty quantification for those predictions. | Coding, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | I am interested in learning about how to apply to PhD programs and AI residency programs | |
| Nicholas Kroeger, Graduate Student | nkroeger@ufl.edu | CISE | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Speech or Vision Recognition | I work on interpretable machine learning, so I research methods for extracting information "learned" by deep neural networks to make these black-boxes more understandable (to humans). I've also worked on outlier detection with neural networks and underwater acoustic data. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Richard G. Hennig, Faculty | rhennig@ufl.edu | Materials Science and Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Materials, Physical Relations | Develop algorithms and methods for machine learning and apply them to materials discovery and design using regression, classification, deep learning, and symbolic regression. | Teaching Machine Learning and Data Science for Materials using Jupyter Notebooks | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in sharing teaching experiences and notebook examples. |
| Justin Kyle Watson,Faculty | justin.watson@ufl.edu | Nuclear Engineering Program, Materials Science and Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | My group is using convolutional neural networks to predict high-fidelity neutronics parameters for reactor physics analysis. | Once the tools are matured, I plan to use these in our reactor analysis courses for raped prototyping of nuclear fuel assemblies as part of a semester project. Additional applications will be introduced over time. | Coding, Bias, Teaching, Applications of AI | |
| Eric Jing Du, Faculty | eric.du@essie.ufl.edu | ESSIE/Civil Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Robotics | AI-driven robotic collaboration in civil engineering operations and emergency response, including computer vision, point cloud processing, computing cognition, and mixed realty. | I teach AI algorithms (CNNs, RNNs and ML) in my CGN6905 Advanced Information Technologies in Construction | Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | Yes. I am interested in proposal collaborations. |
| Victoria Miller, Faculty | victoria.miller@ufl.edu | Materials Science and Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic | Predict whether a given liquid metal chemistry will have deleterious effects on a given solid metal chemistry under given conditions. | Introduce sophomores to the idea of querying databases, doing regression on large datasets, and doing classification problems. | Coding, Bias, Fundamentals | Yes, I am interested in gaining more understanding of the nuances of different machine learning algorithms and their implementations. |
| Read Hayes, PhD, Faculty | rrhayes@ufl.edu | FLEX Station | I conduct AI research | Safeguarding vulnerable people via crime prevention | Our team operates the UF SaferPlaces Lab at the UF INNOVATE Hub; testing multiple gunshot, screaming, spitting, tire screech, glass breaking, handgun, etc. models | Working with Wertheim ISE, CISE, Innovation Academy, Warrington student teams on real-world problem-solving in our inside and outside lab ecosystem. NVIDIA, Lenovo, multiple retail chains, and others are closely working with us on use cases. | Coding, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Seunghee Cha, Faculty | scha@dental.ufl.edu | Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences | I am not working with AI at this time | Medicine, diagnosis, treatment, biomarker, integrative medicine | None | None | Bias, Fundamentals, Applications of AI, Basic concepts and applications (in collaboration with an expert) | I need to know basics and potential applications first to be able to come up with a research project pertain to the disease that I am investigating. I can provide clinical resources and basic science tools while a collaborator can provide the AI component of a research project. |
| Sivaramakrishnan Balachandar, Faculty | bala1s@ufl.edu | Mechanical & Aerospace | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Physics-Informed modeling with AI | We use ML and DL techniques to develop physics-informed multiphase flow models using data from particle-resolved simulations. We then deploy these models in solving very large scale multiphase flow problems of practical interest. | No plans | HiPerGator | |
| Vincent Bindschaedler, Faculty | vbindsch@cise.ufl.edu | CISE | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Speech or Vision Recognition | I work on problems at the intersection of cybersecurity and machine learning. I also teach course about machine learning. | I teach Machine Learning | HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |
| Konstantina Sokratous, Graduate Student | k.sokratous@ufl.edu | Department of psychology | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Medicine | I use DL techniques to automate model fitting steps and cognitive modeling to study decision making processes of the prefrontal cortex. In the future, I expect to use agent based modeling. | I haven’t used it yet, as I am on an RAship, but I’m interested in ways I could incorporate it in the future, when I move to a TAship. | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, Teaching, Fundamentals | Yes, I’d love to talk to other researchers, for teaching an AI class, but also to connect with other scientists that use AI and see whether future collaborations could take place. |
| Megan Butala, Faculty | mbutala@ufl.edu | Materials Science & Engineering | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Materials Science; characterization | My group and I use machine learning, currently non-negative matrix factorization (related to principal component analysis) to disaggregate contributions from various materials to atomic structure data. | NA | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Mingzhou Ding, Faculty | mzding@ufl.edu | Biomedical Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition | I (1) apply AI-inspired methods to analyze neuroimaging data and (2) use AI to model brain systems. | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about teaching a class on AI and neuroscience | |
| matt wein, Graduate Student | mgwein@ufl.edu | ece | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Robotics, Agriculture, Medicine, Movement, NEURAL INTERFACING, AUTONOMY | Macrosystems NEON project | n/a | Coding, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | yes, interesting in possible serving as TA, and researching on neural interfacing, autonomy, and deep NN |
| Scott Banks, Faculty | banks@ufl.edu | Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Medicine | We use machine learning to autonomously measure 3D movement of bones and joints in X-ray image sequences for the purposes of orthopedic research and diagnosis of joint function. | No specific plans, but will eagerly include machine learning methods and examples when the opportunity presents. | Applications of AI | |
| Andres Zuniga, Graduate Student | andreszuniga@ufl.edu | Mathematics | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning | Coding, Teaching, Fundamentals | |||
| Lily Elefteriadou, Faculty | elefter@ce.ufl.edu | UFTI, ESSIE | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Transportation applications | Transportation applications related to traffic management, autonomous and connected vehicles, sensors, signal control optimization, freeway operations | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Yiannis Ampatzidis, Faculty | i.ampatzidis@ufl.edu | IFAS/ABE/SWFREC | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | Artificial intelligence applications in smart and precision agriculture | I teach Ag related AI modules | Coding, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | Collaboration on research and extension related projects/proposals for agriculture and food systems |
| Danielle Alverson, Graduate Student | dalverson@ufl.edu | Materials Science and Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | I use machine learning to process complex X-ray diffraction and pair distribution functions of disordered thin films. | It helps as a sorting tool. | Coding, HiPerGator | Yes. I am interested in having a conversation about ways AI can be implemented. |
| Jennifer Fishe, Faculty | Jennifer.Fishe@jax.ufl.edu | Emergency Medicine & Center for Data Solutions | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Medicine | As Director of the Center for Data Solutions I work to support and expand AI research at the UF College of Medicine Jacksonville. As a PI I incorporate AI into my precision emergency therapy for asthma research. | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Applications of AI | ||
| Jing Pan, Faculty | jingpan@ufl.edu | MAE | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Medicine | We develop sensors and instruments for real-time monitoring of biological systems. We are interested in generating human physiology datasets for machine learning and developing AI-enabled devices for physiologic closed-loop control. | N/A | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in working with AI experts to develop research projects. |
| Farid AitSahlia, Faculty | farid1@ufl.edu | Finance, Insurance and Real Estate | I teach an AI course | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Finance | I am only starting on my AI_based research but my goal is to use ML and NPL in the context of mutual fund flows, dynamic asset allocation, and derivatives pricing. | I show its applicability to credit risk modeling and portfolio selection. | Coding, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |
| Eakta Jain, Faculty | ejain@ufl.edu | CISE | I teach an AI course | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Movement, Graphics (Creative AI / Generative AI), User Modeling | Pattern recognition for behavioral data (e.g., eye tracking, head tracking, whole body motion tracking); machine learning algorithms for generating synthetic data (e.g., animated characters and virtual avatars) | Artificial Intelligence and Heuristics (CAP 4621); Generating Expressiveness in Intelligent Agents and Avatars (CAP 4112) | Applications of AI | I am interested in talking more about applications to robotics. I am interested in learning more about AI in animal science. |
| Yunxiao Chen, Graduate Student | yunxiao.chen@ufl.edu | Department of Public Relations | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, communication science | Temporarily no research. | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals | Yes. I am interested in systematically understand AI. | |
| Justin Pitts, Graduate Student | justinjpitts@ufl.edu | Interdisciplinary Ecology/Agronomy | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | I leverage machine learning techniques to investigate physiological and biological responses of coffee and peanut crops to climactic stressors. | Eventual implementation if I pursue academia | Coding, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Yuguang Fang, Faculty | fang@ece.ufl.edu | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Cyber Security | Conduct research on the security and privacy preservation in machine learning, and develop network and computing technologies to support machine learning and data analytics. | Incorporate AI into the courses in communications and networking. | Ethical issues, Applications of AI | I am interesting in collaboration on applied fields in which AI, data analytics and privacy are concerns. |
| Kyle Hartig, Faculty | kyle.hartig@ufl.edu | Materials Science and Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning | My research is focussed on applications of AI to nuclear security and nonproliferation applications. My research uses AI in many different ways from analysis of X-ray radiographs to identification of signatures in spectroscopy measurements. | Analyzing large data sets for signature discovery. | HiPerGator, Teaching, Applications of AI | |
| Marcio Resende, Faculty | mresende@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Agriculture | I am interested in AI applied to plant breeding (genomic and phenomic data). | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes | |
| Chuck Hages, Faculty | c.hages@ufl.edu | Chemical Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning | Machine Learning for accelerated analysis of semiconductor optoelectronic characterization data | No plans | N/A | |
| Gidon Jakar, Faculty | gjakar@ufl.edu | Sport Management | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition | I will be using Machine Learning to analyze social media content related to sport events and use Machine Learning spatial analyses. | I hope to introduce students in Sport Manegement to the ways AI is used in the business of sport and use some examples of AI based operations to exhibit the process of developing AI based decision-making tools | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in having conversations with people who have had experience working with AI and the HiperGator |
| Kariola Mustapha, Graduate Student | mustaphakariola@gmail.com | Classics | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Language | Well, I am currently an Graduate MA student hoping to have to hands on training with Digital Humanities tools (which are partly AI). I however worked at the Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Lagos; my work there showed me the possibilities of technologies in the Humanities. This is why want to explore this field. | Coding, Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in learning about AI in general, especially where to begin my journey of becoming an AI expert. | |
| Benedict Andal, Undergraduate Student | andalb@ufl.edu | Department of Chemistry | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | N/A | N/A | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Reem S. Abu-Rustum, Faculty | raburustum@ufl.edu | College of Medicine | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Medicine | AI in obstetric sonography | Simulation to teach ultrasound | HiPerGator, Teaching, Applications of AI | |
| Katherine Todd-Brown, Faculty | ktoddbrown@ufl.edu | Environmental Engineering Sciences | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Climate | I create simulations of how dirt breaths and get data to talk to each other to support these simulations. I'm a computational biogeochemist who works with mathematical and numerical models. These models are supported by data from multiple sources, and I also develop community-supported semantic resources for data harmonization. | I teach data cleaning (including regular expressions), event definition, and numerical integration. | Teaching | I would love to connect with other faculty about how they are introducing AI to non-CS majors. I'm also interested in learning more about knowledge graph supported AI. |
| Spyros A Svoronos, Faculty | svoronos@ufl.edu | Chemical Engineering | I teach an AI course | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition | I teach a graduate/undergraduate Chem E class on the Fundamentals of Neural Nets (ECH 6937, class # 22869). Nielsen is my main text (includes Python programming from scratch), but I also teach how to use the Keras API with pertinent assignments. I include Chemical Engineering examples. | HiPerGator | ||
| Yu-Peng Chen, Graduate Student | yupengchen@ufl.edu | Computer & Information Science & Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | We are utilizing Google Transition API that builds on ML-based models to send context-aware notifications in our mHealth app. We wanted to investigate the effect of context-based notifications on users' engagement with the mHealth app. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Cara Donohue, Post Doc | c.donohue@phhp.ufl.edu | Speech, language, hearing sciences | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Movement | Use noninvasive technology, signal processing, and machine learning techniques to screen, diagnose, and provide biofeedback during treatment of dysphagia (swallowing impairments). | I have not used AI in my teaching before. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |
| Sylvia Chan-Olmsted, Faculty | Chanolmsted@jou.ufl.edu | Department of Media Production, Management, and Technology | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Consumer Applications and Communications | AI applications and decision making related to technology adoption and communications | in case studies | Hands on experiences | |
| Jennifer Rea, Faculty | jrea@ufl.edu | Classics | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Arts, Language | I teach a course called AI in Antiquity and Today | Applications of AI | I am interested in learning more about other faculty members research and teaching interests in AI. | |
| David Jewell, Research Staff | DavidAlanJewell@gmail.com | Diabetes Institute | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Medicine, QM | QM, Quantum Information | spread the good aspects of AI | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals, Physics and algorithms | |
| Kyle Allen, Faculty | kyle.allen@bme.ufl.edu | Biomedical Engineering | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Medicine, Movement, Pathology / automated diagnostics | We are interested in two applications of AI as it relates to orthopedic pain - 1) rapid, unbiased assessment of orthopedic pathology to evaluate changes occurring across multiple tissues, and 2) predicting symptoms in patients based upon multiple diagnostic inputs (pathology and multi-omics) | I’m not sure, but I do teach a graduate level stats question on regression, so there could be some opportunities to incorporate AI. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | I am interested in learning how to apply ai to image processing and evaluating relationships among seemingly non-related variable. |
| Rita Elias, Graduate Student | ritaelias@ufl.edu | M.E. Rinker School of Construction Management | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | I’m developing an ANN to predict the capacities of the cooling and heating systems in Florida single-family houses. This ANN will be integrated into Dynamo-based Generative Design to generate thousands of house design options while improving their energy performance. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | It would be great if we can collaborate between different disciplines in order to have greater research contributions. | |
| Tianze Jiao, Faculty | tianzejiao@ufl.edu | Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes & Policy | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Medicine | As a pharmacoepidemiologist, I applied cutting edge biostatistic and machine learning approach to investigate the optimal treatment pattern. | I am planning to incorporate that into a course that I am going to teach next year. | Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | Applied advanced machine learning approach to support decision making on prescribing. |
| Wei Li, Faculty | wei.li@coe.ufl.edu | Research and Evaluation Methodology | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Joseph E Thornton, MD, DFAPA, Faculty | joethornton@ufl.edu | College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Medicine, Law, Governance of AI development, use and monitoring | I work with the International Chair in Bioethics (a World Medical Association Cooperating Center) to promote skills for ethical use of AI under the framework of the UNESCO Recommendations for Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. ratified Nov 24, 2021 | I bring awareness of the current and potential uses on AI in healthcare to medical students and psychiatry residents in clinical settings. | Ethical issues, Teaching, Applications of AI, expand use of AI as a teaching tools | I am interested in opportunities to teach about the UNESCO Recommendations on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the implications for each of us. |
| Antar Jutla, Faculty | ajutla@ufl.edu | ESSIE | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Infectious diseases, water | How infectious pathogens move in water and air media? | Already use it | Applications of AI | |
| Eva Agapaki, Faculty | agapakie@ufl.edu | Rinker School of Construction Management | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition | Coding, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Xiang 'Jacob' Yan, Faculty | xiangyan@ufl.edu | Civil Engineering | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing | My work focuses on using data science and artificial intelligence (machine learning) to make transportation more equitable, sustainable, and accessible. I currently lead a research titled "Promoting Equitable AI in Transportation." | Fundamentals of AI, AI applications in transportation and urban planning, and AI equity/ethical issues | Ethical issues, Bias, Applications of AI | Yes. How to apply AI to improve equity. |
| Hitomi Greenslet, Faculty | hitomiy@ufl.edu | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | I am not working with AI at this time | Manufacturing | Applications of AI | |||
| Panos Pardalos, Emeritus Distinguished Professor | pardalos@ufl.edu | ISE | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Agriculture, Medicine, Finance & Economics | I use AI in all ares of science and engineering-mostly medicine, agriculture and finnance | advanced short courses all over the world | Applications of AI | applications and start up companies |
| Paul Gader, Faculty | pgader@ufl.edu | CISE and ESSIE | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture, Medicine, Sensing | I investigate and teach theory and applications of AI. Specifically, AI for processing sensor data, image and signal analysis, and computer vision. I have been working in the field since 1984. My PhD is in Math but I've worked in Industry and in Electrical & Computer Eng, Computer Info Sci & Eng, Environmental Eng departments. I've worked extensively with deep learning and Bayesian analysis of RADAR, Acoustics, Hyper-spectral Image Analysis (aka Imaging Spectroscopy), Thermal Infrared, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Medical Microscopy and X-Ray Image Analysis, and more. | I have taught, and continue to teach on-campuse courses such as AI, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Learning and Image Processing since 1991. I chaired committees that developed curricula for Applied Data Science and AI Systems MS degrees that are now going through the approval process. I taught a UF online course called Fundamentals of AI. My PhD students all study or use AI. | Ethical issues, Bias, Teaching, Applications of AI, AI in Biology | Yes. I would like to talk about inherent problems in AI; I can give a lecture on that. I would also like to talk about applications of AI to Remote Sensing of the Environment and to Medicine. |
| Lawrence Ukeiley, Faculty | ukeiley@ufl.edu | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | I conduct AI research | Applications for turbulent flow prediction | I use applications of neural nets for the prediction of turbulent flow dynamics. Many of these applications involve the augmentation of statistical experimental data predict the dynamics. | I might explore introducing some applications in the turbulence class I occasionally teach. | Applications of AI | |
| Douglas Spearot, Faculty | dspearot@ufl.edu | Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Materials Science | I use machine learning to interpret correlations between mechanisms related to strength and local atomic environment in important engineering materials. Databases are generated using atomistic simulations and then machine learning is used for data analysis. | I teach a course on atomistic simulations and will discuss briefly the use of machine learning for model development. | Coding, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in learning more about the practical tasks associated with development a machine learning model (hidden layers, number of nodes, etc.). |
| Catalin Voiniciuc, Faculty | cvoiniciuc@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Robotics, Agriculture | Plant Synthetic Biology; Bioengineering of cells and carbohydrate polymers | To speed up or optimize the design of genetic circuits and bioproducts | Coding, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Potential research collaborations |
| mark bandyk, Faculty | mark.bandyk@jax.ufl.edu | Department of Urology, University of Florida COM, Jacksonville | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Medicine | Magnetic resonance imaging of genitourinary malignancies (bladder cancer) | Incorprorate | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in developing collaborations, new ideas and applications and clinical trials |
| William Troy Donahoo, Faculty | troy.donahoo@medicine.ufl.edu | Department of Medicine | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Medicine | From 2005-2016, while at Kaiser Permanente Colorado, my major research focus was leveraging data from the electronic medical record to answer epidemiological and pragmatic outcomes questions. During that time, I was involved with the development of computable phenotypes for diabetes and an early NLP tool to determine the provision of lifestyle counseling through the EHR. Over the last five years at UF, I am collaborating on PCORNet, AHRQ, NIH and CDC funded studies using real-world data, ML algorithms and NLP (where appropriate) to evaluate epidemiology, management and adverse event prediction in patients with thyroid disease, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. | Bias, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | ||
| Marcelle Nascimento, Faculty | mnascimento@dental.ufl.edu | Restorative Dental Sciences, Dental Clinical Research Unit | I am not working with AI at this time | Robotics, Medicine | To identify dental caries lesions. | Coding, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Interested on learning the applications of AI in dentistry. | |
| Dan Guralnik, Faculty | danguralnik@ufl.edu | Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, NCR lab and AFOSR Center for Excellence in Assured Autonomy in Contested Environments) | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Robotics, Artificial General Intelligence | Much recent work studying learning in animals points to universality properties of the machinery underlying their learning. My research in AI is focused on constructing mathematical foundations of internal representation and on possible ways of relating those to performance guarantees in broad classes of environment-agent pairs. | Coding, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | There is much work constructing neural architectures that naturally capture invariants of- and account for the equivariance of specific symmetries under certain specific actions. How can neural architectures be imbued with the ability to discover previously unknown invariance/equivariance properties in *arbitrary* action-sensation data? What would be their fundamental limits? | |
| SON LE, Faculty | son.le@neurosurgery.ufl.edu | Neurosurgery | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Medicine | I am interested in Artificial General Intelligence , Causative Modeling applied in Medicine. | I will use AI to improve medical outcome | Coding, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about Artificial General Intelligence, and causative modeling |
| Parisa Rashidi, Faculty | parisa.rashidi@ufl.edu | BME, Intelligent Critical Care Center | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine, Language, Movement | Using AI in acute care settings, especially critical care and perioperative settings | Teaching AII/ML courses with applications in healthcare | Ethical issues | |
| Juan E. Gilbert, Faculty | juan@ufl.edu | CISE | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Bias in AI | My work in AI is in the application of AI/ML algorithms in contexts that benefit humans directly, e.g. human-centered AI. I focus on bias in AI, equitable AI, and the application of AI in technologies that impact people and society directly. | I am not teaching at this time. | HiPerGator | Maybe later, but not at this time. |
| Cory Lowe, Research scientist at the Loss Prevention Research Council | cory@lpresearch.org | Loss Prevention Research Council | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Law, Language, Movement, Retail, loss prevention, crime prevention, situational awareness, crisis response | Our member-based organization has approximately 60 corporate retail member organizations (e.g., Amazon, Target, Home Depot, etc) and 85 corporate solution and technology companies (e.g., Nvidia, Lenovo, Axis Communications, ADT Commercial, etc). In 2021, we decided to focus on collecting video and image data in collaboration with our member organizations, as well as providing crime and loss prevention SME for relevant AI projects. We want to accelerate human actions research by collecting data and collaborating with others who can use the data. Our primary project is the HARE (Human Actions in Retail Environments) Database. Currently, we are collecting data from retailers and within our mock store located at the Innovation Hub. We also collaborate with researchers at UF - for example, last year we collected (and partially annotated) video submitted by students coughing and sneezing - the intention was to release the data so that it could be used to develop models that can detect coughing and sneezing using modern IP-based surveillance systems. | I do not teach | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI, (1) opportunities for collaboration; (2) ethically collecting video/image data that will be most useful for the UF AI community - e.g., what are the needs and interests of others | (1) I would be interested in teaching about opportunities for AI in retail, especially loss prevention. (2) I would like to discuss the image and video needs among researchers at UF, as well as the best way for the LPRC to collaborate with both public research and private developers |
| Sandra Guzman, Faculty | sandra.guzmangut@ufl.edu | IFAS- ABE- IRREC | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Agriculture | forecasting of water resources related time series, IoT | Coding, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | research collaboration | |
| Andrea Galinski, Faculty | andrea.galinski@ufl.edu | Landscape Architecture | I teach an AI module | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, climate and disaster management | Not currently conducting any AI research, however, interested to learn how it can be applied to climate change research, disaster management, housing affordability/stability. | AI module in my Site Analysis course for Landscape Architecture | Ethical issues, Teaching, Applications of AI | Yes, I would be interested to talk about 1) how to improve the AI module I teach, and 2) ideas to incorporate AI research methods into the topic domains of interest (noted above) |
| Sid Dobrin, Faculty | sdobrin@ufl.edu | English | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Fuzzy Logic, Language | I am working on a book about AI and the Humanities | As an object of stduy | Applications of AI | |
| Emre Tepe, Faculty | emretepe@ufl.edu | Department of Urban and Regional Planning | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning | Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Large-Scale Urban Systems Using AI | I plan to add a module to my existing course in upcoming semesters | Coding, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in collaborating on AI research exploring spatial and temporal dynamics. |
| Roberta Pileggi, Faculty, administration | rpileggi@dental.ufl.edu | Endodontics, College of Dentistry | I am just getting started with AI | dentistry, pharmacy, medicine, | The lack of interprofessional communication among health care providers is a chronic situation encountered especially within emergency rooms where health care disparities are noticed. Currently we lack a comprehensive, coordinated approach for management and training of our students, understanding the need to communicate with all health care providers when treating a patient. This course was established to teach students how to address health care needs, cultural sensitivity and empathy among residents from nursing, dentistry and pharmacy with a virtual patient simulation. This virtual computer patient simulation will provide an interprofessional framework that brings together the expertise needed to address patient’s clinical needs comprehensively – from didactic to clinic. |
Using a virtual patient and pre established discoveries | more we discuss among ourselves more we learn | |
| Janise McNair, Faculty | jymcnair@ufl.edu | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Cyber Security | Securing cyber physical systems using a combination of physical sensing, network traffic analysis and machine learning-based detection and identification. | Demonstrations of cyber physical challenges and their possible solutions. | Collaboration opportunities | |
| Anderson Fitch, Graduate Student | andersonfitch@ufl.edu | Psychology | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | I am interested in using machine learning to estimate cognitive parameters from behavioral data. | I am uncertain how I will use AI in my teaching at this time. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias | |
| Nicolas Gauthier, Faculty | nicolas.gauthier@floridamuseum.ufl.edu | Natural History | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Agriculture, Climate, social science, simulation | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in collaborations using deep learning for climate/weather model downscaling. | ||
| Abhay Alaukik, Graduate Student | a.alaukik@ufl.edu | Psychology | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Eric Ragan, Faculty | eragan@ufl.edu | CISE | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Explainable AI; Interactive AI applications; Human-centered AI; Human bias | Research of explainable machine learning and artificial intelligence from the perspective of human understandability and interactive human-machine systems. Conduct empirical user studies to better understand human understanding, trust, and effectiveness in intelligent data applications. Investigate methods for explaining how and why algorithms provide the output that they do. Research of new techniques to provide more human-interpretable machine models and human-meaningful outputs. | cover human-centered AI issues in "Human-Computer Interaction" class; cover overview of AI and ML concepts in "Information visualization" class. | ? | |
| Sean Meyn, Faculty | meyn@ece.ufl.edu | ECE | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | I have conducted research on reinforcement learning since the 1990s. My book on the topic will come out in 2022, published by Cambridge University Press. I also conduct research on all dimensions of detection, estimation and control. My primary application area is power systems. | I teach optimization for machine learning and reinforcement learning in the courses I have introduced at UF. | HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Sarah Moeller, Faculty | smoeller@ufl.edu | Linguistics | I conduct AI research | Natural Language Processing, Language | See my website: https://sarahrmoeller.github.io/ | I research and teach computational linguistics! | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching | I am interested in collaborating on research in any area with natural language data. I am interested in developing or co-teaching a course at the intersection of computers and language |
| Hassan Azad, Faculty | h.azad@ufl.edu | Architecture | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Speech or Vision Recognition | Using AI to reduce the complexity and computational expenses associate with simulations | Coding, Hands on experiences, Teaching, Applications of AI | ||
| Dimitri Bourilkov, Faculty | dimi@ufl.edu | Physics | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine | Experience in application of ML methods. Working in physics and research computing. Special interest in image recognition applications in diverse fields. | Teaching basics and/or advanced methods to audiences at different levels. | Advanced methods. | Cross-disciplinary applications of AI and ML. |
| Jeremy Block, Graduate Student | j.block@ufl.edu | Human Centered Computing - Computer & Information Science & Engineering | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Natural Language Processing, Language | I work on Analytic Provenance techniques that try to summarize and communicate how someone solved a problem. In the past my lab has also evaluated explainable AI techniques that tried to communicate how they identified activities in videos to human users. We were looking at human issues like trust and development of understanding by users. | N/A - I am not teaching at this time. | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences | I am interested in having lunch with other AI practitioners and hear about other ways people are using AI in their field. |
| Janani Sampath, Faculty | jsampath@ufl.edu | Chemical Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | Machine learning models to identify novel polymers with desired properties for a wide variety of applications | Teaching, Applications of AI | I’m interested in incorporating AI in a class about simulation of polymers and proteins | |
| Sumant Patankar, Faculty | spatankar@ufl.edu | CHE | I teach an AI course | Machine Learning | Coding, Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals | Incorporating real world data into "class projects" | ||
| ruijun wan, Staff | wanr543916@ufl.edu | Office of the Controller | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Language, Data mining in analyze financial data in Finance Accounting areas | We want to create great business model to data mining finance accounting financial data , provide value added feedbacks, and streamline financial process across campus | We plan to use for analysis campus financial data, to provide parameters in PCard, travel, procurement, disbursements etc across campus, provide value added information to management for decision making across campus | Coding, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Qudus Onikeku, Faculty | qonikeku@ufl.edu | Center for Arts Migration and Entrepreneurship | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Movement | A cross departmental and international team of artists, scientists, and researchers at the University of Florida is collaborating on a deep tech solution to revolutionize the current systems around cultural appropriation and biased copyright law in dance. Currently, a dance move cannot be under copyright. Major corporations and megastars can steal the intellectual property of a dance move and create multi-billion dollar projects around it with no compensation going back to the original inventors, the majority of whom are people of color living outside the United States. ATUNDA is a social application allowing artists to upload and share their latest moves and timestamp them. Currently, the team is harvesting dance moves and engaging in deep learning solutions, to teach AI to detect and timestamp dance moves. In much the way the app Shazam led to first being able to recognize music that was playing in the environment and then similar software became used for recognizing misuse of copyrighted material, the concept and protocols developed through this research could have a parallel impact on the use of dance. The database and underlying software could be used to recognize unauthorized use and publication of dance moves in social media applications such as Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube. Dancers and choreographers, who up until this innovation have had a difficult time monetizing and protecting their content creations, will now have a technological tool to aid them. We grew up in a world where it was believed that to do things properly was to do them efficiently economically and politically, a lot of countries liberalized their societies mostly because they were convinced about the efficiency argument, then of the deep moral argument. I am particularly interested in the possibility of undoing the increasing inequalities embedded in the development of AI technologies. Where some countries lead, appropriate, and dominate, while other parts of the world have absolutely no stakes nor a real chance in joining the current AI race, it's obvious that they are already out, so what happens to them in 2050? When we think about the potential disruption to the job market and the economy that will be caused by AI and automation, it goes without saying that there will be lots of opportunities in the future, but will it be evenly distributed? One of the potentials of the AI revolution could be a concentration of immense wealth in some professions and in parts of the world, and a complete bankruptcy in some others. If we don’t find ways of creating a global safety net now, to protect all humans against the shocks of AI, and enabling the historically left out to use the opportunities that AI brings, then we will create the most unequal economic situation that ever existed, it will be much worse than what happened in the industrial revolution when western countries used both the human and natural resources from the global south to industrialize and most countries didn’t, and the few industrial powers went on to conquer, dominate and exploit the others, so how do we create enough global partnership, so that the enormous benefits of the AI revolution don’t go only to the West or to Asia, while the rest of the world is left behind.
It's more than 200 years, and we are yet to close the inequality gap that the industrial revolution created, and now the AI revolution seems to be further widening this gap in a much more significant way, because AI is likely to be dominated by a small number of countries with technological affluence, and most countries that have the ability to invest in the future of new technology, seem to be doing so simply because it will give their local corporations or institutions an advantage in the future, to be the ones exporting services around the world. The other issue is the question of values, who is building these technologies and through what cultural, moral and philosophical lens? It is obvious that the kinds of policy or societal models we advance will be the imperatives for the kinds of innovations we will get, due to the simple fact that there are greater incentives for such manner of advancing within our societal model. |
Ethical issues, Bias, Applications of AI | I am interested in speaking to other faculties interested in AI and Ethics, AI and Intellectual Property, as well as Computer Vision/ Human Motion Recognition. | |
| Heidi Boisvert, Faculty | hboisvert@ufl.edu | School of Theatre + Dance | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Arts, Movement, Biometrics | I do empirical media effects research using an open-source biometric & AI lab I built; I also use machine learning to create show control systems for live performance; and I am creating a machine learning database for gesture recognition to individuals affected by epigenetic trauma. | I just designed a new course entitled AI, Data & the Performing Body. We experiment with biophysical sensors, motion capture, VR/AR, and custom show control systems employing ML and network protocols. We are also designing a certificate program in AI & the Arts, so our cohort will be designing a gateway course to introduce students to AI applications across music, dance, theatre, visual arts & interactive media, plus a computational creativity course and others TBD. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching | Yes, I would like to understand current pre-requisites in Computer Science & Engineering for their AI curriculum. |
| Xilei Zhao, Faculty | xilei.zhao@essie.ufl.edu | ESSIE | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Transportation | I use AI methods to model and interpret people's daily travel behavior and evacuation decision-making in emergencies. | I teach two courses related to AI: Machine learning applications in Civil Engineering and Transportation data analytics. | Ethical issues, Bias | I am interested in collaborating with other faculty on AI research proposals. |
| Folly Patterson, Post Doc | f.patterson@ufl.edu | Biomedical Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, materials informatics, biomedical engineering | My graduate work used AI/ML to understand the mechanical behavior of biological tissues. I anticipate using AI/ML in the future for next-generation sequencing and immune cell phenotyping. | N/A | Coding, Bias, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |
| Sukanta Dey, Post Doc | sukanta.dey@ufl.edu | FICS Research Institute, Dept of ECE, College of Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Electronic Design Automation, Hardware Security | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Arunava Banerjee, Faculty | arunava@ufl.edu | Computer and Info Sci and Eng | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | HiPerGator | |||
| Austin Kreulach, Graduate Student | akreulach@ufl.edu | Computer and Information Science and Engineering | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Image analysis/generation | I'm working on an image translation model for creating synthetic data. I'm trying to find new methods for altering rudimentary artificial images to better match a target class to augment a small training set. | Coding, Hands on experiences, Language, Applications of AI | ||
| Jack Stenner, Faculty | stenner@ufl.edu | School of Art and Art History | I teach an AI course | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Arts, Media Theory, Philosophy of Technology | My work engages the ways society forms and is formed by material and ideological conditions, and how technology is intrinsic to this dynamic process. Staples of my art practice: computer vision, NLP, robotics, computer graphics, and visualization, are being transformed by developments in AI and machine learning, therefore introducing exciting new avenues of exploration. | My course ART4612 Digital Media Workshop: Experiments in ARTificial Intelligence introduces students to the field of AI. Students learn about the history and theory of AI in computing from a scientific, mythological, and material viewpoint. Students materially engage AI as a medium for the production of art works using various tools and frameworks available via HiPerGator AI, Google Colab, ML5js, etc. I also teach a course: ART4630 Advanced Video: Experimental Cinema that incorporates/encourages students to extend their interest in AI to experimental practices in motion image production. | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about how faculty from various fields work with AI in their research and teaching. |
| Fatimah Tuggar, Faculty | fatimahtuggar@ufl.edu | School of Art | I teach an AI course | Ethics, Arts | Incorporation of AI into artworks: using technology as a metaphor for power dynamics, asking questions about ethics, access, global south use of ai. Collecting data on impact of race, gender, access and environment. | Teaching history of AI, algorithmic literacy, justice and reciprocal accountability, transparency, mutualism in coding and machine learning. | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Teaching, Fundamentals | I am interest in collaborating on data mining with other faculty working on social and environmental justice and global south accessibility. |
| Eric Stubbs, Research Facilitator | ericeric@ufl.edu | UFIT Research Computing | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Arts, Agriculture, Medicine, Veterinary, Law, Language | I estimate resource needs, write code, implement solutions, and provide insight to AI researchers and developers. Particularly for natural language processing. | Grant opportunities for faculty | ||
| Chelsey Simmons, Faculty | css@ufl.edu | Mechanical and Aero Engineering | I am just getting started with AI | Medicine | Industry collaborations on AI/ML in Orthopedics to predict patient outcomes and process medical images | Coding, Hands on experiences | I am interested in learning more about off-the-shelf software platforms that may be useful to process genomic/proteomic data | |
| Lauren Weisberg, Graduate Student | lweisberg@ufl.edu | College of Education, School of Teaching and Learning | I teach an AI module | Not conducting AI research at this time | I am teaching preservice teachers about options for integrating AI into the curriculum. I have students try out some of the Google AI experiments to get oriented with AI more generally. | Applications of AI | I'm most interested about what we should be teaching preservice teachers about using AI in the PreK-12 curriculum. | |
| Tom Kelleher, Faculty | tkell@ufl.edu | Department of Advertising | I am just getting started with AI | User perceptions of AI in public relations and related fields | As the lines between human-human and human-machine communication blur in the eyes of consumers, advances in technology have exposed gaps within and between our existing theories of relationships, dialogue, and interactivity. As a technological matter, interactions between individuals in publics and agents for organizations can be scaled as never before. How do these episodes of individualized online communication and behavior affect relationships between publics and organizations in the aggregate? As a matter of media psychology and human perception, what is the role of perceived humanness as people—perhaps unknowingly—traverse boundaries between computer-mediated communication (CMC) among real humans and human-machine communication (HMC) with chatbots and other AI agents representing organizations? | Cases to raise ethical questions for media industries such as advertising, journalism, and public relations (media ethics course); as a construct for empirical/theoretical research (grad courses in strategic communication) | Applications of AI | |
| Tina Marshall-Bradley | tina.marshall-bradley@mail.waldenu.edu | Walden University | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Language | I have had experience working with AI informed software to facilitate engagement in learning experiences. I am interested in the development of these tools to advance engagement and communication. | From my work with AI I would like to expand an understanding of how AI can be used to support individuals development of technical skills while they engage with others in critical teaching. | Language, Teaching, Applications of AI | |
| Abubakr Omar, Graduate Student | abubakromar@ufl.edu | Biomedical Engineering , University of Florida | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Medicine | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |||
| Lizi Wu, Faculty | lzwu@ufl.edu | Molecular Genetics & MIcrobiology | I am not working with AI at this time | Medicine | My area of expertise is cancer biology and I am interested in learning how to incorporate AI in our research. | No | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Heba El-Ahmad, Graduate Student | hel-ahmad@dental.ufl.edu | UFCD | I am not working with AI at this time | Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine | Coding, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Tracey Kyles, Graduate Student | traceykyles@ufl.edu | College of Journalism and Communications | I conduct AI research | Language, Human Machine Communication | Ethical issues, HiPerGator, Language | |||
| MinJi Kim, Graduate Student | minji.kim@ufl.edu | Mass Communication | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Arts | From a social science - communication studies perspective, I would like to understand how people respond to messages shared by AI in decision making process, especially health-related decisions such as food choices, drug uses, diet control, and more. | I could engage students with basic AI tools in communication - customer service AI chatbot, personalized advertising in grocery shopping - and let students find the potential of AI uses in media studies, both academically and practically. | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in participating in seminars or workshops related to AI uses in social science research and future research projects that involve media platforms/communication theories. |
| Hao Ye, Faculty | haoye@ufl.edu | Health Science Center Libraries | I teach an AI module | Ethics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Causal Inference / Intervention | I am the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. I focus on developing and promoting tools and practices to empower researchers across all disciplines, backgrounds, and career stages in open practices and research reproducibility, including AI. | Ethical issues, Bias, HiPerGator, Teaching | I am interested in how students and research initiatives in AI will be supported. | |
| Renee, Graduate Student | reneemitson@ufl.edu | public relations | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Arts, Language, Movement | Bias, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals | |||
| Megan Mocko, Faculty | megan.mocko@warrington.ufl.edu | ISOM | I teach an AI module | Ethics | At the end of the course, I have the students work with Neural Networks in JMP, a statistical software. I also introduce them to some of the ethical issues surrounding the use of AI. I plan to incorporate some of the examples provided by Google such as AI+Writing and Quick Draw, so that students can see some uses of AI in action. | Ethical issues, Teaching | I am interested in talking about teaching a class period or two around AI. | |
| Aleem, Post Doc | issabekov.g@ufl.edu | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator | |||
| Barbara Sanchez, Graduate Student | barbarasanchez@ufl.edu | Sociology & Criminology | I am not working with AI at this time | Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Language, Culture | I do not conduct AI research at this time, but am interested to learn about it and how to incorporate my research skills and experience to this area. My thesis was on cyberstalking, specifically understanding the ideas and language used by young adults users to interpret and conceptualize its meaning (such as definition, behaviors, etc.). | I do not plan to teach AI | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested to know if and how the social sciences, especially sociologists, can apply their knowledge and skill set to research in AI |
| Xinlei Wu, Graduate Student | X.wu@ufl.edu | College of Journalism and Communication | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Medicine, Veterinary, Language | I have a master's degree in computer science and worked as software engineer and product manager in software companies such as IBM and Unisys for almost ten years. I have been trying to keep up with the latest technology. | I would say I will be focusing on using AI in my research more. Teaching AI is definitely a strong possibility. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in learning all aspects of AI. |
| David Kaplan, Faculty | dkaplan@ufl.edu | Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Agriculture, Environment, Earth Systems, Hydrology | Using AI/ML techniques for large Earth Systems Model calibration and validation; using AI/ML approaches to investigate and explain environmental processes. | Not at this time | HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Already discussing these topics |
| Benjamin Johnson, Faculty | benjaminkjohnson@ufl.edu | Advertising | I am just getting started with AI | Targeting Media Audiences; Advertising; Influencers; Entertainment | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Jennifer Applebaum, Graduate Student | jennyapplebaum@ufl.edu | Sociology and Criminology & Law | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Medicine, Veterinary, Social science | I have collaborated with data scientists who use AI methods but am not experienced in the methodology myself. I'm interested in both learning how to conduct some of the methodologies as well as collaborate with those using them already. My research is related to (broadly) social inequalities, health, and pet ownership. | N/A at this time | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Yujie Hu, Faculty | yujiehu@ufl.edu | Geography | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning | learning and mining human mobility patterns from big movement data using machine learning | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Jennifer A. Nichols, Faculty | jnichols@bme.ufl.edu | J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Movement, Transfer Learning; Explainability | I use AI to enhance my research in human movement and orthopedic biomechanics. Ongoing projects include (i) work using transfer learning to bridge the gap between computer simulations of movement and movement in the real-world, (ii) work using explainability methods to enhance our understanding of the human musculoskeletal system, and (iii) work using machine learning methods to identify movement phenotypes that could guide clinical treatments. | I am currently incorporating literature applying AI to biomechanics into my graduate elective. | HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Feihong Wang, Faculty | feihongw@ufl.edu | Psychology | I am not working with AI at this time | I am interested in colloaborating with AI experts in analysis my research data regarding COVID-19 impact on online students. | I have not done AI research but would like to incorporate AI elements in my developmental and pedagogical research. | create potential AI modules and use AI for data analysis. | Coding, Teaching, Applications of AI, data analysis | Yes. I am interested in talking about or brain storming about how AI can be utilized in my teaching and research. |
| Rich Pellegrin, Faculty | pellegrinr@ufl.edu | School of Music | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Arts, Language | https://theconversation.com/why-improvisation-is-the-future-in-an-ai-dominated-world-166724 Wrote this piece. Will be featured on NPR. | N/A | Ethical issues, Bias, Language, Applications of AI | I'm interested in hearing about conversations and projects across campus that of which I may be a part. |
| Sara Bremer, Staff | sbremer@ufl.edu | Administration | I am just getting started with AI | Arts, Agriculture, Medicine, Veterinary, Law | HiPerGator, Teaching, Applications of AI | |||
| Joseph Wilfrido Rivera, Faculty | jrivera29@ufl.edu | Sociology, Criminology & Law | I teach an AI module | Ethics, Law | I have considered research regarding the use of AI to help detect money laundering, human trafficking, and other forms of financial and organized crime. | I previously taught a course on computer and digital forensics, and I currently teach a module on computer crime in my criminal law course. | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | Yes, I would love to have a discussion on the use of AI in studying crime, and the legal/ethical considerations involved. |
| Rose Briccetti, Faculty | rbriccetti@ufl.edu | Art + Art History | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts | My artwork collects images and ideas into eccentric taxonomies or visual wunderkammer, combining art history with pop culture, puns, personal associations, art history, academic research, and hard science. This visual hyperlinking builds a cybernetic or ecological web, operating like Wikipedia links, allowing the traversal of vast conceptual distances with a few clicks. The dense and layered resulting work flattens and remixes time, space, and intellectual disciplines, creating strange relationships, and interrogates the authority of information in a post-truth world. | Interrogating tropes of visual culture, surveillance/facial recognition, | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes, I would like to explore this technology as a tool for understanding how information--particularly visually--is presented and manipulated. |
| Albert D. Ritzhaupt, Faculty | aritzhaupt@coe.ufl.edu | School of Teaching and Learning, and Institute of Advanced Learning Technologies | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Robotics, Education | I using machine learning and learning analytics techniques to assess and evaluate different learning technologies, courses, or systems that I have developed. | I have taught a course called Learning Analytics Concepts and Techniques, which covers different machine learning/data mining techniques for learning situations. | Coding, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about the applications of AI to education. |
| Aleksandr Kazachkov, Faculty | akazachkov@ufl.edu | Industrial and Systems Engineering | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, fair mechanism design, computational economics, computational social choice | I work on discrete optimization methods and on systems for fairly allocating indivisible resources, such as food donations, organ transplants, and fact checkers. My research addresses mechanism design questions, including provable guarantees on properties (of fairness, efficiency, and incentives) when comparing alternative distribution policies. Furthermore, I study computational and methodological improvements for these settings, particularly through advanced integer programming techniques. | I teach an advanced data analytics course, which includes predictive and prescriptive AI techniques, as well as a multitude of applications focusing on those that benefit the greater good. | Ethical issues, Bias, Fundamentals | I am interested in discussing how to analyze theoretically-provable properties of AI mechanisms that benefit social good, such as (but not limited to) fairness and efficiency, and more generally making connections across operations research, computer science, and economics. |
| Wanli Xing, Faculty | wanli.xing@coe.ufl.edu | School of Teaching and Learning, Institute of Advanced Learning Technologies | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, AI Education for K-12 Students | Create AI powered teaching and learning environments to support STEM and Online Education; Examine approaches to improve fairness and explainability for AI applications in Education; Design and develop cyberinfrastructure for non-technical users to engage in AI research and development. | Teach a Course for AI in Education in Fall, 2022; Currently teach a course of Learning Analytics Concepts and Techniques (Data Science in Education) | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Teaching, Applications of AI | I am interested in AI applications in Education, FAccT issues in AI, Teaching AI in general. |
| Kevin Otto, Faculty | kevin.otto@bme.ufl.edu | Biomedical Engineering | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Medicine | Quantitative physiology modeling | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Hadeel Alhaddadeh, Graduate Student | halhaddadeh@ufl.edu | CJC | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Political Communication/Policy/Digital Diplomacy | Bias, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes | ||
| Seyedahmad Rahimi, Faculty | srahimi@ufl.edu | College of Education, School of Teaching and Learning, Ed. Tech. program, IALT | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Prediction/detection/clasification models in educational/learning environments | I am designing and evaluating game-based assessment and learning environments to assess and foster students' 21st century skills and STEM-related knowledge. We use techniques such as stealth assessment, Educational Data Mining, and Machine Learning to create student models. We also create models for students' affect detection. | I am teaching a course about Stealth Assessment and another course about Issues and Trends in Ed Tech where I have one module about AI in education | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about image processing. |
| Katia Matcheva, Faculty | matcheva@ufl.edu | Physics | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Astrophysics and Physics | I use Machine Learning methods to analyze large astrophysics data sets in support of current and future NASA missions. Currently my group uses ML techniques to detect different chemical species in the atmospheres of Extrasolar system planets. ML is applied to a large range of tasks: from data analysis and dimensionality reduction to creating complex models of radiative transfer to characterize the exoplanets' environmental conditions and the probability of life. | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI, Opportunity for collaborations. | I am interested to know how colleagues use AI in their research, what implementation problems they face and how they go around them. | |
| Pasha Antonenko, Faculty | p.antonenko@coe.ufl.edu | School of Teaching and Learning | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Speech or Vision Recognition | We employ machine learning and deep learning with eye movement data to build gaze-contingent displays for education. | Use examples and datasets from our lab's research | Coding, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Will Martin, Faculty | wmartin@dental.ufl.edu | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Center for Implant Dentistry | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Dentistry, Dental Implants Planning, 3-D imaging, Surface Scanning, 3-D Printing, | No research yet, would love to explore opportunities | Incorporating more efficient workflows in the planning and treatment of patients with dental implants | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Purushottam Dixit, Faculty | pdixit@ufl.edu | Physics | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Medicine, Computational biology | AI-based methods to study cell population variability. Our research was covered in this article: https://news.clas.ufl.edu/biophysicist-develops-ai-methods-to-understand-how-cells-talk/ | Applications of AI | I am looking for experimental collaborators who will be interested in using our methods | |
| Martina Speranza, Graduate Student | martinasperanza@ufl.edu | Sociology | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Language, GENDER | I’m interested in getting involved with researcher in AI to learn more about it and it’s relationship with gender/ gender biases. I’m Interested in AI in the global south as well. | I would like to incorporate it in the undergrad courses of principles of sociology that teach and other advanced courses in the future. | Ethical issues, Bias, Language, Teaching, Applications of AI | I’m interested in teaching AI and incorporating it into my own research. |
| Shaun Boren, Staff, adjunct faculty | shaun.boren@ufl.edu | Student Life Assessment & research | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Predictive analytics | We're using AI to build models predicting UF student dropout. | Will incorporate this semester into my assessment course for student affairs professionals. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Any of the topics above would be interesting to connect about. |
| Xu Wang, Faculty | xuwang1@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | I use computer vision and deep learning tools to do plant trait identification, localization, and segmentation. I use machine learning tools to do crop yield and biomass prediction. | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes. I am interested in collaboration in computer vision and multiple instance learning applications. | |
| Gregory Kiker, Faculty | gkiker@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I teach an AI module | Ethics, Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Agriculture | Integration of AI with simulation and risk/decision analysis | Creating modules for applied AI in engineering and natural resources | Coding, Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about the creation of online AI modules that can be used in many different types of classes to introduce multi-disciplinary applications of AI. |
| Dana Choi, Faculty | dana.choi@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Robotics, Agriculture | I make AI-based decision making system for automation and robotics for agricultural production. | I teach a model for sensor network in Smart Ag course in ABE department. I am trying to integrate AI concept in my lectures and lab. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in coupling with other CISE faculty and AI experts in fundamental data science area. My work is mostly applicational. |
| Thomas F Burks, Faculty | tburks@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I incorporate AI in my course content | Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Agriculture | I work primarily in machine vision related topics in robotics and inspection applications where I use ML and AI techniques to solve machine vision problems. | I am teaching a class that use fuzzy logic and neural networks in conjunction with modern control for classical or soft-control applications. The class teaches student modern control as well as soft control approaches. | HiPerGator, Deep Learning and current AI approaches | I learned AI in late 1980's and 1990's and would like to learn more about modern approaches as AI is a tool for me in automation and robotics rather than my primary emphasis area. |
| Monica, Post Doc | m.torrezlamberti@ufl.edu | Microbiology and Cell Science | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Applications of AI | |||
| Young Gu Her, Faculty | yher@ufl.edu | ABE/TREC | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Agriculture | I am trying to use AI and ML to predict watershed responses to weather events. | N/A | HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in discussing about ML techniques applicable for time-series forecasting, spatial analysis, and graph theory. |
| Shadi Heidarifar, Graduate Student | sheidarifar@ufl.edu | Philosophy | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning | The affect of biases in algorithm of medical AI on Trans patient diagnosed with covid | I was TAing for a course on ethics of AI and ethics of technology and I'm planning on using the materials for my own class that I will teach in the upcoming summer. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes, I'm primarily interested in the ethical issues. |
| Juan Francisco Morales, Post Doc | juan.morales@cop.ufl.edu | Pharmaceutics | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator | |||
| Maya Israel, Faculty | misrael@coe.ufl.edu | Educational Technology, IALT | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Language, Teaching AI at K-12 | I am an associate professor of educational technology and computer science education in the College of Education. I have one grant which I co-PI focused on informal AI/CS education for middle schoolers. I also am involved in preservice teacher preparation of computer science teachers. In these courses, we have content related to teaching AI to K-12 learners. | I will have a module on AI in one of my CS education pedagogy courses. | Ethical issues, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Arnold Schumann, Faculty | SCHUMAW@UFL.EDU | CREC | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | I develop AI-assisted smart technologies for agriculture: smartphone diagnostic apps, machine vision models for smart sprayers, mechanical harvesters and robotics. | For now I have developed "special problems" courses for graduate students, using Jupyter Notebooks and Tensorflow as the main platform. | Applications of AI | |
| Barbara Muller, Post Doc | mullerbsf@ufl.edu | HOS/IFAS | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Robotics, Agriculture | Deep learning applications for genomic prediction | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in discussing deep learning applications in agriculture | |
| Aladdin Alwisy, Faculty | aalwisy@ufl.edu | Rinker School of Construction Management | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Robotics | Generative Design; Predictive Analytics; Decision Support System; Automation; Manufacturing; Human-Robot Collaboration. | Coding, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | Predictive analytics for human-robot collaboration | |
| Gene Witmer, Faculty | gwitmer@ufl.edu | Philosophy | I have no plans to work with AI | Ethics | Fundamentals | |||
| Marina Ascunce, Scientist | ascunce@ufl.edu | Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Robotics, Agriculture | I would like to use AI for microbiome studies and robotics using insects | I would like to add a module about AI applications in sciences particularly related to microbiome and robotics using insects as model organisms | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes, anybody interested in the use of AI for microbiome studies and robotics using insects. |
| Schuyler Sturm, Graduate Student | tsturm@ufl.edu | Philosophy | I incorporate AI in my course content | Ethics, Machine Learning | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Applications of AI | |||
| Michael Dukes, Faculty | mddukes@ufl.edu | Center for Land Use Efficiency | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Agriculture, Large urban water quantity/quality datasets | Interested in teaming up with AI experts to utilize new tools for urban/agricultural data sets. | Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in finding experts to team up for urban/agricultural data set analysis. | |
| Fabiana Santos, Graduate Student | fabianadossantos@ufl.edu | UF College of Nursing | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Medicine | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | |||
| Hernan Alvarez, Graduate Student | halvarez1@ufl.edu | SNRE | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Language | Coding, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Yao Li, Faculty | yaoli1@ufl.edu | Sociology, Criminology & Law | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | |||
| Borui Zhang, Faculty | boruizhang@ufl.edu | Department of Academic research and consulting | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Language | I'm natural language processing specialist librarian at ARCS department | Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | I am interested in discussing teaching AI to audiences with different backgrounds | |
| Rafael Munoz-Carpena, Faculty | carpena@ufl.edu | IFAS-ABE | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Agriculture | Developing AI frameworks for dimension reduction of complex systems in environmental, agricultural and coupled natural systems. Predicting nonlinear system dynamics with novel AI methods. Examples of applications are algal blooms, human migration, surface water pollution, hind casting distant past hydrological dynamics, food chain safety/security including pathogens in food. | We teach courses in our UF/ABE Graduate Certificate in Biological Systems Modeling and plan to include a module on ML/AI. | Coding, Hands on experiences, Teaching | |
| Garrett Beatty, Faculty | gbeatty@ufl.edu | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | I teach an AI module | Speech or Vision Recognition, Movement | Help students develop literacy in working with and consuming AI insights on data sets relevant to their career. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Applications of AI | ||
| Julianna Costanzo, Graduate Student | jsc1998@ufl.edu | Philosophy | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Fuzzy Logic, Medicine, Law | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias | AI in medicine/healthcare, AI and ethics, AI and law | ||
| Erik Sander, Faculty | esander@ufl.edu | UF Engineering Innovation Institute | I am just getting started with AI | Professional Development, K-12 Programs, Outreach | I lead programs focused on AI dissemination and outreach | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| David Ostroff, Faculty | dostroff@ufl.edu | Media Production, Management, and Technology | I am just getting started with AI | Uses | Role and place in broader society | Don’t know yet | Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Nicolai Goettel, Faculty | ngoettel@anest.ufl.edu | Anesthesiology | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Medicine | Development and validation of an AI-based tool to predict postoperative delirium | No | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |
| Luis Mejia-Puig, Faculty | luismejiapuig@ufl.edu | Interior Design | I am just getting started with AI | Arts, Generative design | I currently do not work with AI, but I am into Virtual and Augmented Reality research through psychophysiological devices that generate huge amounts of data points. I am also interested in generative design using AI. | Data analysis and design generation. | Coding, Fundamentals | |
| Selwyn Piramuthu, Faculty | selwyn@ufl.edu | ISOM | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Agriculture | My interest spans the use of machine learning for cybersecurity, food industry, IoT, RFID, supply chain management. I am also interested in algorithms and data pre-processing for machine learning | Applications of AI | ||
| Jason Orr Brant, Faculty | jobrant@ufl.edu | Biostatistics | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | I am interested in developing new technologies to determine nucleotide modifications from kinetic information generated by the Pacific Biosciences Sequencing platform. This approach will utilize convolution neural networks to predict base modifications. I am also interested in using some form of machine learning that uses DNA methylation, chromatin accessibility, and expression data to learn to predict changes in accessibility based on only DNA methylation data. | Coding, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Elizabeth K Chu, Faculty | lizziechu88@gmail.com | Rheumatology | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Medicine | Coding, Hands on experiences, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Interested in finding out what AI implications will be for rheumatology | ||
| Anne Donnelly, Director | adonn@ufl.edu | Center for Undergraduate Research | I am not working with AI at this time | All | I would like to work with faculty to incorporate AI into undergraduate research course/opportunities | Work with faculty to integrate AI into UR | Hands on experiences | I would like to work with faculty to incorporate AI into undergraduate research course/opportunities |
| Les Thiele, Faculty | thiele@ufl.edu | Political Science | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Cultural and political implications | I study the human deskilling that occurs when AI, often via the IoT, reduces or eliminates the need for the exercise of certain cognitive or social aptitudes. | Mostly as a topic of research and discussion, but I would like to explore employing it as a tool. | Ethical issues, Teaching | I am interested in ways AI can be used/experienced in the classroom as a pedagogical tool. I'm also interested in conversations about AI's cultural, political and ethical impacts. |
| Lisa Athearn, Faculty | joniakathearn@ufl.edu | Dial Center for Written & Oral Communication (CLAS) | I incorporate AI in my course content | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Communication & Empathy in AI systems, DEI issues with AI | I'm interested in exploring how AI technology can be used to promote empathetic communication experiences in both social media platforms and the service industry. | In my Quest 2 course (Empathy & Instagram) we examine how online communication (including the use of AI interactions) can be used to help foster more empathetic engagement between humans. | Ethical issues, Bias, Language, Applications of AI, Communication | I'm interested in talking about how AI developers are thinking about and planning AI technology to help guide human interactions online to be more empathetic and less polarizing. |
| Thomas George, Faculty | thom.george@medicine.ufl.edu | UF Health Cancer Center | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Medicine, Cancer | I am a medical oncologist and clinical trialist focusing on drug development, immunotherapy and precision oncology. My interest in AI relates to identification of novel prognostic and predictive biomarkers for treatment response with goals to tailor treatment selection and improve patient outcomes (less toxicity, more anti-cancer benefit). I am particularly interested in infrastructure and systems-based research whereby disparate medical or research datasets (e.g., imaging, pathology, genetics, genomics, pharmacy, clinical notes) can be collated, cross-referenced and analyzed with AI technologies and algorithms. | Ethical issues, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Chiung-ju(CJ) Liu, Faculty | c.liu1@phhp.ufl.edu | Department of Occupational Therapy | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Movement | I am interested in learning more about the potential to apply AI to support older adults' independence to live at home and help the rehabilitation therapists to determine the allocation of skilled services to each patient based on medical information and self-reported data. | A short introduction about the application of AI or AI technology to support people with cognitive impairment, for example, Smarthome technology. | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Research ideas about the application of AI to support older adults' independent living or to support rehabilitation therapists' clinical work. |
| Konstantin Matchev, Faculty | matchev@ufl.edu | Physics | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, fundamental AI, statistics, AI applications in the natural sciences | I develop new ML techniques for data analysis (hypothesis testing, inference, parameter measurement) of large data sets appearing in the natural sciences (physics, astrophysics, astronomy). | I have been teaching a course on "Machine Learning" in the Physics department (fourth semester in a row now). | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Not sure. |
| Wei-en Wang, Post Doc | weienwang@ufl.edu | Dept of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, 1Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Movement | Use machine learning approach on brain imaging data and clinical data to improve diagnosis accuracy in Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's Disease domain. | Not at the point | Coding, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | Not at this point |
| Nancy Padilla-Coreano, Faculty | npadillacoreano@ufl.edu | Neuroscience | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning | I use AI to study how the brain controls social behaviors. | HiPerGator, Applications of AI | ||
| Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas, Faculty | jmicielivoutsina@ufl.edu | School of Art & Art History | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Arts, Tourism | I am currently conducting an innovative study to evaluate the conscious, semi-conscious, and pre-cognitive experiences of heritage design using biosensory methods. This research is done in collaboration with the USHMM and PEM. | I haven’t incorporated AI into my teaching just yet. I talk about it, but we haven’t put it in action. | Applications of AI, Network with colleagues | Yes. I would like to talk about how others are using AI in their research or teaching |
| Sabine Grunwald, Faculty | sabgru@ufl.edu | Soil and Water Sciences | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Environmental Science, GeoScience, Pedometrics, Landscape Analysis, Carbon Modeling | My AI-focused research program: www.SGrunwald.org | I teach AI modeling in my course SWS 6722 Soil-Landscape Modeling; and one module on machine learning in my course SWS 5721C GIS in Land Resource Management | Ethical issues, HiPerGator | Collaboration on AI proposals and inter- and trans-disciplinary research projects |
| Julio Duarte, Faculty | juliod@cop.ufl.edu | Center for Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Medicine, Neural Nets | We are beginning to use AI to identify patients most likely to benefit from pharmacogenetic testing using data from patient electronic health records. We hope to use AI in the future to assist in identifying novel druggable targets using omics data. | Coding, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | I am interested in discussing AI methods best suited to our research goals. | |
| Charlie Messina, Faculty | cmessina@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences | I conduct AI research | Expert Systems, Agriculture | My interest is in the integration of symbolic and sub-symbolic AI to enable Plant Breeders with tools to hasten genetic gain. Specifically I work with dynamical systems models to encapsulate knowledge and Bayesian approaches for learning. | I plant to include a module about symbolic and sub-symbolic AI on a course on Modeling and Simulation in Agriculture and Biology | Coding, HiPerGator, Fundamentals | I am interested in talking about research opportunities to advance algorithms that leverage scientific knowledge and data. |
| Gustavo Seabra, Faculty | seabra@cop.ufl.edu | Department of Medicinal Chemistry | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Medicine, Drug development | We use AI to help developing new small molecule drugs. Our platform uses AI-based methods to both generate new molecules and to estimate binding affinities to biological targets. | I plan to include a hands-on session where students can develop new drugs using the pre-trained molecule generator. | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I'm open to conversations about any AI-related topic. But more specifically, the use of AI to calculate molecular properties. |
| Nipa R. Shah, MD, Faculty | nipa.shah@jax.ufl.edu | Community Health and Family Medicine, Jacksonville, Univ. of Florida | I incorporate AI in my course content | Medicine | I teach medical students an 'Intro to AI and Medicine' course | Teaching, Applications of AI | Yes, I'd like to co-teach a class to graduate medical students or health professions students | |
| Diego Jarquin, Faculty | jhernandezjarqui@ufl.edu | Agronomy | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Agriculture | Integration and Application of AI and Omics integration in Plant Breeding | Teach how to use AI methods for improving plant performance prediction using multiple omics of information | Coding, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Vanessa Miller, Post Doc | vdmiller@law.ufl.edu | Race and Crime Center for Justice | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Law | Ethical issues, Bias | |||
| Adrian Roitberg, Faculty | roitberg@ufl.edu | Chemistry | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Teaching, Fundamentals | |||
| Michael Robinson, Faculty | michael.robinson@medicine.ufl.edu | College of Medicine | I am not working with AI at this time | Medicine | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |||
| Oscar Castillo-Romero, Graduate Student | ocastilloromero@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Agriculture | Spatio-temporal simulation models | NA | Bias, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Serena Guo, Faculty | guoj1@ufl.edu | Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Machine Learning, Medicine | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences | |||
| Lisa Sundahl Platt, Faculty | lisaplatt@ufl.edu | Florida Institute of Built Environment Resilience, Department of Interior Design | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic | My research uses Machine Learning and Fuzzy Inference Systems to predict Risk Factors relevant to safe building design. Specifically I use Supervised Machine learning on socioecological model data sets to predict the risk level of chronic disease or acute infection in communities. This informs the development of Fuzzy Decision Rule algorithms used for simulation modeling that forecast the impact resilient design interventions may have in moderating the effect of pathogen spread or condition persistence in safety-critical environments. | Presently I am teaching a DCP Special Topics course on using Data Science for Interior Environment research. In this class we are focusing on using Python for data analysis and supervised machine learning. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, HiPerGator, Deep Learning | I am interested in potential research collaborations with academic colleagues that have similar interests. Especially those that have complementary skills or experience in Deep Learning. |
| Tianze Jiao, Faculty | tianzejiao@ufl.edu | Pharmaceutical outcomes & policy | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Medicine | HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |||
| Masoud Rouhizadeh, PhD, MSc, MA, Faculty | mrou@cop.ufl.edu | Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Medicine, Language, Analyzing electronic medical records | Dr. Rouhizadeh develops machine learning and natural language processing methods with applications to clinical and pharmaceutical outcomes and public health, focusing on three major goals: (a) identifying signs, symptoms, diseases, disorders, and medications from unstructured electronic health records, (b) detecting signals of neurological disorders affecting children and the elderly, and (c) computational models for identifying social and behavioral determinants of health. | Clinical natural language processing, AI in the health and pharmaceutical sciences | Coding, HiPerGator, Language, Applications of AI, Clinical natural language processing | I am interested in talking about teaching a class period or two around AI in the health and pharmaceutical sciences, and natural language processing. |
| Won Suk Lee, Faculty | wslee@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Robotics, Agriculture | AI is used to detect crop information such as yield, disease, and insect for more efficient production. | Illustrate applications to agriculture | Ethical issues | |
| tony ladd, Faculty | tladd@che.ufl.edu | Chem Eng. | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning | Using Bayesian Inference to characterize components of photovoltaic devices. | None | Fundamentals | Not so much |
| Congliang Zhou, Graduate Student | co.zhou@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | I am using deep learning methods to detect strawberry pests for efficient pest management. In addition, I am also using deep learning and robotics to predict strawberry yield. | Currently, I don't have any plan to use AI in my teaching. | Bias, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about how to integrate domain knowledge into the deep learning model. |
| Luiz H Gonzaga, Faculty | lgonzaga@dental.ufl.edu | Center for Implant Dentistry | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Medicine, Decision making and review of the literature | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Tao Xu, Post Doc | taoxu@ufl.edu | Epidemiology | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Medicine | Coding, HiPerGator, Language, Applications of AI | |||
| Mateus Rocha, Faculty | mrocha@dental.ufl.edu | Center for Dental Biomaterials | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks and Gradient Boosting Models | The Center for Dental Biomaterials (CDB) is intensely engaged in developing and translating artificial intelligence in dentistry. As the Director of the Center, my research team, in collaboration with many UFCD Faculty and external collaborators, has been focusing on the research development of technologies to assist and improve restorative dental treatments and facilitate education in Restorative Dental Sciences. Our AI initiatives are divided into three main areas: Research, Education and Service/Creative Works. | Currently, the INBDE (Integrated National Board Dental Exam, required to get a dental license) uses patient box-questions that bring a hypothetical clinical case scenario, and the candidates have to answer questions that mix content from different dental specialties (i.e., Oral Surgery with Pathology and Restorative Dentistry). Our college has been using patient-box questions in many courses, and the students report that integrated knowledge is much easier to translate to clinical practice. Despite the success of the patient-box approach, these questions are all written essays or multiple-choice. Still, the DMD students lack training on the verbalization of the knowledge to clinical care. Oral examinations using augmented reality (AR) could train the DMD students to verbalize their knowledge for better clinical communication with the patients, faculty, and colleagues. This project aims to create AR dental clinical cases and compare to patient-box questions involving different dental specialties. | Coding, We need Co-PIs with computer science background and expertise in coding to invest in research projects to be submitted to NIH | Yes. I would like to have faculty with expertise in machine learning, image recognition or coding to partner with our center to serve as Co-PI in research projects |
| Plato Smith, Faculty | plato.smith@ufl.edu | George A. Smathers Libraries | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Fuzzy Logic, Medicine, Data Science | AI can facilitate metadata tagging to increase discoverability of research data. | I plan to use AI in the management of processes to handle data-related file metadata. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| M. David Miller, Faculty | dmiller@coe.ufl.edu | School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education | I incorporate AI in my course content | Ethics | Ethical issues, Bias | |||
| F. Chris Curran, Faculty | chriscurran@coe.ufl.edu | Education Policy Research Center & Educational Leadership Program | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing | I study education policy using quantitative methods and large-scale data. In addition to econometric causal inference methodology, I have applied natural language processing to the analysis of social media data. | Teach some elements of big data analysis in coursework. | Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about research collaborations using AI in education policy. |
| Rojan Baniya, Graduate Student, Faculty | rbaniya@ufl.edu | Tourism Hospitality and Event management | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Movement | Have not done only interested | Not right now | Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Use of AI in tourism |
| Michael Bumbach, Faculty | mbumbach@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I am just getting started with AI | Medicine, Health/Nursing Education; Primary Care Medicine | I am interested in how AI can be leveraged for general primary care and healthcare education | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Applications of AI | Points of Collaboration | |
| Thomas Denagamage, Faculty | tdenagamage@ufl.edu | Large Animal Clinical Sciences | I am not working with AI at this time | Veterinary | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Sujata Krishna, Faculty | SujataKrishna@ufl.edu | Physics | I am just getting started with AI | Science Education - not sure how to use AI but want to get started. | I am interested in Physics/Science Education Research. I am also interested in seeing what AI-related work I can introduce in my courses. I have not started such work as yet. | Unsure. | Teaching | I am interested in talking about teaching a class period that may help my students get familiar with AI and how to use it. |
| Ferol Carytsas, Faculty | fcarytsas@arts.ufl.edu | Center for Arts in Medicine | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Arts | N/A | Looking to learn more about how to incorporate AI in teaching. | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Kwansun Cho, Faculty | ckstone@ufl.edu | Engineering Education | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Language | I am interested in getting to know more about AI | Student data classification through AI | Coding, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | As an AI novice, I m interested in talking about utilizing (classifying) students data better via AI. |
| Petar Breitinger, Faculty | Petar.breitinger@pap.ufl.edu | School of Physician Assistant Studies | I am not working with AI at this time | Medicine | Am a newbie to all AI and interested in learning more about applications to use (and create) for teaching didactic & clinical year PA students | Time will tell once I gain more knowledge but developing patient care competency would be one | Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | Yes, understanding AI and how to create applications |
| Catherine Atria, PhD, Faculty | catria@coe.ufl.edu | HDOSE, Educational Leadership | I am not working with AI at this time | Use of AI in experiential simulations | N/A | Create experiential simulations | Applications of AI | |
| Tie Liu, Faculty | tieliu@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences Department | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Agriculture | We will use machine learning and hyperspectral imaging to collect data on senescence and spoilage of fresh produce and develop algorithms to find the correlation between imaging data and molecular markers for freshness of vegetables and fruits. A long-term goal of the my research is to aid development of an innovative device using AI technologies that can accurately estimate the freshness of produce. | Discuss the AI application on agricultural and horticultural sciences | HiPerGator, Applications of AI | Yes. I am interested in talking about teaching a class period and collaborating on AI-related project. |
| Kevin MacPherson, Faculty | housekl@phhp.ufl.edu | Physical Therapy | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Movement, musculoskeletal pain | I am interested in assisting in research using AI and biometrics in the treatment of musculoskeletal pain. In the event we develop a learning health system at UF, I would like to investigate living triage mechanisms for patients suffering from movement impairments. | Coding, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I would love to learn more about the resources available and the assumptions of the various models. | |
| Megan Ennes, Faculty | megan.ennes@ufl.edu | Department of Natural History | I am not working with AI at this time | The use of AI in education and museums | I do not currently use AI in my research but would be interested in work on intelligent agents and how they might be used in museum settings. | I do not currently use AI in my teaching | Applications of AI | I am interested in the development of intelligent agents for learning in out of school settings. |
| Amandine Hom, Adjunct Lecturer | ahom@ufl.edu | LLC | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Arts, Language | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Language, Teaching | I am interested in talking about understanding the scope of AI in Language Learning. | ||
| Sandy Trapp, Staff | sandtrap@ufl.edu | UFIT | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Agriculture, Medicine, Veterinary, Law, Language, Movement | I might not ever do any AI research of my own, but am interested in what others are doing! | I'm not directly involved in teaching | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Erica Studer-Byrnes, Faculty | erica.byrnes@warrington.ufl.edu | Heavener School of Business | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning | Hands on experiences, Teaching, Applications of AI | No | ||
| Edit Nagy, Faculty | edit@ufl.edu | European Studies | I am not working with AI at this time | Language | I'm a language instructor and I would like to use AI in my online language classes | Course online site (voice recognition, writing/grammar/sentence structure) | Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | N/A |
| Robert Kolb, Research Director | kolbhr@ufl.edu | CTSI | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Arts, Language, Aging ; Community resilenece | AI and RCR | To expand current RCR content to include AI | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI, Lay Community engaments. | |
| Bill Hamilton, Faculty | hamiltonw@law.ufl.edu | Law | I incorporate AI in my course content | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Law | Utilization of AI in litigation | Using AI tools re: data search and analysis in litigation | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Teaching | Providing students with hands on experience demonstrating the power of AI |
| Aaron Thomas, Faculty | aothomas@ufl.edu | UFIT | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Education | As Principal Data Scientist at UFIT, I work to leverage analytics and appropriate methods to support the mission of UF | Bias, Applications of AI | Machine learning and analytics for student success | |
| David Grant, Faculty | david.grant@ufl.edu | Philosophy | I conduct AI research | Ethics | I am a philosopher working mainly in ethics of technology (especially ethics of artificial intelligence) and philosophy of science (especially computer and data science). My research focuses on ethical challenges that arise when organizations use AI to make high-stakes decisions. | I teach PHI 3681: Ethics Data and Technology, a data ethics course that focuses on ethical concerns raised by contemporary applications of AI, as well as PHI 3930: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. | Ethical issues, Bias, Applications of AI | |
| Diba Mani, Faculty | dmani@ufl.edu | Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Medicine, Movement | N/A | Use it in an online MS program as an application of AI in sports science; looking to expand AI use into another course (likely a new one) | Teaching, Fundamentals | |
| Andres Susaeta, Faculty | asusaeta@ufl.edu | Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Forestry | Coding, Applications of AI | |||
| Bryce Meyering, Biological scientist | bbmeyering@ufl.edu | Horticultural Science | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Agriculture | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator | |||
| Ly Nguyen, Post Doc | ly.nguyen@ufl.edu | FRED | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | Coding, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Xavier Martini, Faculty | xmartini@ufl.edu | NFREC | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | Coding, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes. I am interested in a workshop to learn fundamentals of AI and applications in research. | ||
| Michael Gutter, Faculty, Administrator | msgutter@ufl.edu | IFAS | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Robotics, Agriculture, Medicine, Economics | Will be working with NLP to assess patient economic vulnerabilities | Our extension faculty will be teaching youth and adults who they can use AI in their lives and work. | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals | |
| Jennifer Bearden, Faculty | bearden@ufl.edu | Okaloosa County | I teach an AI module | Agriculture | I use drone technology in my extension program | I teach Part 107 to help new drone pilots and teach a hands-on drone workshop | Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | Yes, drone application in agriculture especially |
| Rob Daffron, Staff | robert.daffron@ufl.edu | Soil and Water Sciences | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Agriculture, Medicine, Veterinary, Law, Language, Movement | NA | NA | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | NA |
| Theodore Karsch, Graduate Student | tkarsch@ufl.edu | IFAS Extension 4-H | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Arts, Agriculture, Language | Language, Applications of AI | |||
| Carrie Baucom, employee | clbaucom@ufl.edu | UF IFAS | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Agriculture, Medicine | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals | |||
| Luiz Roesch, Faculty | roesch@ufl.edu | Department of Microbiology and Cell Science | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | I am using AI to find microbial biomarkers of health and disease. I would like to learn new algorithms and improve my skills. | Coding, Bias, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals | ||
| Dana, Staff | danasu@ufl.edu | UF/IFAS Dean for Research Office | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Cyber Security | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals | |||
| Luis Felipe Ferrao, Faculty | lferrao@ufl.edu | Horticulture | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Agriculture | Phenomics. Use AI for collecting better phenotypes in the field. | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals | Yes. I am interested in talking about the use of AI in genetics, agriculture and phenomics | |
| Paul Fisher, Faculty | pfisher@ufl.edu | Environmental Horticulture Dept., Extension | I conduct AI research | Expert Systems | Currently focused on quantitative models for greenhouse and indoor growing environmental control, and interested in incorporating AI. Have done that in the past with Expert Systems. | Applications of AI | ||
| Justin Callaham, Faculty | callaham@ufl.edu | Animal Sciences | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Dan Hahn, Faculty | dahahn@ufl.edu | Entomology & Nematology | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Agriculture, Medicine | We use machine learning approaches like Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks to characterize high dimensionality data - like genomic scans (GWASS & genomic prediction), transcriptomics, metabolomics, and other 'omics approaches to understand trait evolution. | No plans as of yet, but maybe it it were easy enough. | Applications of AI | Yes, I would like to find AI partners for help analyzing our genomic data for prediction. |
| Kathleen Morales Perez, Teams | kmoralesperez@ufl.edu | UF/IFAS Extension Family Nutrition Program | I am just getting started with AI | Public Health | Ethical issues, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Carlos Alberto Silva, Faculty | c.silva@ufl.edu | School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences (SFFGS) | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Agriculture | I use AI and remote sensing data for forest applications | I teach Forest Mensuration and I am planning to give a lecture on remote sensing and AI for forestry applications (ex. forest inventory) | Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about AI and research opportunities |
| Vivek Sharma, Faculty | vsharma1@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Agriculture | Application of AI/MC in irrigation water resources management and water quality | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator | ||
| Wael Elwakil, Faculty | wael.elwakil@ufl.edu | UF/IFAS Extension, Hillsborough County | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Robotics, Agriculture | Aerial imagery for Ag crops and other Precision Ag solutions | Introduce AI (applied) solutions to Extension Ag Stakeholders | Coding, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | Interested in Teaching APPLIED AI solutions to Agricultural producers |
| Brantlee Spakes Richter,Faculty | bsr@ufl.edu | Plant Pathology | I am not working with AI at this time | Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | I would like to work with someone to develop better tools for plant disease assessment. I have some decent data sets already (e.g., gmp files of leaves with diseased areas manually defined, and of mixed cover with cover crop vs weeds defined), and would be interested in building and sharing these data sets towards development of usable software/apps. | I am not looking to become an expert in AI myself; I'm happy to collaborate with those who are. | ||
| Zhifeng Gao, Faculty | zfgao@ufl.edu | Food and Resource Economics | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing | Coding, Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in the marketing and economics application of AI for research. | ||
| Amarat Simonne, Faculty | asim@ufl.edu | Family, Youth and Community Sciences | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Expert Systems | My area of interest is in food quality and food safety as well as consumer education in the area. I belief AI has roles to expand the frontier in the areas of food quality and food safety. | ND | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | Yes, I am interested in sharing some ideas with other AI faculty. |
| Chanel Mosby-Haundrup, Graduate Student | c.mosby.haundrup@ufl.edu | Microbiology and Cell Science | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Agriculture, Medicine | I'm just curious how it can be used in microbiology | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Ana Maria, Faculty | anamariab@ufl.edu | Plant Pathology/MREC | I am not working with AI at this time | Agriculture | My research focuses on bacterial genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics. I also work with plant-microbe interactions at molecular level. I am interested in incorporating AI techniques for use in reverse genetics | NA | HiPerGator, Applications of AI | Not yet. I still need to learn about AI and applications in my field |
| Katie Stofer, Faculty | stofer@uf.edu | Agricultural Education and Communication | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Medicine, AI education/public engagement, including broader impacts and evaluation | Fundamentals | |||
| Timothy Ebert, Research Scientist | tebert@ufl.edu | Soil and Water Sciences | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Agriculture | object detection, object identification, data analysis | Teaching is not in my assigned roles | Coding, Fundamentals | |
| Zhenli He, Faculty | zhe@ufl.edu | Indian River Research and Education Center | I am just getting started with AI | Agriculture, Nanotechnology | In one of our projects we are attempted to develop intelligent Nanoparticles that can deliver nutrients and chemicals to targeted sites in plants so that their use efficiency can be significantly increased. | Add a new module to my current AGG6503/4502 courses, about the creation and applications of smart Nanoparticles in food, agriculture and environment. | Coding, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Talking about application of AI in nanotechnology |
| Dennis Brown, IT Staff | dennisb@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences | I am just getting started with AI | Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Agriculture | As IT and a programmer it seems wise to be knowledgeable in AI. | Not applicable, not in a teaching role. | Coding, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | No |
| Ronnie, Staff | rlcooper@ufl.edu | IFAS Facilities | I am just getting started with AI | Agriculture | I would like to be included in this discussion so that I am more aware of potential new construction and renovation activities that may occur within IFAS. | Not applicable. | I just need to be aware of Facilities needs related to AI for IFAS. | Facilities needs related to AI. |
| Raquel Dias, Faculty | raquel.dias@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Agriculture, Medicine | AI applied to genomics, detection and prevention of genetic diseases | undergrad student projects applying AI to existing datasets | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI, interpretability and explainability of AI models | I have more experience on the AI development side, would be nice to team up with someone with experience on the data collection side |
| Dean Gabriel, Faculty | dgabr@uf.edu | Plant Pathology | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Genetics | Genome annotation programs | As it is published | Fundamentals | |
| Valkyrie Aldrnari, Staff | valkyriea@ufl.edu | UF/IFAS Extension Administration | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Agriculture, Veterinary, Language | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Angela Gonella, Faculty | a.gonelladiaza@ufl.edu | NFREC- Marianna | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Agriculture, Veterinary | I currently have two research projects where I plan to use AI/ML. The first project aims to predict feed efficiency in Beef cattle by integrating OMICs data. The second project aims to conduct early pregnancy diagnosis with Doppler ultrasound and use AI/ML to analyze and select the images and generate a final diagnosis. I have no previous experience with AI/ML, and I'm interested in establishing collaboration with other laboratories. | I don't have a teaching appointment. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals | I'm interested in establishing collaboration with other faculties. |
| Lindsay Campbell, Faculty | lcampbell2@ufl.edu | Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Dept Ent & Nem | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Agriculture, species distribution models | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Ayesha Naikodi, Graduate Student | ma.naikodi@ufl.edu | CISE | I incorporate AI in my course content | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Agriculture, Medicine, Language, Movement | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in contributing to research in AI | ||
| Lauri M. Baker, Faculty | lauri.m.baker@ufl.edu | Department of Agricultural Education & Communication and the Center for Public Issues Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (PIE Center) | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Cyber Security, Agriculture, Consumer perceptions of AI | I am a social scientist. In my research I look at public understanding and perceptions of AI particularly in relation to food and agriculture. Through my Extension work I help translate AI concepts and needs and play intermediary for those developing AI and the end users of AI. I also work with agricultural businesses to understand benefits and barriers of AI integration in their businesses. | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes, I am interested in collaborating on research, grants, and Extension work in AI. | |
| Damilola, Graduate Student | d.ajayi@ufl.edu | Agricultural Extension and Communication | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Agriculture | I am new to AI and would love to learn and develop my skills in the field. | I intend using it in the agricultural field for data capturing and management | Coding, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes I am interested in learning about AI and also work with research teams on it since I am a novice in this field. |
| Ahmad Omar, Faculty | omar71@ufl.edu | CREC, IFAS | I am not working with AI at this time | Agriculture | Coding, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | |||
| Lincoln Zotarelli, Faculty | lzota@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Agriculture | Using AI to develop N and P fertilizer rates for crops | training graduate students | Applications of AI | |
| Erica Goss, Faculty | emgoss@ufl.edu | Plant Pathology & Emerging Pathogens Institute | I am not working with AI at this time | Agriculture, Applications of machine learning to population genomics | Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| German Sandoya-Miranda, Faculty | gsandoyamiranda@ufl.edu | Everglades REC | I am not working with AI at this time | Agriculture | breeding vegetables | in the breeding program to select more efficiently | Hands on experiences | I am interested to learn how I could apply AI in my breeding program |
| Alexandra Cuaycal,Graduate Student | acuaycalbastidas@ufl.edu | Microbiology and Cell Science | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Medicine, Veterinary, Movement | Coding, HiPerGator, Language, Fundamentals | |||
| Eben Broadbent, Faculty | eben@ufl.edu | School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Agriculture, Remote Sensing | Use AI analysis of remote sensing and field data for conservation and ecology questions. | In my Remote Sensing course. | Coding, HiPerGator, Fundamentals | |
| Haaris Saqib, Staff | hsaqib@ufl.edu | UF/IFAS Extension Family Nutrition Program | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning | Use machine learning for program evaluation research | NA | Coding, Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI, Presenting AI / ML in research contexts! What to do when we don't have coefficients to discuss with our audience? | |
| Zhiyong Cheng, Faculty | z.cheng@ufl.edu | FSHN | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | big data (omics) and modeling | Personalized nutrition | Teaching, Applications of AI | big data (omics) and modeling |
| Carlene A. Chase, Faculty | cachase@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences | I incorporate AI in my course content | Agriculture, Use of AI for weed management and enhancing cover crop use | I would like to be able to use AI to evaluate biomass of individual cover crop species in cover crop mixtures and to discern whether mixtures differ in weed control from cover crop monocultures. | AI is increasingly being employed for weed management from mapping/spraying weeds with unmanned aerial vehicles and fully autonomous weeders to precision application of herbicides. I am constantly having to update my course to expose students to new developments. | It would be great to have someone develop a module on aspects of AI related to weed management. | I am a co-PI on a grant that focuses on precision sustainable agriculture with an emphasis on cover crops. In subsequent grant proposals we are interested in collaborating with researchers at a university with a strong AI emphasis. I would be happy to introduce to anyone at UF who is involved with AI and may be interested in developing grant proposals and collaborating with our group. |
| J. Bryan Unruh, Faculty | jbu@ufl.edu | IFAS - West Florida Research and Education Center | I am just getting started with AI | Agriculture | Interested in collaborating with AI scientists to improve urban landscape and golf course nutrient recommendations and understanding carbon sequestration in urban landscapes. | N/A | Fundamentals | I am interested in talking about incorporating data from soil sampling into new models to improve soil fertility recommendations in the urban landscape. |
| Paulette Tomlinson, Faculty | apt@ufl.edu | Extension Columbia County | I am not working with AI at this time | Agriculture | No research at this time. I hope to collaborate or facilitate AI on farm demonstrations and or research, especially as it relates to livestock and forage AI. | Explain it as a tool for agriculture producers. | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Not necessary to have a one on one conversation but would like to know what UF is doing with AI. What is offered so that a one on one is more valuable. |
| Xiaoli Ma, Faculty | XIAOLIMA@UFL.EDU | Smathers Libraries | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing | I try to find the solution to continue what we did with Machine Aided Indexing where machines help speed up the process and human/staff continuously streamline the process and identify the cases where the result quality should be improved. | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes, I would like to know if any existing AI products do great job on assigning Concept/Topics to the text-based content. | |
| Danny Coenen, Faculty | dcoenen@ufl.edu | SNRE | I am not working with AI at this time | Environmental Science; using AI to identify troubled/struggling students who would benefit from outreach or interventions | N/A | AI applications in Environmental Science | Coding, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Katina Davis, Graduate Student, Staff | kdavis22@ufl.edu | Hough Graduate School | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning, Cyber Security | I'm a current student in the Master in Science in Information System for Information Technology and Data Science tracks. | Coding, Ethical issues, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | I looking forward in learning more about AI in my courses and my own research. | |
| Nan Xu , Post Doc | xn20131020@ufl.edu | Horticultural Sciences | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning | Coding, Hands on experiences, Language, Teaching, Applications of AI | |||
| Jihee Song, Research Assistant | ssong@ufl.edu | Family, Youth, and Community Sciences | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing | Coding, Bias, Hands on experiences, Language, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about how to use AI practically. | ||
| George, phd graduate | g.adosoglou@ufl.edu | ISE | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing | Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | YEs, NLP | ||
| Jennifer Drew, Faculty | jdrew@ufl.edu | Microbiology and Cell Science | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Agriculture, Medicine, Education | I am just starting, but hope to apply AI approaches to understanding STEM education pathways of students. | I will lead a program that supports AI students and provides stipends for students conducting AI research. | Ethical issues, Bias, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Gulcan Onel, Faculty | gulcan.onel@ufl.edu | Food and Resource Economics Department | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Machine Learning, Robotics, Agriculture | At this time, I am a co-PI on an NSF grant that looks to use AI-based collaborative robots (i.e., cobots) in non-monotonous complex tasks like disassembly of used electronics. My role is to study the impact of such technologies on the future of work for humans. | I am interested in using machine learning techniques for identifying causal relationships using economic data. I am also interested in looking into if/how AI can exploit information from small data sets. I would like to use the new knowledge to update my curriculum for econometrics and other applied analytic courses I offer/may offer in the department. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI, AI's effects on human work/jobs/wages etc. | |
| Paul Ramirez Lopez, Research Assistant | pdramirezlopez@ufl.edu | Florida Institute for Cybersecurity | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition | Business Graduate, self-taught Computer Vision Engineer. I work as a Research Assistant for FICS. | Coding, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | I am interested on working on Computer Vision projects with practical applications, | |
| Michael Hofmann, Graduate Student | m.hofmann@ufl.edu | Art + Technology | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Medicine, Law, Language, Movement | My AI research is composed of collaboration with AI to create, express, and build various creative artworks, sounds, writings, and films. My research also involves being versed in training neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, and transfer learning. Additionally, I am planning on conducting research using Nvidia hardware systems and platforms. | After graduating with the terminal degree for my field, I plan to add AI to my teaching as a means to better enable students to understand AI’s impact in the world and potentially utilize AI as a medium of creative expression. | Coding, Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in having conversations with other faculty about creative research and scientific research incorporating AI and how to work on creative AI research projects together. |
| Ryan Good, Faculty | ryangood@ufl.edu | School of Natural Resources and Environment | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Agriculture | Applications of AI | |||
| Angie Lindsey, Faculty | ablindsey@ufl.edu | Center for Public Issues Education in Ag and Natural Resources (PIE Center) | I am not working with AI at this time | Agriculture, Particularly interested in looking at AI in relation to disaster preparedness and disaster recovery in ANR sectors | Particularly interested in looking at AI in relation to disaster preparedness and disaster recovery in ANR sectors | Working with graduate students | Applications of AI | I am interested in talking about AI in relation to disasters - particularly for the ANR sectors |
| David Kaber, Faculty, Department Chair | dkaber@ufl.edu | Industrial & Systems Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Robotics | Use of machine learning algorithms for human cognitive state classification based on (real time) physiological measures. | Some results of my research may be presented as examples in systems design coursework. | Coding, Applications of AI | |
| Heather Camille Kent, Faculty | hckent@ufl.edu | UF IFAS Extension, NW district | I conduct AI research | Teaching and learning | I am interested in applications of AI to improve teaching and learning, particularly in the third arm of UF- Extension programming. | I use AI to look at trends, formative evaluation of teaching in a virtual space, improve teaching and learning | Teaching | Using AI to improve teaching and learning- particularly for Extension programs |
| Alexandria Ardissone, Assistant Scientist | lexi88@ufl.edu | Microbiology & Cell Science | I am just getting started with AI | Education | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Julie McMillian, Graduate Student | jmcmillian@ufl.edu | Extension | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Agriculture, Language, Movement | I am new to AI. I have taken 6 credit hours in unmanned aviation to learn about opportunities with drones. I am most interested in learning and teaching youth life skills with AI to prepare them for jobs in their future to help them excel. | 4-H Youth Development | Hands on experiences, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am new to AI. I have taken 6 credit hours in unmanned aviation to learn about opportunities with drones. I am most interested in learning and teaching youth life skills with AI to prepare them for jobs in their future to help them excel. |
| Aprinda Indahlastari, Faculty | aprinda.indahlas@phhp.ufl.edu | Department of Clinical and Health Psychology (CHP) | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Medicine | Indahlastari uses multimodal neuroimaging and machine learning enhanced computational models to improve the efficacy and reliability of treatment outcomes from non-invasive brain stimulation methods such as tDCS. Her current projects include predicting electrical current dose in stimulated brain regions, identifying sources of inter-individual variability in treatment outcomes, and investigating potential mechanisms that contribute to physiological changes caused by electrical stimulation. | Beginner introduction and exposure to AI methods and application | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Absolutely, specifically AI applications in medical devices, imaging, and medicine |
| Juan Gonzalez, Graduate Student | juangonzalez@ufl.edu | PMCB | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | |||
| Trent Blare, Faculty | tblare@ufl.edu | Tropical Research and Education Center | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Agriculture | I am interested in applying AI to building more efficient and efficient food supply chains and systems. | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in applying AI to my research and extension programs in how to build more resilient supply chains and food systems. I am particularly interested what we can train growers especially small scale growers in using AI to improve their ability to get their products to consumers. | |
| Jasmeet Judge, Faculty | JASMEET@UFL.EDU | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Agriculture | AI in remote sensing and agriculture for crop and soil conditions. Data assimilation; data fusion; and spatio-temporal scaling. | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Teaching | I am interested in talking about incorporating AI in class and also talking about how elements of ethics and bias in AI are related to Remote sensing. | |
| Henry Medeiros, Faculty | hmedeiros@ufl.edu | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture | I use AI methods to develop robotic perception systems based on image and video understanding techniques complemented by other sensing modalities. | I plan to teach courses focused on applications of AI to agricultural automation. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in learning more about potential applications of AI. |
| Norman C. Leppla, Faculty | ncleppla@ufl.edu | Entomology and Nematology | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Robotics, Agriculture | I have no AI research at this time. | I don't have a teaching appointment but might use general AI subjects in guest lectures. | Applications of AI | Use of AI in agriculture. |
| Tracy Stepien, Faculty | tstepien@ufl.edu | Mathematics | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Medicine, mathematical modeling, parameter estimation | My research area is mathematical biology with an emphasis on medicine, dynamical systems, ordinary and partial differential equations, numerical methods, and data analysis. I use AI to fit mathematical models to experimental data using parameter estimation. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in collaborating on research projects. | |
| Juan Claudio Nino, Faculty | jnino@ufl.edu | Materials Science and Engineering | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Ethics, Machine Learning, Agriculture, Medicine, AI Hardware Design and Manufacturing | The Nino Research Group focuses on both AI hardware and algorithms/software. On hardware, we investigate the design and manufacturing of scalable low-power neuromorphic hardware for edge computing and AI low-latency applications such as robotics. On algorithms, we apply neural network analysis for the early detection of neuro-degenerate diseases like Alzheimer's and use neural network frameworks for the design of advanced functional materials and for understanding the interplay of chemical signals in soil and water. These efforts support the experimental and applied/field work in the same areas that is ongoing in the group. | I introduce it as an additional engineering tool and show examples of how it complements and supports the science and engineering endeavors. | Ethical issues, Fundamentals, Neuromorphic Hardware Fabrication | Yes. Key topics would include: Neuromorphic Hardware Fabrication, Ethics of AI. I would like to meet with any faculty willing to learn AI and how it can be applied to their field and particularly faculty interested in collaborating in proposals for which AI is explicitly mentioned in the solicitation and the faculty does not have the AI tools of expertise to respond to that proposal. I would like to bring that expertise to their efforts and thus collaborate on newer fields. |
| Owen Hudson, Graduate Student | owen.hudson@ufl.edu | Plant Pathology | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Robotics, Agriculture | Machine learning for photo analysis | NA | Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | yes, I am interested in meeting with someone who works in machine learning |
| Patrick Tighe, Faculty | ptighe@anest.ufl.edu | Anesthesiology | I conduct AI research | Ethics, Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Medicine | Our team uses AI to investigate outcomes after surgery related to pain and cognition. We use a mixture of structured and unstructured data. Some of this data comes from the EHR, while other sources come from research activities. Our research involves forward and back translation of AI-driven discoveries. Methodology interests include decision space applications, graph applications, and fairness in underserved populations. | We use AI for experiential learning. | HiPerGator | I'm interested in work patterns and infrastructure development to improve accessibility of AI tools to trainees and faculty throughout UF. |
| Cory Brunson, Faculty | jason.brunson@medicine.ufl.edu | Laboratory for Systems Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Arts, Medicine, Interpretability & Explainability | My active interest is in extending principles of case-based reasoning to local model-fitting and model fusion. | I currently mentor one pre-med student on an AI-related project and hope to mentor more in future. I would also be interested in teaching or co-teaching an AI-related module or course in future. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Siva Srinivasan, Faculty | srinivs@ufl.edu | Engineering School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | I work in the area of applying machine learning to understand travel patterns and transportation safety. In particular I look at how these methods compare to econometric methods. i am also interested in extracting behavioral interpretations from machine learning models. | I teach a course on discrete choice modeling using econometric methods. I am potentially exploring adding machine learning aspects to it as well. | Coding, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals | I would like to discuss about how ML models can be used to provide behavioral insights the same way statistical models do. |
| Cathy Cavanaugh, Faculty, Center leader and research scientist | cathycavanaugh@ufl.edu | Lastinger Center for Learning | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | personalized learning | We build applications used by educators and students nationally, to which we are adding predictive algorithms to provide personalized learning recommendations. | NA | Ethical issues, Bias, Applications of AI | |
| Samantha Montoya, Graduate Student | smontoya@dental.ufl.edu | Dept of Orthodontics | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | I am a resident working on a thesis project and I need help with machine learning. | ||
| Arthriya Subgranon, Faculty | arthriya@ufl.edu | Civil and Coastal Engineering | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition | One of my research project is to develop a data-driven model to predict hurricane impacts in coastal communities. We have used available field investigation datasets to train machine learning models to take environmental and structure information input and predict the extent of damage on buildings in communities impacted by a hurricane. | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in talking/learning about the application of AI in optimization, decision-making, and/or uncertainty quantification. | |
| Narasi Ramachandran, Graduate Student | rnarasi@ufl.edu | COM/Maples Center for Forensic Medicine | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Communication and Role of AI in modern society | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals | Learn how to get started with AI tools available at UF, project planning etc. for unfunded projects. | ||
| Fariha Rahman, Undergraduate Student | fariharahman@ufl.edu | UF-Public Health and Health Professions | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Medicine | N/A | N/A | Coding, Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | N/A |
| Ameena Malik, Undergraduate Student | ameena.malik@ufl.edu | PHHP | I have no plans to work with AI | Medicine | Coding | |||
| Savannah Townsend, Undergraduate Student | townsends@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I am just getting started with AI | Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine | Currently I am looking in to how AI can translate sign language into speech or text. | N/A | How it can improve the lives of those with disabilities | No thank you. 🙂 |
| Presley Pettit, Undergraduate Student | presley.pettit@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Agriculture, Medicine, Movement | I'm currently doing a project on how AI chatbots can help reduce vaccine hesitancy among minority populations. | I am learning how AI can be implemented in all areas of teaching and research. | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | |
| Elise Alford, student | elisealford1@ufl.edu.com | College of Public Health and Health professions | I incorporate AI in my course content | Medicine | Applications of AI | |||
| Jessica Kahler, Faculty | jkahler@ufl.edu | Sociology and Criminology & Law | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Expert Systems, Law, trafficking of wildlife products, climate change systems, legal frameworks | I currently do not work in AI but increasingly work on research that might benefit from AI involvement including transnational environmental crime, social-ecological systems under climate change, and collaborative networks in conservation and wildlife-law enforcement. | I currently do not have plans to incorporate AI into teaching; however if I did it would likely be related to ethics. | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in applications related to AI that involve monitoring trade (legal and illegal) and interpreting complex social-ecological systems. |
| Jacqueline Banas, Undergraduate Student | jbanas@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Movement | I am working on a project in HSA4191 Health Informatics and Emerging Health Technologiws with Dr. Kates that has an AL focus. Another student in the class and I are researching how AI (chatbots) are being used to fight vaccine hesistancy among marginalized populations. | N/A | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Teaching, Applications of AI | Yes! Learned more about Au |
| Shamika Chavda, Undergraduate Student | schavda@ufl.edu | UF College of Public Health and Health Professions | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Disease detection and prevention | I am working with two other students, our TA, and Dr. Kates to propose combining the use of AI and arcGIS software to effectively detect the most vulnerable regions and populations to HIV infection within the southern United States. | Ethical issues, Bias, HiPerGator, Applications of AI | ||
| Hayk Khachatryan, Faculty | hayk@ufl.edu | Food and Resource Economics | I have no plans to work with AI | Agriculture | I'd like to be informed about the current AI developments at UF | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | ||
| Samantha Latsko, Undergraduate Student | slatsko@ufl.edu | UF College of Public Health and Health Professions | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning, Agriculture, Medicine, Applications of AI to improve health, healthcare technologies | I am working on a project in HSA4191 Health Informatics and Emerging Health Technologies with Dr.Kates that has an AI focus. I recently submitted an abstract to present at PHHP DEI Week poster session on using Transdermal Optical Imaging to reduce Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Rural Communities. I also am taking EEL3872 Fundamentals of AI, I have yet to collaborate in AI research in this class, yet that opportunity may occur in the future. | Bias, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Yes, I would like to learn more about opportunities to get involved with AI and deeper my understanding of it. | |
| Miralyz Hernandez, Graduate Student | miralyzhernandez@ufl.edu | UF | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Arts, Medicine, Language | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Applications of AI | |||
| Sarah Reznick, Undergraduate Student | reznicksarah@yahoo.com | University of Florida | I am just getting started with AI | Medicine | I am working on a project in HSA4191- Health Informatics and Emerging Health Technologies with Dr. Kates that has an AI focus. The emerging health technology that I have been researching is portable healthcare monitoring devices. | Hands on experiences | ||
| Alexus Rhodes, Undergraduate Student | alexus.rhodes@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Law | I have started working with my group in class to do a presentation about microneedles used to monitor blood sugar levels in diabetic patients. | I am in a class now that teaches about AI specific to the healthcare system | Bias | no |
| Anna Pizza, Undergraduate Student | annapizza@ufl.edu | College of Public Health and Health Professions | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine, Language, Movement | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Language, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Ethan Mortensen, Undergraduate Student | mortensen.ethan@ufl.edu | PHHP | I conduct AI research | Medicine | Non invasive glucose monitoring research is needed to weigh the pros and cons of its testing/production. | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences | ||
| Mallory Dale, Undergraduate Student | mallorydale@ufl.edu | UF - PHHP - CSD | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine, Language, AI in my chosen career field | I have not research AI but I am interested in it's possibilities | Not a professor | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, Language, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | Unsure |
| Angelica Almeida, Undergraduate Student | angelica.almeida@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Cyber Security, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine, Veterinary, Language, Movement | We are doing a project in HSA4191 Health Informatics and Emerging Health Technologies that looks at mHealth applications for mental illnesses. Part of the research is looking at the potential use of AI and machine learning to deliver in-the-moment notifications/coping tips for those struggling with eating disorders. | I am currently not teaching. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Applications of AI | I would be open to it, but I don't know with whom. |
| Amelia Nelson, Undergraduate Student | anelson3@ufl.edu | College of Public Health and Health Professions | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Cyber Security | I am working on a project in HSA4191 Health Informatics with Dr.Kates, our project is about the smart insulin pen and how it can provide freedom for diabetics. | Coding, Ethical issues | ||
| Riley Stevenson, Undergraduate Student | stevensonr@ufl.edu | Public Health | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Speech or Vision Recognition, Arts, Medicine, Language | microneedle glucose monitoring is a noninvasive form of technology that can be utilized to monitor glucose levels effectively. | Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Language, Applications of AI | Yes, finding out more application information | |
| Lydia Drageset, Undergraduate Student | lydiadrageset@ufl.edu | UF | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine, Language | I am interested in AI and how it connects to the medical field, specifically speech-language pathology and audiology. | None. | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences | No. |
| Alvaro Bodero, Undergraduate Student | abodero@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Medicine | I don't know much so I would like to just get started | Ethical issues, Bias | ||
| Coleman Brown, Undergraduate Student | colemanbrown@ufl.edu | University of Florida Bachelor of Health Science | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Medicine, Law | I am currently working on a project in HSA4191 Health Informatics and Emerging Health Technologies with Dr. Kates that has an AI focus on non-invasive wearable devices for monitoring health in diabetic individuals. This project is brand new, and I am also open to research conducted on various types of wearable devices produced for the purpose of monitoring health in pregnant women, infants, and the elderly as well. | Ethical issues, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I would be interested in talking to faculty about research currently being conducted here at UF in the field of AI development. | |
| Rachel Benneyy, Graduate Student | jadencorasmom@ufl.edu | HSRMP | I am just getting started with AI | Machine Learning | Machine Learning to develop population health risk scores | Integrate DEI issues w/ Machine Learning Modules | Ethical issues, Bias, HiPerGator, Teaching, Applications of AI | |
| Herman Wirshing, Undergraduate Student | hwirshing@ufl.edu | Biomedical Engineering | I am not working with AI at this time | Medicine | I am working on a project in HSA 4191 Health Informatics and Emerging Health Technologies that focuses on mental health apps to better reach rural and underserved inner city communities that lack access to proper care. | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals | ||
| Thu-Minh Nguyen, Undergraduate Student | thuminhnguyen@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning, Robotics, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine | I am currently not doing any AI research. However, I am interested in how AI can be used in medicine because I am a pre-physician assistant student. | Coding, Ethical issues, Applications of AI | ||
| Divyang Bhatt, Student | d.bhatt@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Medicine | I am a student in Dr. Kate's class HSA4191 - Healthcare informatics, I was wondering if there are any opportunities to learn about the implications of AI in medical technology. More specifically in relation to continuous glucose monitoring devices and diabetic patients. | N/A | Ethical issues, Hands on experiences, Applications of AI | N/A |
| Jonathan Barry-Blocker, Faculty | j.barryblocker@ufl.edu | Experiential Learning - Trial Skills; Center for Government Responsibility | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Law | Generally I examine the use of biometrics and algorithms in criminal justice systems. My current project investigates states' reliance on risk assessment instruments (RAIs) in parole release decisions. | Highlight the racial justice, ethical, and legal implications of these technologies in gov't run systems. | Ethical issues, Bias, Teaching, Applications of AI | Interdisciplinary research/projects; collaborative teaching; evaluating AI use in communities |
| Elizabeth Rom, Undergraduate Student | rom.egrace@ufl.edu | Public Health, University of Florida, College of Public Health and Health Professions | I am just getting started with AI | Ethics, Machine Learning, Robotics, Medicine, Law | I am currently taking an AI fundamentals course with Diego Alvarado as well as a Health Informatics and Emerging Health Technologies course with Dr. Kates and am pursuing a Certificate in AI Fundamentals and Applications. I am currently working on project within my Health Informatics class that centers around AI research. | N/A I do not teach | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interesting in talking to faculty about AI research opportunities specifically AI as it relates the healthcare. I am primarily interested in health policy but am also fascinated by EHR systems and how they can be adapted for improved interoperability. |
| Anju Biswas, Graduate Student | biswasanju@ufl.edu | Agronomy | I conduct AI research | Machine Learning, Agriculture | I am working with big data collected by drone to phenotype plants | NA | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested to learn more about AI so that I can implement it in my project |
| Noura Ibrahim, Graduate Student | nouraibrahim@ufl.edu | University of Florida | I am just getting started with AI | Speech or Vision Recognition | Coding, Ethical issues, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |||
| Meera Sitharam, Faculty | sitharam@cise.ufl.edu | Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Affiliate Math | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, theoretical guarantees for AI and ML algorithms; causal inference | (1) basic explainability: theory underlying ML (proving guarantees of sample size, accuracy, complexity, trade-off) (2) use of ML for tuning relative weighting of scales in multiscale mechanistic condensed matter (molecular and materials assembly) modeling, prediction, design (3) theory and model building using past data and active experiment/intervention design using ML and causal inference. | A special topics course related to my research in AI | synergistic interests of faculty colleagues on campus | (1) basic explainability: theory underlying ML (proving guarantees of sample size, accuracy, complexity, trade-off ) (2) use of ML for tuning relative weighting of scales in multiscale mechanistic condensed matter (molecular and materials assembly) modeling, prediction, design (3) theory and model building using past data and active experiment/intervention design using ML and causal inference. |
| Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas, Faculty | jmicielivoutsina@ufl.edu | Museum Studies | I am just getting started with AI | Arts, Biosensors, Eye tracking, etc | I use wearables to collect somatic experiences of heritage design | I’m not really sure yet | Ethical issues, Applications of AI | Yes 👏 |
| Maria Zajac-Kaye, Faculty | mzajackaye@ufl.edu | Anatomy and Cell Biology | I am not working with AI at this time | Machine Learning, Medicine, Veterinary | No | Hands on experiences, Fundamentals | ||
| Tamara Macieira, Faculty | tmacie2@ufl.edu | College of Nursing | I am a PI or Co-PI on an AI research project | Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing | I use AI in the processing and modeling of nursing data from electronic health records | NA | Coding, Hands on experiences, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | |
| Sanaz Motamedi, Faculty | SMOTAMEDI@UFL.EDU | ISE | I am not working with AI at this time | Ethics, Machine Learning | Application of AI in Human factors and engineering education | Coding, Ethical issues, Bias, Hands on experiences | ||
| Rick Kates, Faculty | kates.rick@ufl.edu | Health Services Research Management and Policy | I teach an AI module | Ethics, Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Speech or Vision Recognition, Medicine | I would like to provide my undergraduates an opportunity to work with HiPerGator. It could be something straight forward, for example, the could use AutoKeras for regression with less than 100 images. They need exposure to get them excited about future masters level AI/ML courses. | The goal is to work in 2-3 lessons into HSA4191 Health Informatics to be an AI elective within a AI certification and be feeder for other AI courses. | Coding, Hands on experiences, HiPerGator, Teaching, Fundamentals, Applications of AI | I am interested in developing some introductory AI modules and submit the results for publication. |
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