Ruogu Fang
Ph.D.– University of Florida
An AI researcher in medicine and healthcare, Dr. Ruogu Fang is a tenured Associate Professor and Pruitt Family Endowed Faculty Fellow in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research encompasses two principal themes: AI-empowered precision brain health and brain/bio-inspired AI.
Jorg Peters
Ph.D.– U Wisconsin
Dr. Peters’ research interests include modeling and computing with geometry: computer graphics, geometric design, numerical computations, surgery simulation.
Amr Abd-Elrahman
Ph.D.– University of Florida
His research area of interest is remote sensing and geospatial analysis applications in precision agriculture and natural resource management. Amr utilizes multi-spectral and hyperspectral images acquired from satellite, airborne, and small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) as well as lidar datasets. He uses machine learning algorithms, including deep learning networks (e.g., CNN, FCN, Deeplab) to analyze high spatial resolution sUAS images.
Christan Grant
Ph.D.– University of Florida
Dr. Christan Grant is an Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. His research interests include: Database Management Systems, Interactive Machine Learning, Privacy, Visualization, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing.
Lawrence Ukeiley
Ph.D.– Clarkson University
Lawrence Ukeiley is currently a Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Florida. His primary research interests are in experimental fluid dynamics and turbulence as related to flow control, aeroacoustics, fluid structure interactions and the development of low order models.
Philip Jackson
Ph.D.– University of Florida
Dr. Jackson’s research interests include numerical applications to heat transfer, fluid mechanics, magnetohydrodynamics, and facilitating undergraduate students to engage in similar projects. He is also interested in game-based learning systems and adaptive learning systems and their effect on student motivation.
Rong Zhang
Ph.D.– Rutgers University
Dr. Zhang’s research areas include image and signal analysis and machine learning.
Erin Patrick
Ph.D.– University of Florida
Her research interests include: Biophysical modeling of electric-field effects on cells (non-excitable and excitable), semiconductor-device modeling and simulation, neural interfaces.
Cristian Cardenas
Ph.D.– University of Florida
Research interests: Industrial energy management and productivity, energy efficiency and optimization, energy policy, new energy sources and materials, chemical reactivity and structure optimization at molecular level.
Cheryl Resch
Ph.D.– University of Florida
Resch teaches core Computer Science courses and is performing computing education research. Before joining UF as a lecturer, Resch spent 29 years at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. There she performed research in secure computing and cybersecurity architecture.