UFII Fellows 2016

Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Mentors: Dr. Bliznyuk, Dr. Yang
Research Interests:

Computational epidemiology, ecology, and environmental science, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, Monte Carlo methods, semiparametrics statistics, spatio-temporal statistics

Biological Engineering
Mentor: Dr.Tong
Research Interests:
Thermochemical conservation of biomass into valuable chemicals and fuels

Computer Information Science and Engineering
Mentor:Dr. Entezari
Research Interests:

Inverse problems, computational imaging, signal processing

Mathematics
Mentors: Dr.Chen, Dr. Xiaoguang Zhang
Research Interests:
Convex optimization, image processing, machine learning

Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Science College of Medicine
Mentor: Dr.Zhou
Research Interests:
Identifying significant coding and non-coding mutations using high throughput sequencing data of

Department of Physics
Mentor: Dr. Roitberg
Research Interests:
Molecular Modeling and Simulation, Data Science and Numerical Methods

Materials Science and Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Hennig
Research Interests:
The discovery and characterization of two-dimensional materials using high-throughput approach.

Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Mentors: Dr. Rangarajan, Dr. Ranka, Dr.Judge, Dr. Gerber, Dr. Binford
Research Interests:
Computer Vision and Machine Learning. High-performance computing for development of scalable approaches for classification of very high resolution (VHR) remote sensing imagery.

Florida Museum of Natural History
Mentors: Dr. Guralnick, Dr. Braun, Dr. Kimball
Research Interests:
Computational and statistical methods in evolutionary biology, biodiversity informatics, knowledge representation, entomology, and natural history.

Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Mentors: Dr. McIntyre, Dr. Merritt
Research Interests:
Infectious disease transmission modelling and metabolomic data analysis.

Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
Mentors: Dr. Rashidi,Dr. Manini, Dr. Tighe
Research Interests:
Machine learning, biomedical and health informatics