UFII Fellows 2018

Forest Research and Conservation
Mentor: Dr. Denis Valle
Research Interests:
Spatial Epidemiology and Vector Borne Diseases

Epidemiology
Mentor: Dr. Mattia Prosperi
Research Interests:
Biomedical informatics and precision medicine

Mathematics
Mentor: Dr. Peter Bubenik
Research Interests:
Topological data analysis, computational geometry, real algebraic geometry

Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Ahmed Helmy
Research Interests:
Mobility Modeling, Vehicular Mobility and Transportation, Network Protocol Design (Adhoc and DTN), Applications of Machine Learning and Deep Learning in mobility modeling.

Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Christina Boucher
Research Interests:
Scalable algorithms, approximation algorithms, machine learning

Psychology
Mentor: Dr.Natalie Ebner
Research Interests:
Cognitive Aging

Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics
Mentor: Dr. Jiang Bian
Research Interests:
Data Science, Natural Language Processing, Biomedical Informatics

Mathematics
Mentor: Dr. Peter Bubenik
Research Interests:
Topological data analysis

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Sean Meyn
Research Interests:
Stochastic Approximation, Reinforcement Learning, Markov Decision Processes

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Kathryn Sieving, Dr. Jose Principe
Research Interests:
Operational classification systems, possibilistic classification, classifier fusion, one-class classification, Gaussian process