UFII Fellows 2019

School of Forest Resources and Conservation
Mentor: Dr. Denis Valle
Research Interests:
Quantitative ecology from an interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating topics such as movement ecology, biomechanics, morphology, feeding ecology, and ecotoxicology

Department of Physics
Mentor: Dr. Whiting
Research Interests:
Einstein’s theory of general relativity and experimental physics, Bayesian inference

Bureau of Economic and Business Research BEBR
Mentor: Dr. Chris McCarty
Research Interests:
Analysis of the evolution of multiplex collaborative networks, ego-centered network analysis, methods of the social sciences and statistical programming

Department of Astronomy
Mentor: Dr. Desika Narayanan

Pathology, Immunology, & Laboratory Medicine
Mentor: Dr. Timothy Garrett
Research Interests:
Discovery of metabolite-based biomarker towards the development of precision medicine for human cancer and malnutrition

Interdisciplinary Ecology, School of Natural Resources & Environment
Mentor: Dr. Ethan White
Research Interests:
Applying machine and statistical learning approaches to derive spatially-explicit big ecological datasets, the ultimate goal being to understand processes driving forests ecology and biogeochemistry

Department of Physics
Mentor: Dr. Cheng
Research Interests:Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Thai
Research Interests:
Data/Graph Mining, Approximation Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization

Sociology and Criminology & Law
Mentor(s): Dr. Vacca

School of Forest Resources & Conservation
Mentor(s): Dr. Bohlman

Department of Astronomy
Mentor: Dr. Ge
Research Interests:
Quasar absorption line systems, exoplanet detection with doppler spectroscopy,. deep neural networks,general-purpose GPU programming and the origin of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).