Amr Abd-Elrahman
Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Abd-Elrahman is a professor in the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences faculty and the Geomatics program adviser in the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center (Plant City). His research interests include remote sensing and geospatial analysis applications in precision agriculture and natural resource management.
Ashish Aggarwal
Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Aggarwal is an Instructional Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida. His research explores the intersection of Computer Science Education, Learning Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on developing innovative technologies and pedagogical approaches to enhance programming education.
Cristian Cardenas-Lailhacar
Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Cardenas-Lailhacar’s research interests include industrial energy management and productivity, energy efficiency and optimization, energy policy, new energy sources and materials, and chemical reactivity and structure optimization at the molecular level.
Bruce Carroll
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Carroll is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. His research interests include applied AI and data analytics, fluid mechanics, and experimental methods.
Laura Cruz-Castro
Ph.D., Purdue University
Dr. Cruz-Castro is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida. Her areas of interest include foundational AI and applied AI and data analytics.
Andrea Goncher
Ph.D., Virginia Tech
Dr. Goncher is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida. Her research interests include engineering education and text analytics.
Christan Grant
Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Grant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. His research interests include database management systems, interactive machine learning, privacy, visualization, data mining, and natural language processing.
Rui Guo
Ph.D., University of South Florida
Dr. Guo is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering and the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida.
Boyi Hu
Ph.D., West Virginia University
Dr. Hu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. His research interests include applied AI and data analytics, wearable electronics, biomechanics, multi-sensory fusion, and human motion analysis.
Kejun Huang
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Dr. Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. His research interests include machine learning, signal processing, optimization, and statistics.
Philip Jackson
Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Jackson is an Instructional Associate Professor at the University of Florida. His research interests include numerical applications to heat transfer, fluid mechanics, magnetohydrodynamics, and facilitating undergraduate student engagement in similar projects. He is also interested in the effect of game-based learning systems and adaptive learning systems on student motivation.
Zhe Jiang
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Dr. Jiang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. His lab’s mission is to design and develop accurate, scalable, and robust AI and machine learning algorithms and tools inspired by interdisciplinary applications
Richard Lind
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Dr. Lind is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. His research interests include aeroservoelasticity, morphing, controls, and flight testing.
Edwin Marte
Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Marte is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida. His research interests include educational technology, physiological and emotional learning metrics, and culturally responsive pedagogy.
Janise McNair
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. McNair is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Wireless And Mobile Systems Laboratory at the University of Florida. Her research interests include wireless networks and Internet of Things applications. Currently, her research creates frameworks for integrating IoT with 5G and 6G cellular systems.
Umesh Persad
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Dr. Persad is an Instructional Associate Professor at the University of Florida. His areas of interest include engineering design and product development, applied AI, educational innovation and technology, and academic strategy and leadership. Dr. Persad previously held the position of Associate Professor and Head of Department of the Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship (MME) Department at The University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT), West Indies.
Cheryl Resch
Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Resch is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida. Her research interests include cybersecurity education and NLP in education research. Before joining UF as a lecturer, Resch spent 29 years at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where she performed research in secure computing and cybersecurity architecture.
Catia Silva
Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Silva is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. She specializes in machine learning, artificial intelligence, data analytics, personalized learning, workforce development, and experiential education.
Kimberly Stubbs
Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Stubbs is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida. She teaches and supervises undergraduate students as they develop new skills in the MATLAB coding environment using an experiential learning-based flipped course format.
Sanethia Thomas
Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Thomas is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research interests include human-centered computing, educational technologies, and athlete development. She was honored as the International Educator of the Year for 2024 and received the AI Educator of the Year award for the 2023-2024 academic year. Fun fact: Dr. Thomas represented the United States in basketball competitions held in Amsterdam, Belgium, and Paris!
Shuo Wang
Ph.D., Virginia Tech
Dr. Wang is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. His research interests include power electronics, electromagnetic interference, electric vehicles, green energy conversion and grid integration, and electromagnetic security.
Lawrence “Larry” Warren
M.S., University of Florida
Warren is the Lab Manager for the Integrated Product and Process Design program at the University of Florida.
Rong Zhang
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Dr. Zhang is an Associate Instructional Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research interests include image and signal analysis and machine learning.