Faculty Expertise – NSF Center for Big Learning

			Jiang Bian Health Outcomes & Policy, UF Health outcomes, NLP, social media
	Azra Bihorac Medicine, UF Intelligent health systems to improve organization, processes, quality, cost, delivery and outcomes in perioperative and critical care medicine		Arturo Bretas ECE, UF Power Systems Protection, Reliability Optimization, State Estimation, Restoration, Operation, Dynamics and Control
	Shigang Chen CISE, UF Big Network Data, Cyber-security, RFID Systems, Cloud Computing, Cyber-physical Transportation Systems		Yunmei Chen Mathematics, UF Mathematical modeling, optimization techniques, applications to image analysis, machine learning, neuron network computing.
	ZhiQiang Chen CME, UMKC Remote sensing, engineering mechancis, physical modeling		Hank Childs CIS, UO Scientific Visualization, High Performance Computing, Data Visualization
			Ana Conesa BAE, UF Genomics of Gene Expression, Functional genomics, Bioinformatics Software and Tools
	William Cresko Biology, UO Next Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatics, Genomics		Dejing Dou CIS, UO Ontology-based Deep Learning, Human Behavior Prediction, Information Extraction
	Lily Elefteriadou Civil, UF Traffic flow theory, highway capacity analysis, traffic simulation, signal control, travel time reliability		Yuguang Michael Fang ECE, UF Privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning, wireless networks, mobile computing, network security and privacy, smart grid
	Stephen Fickas CIS, UO Ubiquitous Computing, Assistive Technology, Software Requirements Engineering		Renato Figueiredo ECE, UF Virtualization in distributed systems, Autonomic computing, Peer-to-peer systems, Social networks and their applications in systems design, Cloud computing, Computer architecture
	Paul Gader CISE, UF Nonlinear unmixing for hyperspectral image analysis with applications to object and material detection, classification and segmentation, and measuring physical properties such as plant and animal health as well as biomass and clorophyll		Jian Ge Astronomy, UF Habitable Earth-like Planet Surveys with High Precision Optical and Near-IR Doppler Techniques, SDSS-III Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS), Global network of extremely high precision Exoplanet Trackers (ET network)

	William Hogan Health Outcomes and Policy, UF Biomedical ontology		Qiu-Xing Jiang Biology, UF Molecular biophysics, membrane biology, cryoEM
	Sanjeev J. Koppal ECE, UF Computer vision and computational photography		Yugyung Lee CSEE, UMKC Machine Learning/Data Mining, Big Data Analytics, Semantic Web, Biomedical Application, Cognitive Robotics, Immersive Intelligence (Virtual/Augmented Reality)
	Chi H. Lee Pharmaceutical Sciences, UMKC Biomedical informatics, Computational Modeling for Drug Delivery Systems, Biomedical Sensors
	Jian Li ECE, UF Statistical and Array Signal Processing, Spectrum Sensing, Radar Signal Processing		Zhu Li CSEE, UMKC Image Processing, Compression, Communication, Machine Learning
	Faming Liang Biostatistics, UF Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Big Data, Bioinformatics, Spatial Statistics, Machine Learning, Statistical Genetics, Stochastic Optimization		Daniel Lowd CIS, UO Statistical relational learning, Adversarial machine learning, Probabilistic graphical models, Artificial Intelligence
	Ye Luo Economics, UF High-dimensional statistics, Model Selection, Deep Learning. Applications in NLP and Finance.		Allen Malony CIS, UO Parallel and Distributed Computing, Performance Analysis, High Performance Computing, Scientific Software Environments
	Sean Meyn ECE, UF Markov processes, spectral theory and large deviations, Stochastic approximation, reinforcement learning, Communication networks, Smart Grid		George Michailidis Statistics, UF Joint estimation of multiple graphical models, vector autoregressive models, pathway enrichments analysis
			Juan Claudio Nino MSE, UF Memristors and Neuromorphic Computing
	Boyana Norris CIS, UO High Performance Computing, Performance Analysis and Optimization, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Software Engineering for HPC		Daniela Oliveira ECE, UF Interdisciplinary computer security
	Karim Oweiss ECE, UF Basic Neuroscience, Translational Neuroscience, Systems Engineering		Xiajun Amy Pan ISOM, UF Retail Operations, Supply Chain Management, Operations-Marketing Interface, Operations-Information Interface, Business Analytics
	Panos Pardalos ISE, UF Global and combinatorial optimization, network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing		NhatHai Phan CIS, UO Data Mining, Machine Learning, Social Network Analysis, Data Privacy
	Jose Principe ECE, UF Adaptive Systems Theory, Machine Learning, Information Theoretic Learning
	Anand Rangarajan CISE, UF Image analysis, machine learning and computational mathematics.		Sanjay Ranka CISE, UF Data mining, informatics and grid computing for data intensive applications in High Energy Physics, BioTerrorism and BioMedical Computing
	Praveen Rao CSEE, UMKC Designing scalable data management techniques, indexing and query processing of RDF/graph/XML databases		Parisa Rashidi BME, UF Intelligent Health Systems
			Reza Rejaie CIS, UO Computer Networks, Multimedia Networking, Social Network Analysis, Network Measurement
			John Mark Shea ECE, UF Wireless Communications and Networks, Networked Autonomous Systems
			Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan Civil, UF Transportation Planning and Policy Evaluation, Travel-Demand Modeling and Forecasting, GPS and GIS Applications for Travel-Data Collection and Analysis
	Joe Sventek CIS, UO Complex Event Processing, Internet of Things, Sensor Networks
			Stanislav Uryasev ISE, UF Stochastic optimization, risk management, financial engineering and military operations research
	Daisy Zhe Wang CISE, UF Probabilistic databases, probabilistic knowledge bases, large-scale inference engines, query-driven interactive machine learning, and crowd assisted machine learning		Tan Wong ECE, UF Information Integrity, Secret Sharing/ Key Agreement over Physical Channels, Software-defined Radios
	Damon Woodard ECE, UF Applied Machine Learning, Biometrics, Identity Science, Cybersecurity		Dapeng Oliver Wu ECE, UF Machine learning, communication, networking, network science, signal processing, multimedia, security, computer vision
	Jinhong Xie Marketing, UF Innovation management and strategies, network effects, service pricing, independent product information and marketing strategy, national culture effect on new product management
	Lin Yang BME, UF Biomedical image analysis and imaging informatics, computer vision, biomedical informatics, and machine learning		Shui Qing Ye BHI, Pediatrics, UMKC Designing scalable data management techniques, indexing and query processing of RDF/graph/XML databases
	Alina Zare ECE, UF Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Remote Sensing, Agriculture, Plant Phenotyping, Target Detection, Automated Health Systems