People – NSF Center for Big Learning

	Majid Bani-Yaghoub Mathematics and Statistics, UMKC Spatio-temporal modeling, big data analysis, infectious disease modeling, wave theory, machine learning and data mining		Jiang Bian Health Outcomes & Policy, UF Health outcomes, NLP, social meida
	Azra Bihorac Medicine, UF Intelligent health systems to improve organization, processes, quality, cost, delivery and outcomes in perioperative and critical care medicine		Kevin Butler CISE, UF System Security, Network Security
	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
	Baek-Young Choi Computer and Engineering, UMKC Internet-of-Things, Mobile Device Technologies, Network Systems; Security and Management, Cloud Systems and Software-Defined Networks, Blockchain and Distributed System Algorithms		Ana Conesa Microbiology and Cell Science, UF Genomics of Gene Expression, Functional genomics, Bioinformatics Software and Tools
	William Cresko Biology, UO Next Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatics, Genomics		Yousong Ding Pharmacy, UF Medicinal Chemistry, Natural Product Biosynthesis, Drug Discovery and Development, Synthetic Biology, Protein Engineering, and Chemical Biology
	Warren Dixon MAE, UF Nonlinear Controls, Robotics		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		Ruogu Fang BME, UF Medical Data Computing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Big-data Strategy, Data Mining, Medical Analysis
	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		Danling Fu Education, UF Bilingual/Bicultural Education, Literacy, Teaching & Learning, Writing
	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 chlorophyll		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)
	Joel Harley ECE, UF Physics-influenced Machine Learning, Computational Mechanics, Wave Motion, Nondestructive Evaluation, Time-series Analysis		William Hogan Health Outcomes and Policy, UF Biomedical ontology
	Gerrit Hoogenboom ABE, Sustainable Food Systems, UF Crop Modeling, Decision Support Systems, Agrometeorology, Climate Change, Climate Variability		Wenqing Hu Math & Stats, Missouri Univ S&T Probability and statistic methods for data science, machine learning and optimization
	Qiu-Xing Jiang Biology, UF Molecular biophysics, membrane biology, cryoEM		Sanjeev J. Koppal ECE, UF Computer vision and computational photography
	Chi H. Lee Pharmaceutical Sciences, UMKC Biomedical informatics, Computational Modeling for Drug Delivery Systems, Biomedical Sensors		Hank Lee Nuclear Eng, Missouri Univ S&T Nuclear physics, medical imaging and machine learning
	Yugyung Lee CSEE, UMKC Machine Learning/Data Mining, Big Data Analytics, Semantic Web, Biomedical Application, Cognitive Robotics, Immersive Intelligence (Virtual/Augmented Reality)		Chenglong Li Pharmacy, UF Organic chemistry, Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Pharmacology
	Jian Li ECE, UF Statistical and Array Signal Processing, Spectrum Sensing, Radar Signal Processing		Zhu Li CSEE, UMKC Image Processing, Compression, Communication, Machine Learning
	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		Liangfei Qiu ISOM, UF Game Theory, Applied Econometrics and Statistics, Experimental Economics, Economics of Information Systems, Prediction Markets, Social Networks and Social Media Platforms, Telecommunications Network
	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		Adrian Roitberg Chemistry, UF Theoretical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry
	John Mark Shea ECE, UF Wireless Communications and Networks, Networked Autonomous Systems		Sejun Song Computer and Engineering, UMKC Internet-of-Things, Machine Learning, Reliability, Cybersecurity, Networking, Embedded 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		Uryasev Stanislav ISE, UF Stochastic optimization, risk management, financial engineering and military operations research
	Joe Sventek CIS, UO Complex Event Processing, Internet of Things, Sensor Networks		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
	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		Bi-Botti Celestin Youan Pharmacy, UMKC Theoretical and experimental development and evaluation of bioactive agents loaded nanomedicine platforms .
	Alina Zare ECE, UF Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Remote Sensing, Agriculture, Plant Phenotyping, Target Detection, Automated Health Systems		Jinying Zhao Epidemiology, UF Genetic Epidemiology, statistical genetics for human complex diseases
	Xiang Zhong ISE, UF Stochastic modeling and control in healthcare and service systems, Data analytics in healthcare