The University of Florida today announced a public-private partnership with NVIDIA that will catapult UF’s research strength to address some of the world’s most formidable challenges, create unprecedented access to AI training and tools for underrepresented communities, and build momentum for transforming the future of the workforce.
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UF Nelms Institute and ECE IoT Term Professor Oliveira Leading ENIGMA 2021 Program
Enigma Conference is known for facilitating engaging talks on emerging security & privacy threats & defenses at the growing intersection of tech & society. Dr. Oliveira is co-chairing this highly anticipated event among academic, industry and policy researchers for ENIGMA 2021 now calling for participation due on August 26, 2020.
Skylar Stolte’s Paper Accepted for Publication in Medical Image Analysis
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) represents a highly-prevalent complication of diabetes in which individuals suffer from damage to the blood vessels in the retina. Skylar’s paper focuses on using deep learning systems that offer the revolutionary potential to DR identification and prevention of vision loss.
Postdoctoral Scholar Spotlight: Patanjali Sristi Lakshmiprasanna Sriramakumara
Dr. Patanjali SLPSK is a postdoctoral research scholar working with the Nelms Institute for the Connected World, mentored by Director Dr. Swarup Bhunia. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where he was advised by Dr. Kamakoti.
New Faculty Member Highlight: Dr. Shreya Saxena
Dr. Shreya Saxena is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University and will start as an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department on October 1st, 2020.
Nelms Faculty Member Leads ASCE Artificial Intelligence Task Committee
Dr. Lili Du, Nelms Institute affiliate faculty and associate professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, recently received approval to set up and co-lead the Artificial Intelligence Task Committee under the Emerging Technologies Council of Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Graduate Student Scheduled to join as Tenure-Track Faculty at University of Kansas
Tamzidul Hoque, graduate student of Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) . He will be joining the EECS Department of the University of Kansas (KU) as an Assistant Professor, starting in Fall 2020.
Student Highlights: Caroline Chhu
Caroline Chhu is a third-year Chemical Engineering major working with ECE graduate student Naren Masna and Dr. Swarup Bhunia. She has been working on a project to detect fake medicines and synthetic opioids using Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) Spectroscopy. Her… Read More
Srivalli Boddupalli
Srivalli Boddupalli is a second-year ECE Ph.D. student, and a key student member of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World. Her Ph.D. supervisor is Professor Sandip Ray, also our Director of Industry Programs. Srivalli received her M.S.… Read More
Warren B. Nelms IoT Spring Newsletter, 2020
It is our great pleasure to introduce the Institute’s newsletters. The Institute remains at the forefront of IoT research, education and outreach activities with specific emphasis on developing groundbreaking IoT technologies and their exciting applications in solving global problems –… Read More