Faculty – Warren B. Nelms Institute

	Faculty Leadership
	Juan E. Andrade Laborde Associate Professor of Global Nutrition, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition Research Interests Agriculture and food and nutrition security programs, food fortification, low-cost, point-of-use diagnostic tools for assessment, quality of food aid products, and service, experiential learning education programs. View Profile
	Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko Professor, School of Teaching and Learning Research Interests Adult Education, Bilingual / Bicultural Education, Cognition, Collaboration and Teaming, Creativity, Data Collection and Analysis, ESOL, Educational / Instructional Design, Gender Issues, Higher Education, Integrated Classrooms, International Education, Language and Literacy Development, Middle School / Jr. High, Mixed Methods, Motivation, Online and Distance Education, Postsecondary Education, Professional Development, Research / Program Evaluation, Science Education, Stealth Assessment, Theoretical Perspectives, Therapeutic Relationship View Profile
	David P. Arnold George Kirkland Engineering Leadership Professor, ECE Research Interests Micro/nanostructured magnetic materials, magnetic microsystems, alternative power/energy systems (wireless power, energy harvesting, electromechanical circuits) View Profile
	Eban Bean Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department Research Interests Watershed Hydrology, Urban Stormwater Management, Residential Irrigation, Low-cost Sensors View Profile
	Angelina V Bernier Pediatric Endocrinologist, UF Health Research Interests Pediatric Obesity, Diabetes and Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), Health disparities, multimedia educational platforms, sensor glucose technology View Profile
	Zoleikha Biron Assistant Professor, ECE Research Interests Security & Control of Cyber Physical Systems, Intelligent Transportation System, Control Theory, Fault Diagnosis, Energy Management View Profile
	Christophe Bobda Professor, CISE Research Interests Embedded Vision, Embedded Systems, Reconfigurable Computing, Computer Architecture, Cybersecurity, System-Level Design View Profile
	Kristy Elizabeth Boyer Professor, CISE Research Interests Human-Centered Computing View Profile
	Jennifer A. Bridge Associate Professor, ESSIE Warren B. Nelms Institute Faculty Fellow Research Interests Structural health monitoring, Smart sensor networks for civil infrastructure monitoring, Data quality and signal processing, Data-driven decision support for infrastructure management, Compact radars sensors for bridge and coastal monitoring applications View Profile
	Yuheng Bu Assistant Professor, ECE Research Interests Signals and systems, machine learning, information theory, and signal processing, with applications to fair/trustworthy machine learning, uncertainty quantification, and anomaly detection View Profile
	Bianca Burini Assistant Professor, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, IFAS Research Interests Mosquito transgenesis and gene editing View Profile
	Baibhab Chatterjee Assistant Professor, ECE Research Interests Energy-Efficient and secure analog/RF/mixed-signal circuits and systems for biomedical and IoT applications; time-domain sensing and sensor interfaces, human body communication, brain-channel communication for untethered neural implants, physical-layer security, low-power wireless and wireline techniques View Profile
	Shigang Chen Professor, CISE Research Interests Big Network Data, Cyber-security, RFID Systems, Cloud Computing, Cyber-physical Transportation Systems View Profile
	Eric S Coker Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Global Health Research Interests Social determinants of health, population susceptibility, and environmental chemical exposures, and investigating how these factors combine to cause health effects and drive health disparities in maternal and child health View Profile
	Aaron Costin Assistant Professor, M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management Research Interests Building Information Modeling (BIM); the internet of things (IoT) and smart cities; design computing; linked data and ontologies; industrialized construction; construction safety and productivity; and facilities management View Profile
	Lili Du Professor, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering Research Interests Connected and autonomous vehicle traffic, Big Data Analytics for Transportation Systems, Interdependent Infrastructure network modeling, Transportation system analysis and network modeling, Multi-Modal Transportation System Sustainability View Profile
	William R. Eisenstadt Professor, ECE Research Interests Wireless IoT based sensor systems for agriculture, health and safety; IoT Weather stations for agriculture in Haiti, bury-and-forget IoT sensors for soil health, IoT sensors for water monitoring View Profile
	Lily Elefteriadou Barbara Goldsby Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering Director, UF Transportation Institute Research Interests Traffic management with AVs, traffic simulation, traffic flow theory, traffic signal control optimization View Profile
	Rickard Ewetz Associate Professor, ECE Research Interests Emerging Computing Paradigms, Artificial Intelligence, Computer-aided Design, VLSI Circuits View Profile
	Ruogu Fang Associate Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Interests Smart and connected health, machine learning and big medical data mining to connect multidomain and multimodal medical data for early diagnosis. View Profile
	Philip Feng Professor, ECE Research Interests Solid-State Devices, Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS), Quantum Engineering, Nanotechnology, Transducers, High-Precision Measurement & Instruments, Advanced Materials View Profile
	Jie Fu Nelms Rising Star Endowed Assistant Professor, ECE Research Interests Theory and algorithms for synthesizing correct-by-construction autonomous systems through integrated formal methods, learning, control, and game theory View Profile
	Jing Guo Professor, ECE Research Interests Electrophysics, Modeling and Simulation of Nanoelectronic Devices and Materials, Modeling Quantum Gates and Processors for Quantum Computing View Profile
	Rui Guo Instructional Assistant Professor, Engineering Education Research Interests Engineering Education, Sustainable Transportation View Profile
	Matthew T. Hale Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Research Interests Multi-agent systems, Distributed and decentralized decision-making, Robotics, Cyber-physical systems, Optimization, Graph theory View Profile
	Joel Harley Associate Professor, ECE Director, NSF Center for Big Learning Research Interests Signal Processing, Data Science, Acoustics, Nondestructive Evaluation, Structural Health Monitoring, Speech Processing View Profile
	Kejun Huang Assistant Professor, CISE Research Interests Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Optimization, Statistics View Profile
	Md Jahidul Islam Assistant Professor, ECE Research Interests Robot Perception, Underwater Robotics, AIoT View Profile
	Piyush Jain Associate Professor, ChE Research Interests Bioengineering, Gene Editing, CRISPR/Cas, Nucleic acids & Protein Engineering, Nanomaterials, Responsive Systems View Profile
	Mingyue Ji Associate Professor, ECE Research Interests Signals and Systems, Machine Learning, Distributed Computing and Storage, Communication and Networking, Information Theory View Profile
	Zhe Jiang Associate Professor, CISE Research Interests Data mining, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, spatiotemporal data mining, interdisciplinary applications in earth science, transportation, public health, etc. View Profile
	Gloria J. Kim Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Education Research Interests Engineering education, global engineering education, and social issues in STEM research and teaching View Profile
	Sanjeev J. Koppal Associate Professor, ECE Research Interests Computer Vision, Computational Photography, Sensors, Optics, Image/Video Processing View Profile
	Mary Jo Koroly Research Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Director, Center for Pre-Collegiate Education and Training Research Interests Membrane Biology View Profile
	Rachel Mallinger Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology Research Interests Community ecology of pollinators, pollination biology of crop and wild plants, and landscape ecology View Profile
	Panos M. Pardalos Distinguished Professor, ISE Research Interests Sustainable interconnected networks, Biological networks, Cooperative networks View Profile
	José C. Principe Distinguished Professor, ECE Research Interests Adaptive Signal Processing, Kernel Learning, Information Theoretic Learning, Neural Networks, Brain Machine Interfaces, Cognitive Architectures View Profile
	Sara Rampazzi Assistant Professor, CISE Research Interests Embedded Hardware Security, Embedded Systems Design, Modeling, and Simulation with Applications in Healthcare, Automotive, and the Internet of Things View Profile
	Andrea Ramírez-Salgado Instructional Assistant Professor, Engineering Education Research Interests Artificial intelligence systems, AI hardware, Artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), Women representation in computer engineering, Engineering identity, Engineering education, Equity and inclusion in engineering. View Profile
	Mostafa Reisi Assistant Professor, ISE Research Interests Developing efficient methodologies and algorithms for modeling and monitoring systems through the fusion of high-dimensional and multimodal data View Profile
	Ivan Ruchkin Assistant Professor, ECE Research Interests Safe and trustworthy autonomy, cyber-physical systems, guarantees for learning components, formal methods View Profile
	Aditya Singh Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Research Interests Assessing land cover change at regional scales using moderate resolution satellite imagery, Assessing the abundance distribution of forest canopy traits using airborne hyperspectral imagery, Understanding crop functioning, responses to stress, and water and nutrient use using small unmanned aerial systems, Assessing plant function, nutrient status, and response to stresses using optical reflectance spectra View Profile
	Karla Pagan Shelnutt Associate Professor, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Research Interests Family Nutrition Program, Healthy Food Environments, Health Rocks 4-H Sustainability & Statewide Institutionalization, Community-Based Healthy-Lifestyle Intervention for Rural Preschoolers View Profile
	Roozbeh Tabrizian Nelms Rising Star Endowed Associate Professor, ECE Research Interests Mixed-domain micro- and nano-physical devices; Micromechanical resonators and resonant sensors; Phonon engineering View Profile
	R. James Toussaint Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine Division Chief, Foot and Ankle Research Interests Achilles tendon repair, Ankle arthroscopy, Ankle pain, Broken bone, Bunions, Charcot foot, Flat feet, Foot drop, Foot pain, Hammer toe, Heel pain, High arch, Neuromuscular disorders, Rheumatoid arthritis, Sprains, Tendon repair View Profile
	Ant Ural Associate Professor, ECE Research Interests Flexible nanoelectronics, nanoscale wearables and sensors, photonic/photovoltaic nanodevices View Profile
	Daisy Wang Professor, CISE Research Interests Probabilistic databases, Probabilistic knowledge bases, Large-scale inference engines, Query-driven interactive machine learning, and Crowd assisted machine learning View Profile
	Shuo Wang Professor, ECE Research Interests Power Electronics, Electrical Power, Electromagnetic Interference, Electric Vehicles, Green Energy Conversion and Grid Integration View Profile
	Yan Wang Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning Research Interests Sustainability (Built Environment Resilience, Smart Buildings/Cities) building sustainability through resilient built environment research and better infrastructure planning for emerging technologies to reduce GHG emission. View Profile
	Tuba Yavuz Associate Professor, ECE Research Interests Improving security and privacy of IoT through behavioral firmware analysis and automated model extraction View Profile
	Yong-Kyu “YK” Yoon Professor, ECE Research Interests Design, implementation, and characterization of smart sensing systems such as smart mouthguards, bus bike rack sensing system, energy efficient antennas for 5G communications and millimeter wave antennas, wireless neural probes, and wireless power transfer View Profile
	Wanli Xing Assistant Professor, School of Teaching and Learning Research Interests Computer Simulations and Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Of Things, and Augmented Reality View Profile
	Xiaochen Xian Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering Department Research Interests Big data analytics, System informatics,Big data stream monitoring and sampling, Engineering knowledge-enhanced complex process modeling and diagnosis View Profile
	Jie Xu Associate Professor, ECE Research Interests Edge computing, edge intelligence, distributed machine learning, wireless and IoT networks, network security View Profile
	Alina Zare Professor, ECE Associate Dean for Research and Facilities, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Research Interests Pattern recognition and Machine learning View Profile

Juan E. Andrade Laborde

Associate Professor of Global Nutrition, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Research Interests
Agriculture and food and nutrition security programs, food fortification, low-cost, point-of-use diagnostic tools for assessment, quality of food aid products, and service, experiential learning education programs.

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Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko

Professor, School of Teaching and Learning

Research Interests
Adult Education, Bilingual / Bicultural Education, Cognition, Collaboration and Teaming, Creativity, Data Collection and Analysis, ESOL, Educational / Instructional Design, Gender Issues, Higher Education, Integrated Classrooms, International Education, Language and Literacy Development, Middle School / Jr. High, Mixed Methods, Motivation, Online and Distance Education, Postsecondary Education, Professional Development, Research / Program Evaluation, Science Education, Stealth Assessment, Theoretical Perspectives, Therapeutic Relationship

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David P. Arnold

George Kirkland Engineering Leadership Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Micro/nanostructured magnetic materials, magnetic microsystems, alternative power/energy systems (wireless power, energy harvesting, electromechanical circuits)

View Profile

Eban Bean

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department

Research Interests
Watershed Hydrology, Urban Stormwater Management, Residential Irrigation, Low-cost Sensors

View Profile

Angelina V Bernier

Pediatric Endocrinologist, UF Health

Research Interests
Pediatric Obesity, Diabetes and Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), Health disparities, multimedia educational platforms, sensor glucose technology

View Profile

Zoleikha Biron

Assistant Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Security & Control of Cyber Physical Systems, Intelligent Transportation System, Control Theory, Fault Diagnosis, Energy Management

View Profile

Christophe Bobda

Professor, CISE

Research Interests
Embedded Vision, Embedded Systems, Reconfigurable Computing, Computer Architecture, Cybersecurity, System-Level Design

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Kristy Elizabeth Boyer

Professor, CISE

Research Interests
Human-Centered Computing

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Jennifer A. Bridge

Associate Professor, ESSIE
Warren B. Nelms Institute Faculty Fellow

Research Interests
Structural health monitoring, Smart sensor networks for civil infrastructure monitoring, Data quality and signal processing, Data-driven decision support for infrastructure management, Compact radars sensors for bridge and coastal monitoring applications

View Profile

Yuheng Bu

Assistant Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Signals and systems, machine learning, information theory, and signal processing, with applications to fair/trustworthy machine learning, uncertainty quantification, and anomaly detection

View Profile

Bianca Burini

Assistant Professor, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, IFAS

Research Interests
Mosquito transgenesis and gene editing

View Profile

Baibhab Chatterjee

Assistant Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Energy-Efficient and secure analog/RF/mixed-signal circuits and systems for biomedical and IoT applications; time-domain sensing and sensor interfaces, human body communication, brain-channel communication for untethered neural implants, physical-layer security, low-power wireless and wireline techniques

View Profile

Shigang Chen

Professor, CISE

Research Interests
Big Network Data, Cyber-security, RFID Systems, Cloud Computing, Cyber-physical Transportation Systems

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Eric S Coker

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Global Health

Research Interests
Social determinants of health, population susceptibility, and environmental chemical exposures, and investigating how these factors combine to cause health effects and drive health disparities in maternal and child health

View Profile

Aaron Costin

Assistant Professor, M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management

Research Interests
Building Information Modeling (BIM); the internet of things (IoT) and smart cities; design computing; linked data and ontologies; industrialized construction; construction safety and productivity; and facilities management

View Profile

Lili Du

Professor, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering

Research Interests
Connected and autonomous vehicle traffic, Big Data Analytics for Transportation Systems, Interdependent Infrastructure network modeling, Transportation system analysis and network modeling, Multi-Modal Transportation System Sustainability

View Profile

William R. Eisenstadt

Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Wireless IoT based sensor systems for agriculture, health and safety; IoT Weather stations for agriculture in Haiti, bury-and-forget IoT sensors for soil health, IoT sensors for water monitoring

View Profile

Lily Elefteriadou

Barbara Goldsby Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering
Director, UF Transportation Institute

Research Interests
Traffic management with AVs, traffic simulation, traffic flow theory, traffic signal control optimization

View Profile

Rickard Ewetz

Associate Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Emerging Computing Paradigms, Artificial Intelligence, Computer-aided Design, VLSI Circuits

View Profile

Ruogu Fang

Associate Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests
Smart and connected health, machine learning and big medical data mining to connect multidomain and multimodal medical data for early diagnosis.

View Profile

Philip Feng

Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Solid-State Devices, Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS), Quantum Engineering, Nanotechnology, Transducers, High-Precision Measurement & Instruments, Advanced Materials

View Profile

Jie Fu

Nelms Rising Star Endowed Assistant Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Theory and algorithms for synthesizing correct-by-construction autonomous systems through integrated formal methods, learning, control, and game theory

View Profile

Jing Guo

Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Electrophysics, Modeling and Simulation of Nanoelectronic Devices and Materials, Modeling Quantum Gates and Processors for Quantum Computing

View Profile

Rui Guo

Instructional Assistant Professor, Engineering Education

Research Interests
Engineering Education, Sustainable Transportation

View Profile

Matthew T. Hale

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Research Interests
Multi-agent systems, Distributed and decentralized decision-making, Robotics, Cyber-physical systems, Optimization, Graph theory

View Profile

Joel Harley

Associate Professor, ECE
Director, NSF Center for Big Learning

Research Interests
Signal Processing, Data Science, Acoustics, Nondestructive Evaluation, Structural Health Monitoring, Speech Processing

View Profile

Kejun Huang

Assistant Professor, CISE

Research Interests
Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Optimization, Statistics

View Profile

Md Jahidul Islam

Assistant Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Robot Perception, Underwater Robotics, AIoT

View Profile

Piyush Jain

Associate Professor, ChE

Research Interests
Bioengineering, Gene Editing, CRISPR/Cas, Nucleic acids & Protein Engineering, Nanomaterials, Responsive Systems

View Profile

Mingyue Ji

Associate Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Signals and Systems, Machine Learning, Distributed Computing and Storage, Communication and Networking, Information Theory

View Profile

Zhe Jiang

Associate Professor, CISE

Research Interests
Data mining, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, spatiotemporal data mining, interdisciplinary applications in earth science, transportation, public health, etc.

View Profile

Gloria J. Kim

Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Education

Research Interests
Engineering education, global engineering education, and social issues in STEM research and teaching

View Profile

Sanjeev J. Koppal

Associate Professor, ECE

Research Interests

Computer Vision, Computational Photography, Sensors, Optics, Image/Video Processing

View Profile

Mary Jo Koroly

Research Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Director, Center for Pre-Collegiate Education and Training

Research Interests
Membrane Biology

View Profile

Rachel Mallinger

Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology

Research Interests
Community ecology of pollinators, pollination biology of crop and wild plants, and landscape ecology

View Profile

Panos M. Pardalos

Distinguished Professor, ISE

Research Interests
Sustainable interconnected networks, Biological networks, Cooperative networks

View Profile

José C. Principe

Distinguished Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Adaptive Signal Processing, Kernel Learning, Information Theoretic Learning, Neural Networks, Brain Machine Interfaces, Cognitive Architectures

View Profile

Sara Rampazzi

Assistant Professor, CISE

Research Interests
Embedded Hardware Security, Embedded Systems Design, Modeling, and Simulation with Applications in Healthcare, Automotive, and the Internet of Things

View Profile

Andrea Ramírez-Salgado

Instructional Assistant Professor, Engineering Education

Research Interests
Artificial intelligence systems, AI hardware, Artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), Women representation in computer engineering, Engineering identity, Engineering education, Equity and inclusion in engineering.

View Profile

Mostafa Reisi

Assistant Professor, ISE

Research Interests
Developing efficient methodologies and algorithms for modeling and monitoring systems through the fusion of high-dimensional and multimodal data

View Profile

Ivan Ruchkin

Assistant Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Safe and trustworthy autonomy, cyber-physical systems, guarantees for learning components, formal methods

View Profile

Aditya Singh

Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Research Interests
Assessing land cover change at regional scales using moderate resolution satellite imagery, Assessing the abundance distribution of forest canopy traits using airborne hyperspectral imagery, Understanding crop functioning, responses to stress, and water and nutrient use using small unmanned aerial systems, Assessing plant function, nutrient status, and response to stresses using optical reflectance spectra

View Profile

Karla Pagan Shelnutt

Associate Professor, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Research Interests
Family Nutrition Program, Healthy Food Environments, Health Rocks 4-H Sustainability & Statewide Institutionalization, Community-Based Healthy-Lifestyle Intervention for Rural Preschoolers

View Profile

Roozbeh Tabrizian

Nelms Rising Star Endowed Associate Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Mixed-domain micro- and nano-physical devices; Micromechanical resonators and resonant sensors; Phonon engineering

View Profile

R. James Toussaint

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine
Division Chief, Foot and Ankle

Research Interests
Achilles tendon repair, Ankle arthroscopy, Ankle pain, Broken bone, Bunions, Charcot foot, Flat feet, Foot drop, Foot pain, Hammer toe, Heel pain, High arch, Neuromuscular disorders, Rheumatoid arthritis, Sprains, Tendon repair

View Profile

Ant Ural

Associate Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Flexible nanoelectronics, nanoscale wearables and sensors, photonic/photovoltaic nanodevices

View Profile

Daisy Wang

Professor, CISE

Research Interests
Probabilistic databases, Probabilistic knowledge bases, Large-scale inference engines, Query-driven interactive machine learning, and Crowd assisted machine learning

View Profile

Shuo Wang

Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Power Electronics, Electrical Power, Electromagnetic Interference, Electric Vehicles, Green Energy Conversion and Grid Integration

View Profile

Yan Wang

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Research Interests
Sustainability (Built Environment Resilience, Smart Buildings/Cities)
building sustainability through resilient built environment research and better infrastructure planning for emerging technologies to reduce GHG emission.

View Profile

Tuba Yavuz

Associate Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Improving security and privacy of IoT through behavioral firmware analysis and automated model extraction

View Profile

Yong-Kyu “YK” Yoon

Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Design, implementation, and characterization of smart sensing systems such as smart mouthguards, bus bike rack sensing system, energy efficient antennas for 5G communications and millimeter wave antennas, wireless neural probes, and wireless power transfer

View Profile

Wanli Xing

Assistant Professor, School of Teaching and Learning

Research Interests
Computer Simulations and Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Of Things, and Augmented Reality

View Profile

Xiaochen Xian

Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering Department

Research Interests
Big data analytics, System informatics,Big data stream monitoring and sampling, Engineering knowledge-enhanced complex process modeling and diagnosis

View Profile

Jie Xu

Associate Professor, ECE

Research Interests
Edge computing, edge intelligence, distributed machine learning, wireless and IoT networks, network security

View Profile

Alina Zare

Professor, ECE
Associate Dean for Research and Facilities, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

Research Interests
Pattern recognition and Machine learning

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