Alina Zare
azare [at] ufl [dot] edu
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Google Scholars Page
Mathematics Genealogy Page
Dr. Alina Zare has graduate faculty status and can advise PhD students or serve as an internal member on PhD committees from the following departments/schools:
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer & Information Science & Engineering
School of Natural Resources & Environment
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
December 2008
Ph.D. Thesis: Hyperspectral Endmember Detection and Band Selection using Bayesian Methods
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
August 2003
Appointments
Associate Dean for Research and Facilities, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Aug. 2022-Current
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Aug. 2020 – Current
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Oct. 2016 – Aug. 2020
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia MO
Sept. 2016
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia MO
Sept. 2010 -Aug. 2016
Office of Naval Research Faculty Fellow, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City, FL
May – Aug. 2012 & May – Aug. 2013
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Computational Science and Intelligence Lab, University of FL, Gainesville, FL
Jan. 2009 – Aug. 2010
Publications
Publication listing can be found here: Publications
Projects
Project listing can be found here: Projects
Honors and Leadership
H.E.R.S. Leadership Institute Participant, 2021-2022
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Teacher/Scholar of the Year, UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, 2021-2022
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, January 2021 – Current
Term Professorship Award, University of Florida, August 2021-July 2024
Faculty Service Excellence Award, UF Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, May 2021.
Top 10% of high-scoring reviewers at Neurips 2020, October 2020.
Faculty Research Excellence Award, UF Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, May 2020.
Program Chair, Phenome 2020
Best Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Jan. 2020.
Best New Faculty Award UF ECE Graduate Student Organization, 2019
Graduate Recruitment and Admissions Committee Coordinator, Aug. 2019 – Current
Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, July 2019
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Education and IDEA Committee Member, Jan. 2019 – Current
Rising Researcher Award SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing, 2018
Outstanding Reviewer Recognition for IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2017
Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2016-2021
Honored as an MU Top Faculty Achiever, March 2015
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency New Investigator Program Award, Oct. 2014
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, May 2014
MU College of Engineering Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award, Mar. 2014
IEEE Senior Member: Elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE, Feb. 2014
Program Chair, IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing, Jun. 2013
Best Reviewer Recognition for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2011
IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society Unsupervised Optical Data Fusion Contest Winner, 2009
Additional Related Links
NVIDIA Meet the Researcher Profile. Oct. 2020. https://bit.ly/325Whbg
UF Informatics Institute AI Advances and Applications Seminar. “Plant Root Analysis with Multiple Instance Learning.” Sept. 2020. https://bit.ly/2TMgcHw
Collaboration with Agronomy video. Nov. 2019. https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2019/11/08/alina-zare-partners-with-agronomy/
Global Centra Webinar Series. “Machine Learning and Application in Remote Sensing.” Mar. 2019. https://www.globalcentra.org/spring2019webinars/
Nobel Institute Research Seminar. “Learning from Imprecision for Target Characterization and Spectral Unmixing.” Nov. 2017. https://bit.ly/34PSssj
Plantae Seminar. “Plants, Rumors, and Imaging Spectroscopy.” Dec. 2017. https://bit.ly/2TOefKM