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We’re happy to share that Ayesha Naikodi has been selected to receive a travel award, supporting attendance at the “Modular Image Analysis with PlantCV” workshop at North American Plant Phenotyping Network (NAPPN) 2026. Ayesha will also be presenting her research on the “Impact of Annotation Modality on Annotator Experience and Model Outcomes in Plant Root […]

Congratulations to UF’s graduating class of Fall 2025! The MLSL would like to recognize our very own graduate researcher, Luke Saleh! Luke will be working with Apple as a Product Manager for the App Ads team in New York City. Luke is going to do great things and we are excited to follow his achievements. Later, […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Blake Fowler! Blake is a first-year student in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering pursuing a bachelor’s degree in computer science. Blake is deeply motivated to build a strong theoretical and applied foundation in machine learning. He enjoys exploring research, playing […]

  The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome Juan Diaz as a new Ph.D. student! Juan received his Electrical & Computer Engineering bachelor and master’s degree from the University of Florida. He received his bachelors in spring 2022 and his master’s in Fall 2023. Afterwards He became a Machine Learning Engineer in […]

  The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome Clinton Jules as a new Ph.D. student! Clinton received his MS degree in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis in December 2023. He recently completed an internship at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory working with Agentic AI. Clinton will be working […]

We’re so excited to share that Mark Adewumi has been accepted for an incredible opportunity to study abroad this upcoming Fall 2025 semester in Madrid at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)! He’ll be diving into new classes, embracing a new culture, and making unforgettable memories in one of Europe’s most vibrant cities. Wishing you […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Bakari Kerr! Bakari will be working with Dr. Diandra Ojo on the minirhizotron root phenotyping project. He is also involved with the National Society of Black Engineers and ColorStack. In his free time he enjoys skateboarding and kickboxing. You can also […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Chloe Nolan! Chloe is a rising senior at UF, and she is interested in machine learning and UX design. She will be working on the IoT4Ag project for nitrate prediction. In her free time, she enjoys singing, painting, and watching F1. […]

It is a great pleasure and honor for everyone in Gatorsense that one of our labmates has achieved his goal. Congratulations to Dr. Spencer Chang for graduating with his Ph.D.! His dissertation title is: Enhancing Semantic Segmentation with Locally Learned Histogram Features. He’s now bringing his expertise in computer vision and machine learning to the […]