Category: News

Congratulations to our labmates and collaborators Pamela S. Soltis, Gil Nelson, Alina Zare and Emily K. Meineke!    They wrote the introduction for a special issue of Applicaitons in Plant Sciences.  Their introduction is titled “Plants meet machines: Prospects in machine learning for plant biology”, and it discusses the ways machine learning is being applied […]

Abstract: Machine learning approaches are affecting all aspects of modern society, from autocorrect applications on cell phones to self‐driving cars to facial recognition, personalized medicine, and precision agriculture. Although machine learning has a long history, drastic improvements in these application areas recently have been driven by improvements to computational infrastructure; increased computing power; increased ability […]

Congratulations to our labmates and collaborators Guohao Yu, Alina Zare, Hudanyun Sheng, Roser Matamala, Joel Reyes-Cabrera, Felix Fritschi and Thomas Juenger! Their paper, “Root Identification in Minirhizotron Imagery with Multiple Instance Learning”, was recently published in Machine Vision and Applications! Their paper explores the use of multiple instance learning to segment minirhizotron images of plant […]

Sparsity Promoting Iterated Constrained Endmemebers (SPICE) is now installable with conda!  SPICE is an algorithm for finding hyperspectral endmembers and corresponding proportions for a scene.  The Python implementation can now be installed easily from PyPI or through the conda-forge.   Installation is as easy as hitting pip install SPICE-HSI in your python terminal or conda install […]

Congratulations to our labmates and collaborators, Keerthiraj Nagaraj, Sheng Zou, Cody Ruben, Surya Dhulipala, Allen Starke, Arturo Bretas, Alina Zare , and Janise McNair!  Their paper, “Ensemble CorrDet with Adaptive Statistics for Bad Data Detection,” was accepted to IET Smart Grid.   The online publication can be found here. Check it out!

Abstract: Smart grid (SG) systems are designed to leverage digital automation technologies for monitoring, control and analysis. As SG technology is implemented in increasing numbers of power systems, SG data becomes increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Classic analytic physics-model based bad data detection methods may not detect these attacks. Recently, physics-model and datadriven methods have been […]

Congratulations to our labmate, Joshua Peeples!  Josh was recently invited to be a speaker for the University of Alabama Birmingham’s “Young Alumni Series”.  This sequence of presentations is focused on highlighting successful alumni in engineering.  Josh will be sharing his story in engineering education, both in his own school experiences and in his pursuit of […]

Dr. Alina Zare was recently promoted from Associate Professor to Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida.

Congratulations to our labmates, Weihuang Xu, Guohao Yu and Alina Zare, as well as collaborators Brenden Zurweller, Diane Rowland, Joel Reyes-Cabrera, Felix Fritschi, Roser Matamala and Thomas Juenger!  Their paper, “Overcoming Small Minirhizotron Datasets Using Transfer Learning”, was published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.   The document and code can be found here.  Make sure […]

Undergraduate research assistant, Hubert Zhao, recently accepted a Summer internship position at Capital One!  Hubert will be working alongside Capital One Software Engineers to create a custom Slackbot.  Congratulations, Hubert!