Category: News

Congratulations to our labmate Joshua Peeples for winning a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for his research entitled “Getting Active: AUVs for Automated Sea Understanding” ! Josh proposed a study into novel active learning techniques for automated undersea scene understanding using imagery collected from autonomous underwater vehicles. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) […]

Congratulations to our lab alumna, Dr. Xiaoxiao Du, on her new appointment as a Senior Research Engineer at the University of Michigan! Dr. Du will be working on machine learning and computer vision methods for pedestrian perception and scene understanding. Congratulations Xiaoxiao! We are excited to follow your research career as you move forward! Best […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab had a great time going through the low rope courses together at the Lake Wauburg this past weekend! We had a lot of fun accomplishing every mission together. We followed up our success at the course with lunch at La Tienda.

Don’t miss the Drought Symposium at Colorado State University on June 21/22! Speakers include Detlef Weigel, Malia Gehan, Duke Pauli, Alina Zare, Brook Moyers, William Beavis, Chris Topp, and Mike Olsen. Alina Zare will discuss machine learning methods for phenotyping.

Our labmates Princess Lyons, Joshua Peeples, and Daniel Suen attended Unmanned Maritime Systems Technology meeting in Sandestin, Florida this past week. They represented the lab and discussed their work on environmentally-aware feature extraction and target detection.

Congratulations to Dr. Alina Zare for being selected as a SPIE DCS 2018 Rising Researcher. The SPIE DCS Rising Researcher program is designed to recognize early career professionals (received terminal degree within the past 10 years) who are conducting outstanding work in product development or research in the defense, commercial, and scientific sensing, imaging, optics, […]

Congratulations to our labmate Jefferey Hornbeck! He will be starting a three-month internship at Amazon in Seattle, Washington in the Spring 2018 semester. He will work as a member of the AWS (Amazon Web Services) networking team. Good Luck Jeffery! We are excited to hear about your internship after you return!

Congratulations to our lab alumnus, Dr. Changzhe Jiao, on accepting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position at Xidian University in Xi’an, China!  Great News! We are excited to follow your research career as you move forward! Read more about Changzhe’s research in our lab here:  C. Jiao, A. Zare, and R. McGarvey, “Multiple Instance Hybrid Estimator […]

Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoxiao Du for graduating with her Ph.D. this past week! Her dissertation is titled “Multiple Instance Choquet Integral for Multi-resolution Sensor Fusion.” Her research focused on developing trained sensor and classifier fusion methods that can learn from ambiguously and imprecisely labeled training data. The goal of her work is to optimize fusion […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome Hudanyun Sheng to our lab as a new Ph.D. student! She received her B.S. in Science and Technology of Optical Information at Tongji University in 2015. She is currently completing a M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Florida. She has been working […]