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Congratulations to our labmate, Meilun Zhou, for accepting an internship at The Alan Turing Institute! The Turing is UK’s national institute for data science established in 2015 by five founding universities – Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL, and Warwick – along with the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Meilun is part of the inaugural […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Nicholas Cimino! Nicholas is a Computer Science and Statistics double major. He will be working on anomaly detection at the Machine Learning and Sensing Lab. He loves playing strategy games and is a big fan of coffee and tea. Welcome to […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Sam Gallic! Sam is an undergraduate junior double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. He is interested in machine learning and will be joining the Navy project this semester. In his free time, he enjoys reading and video games. You can […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Tomas Chavarria! Tomas is interested in utilizing Machine Learning systems in Marine Science applications and will be assisting Prof. Alina Zare on the Navy project. You can also connect with Tomas on LinkedIn. Welcome to our lab, Tomas!

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Jeffrey Drew! Jeffrey will be working on the switchgrass project. He is interested in using machine learning in the legal field for contract writing and document comprehension. He likes boxing, biking, and playing Chopin in his free time. You can also […]

Congratulations to our labmate Xiaolei Guo for successfully defending her dissertation! Defending a dissertation is the last milestone to completing a Ph.D. at the University of Florida. Xiaolei presented a deep interactive segmentation framework to address the time-consuming task of fine-scale pixel-level image annotation. Utilizing transfer learning, annotators are able to interactively fine-tune a pre-trained […]

Abstract: Many vegetables and fruit are sensitive to storage at lower temperatures and experience chilling injury that can result in internal disorder, leading to postharvest waste and economic loss. Most tropical and subtropical fruit, such as avocado and mango, are sensitive to cold storage and can develop chilling injury with symptoms such as abnormal ripening, […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Santiago Calderon! Santiago was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and grew up in Miami, Florida. Santiago is a fourth-year undergraduate pursuing a bachelors in electrical engineering, and he will be working on the Sentinel Project. One of his favorite hobbies is […]

  The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome Aditya Dutt as a new Ph.D. student! Aditya is pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UF. His research focus involves metric learning, sensor fusion and translation, synthetic data generation, and speech-emotion recognition (SER) using deep learning. The core of his Ph.D. research lies in developing […]

Congratulations to our labmate, Ritesh Chowdhry, for accepting an internship at United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Agricultural Research Service! Ritesh will be working as a Graduate Student intern and he will be working on segmentation of leafless trees from non-tree regions. This information is needed for reconstructing tree shape in 3D for orchard […]