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Ph.D. Alumni – Graduates
Aditya Dutt
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
May 2025
Master of Science, Computer Science
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
May 2019
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India
July 2017
Ph.D. Thesis: A MultiModal Alignment Network for Domain Translation and Fusion
Matthew Cook
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
May 2025
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Dec 2015
Bachelor of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
May 2013
Ph.D. Thesis: Competency Awareness using Null Space Projections
Spencer Chang
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
May 2025
Master of Science Computer Science
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Jun 2019
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Jun 2017
Ph.D. Thesis: Enhancing Semantic Segmentation with Locally Learned Histogram Features
Justin Pitts
Doctor of Philosophy in Agronomy
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Aug 2024
Master of Science Foresty
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
May 2020
Bachelor of Science in Biology
Stetson University, Deland, FL
May 2018
Ph.D. Thesis: The Future of Coffee and Peanut Cultivation under Further Climate Change
Xiaolei Guo
Hired at Meta as a Machine Learning Engineer.
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2023
Bachelor of Science Electronic & Information Engineering
Beihang University, Beijing, China
2016
Ph.D. Thesis: Interactive Segmentation with Deep Metric Learning
Yiming Cui
Hired at TikTok.
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2023
Master of Science Control Science & Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
2017
Bachelor of Science Control Science & Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
2015
Ph.D. Thesis: Weakly Supervised Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation with Graph Convolutional Networks
Weihuang Xu
Hired at intel as a AI Applied Research Scientist.
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2023
Master of Science in Chemistry
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2017
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China
2014
Ph.D. Thesis: Deep Morph-Convolutional Neural Network: Combining Morphological Transform and Convolution in Deep Neural Networks
Connor McCurley
Hired at Orbital Sidekick as a Machine Learning Scientist.
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2022
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
2017
Ph.D. Thesis: Discriminative Feature Learning with Imprecise, Uncertain, and Ambiguous Data
Joshua Peeples
Hired at Texas A&M University as Assistant Professor.
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2022
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
2017
Ph.D. Thesis: Connecting the Past and the Present: Histogram Layers for Texture Analysis
Dylan Stewart
Hired at makepath as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer.
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2021
Bachelor’s in Engineering Physics
Murray State University, Murray, KY
2017
Ph.D. Thesis: Domain Translation and Image Registration for Multi-Look Synthetic Aperture Sonar Scene Understanding
Ron Fick
Hired at University of Florida as a Research Scientist.
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2021
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2014
Ph.D. Thesis: Robust GANs for Semi-Supervised Classification
Guohao Yu
Hired at Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment.
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2021
Master of Science Optical Engineering
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
2011
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering
Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China
2008
Ph.D. Thesis: Weakly Supervised Image Segmentation with Multiple Instance Learning Neural Network
M.S. Thesis: Thermal property for repetition pumped Nd:glass rod amplifier
Sheng Zou
Hired at Norfolk Southern Corporation in Atlanta, GA.
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
April 2021
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
December 2016
Bachelor of Science Applied Physics
Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
2013
Ph.D. Thesis: Classification with Multi-Imprecise Labels
M.S. Thesis: Semi-supervised Interactive Unmixing for Hyperspectral Image Analysis
Xiaoxiao Du
Hired at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI as Engineer
Alina Zare’s former student at the University of Missouri
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
December 2017
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
December 2013
Ph.D. Thesis: Multiple Instance Choquet Integral For Multi-Resolution Sensor Fusion
M.S. Thesis: Accounting for spectral variability in hyperspectral unmixing using beta endmember distribution
Changzhe Jiao
Hired at The Xidian Univerisity, Xi’an, China as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor; Last we heard, Changzhe was promoted to Huashan
Scholar Associate Professor at Xidian University
Alina Zare’s former student at the University of Missouri
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
December 2017
Ph.D. Thesis: Target Concept Learning From Ambiguously Labeled Data
Chao Chen
Hired at Mathworks, Boston, MA; Last we heard, Chao is now at IBM Research.
Alina Zare’s former student at the University of Missouri
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
May 2016
Ph.D. Thesis: Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation
M.S. Alumni – Graduates
Luke Saleh
Hired at Apple.
Master of Science in Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Dec 2025
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
May 2024
Yury Lebedev
Master of Science
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Dec 2024
Anthony Khoury
Hired at CapitalOne
Master of Science
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Aug 2024
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, and Minor in Finance
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
May 2023
Austin Kreulach
Master of Science computer & information science & engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
December 2023
Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Mathematics
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2020
Justin Rossiter
Hired at CACI as a DSP Engineer, Sterling, VA.
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
December 2023
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
May 2022
Aaron Zygala
Hired at Stealth Startup company as a Junior Research Specialist.
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
December 2021
Bachelor of Science Computer Science
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2020
Arielle Stevens
Hired at Schneider Electric in St. Petersburg, FL.
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
April 2021
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering & Physics
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
May 2015
Hudanyun Sheng
Hired at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO.
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
November 2019
Master of Science Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2017
Bachelor of Science in Science and Technology of Optical Information
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2015
M.S. Thesis: Switchgrass Genotype Classification Using Hyperspectral Imagery
James Bocinsky
Hired at the American Express as Software Engineer II
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
April 2019
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2017
Shashank Avusali
Hired at the VirtueSense Technologies as Algorithm Software Engineer
Alina Zare’s former student at the University of Missouri
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
July 2018
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science & Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Techonological University, Hyderabad, India,
2012
M.S. Thesis: Three Dimensional Reconstruction of Plant Roots via Low Energy X-ray Computed Tomography
Princess Lyons
Continuing Ph.D. in Cybersecurity
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
July 2019
Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2017
M.S. Thesis: Anomaly and Target Detection in Synthetic Aperture Sonar
Hao Sun
Alina Zare’s former student at the University of Missouri
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
December 2016
Anand Seethepalli
Hired at The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
Alina Zare’s former student at the University of Missouri
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
December 2016
M.S. Thesis: Multi-Camera High-Throughput Plant Root Phenotyping System
Piyush Khopkar
Hired at Mathworks, Boston, MA
Alina Zare’s former student at the University of Missouri
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
May 2014
Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Communication Engineering
Mahakal Institute of Technology, Ujjain, MP, India
June 2009
M.S. Thesis: Hyperspectral unmixing and band weighting for multiple endmember sets
Josephine Dula
Hired at Mathworks, Boston, MA
Alina Zare’s former student at the University of Missouri
Master of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
December 2012
M.S. Thesis: Landmine classification using possibilistic K-nearest neighbors with wideband electromagnetic induction data