{"id":9032,"date":"2021-09-01T09:39:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/?p=9032"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:29:34","slug":"welcome-new-phd-student-darren-koenenn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/2021\/09\/01\/welcome-new-phd-student-darren-koenenn\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome New PhD Student Darren Koenenn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9038\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/759\/2021\/09\/IMG_3973-e1630507144638-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/759\/2021\/09\/IMG_3973-e1630507144638-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/759\/2021\/09\/IMG_3973-e1630507144638.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are excited to welcome <strong>Darren Koenenn<\/strong> as a new Ph.D. student to The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab! Darren earned his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of South Alabama in 2016. Darren is a *SMART scholar in collaboration with U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division. He plans on researching topic modeling with hyper-spectral imaging. Darren and his wife enjoy developing luxury real estate on 30A as a hobby.<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartscholarship.org\/smart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SMART (Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation) Scholarship<\/a>\u00a0from the Department of Defense<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the lab and UF community, Darren!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to welcome Darren Koenenn as a new Ph.D. student to The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab! Darren earned his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of South Alabama in 2016. Darren is a *SMART scholar in collaboration with U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division. He plans on researching topic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[511,551,799],"class_list":["post-9032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-new-students","tag-phd","tag-welcome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15099,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions\/15099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}