{"id":462,"date":"2023-04-10T17:24:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smart-autonomy-lab\/?page_id=462"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:29:07","slug":"lab-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/smart-autonomy-lab\/lab-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Awards<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n<!-- wp:image {\"align\":\"right\",\"id\":332} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"align\":\"left\"} -->\n<!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph \/-->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>December 15, 2023 &#8211; Nathaniel Smith graduated with a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering! Congrats! He will continue his education and pursue a Ph.D.! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmartAutonomy\/status\/1737221909056831870\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmartAutonomy\/status\/1737221909056831870<\/a><\/p>\n<p>December 14, 2023 &#8211; The paper &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/web3.arxiv.org\/abs\/2312.07767\">Spatial Knowledge-Infused Hierarchical Learning: An Application in Flood Mapping on Earth Imagery<\/a>,&#8221; co-authored by Dr. Yu Wang, received the best paper award for the 31st Association for Computer Machinery SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL)! Read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cise.ufl.edu\/dr-zhe-jiangs-team-received-best-paper-award-at-sigspatial-2023\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>August 11, 2023 &#8211; Daeyun Gi graduated with a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering! Congrats!\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmartAutonomy\/status\/1692236210138157536\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmartAutonomy\/status\/1692236210138157536<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 5, 2023 &#8211; Sippapas Sukpholtham graduated with a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering! Congrats! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmartAutonomy\/status\/1655311098482941952\">https:\/\/t.co\/MFmO6mjWFY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>April 27, 2023 &#8211; Sippapas Sukpholtham received the 2023 MAE Knox T. Millsaps Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for his contributions in assisting students with their studies in EML4312 Control of Mechanical Engineering Systems. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmartAutonomy\/status\/1651766505124810752\">https:\/\/t.co\/cXmTGtkiOF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>April 7, 2023 &#8211; Nathaniel Smith received a travel scholarship for the <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.cme.ufl.edu\/ai-for-clinical-care-workshop\/\">AI in Clinical Care workshop 2023<\/a> where he will experience hands-on applications of AI in clinical care via interactive Python programming notebooks.<\/p>\n<p>March 7, 2023 &#8211; Mark Yen received a Student Travel Grant for the <a href=\"https:\/\/acc2023.a2c2.org\/\">American Control Conference (ACC) 2023<\/a> to present his paper on <span class=\"fontstyle0\"><em>Statistical Verification of Traffic Systems with Expected Differential Privacy<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Talks\/Posters<\/h3>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:image {\"align\":\"right\",\"id\":332} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"align\":\"left\"} -->\n<!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph \/-->\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>June 2, 2023 &#8211; &#8220;Statistical Verification of Traffic Systems with Expected Differential Privacy&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/acc2023.a2c2.org\/\">American Control Conference (ACC) 2023<\/a> (talk) by Mark Yen.<\/p>\n<p>February 20-21, 2023 &#8211; &#8220;Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Parametric Nonlinear Optimal Control&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/secc.mae.ufl.edu\/\">Southeast Control Conference (SECC) 2023<\/a> (poster) by Zetong Xuan.<\/p>\n<p>February 20-21, 2023 &#8211; &#8220;Attack Resilient Supervisory Control of Cyberphysical Systems&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/secc.mae.ufl.edu\/\">Southeast Control Conference (SECC) 2023<\/a> (poster) by Nathaniel Smith.<\/p>\n<p>February 20-21, 2023 &#8211; \u201cNAS4AC: Neural Architecture Search for Adaptive Control\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/secc.mae.ufl.edu\/\">Southeast Control Conference (SECC) 2023<\/a> (talk) by Mark Yen.<\/p>\n<p>January 13-14, 2023 &#8211; \u201cNAS4AC: Neural Architecture Search for Adaptive Control\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/informatics.research.ufl.edu\/event\/statistics-annual-winter-workshop-2023\/\">UF Winter Workshop on Modern Computational Statistics 2023<\/a> (poster) by Mark Yen.<\/p>\n<p>December 14-16, 2022 &#8211; \u201cStatistical Verification of Traffic Systems with Expected Differential Privacy\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/favsummit.com\/?event=2022-fav-summit\">Florida Automated Vehicle (FAV) Summit 2022<\/a> (poster) by Mark Yen.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards December 15, 2023 &#8211; Nathaniel Smith graduated with a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering! 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