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Affiliate Faculty
CRS affiliate faculty members have expertise in remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and AI-enhanced geospatial technologies. Our affiliates include faculty from various disciplines working at the cutting edge of remote sensing, machine learning, geospatial AI, data science, precision agriculture, and hydrology. Members use remote sensing to solve problems in agriculture, irrigation, and natural resources.
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Amr Abd-Elrahman, Professor |
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Nithin Agarwal, Director |
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Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis, Associate Professor |
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MD Ali Babar, Associate Professor |
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Shirley Baker, Professor and Associate Director |
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Sergio Balaguera-Reina, Research Assistant Scientist |
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Gabriel Birzu Chu, Professor |
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Christophe Bobda, Professor |
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Stephanie Bohlman, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Remote sensing for forest structure and dynamics, carbon and response to climate change using UAV, hyperspectral, LiDAR. School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Science Phone: (352) 846-3503 E-mail: sbohlman@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Dimitri Bourilkov, Scientist Research Interests/Expertise: Particle Physics, Extensive Data Analysis experience on large and complex datasets, cutting-edge AI research. Physics Phone: (352) 392-0487 E-mail: dimi@ufl.edu LinkedIn || ORCID |
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Eben Broadbent, Associate Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Tropical forest ecology, focusing on degradation, restoration and recovery, using hyperspectral imaging and LiDAR. School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Science Phone: (650) 204-1051 E-mail: eben@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Matthew Cohen, Professor and Director Research Interests/Expertise: Ecohydrology, landscape hydrology. UF Water Institute Phone: (352) 846-3490 E-mail: mjc@ufl.edu Google Scholar |
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John Conklin, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Instrument and space mission design for gravitational science, Earth and planetary geodesy, navigation, and fundamental physics. Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Phone: (352) 392-9129 E-mail: jwconklin@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Wendell Cropper, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Modeling of plantation and natural forests at multiple scales; matrix population modeling of tree and palm species; mechanistic modeling of physiological and ecological processes. School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Science Phone: (352) 846-0859 E-mail: wcropper@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Chunli Dai, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Landslide detection. School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences Phone: (352) 392-4998 E-mail: chunlidai@ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Hamed Dalir, Associate Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Photonic Sensors for Environmental Monitoring, Photonics for Real-Time AI Decision-Making, Photonics-based LIDAR. Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: (510) 384-1283 E-mail: hamed.dalir@ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Warren Dixon, Professor and Chair Research Interests/Expertise: Control systems; robotics; networks; autonomy; image-based estimation; Visual Servo Control (VS). Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Phone: (352) 846-1463 E-mail: wdixon@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Victoria Donovan, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Global change impacts on population, community and ecosystem resilience; wildfire risk and management. School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Science Phone: (850) 983-7137 E-mail: victoria.donovan@ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Norman Fitz-Coy, Associate Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Small satellite systems; guidance, navigation and control. Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Phone: (352) 392-1029 E-mail: nfc@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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David Foster, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Applications of enhanced weathering of basalt and other rocks to agricultural lands to improve soil health and sequester carbon dioxide. Geological Sciences Phone: (352) 392-2231 E-mail: dafoster@ufl.edu Google Scholar |
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Kuang Gong, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Medical image processing, deep learning, and data science. Biomedical Engineering Phone: (352) 294-5344 E-mail: kgong@bme.ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Laura Gonzales, Associate Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Technical communication, translation, and user experience. Department of English Phone: (407) 927-1279 E-mail: gonzalesl@ufl.edu Google Scholar |
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Sabine Grunwald, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Pedometrics, Landscape Analysis and GIS. Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences Phone: (352) 294-3145 E-mail: sabgru@ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Rafael Guzman, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Galaxy evolution over cosmological timescales; integration of optical/IR imaging systems on board a standard microsatellite platform. Astronomy Phone: (352) 294-1878 E-mail: guzman@astro.ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Young Gu Her, Associate Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Utilizing hydrological models along with GIS and RS data to analyze hydrological processes and their impacts on agriculture and water resources. Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Tropical Research And Education Center Phone: (786) 217-9288 E-mail: yher@ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Peter Ifju, MAE Excellence Term Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for natural resources and agriculture. Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Phone: (352) 392-6744 E-mail: ifju@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Vijaya Joshi, Research Assistant Scientist |
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Jasmeet Judge, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Microwave remote sensing and machine learning for crop and soil conditions. Agricultural and Biological Engineering Phone: (352) 392-1864 x 299 E-mail: jasmeet@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Antar Jutla, Associate Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Development of predictive analysis for water quality using remote sensing data and analytics. Environmental Engineering Sciences Phone: (325) 294-6898 E-mail: ajutla@ufl.edu Website |
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Sayar Karmakar, Assistant Professor |
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Minhee Kim, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Data analytics, sensor data fusion, machine learning, quality engineering, manufacturing. Industrial and Systems Engineering Phone: (608) 609-7305 E-mail: mkim3@ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Patricia Kio, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Architectural design, building construction systems, sustainable architecture, sustainable material sourcing, environmental systems integration, and circular economy. Design, Construction and Planning Phone: (979) 224-7302 E-mail: p.kio@ufl.edu ORCID |
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Robert Lamb, Research Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Marine community ecology, primarily focusing on fish population dynamics, food webs and biogeography; stable isotope tracing of elements to map marine food webs and population monitoring combined with oceanographic and species trait data to understand why some species thrive in warmer oceans while others decline. School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Science Phone: (401) 743-4434 E-mail: robert.lamb@ufl.edu |
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Won Suk "Daniel" Lee, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Developing sensing systems for precision agriculture. Agricultural and Biological Engineering Phone: (352) 392-1864 x 227 E-mail: wslee@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Norman Leppla, Professor & Program Director of IPM |
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Mickey MacKie, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Study of glaciers and ice sheets using a combination of ground-based, airborne, and satellite geophysical observations such as radar and gravity; signal processing, geophysical data assimilation, and geostatistical methods for interpolating data. Geological Sciences Phone: (415) 233-2298 E-mail: emackie@ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Katia Matcheva, Associate Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Exploration of solar and extra-solar system planets; Atmospheric physics and chemistry. Physics Phone: (352) 392-0286 E-mail: katia@phys.ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Corene Matyas, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Ground-based radar to examine tropical cyclones and the spatial distribution of their rain fields; rainfall forecasts. Geography Phone: (352) 294-7508 E-mail: matyas@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Janise McNair, Associate Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Next generation computer networking and communications, sensor networks, ad hoc networks. Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: (352) 392-2629 E-mail: mcnair@ece.ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Guilherme Morata, Extension Agent II |
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Guido Mueller, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Physics Phone: (352) 392-8521 E-mail: mueller@phys.ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Fazil Najafi, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Oil spill contingency plan, quality assurance model for highway projects, radon Mitigation in the construction of building environment, model for coordinated urban signalized intersection improvement, renewable energy (e.g., Solar Feed-In-Tariff), work zone safety model Civil and Coastal Engineering Phone: (352) 870-2477 E-mail: fnaja@ufl.edu Website |
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David Outerbridge, County Extension Director Research Interests/Expertise: Sustainable food systems and natural resources examining mixed methodologies and data interpretation through mapping and visualization. UF/IFAS Extension Phone: (941) 323-0017 E-mail: douterbridge@ufl.edu ORCID |
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Zhong-Ren Peng, Professor and Director Research Interests/Expertise: GIS; transportation planning; adaptation planning for climate change using UAV and airborne sensors. Urban and Regional Planning Phone: (352) 392-0997 x429 E-mail: zpeng@dcp.ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Jorg Peters, Professor |
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Anand Rangarajan, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Machine learning and physical principles in computer vision and imaging. Computer Information Science and Engineering Phone: (352) 262-4471 E-mail: anand@cise.ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Sanjay Ranka, Distinguished Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Data Mining and Machine Learning of Spatio Temporal Data Sets. Computer Information Science and Engineering Phone: (352) 514-4213 E-mail: ranka@cise.ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Parisa Rashidi, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: AI/machine learning, medical AI, pervasive sensing. Biomedical Engineering Phone: (509) 768-6369 E-mail: parisa.rashidi@ufl.edu Google Scholar |
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Carlos Alberto Silva, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Forest ecosystem changes and their impact on the carbon cycle. School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Science Phone: (352) 294-6885 E-mail: c.silva@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Ian Small, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Remote sensing for high-throughput phenotyping and precision agriculture. Plant Pathology - North Florida Research and Education Center - Quincy Phone: (850) 875-7120 E-mail: ismall@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Moulay Anwar Sounny-Slitine, Assistant Instructional Professor |
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Jane Southworth, Professor and Chair Research Interests/Expertise: Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics; time-series analysis, land use, land cover change and land change modeling. Geography Phone: (352) 392-0494 E-mail: jsouthwo@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Katie Stofer, Research Associate Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Visualizations and models of scientific data to increase public engagement. Agricultural Education and Communication Phone: (352) 273-3690 E-mail: stofer@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Murilo Trimer Morata, Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent Research Interests/Expertise: Working with Drones and remote sensing technologies in row crops. UF/IFAS Extension - Escambia County Phone: (251) 358-5897 E-mail: mu.trimermorata@ufl.edu |
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Nikolaos Tziolas, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Multimodal applications of Earth Observation (EO) to enhance digital soil mapping, advanced artificial intelligence techniques, including self-supervised methods, to analyze spatio-temporal information and identify patterns, effectively addressing challenges related to data scarcity. Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences Phone: (239) 255-9925 E-mail: ntziolas@ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Xu Wang, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Plant phenomics, machine learning, computer vision. Gulf Coast Research and Education Center Phone: (813) 419-6618 E-mail: xuwang@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Yixin Wen, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Development of reliable remote sensing products, integration of multi-sensor observations, and practical applications in natural hazard forecasting. Geography Phone: (405) 496-5468 E-mail: yixin.wen@ufl.edu |
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Samantha Wisely, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Effects of land use and land cover change on ecological processes. Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department Phone: (352) 846-0645 E-mail: wisely@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Yingying Wu, Assistant Professor |
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Dapeng Oliver Wu, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Video Coding, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Medical Imaging/Bioimaging. Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: (352) 392-4954 E-mail: dpwu@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Xiang Yan, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Innovative and thoughtful application of data science and artificial intelligence to make transportation more equitable and sustainable. Civil and Coastal Engineering Phone: (443) 240-1099 E-mail: xiangyan@ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Di Yang, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Human-environment interactions by using remote sensing images. Geography Phone: (361) 228-2913 E-mail: yangdi1031@ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Yu Yang, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Mathematical Optimization, including combinatorial optimization, learning to optimize, and large-scale optimization theory. Industrial and Systems Engineering Phone: (404) 649-7212 E-mail: yu.yang@ise.ufl.edu Website || Google Scholar |
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Alina Zare, Professor and Associate Dean for Research & Facilities Research Interests/Expertise: Machine learning focusing on landmine detection, plant phenotyping, sub-pixel target detection, and underwater scene understanding. Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: (352) 273-2604 E-mail: azare@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Chang Zhao, Assistant Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Ecosystem Services Artificial Intelligence (AI). Agronomy Phone: (319) 855-3826 E-mail: changzhao@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |
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Xin Zhao, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Organic and sustainable vegetable cropping systems. Horticultural Sciences Phone: (352) 273-4773 E-mail: zxin@ufl.edu Website |
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Lincoln Zotarelli, Professor Research Interests/Expertise: Water and nutrient management in agricultural systems. Horticultural Sciences Phone: (352) 273-4949 E-mail: lzota@ufl.edu Website || ORCID |