Dr. Graim received her Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, advised by Professor Josh Stuart. She did postdoctoral research at Princeton University and the Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, working with Professor Olga Troyanskaya. Dr. Graim’s research operates at the confluence of life science research and computer science. Her lab develops machine learning models that integrate diverse large-scale genomics data to address key questions in human health and disease.…
Dr. Christan Grant is an Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. Dr. Grant leads the UF Data Studio. In this role, he conducts research on various aspects of the data pipeline, including data acquisition, labeling, interactive machine learning, and visualization.…
Dr. Jiang is an assistant professor in CISE at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Minnesota and his B.E. from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). His lab’s mission is to design and develop accurate, scalable, and robust AI and machine learning algorithms and tools inspired by interdisciplinary applications (Earth sciences, agriculture, smart cities, biomedicine, public health).…
Tamer Kahveci received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2004. He is currently a Professor and Associate Chair of Academic Affairs in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department at the University of Florida, serving as the Associate Chair of Academic Affairs. Dr. Kahveci received the Ralph E.…
I lead the Indie (Interactive Data and Immersive Environments) research lab. The Indie Lab conducts research in areas including human-computer interaction (HCI), human-centered computing (HCC), information visualization, virtual reality, 3D interaction, and visual analytics. Previously, I was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University with the Department of Visualization and the Department of Computer Science & Engineering.…
Sanjay Ranka is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. From 1999-2002, as the Chief Technology Officer at Paramark (Sunnyvale, CA), he developed a real-time optimization service called PILOT for marketing campaigns. PILOT served more than 10 million optimized decisions a day in 2002 with a 99.99% uptime.…
My research interest is to build systems and design algorithms to support large-scale and advanced data analysis (e.g., using statistics and machine learning), which goes beyond simple aggregations and OLAP in traditional databases and data warehouses.
I am the director of the UF Data Science Research lab. The current focus of the lab is on building and reasoning wth probabilistic knowledge graphs from text, images and crowd.