The Machine Learning & Sensing lab is still growing and excited to welcome our newest lab member, Nicholas Cimino! Read more about the work he will do on our lab website: faculty.eng.ufl.edu/machine-learni… #MachineLearning #research

In Aug. 2025, the Zare Lab (GatorSense Machine Learning & Sensing Lab UF Engineering or TigerSense Mizzou Engineering) will celebrate its 15th year! Hosting a reunion for former & current members! Contact me if you are a former labmate so I can keep you informed of celebration plans

Success in flying the uav with a co-aligned VNIR/SWIR hyperspectral sensor! Excited for all the data we will be able to collect with this system! GatorSense

Thrilled to share that Mira Saldanha and Jeffrey Drew presented their poster, titled "Extracting Switchgrass Features through Minirhizotron and Hyperspectral Image Processing" at the Department of Energy Genomic Science Program Meeting 2024! #research #ML #GenomicScience

Congratulations to Meilun Zhou for accepting an internship at The Alan Turing Institute!🎉 He will be working on improving detection and classification of objects, events, and actions from multi-modal and noisy datasets. #research #machinelearning #AI faculty.eng.ufl.edu/machine-learni…

Congratulations to Satya Krishna Pothapragada for accepting an internship at Infinx Healthcare! 🎉 As a Data Science Intern, Krishna will leverage LLMs to enhance problem-solving and reasoning capabilities in data science scenarios. #DataScience #AI #LLM faculty.eng.ufl.edu/machine-learni…

Congratulations to our labmate, Luke Saleh, for accepting an internship at Texas Instruments! 🥳 Luke will be working as a Software Engineering Intern. He will be working on microcontroller units in Dallas. faculty.eng.ufl.edu/machine-learni…

Join us at #IGARSS2024 for a presentation on "Quantifying Heterogeneous Ecosystem Services with Multi-Label Soft Classification." Don’t miss the talk! 🗓️ #EcosystemServices #Research #MachineLearning

Congratulations to our undergraduate researcher, Mira Saldanha, on graduating! Mira will be a data scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. We are very proud of her and excited to follow her achievements. Later, Gator! faculty.eng.ufl.edu/machine-learni…

We are excited to welcome our newest lab member, Anika Guin! She is pursuing her bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas and participating in the IoT4Ag REU program this Summer! faculty.eng.ufl.edu/machine-learni…

Spencer and Ritesh crushed it at the NSF Signals in the Soil conference yesterday! Lots of cool interdisciplinary science here combining sensor data, statistics/AI and soils. Alina Zare Agronomy at UF ECE Florida UF IFAS Solutions

New #SpectralEcophysiology paper: “Hyperspectral signals in the soil: Plant–soil hydraulic connection and disequilibrium as mechanisms of drought tolerance and rapid recovery”, from Yangyang Song’s postdoc in my lab, w/ Gerard Sapes, Alina Zare, et al.: doi.org/10.1111/pce.15…

excited to be at #IGARSS2024! Come see our talk on ecosystem service quantification today at MO4.R4: Give Earth a Chance: Artificial Intelligence Meets Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.17147 Prof. Joel B. Harley José Dubeux Chang Zhao

Peanut people! Check out this recent work we’ve published on VOCs and aflatoxin detection with GTRI doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr…

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Diandra Ojo! Diandra is joining our lab as a postdoctoral associate and will be managing multiple projects. faculty.eng.ufl.edu/machine-learni…

After four years of hard work and late nights, I can finally say it—I'm officially Dr. Pitts 🎓 Yesterday, I earned my PhD from FLORIDA and it feels surreal. To everyone who supported me along the way, thank you!! #PhinallyDone

We are happy to share HyperPRI: a dataset of rhizobox hyperspectral and RGB images of peanut and sweet corn roots, with temporal data and mask annotations. Access the data and get more details here: faculty.eng.ufl.edu/machine-learni… #HyperspectralImaging #ComputerVision #PlantScience

UF Engineering’s Alina Zare explained to FLForestry where the FLORIDA artificial intelligence efforts can analyze data to measure the ecosystem services from the land. Cool work with lots of partners including UF IFAS Solutions! #FLForestry24

The GatorSense lab says hello 👋 to the new academic year! #MachineLearning #research #AI #UFL #UFECE

Congratulations to KHALED HAMAD for passing his Qualifying exam! 🎉🥳 Well done! 👏 #PhD #research #UF #UFECE