UF Researchers Seek To Build Confidence Into AI for Healthcare Under NSF Grant
A team of researchers at the University of Florida will explore ways to increase trustworthiness and interpretability of artificial machine learning in healthcare under a new $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Battling COVID-19 With Smart Wearables
Dr. Swarup Bhunia, director and the Semmoto Endowed Professor at University of Florida’s Electric and Computer Engineering Department, and Dr. My T. Thai, associate director and UF’s Research Foundation professor at the Computer and Information Science Engineering Department, share the different Covid-19 innovations coming out of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World.
New Faculty Member Highlight: Dr. Piyush Jain
Dr. Piyush Jain, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has recently joined the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World.
Exposing the Shortcuts: Improving Fairness of Artificial Intelligence in the Connected World
At the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, located in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering on the University of Florida campus, My T. Thai, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering and associate director of the Institute, is developing software technologies that can explain how bias can creep into artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.
University of Florida Tackles COVID-19 With High-Tech Devices
When COVID-19 shut down the country in the spring, some of the brightest engineering minds at the University of Florida’s Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World went to work. “We felt an obligation to rise to the occasion and use our research expertise and creativity,” says institute director, Swarup Bhunia, Ph.D. It was […]
Nelms Faculty Member Leads ASCE Artificial Intelligence Task Committee
Dr. Lili Du, Nelms Institute affiliate faculty and associate professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, received approval to create and co-lead the Artificial Intelligence Task Committee under the Emerging Technologies Council of Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). This committee will serve as a forum […]
New COVID-19 Research Initiative: Ultra-Low Cost Social Distancing Band
My T. Thai, Ph.D., Yier Jin, Ph.D., and Ahmed Helmy, Ph.D. of UF’s Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are developing an affordable wearable device that indicates appropriate social distancing. The researchers’ approach utilizes Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) […]
Award From National Science Foundation and Amazon to Improve AI Fairness
My T. Thai, associate director of the Warren B. Nelms Institute and UF Foundation Research Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), in collaboration with professors Hanghang Tong from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ross Maciejewski from Arizona State University, recently received a three-year award for over $1 million from […]