Asadi Works to Make X-Ray Imagery Less Noisy

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ECE Associate Professor Navid Asadi recently received $2.6M of funding from the NSF for “Track 2 Acquisition of a Novel Performance-Driven 3D Imaging System for Extremely Noisy Objects (NPIX).” NPIX system will be able to capture images of objects with complex geometries while doing so with minimal noise.

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ECE Researchers Use AI to Quantify Ecosystem Services

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Researchers in UF’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, along with collaborators from UF/IFAS, are developing AI systems for the purpose of more accurately measuring ecosystem services and how they are impacted by various land management practices.

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Zare’s $1.2 Million Award Brings Machine Learning to Plant Root Science

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A team of researchers from ECE Florida and IFAS has received a $1.2M grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that combines machine learning, hyperspectral cameras, and minirhizotron tubes to nondestructively study root systems of plants.

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Alina Zare Assists with Hunt for Better Biofuel

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Dr. Alina Zare and the Machine Sensing Lab are part of team working to engineer a more powerful biofuel—using switchgrass, a fast-growing perennial native to the U.S.

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Engineering Plays a Leading Role in Agriculture Practices of the Future

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Q&A with Dr. David Arnold and Dr. Alina Zare, working together on the recently created NSF ERC IoT4Ag Center

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Hunter Smith, Dylan Stewart, Alina Zare and Chris Wilson standing near a cow pasture

Alina Zare Collaborates with UF Agronomy to Better Understand AgroEcoSystems

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Dr. Chris Wilson of UF Agronomy and ECE Florida’s Dr. Alina Zare are using hyper-spectral imagery of experimental cow pastures to better understand the ecosystem effects of adding perennial peanut to beef pastures.

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Zare selected as a 2018 SPIE Rising Researcher

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Congratulations to Dr. Alina Zare, selected as a 2018 SPIE Rising Researcher for Defense, Commercial Sensing.

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