2022

January

January 23, 2022

2022 Walter G. Fredrickson Distinguished Interdisciplinary Lecture

Supporting our older adults represents one of the most complex societal and economic challenges due to increased healthcare costs and decreased numbers of caregivers. In this talk, Susann Keohane will share how her passion for innovation drives her exploration of future technology to help bridge the digital divide and improve the quality of life of the aging population.

January 17, 2022

UF Health team receives $6.6 million to study treatments to boost cognition for those with HIV

With advancements in HIV treatments, people with HIV are living longer. More than half of Americans with HIV are now over age 50.

January 3, 2022

Deadline Jan. 28: CTSL Learning Health System initiative Translational Pilot Awards Requests for Proposals

The UF CTSI Learning Health System Program is pleased to invite applications for Translational Pilot Awards that use a “learning health system” approach to align research and clinical operations to improve health outcomes and advance health equity using informatics, stakeholder engagement, implementation science and other methodologies to address priority areas at UF Health (see below).

February

February 27, 2022

UFII Fellows Journal Club Virtual Series

Thanks to @UFInformatics for hosting @UF AI Days and to the panelists featured in today's insightful discussion.

February 15, 2022

Social Media Best Practices | UF Brand Center|

#AIatUF; #GatorAI, UF research involving AI. #GatorDay, Gator Day. #AllForTheGators; #StandUpAndHoller, Advancement initiatives; Giving Day.

February 13, 2022

Joel Davis named Executive Director of Miller Retail Center

Dr. Joel Davis has been tapped to lead the David F. Miller Retail Center at the University of Florida Warrington College of Business. Davis first came to Warrington as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Marketing teaching courses in Python, machine learning and AI to undergraduate and graduate students in Warrington’s Heavener School of Business and Hough Graduate School of Business.

February 10, 2022

UF Health researchers use artificial intelligence to better predict hepatitis C treatment outcomes

When hepatitis C treatments fail, patients can face major health risks and the expense of a second therapy. Now, University of Florida Health researchers have developed algorithms that use artificial intelligence to accurately predict when treatment won’t work.

February 9, 2022

Man vs. Machine: Human Responses to AI

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology has advanced, its use has expanded to a range of industries, including broadcast news. AI could be used in place of a human weather newscaster, for example, if a human is not available during a weather emergency.

February 6, 2022

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Clear All Filters. Editorial : Feb 21, 2023 ... Coding, creating, culture jamming: AI and the Arts at UF College of the Arts.

February 6, 2021

UF/IFAS researchers creating an 'Artificial Intelligence Connoisseur

Can a computer “taste” a tomato or a blueberry? Well, not exactly, but it can tell scientists which volatiles in these fruits make them taste good, say University of Florida researchers.

February 1, 2022

AlatUF McKnight Brain Institute

UF researchers teamed with NVIDIA scientists at hackathon to improve processing speed for UF study led by Drs. Adam Woods and Ruogu Fang.

March

March 30, 2022

AI in medicine curriculum course to be unveiled at Research Day

The UF College of Medicine community will get a firsthand look at a new course designed to familiarize clinicians with the tools and possibilities surrounding artificial intelligence in medicine at Research Day on April 6.

March 20, 2022

SynGatorTron to speed medical research alleviate privacy

The next generation of super-smart computers, tablets and cell phones may come equipped with artificial intelligence-generated medical chatbots that can interact with patients using human language and medical knowledge.

March 16, 2022

At inaugural conference, scientists, farmers see ways to make AI useful to agriculture

In a groundbreaking, first-of-its kind event, university scientists, engineers, producers, government agencies and industry officials from throughout the South met at Auburn University to brainstorm ways to use artificial intelligence to help farmers.

March 11, 2022

Puri - Biodiversity Institute

With a career in research spanning almost a decade, most of my academic work has involved studying issues relating to large carnivore ecology and their conservation.

March 11, 2022

Trotta - Biodiversity Institute

If asked to summon a plant, what is the first form conjured by your mind’s eye? A tree, with a towering trunk, topped with a tufted halo of green?

March 8, 2022

Consumers' Perception of Artificial Intelligence Applications in Marketing Communication

May 31, 2022

UF researchers' artificial intelligence platform accurately predicts surgical complications

Complications after surgery can pose many challenges for both physicians and patients. Now, University of Florida researchers have confirmed their artificial intelligence system accurately helps doctors predict and manage these problems.

May 16, 2022

UFBI Seminar Series Hosts Dr. Sandra Knapp

UFBI is hosting Visiting UFBI Seminar Series Guest Speaker Sandra Knapp, Honorary Research Professor, University College London, Genes, Ecology and Environment, UK, on Friday, April 8, 2022.

May 10, 2022

ECE Welcome Baoyun Ge to the faculty

ECE Florida is excited to welcome the newest member of our faculty, Dr. Baoyun Ge (pronounced ‘Guh’). Though he officially starts as an assistant professor this week, Dr. Ge has visited the department several times in the last few months—attending faculty meetings, speaking to the ECE External Advisory Board, and meeting with potential collaborators.

June

June 15, 2022

ECE Researchers Use AI to Quantify Ecosystem Services

As land managers and policy-makers around the state of Florida look for ways to mitigate the effects of climate change, it is becoming increasingly clear that ecosystem services—benefits provided by agricultural and natural systems—have a critical part to play. 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.

July

July 31, 2022

UF Diabetes Institute to establish novel biobank

A major step toward transforming the understanding of cardiovascular and kidney disease in the millions of Americans with diabetes occurred Thursday when the National Institutes of Health designated the University of Florida Diabetes Institute the home for a new biobank of human heart and kidney tissue.

July 27, 2022

PHHP launches undergraduate artificial intelligence certificate

A new nine-credit certificate offered by the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions will help undergraduate students apply knowledge in artificial intelligence to future careers in public health and health sciences.

July 19, 2022

AI-Platform-Collage - Explore Magazine

AI-Platform-Collage. The MySurgeryRisk mobile app gives doctors detailed information on each complication

July 19, 2022

UF scientists use AI to uncover signs of early decay in produce

UF researchers are leveraging artificial intelligence to tackle the global problem of food waste.

July 17, 2022

AI helps detect watermelon disease quickly, accurately

If you savor a juicy watermelon in the scorching summer heat, Florida farmers toil to meet your tastes. The Sunshine State leads the nation in watermelon production.

July 4, 2022

College of Medicine offers new artificial intelligence track for PhD

The newest group of Ph.D. candidates at the UF College of Medicine can now collaborate with some of the university’s preeminent researchers in artificial intelligence to become immersed in the burgeoning field during their graduate studies.

August

August 29, 2022

UFII Covid Seed Awardees Virtual Seminar Series

The aim of this study is to develop a proof-of-concept framework for predicting changes in employment and income based on data-driven models of daily consumer product sales. For this purpose, we develop a data-driven approach for extracting spatial and temporal patterns of consumer demand changes, based on historic Nielsen product sales data.

August 29, 2022

HiPerGator Symposium 2020

Thanks to @UFInformatics for hosting @UF AI Days and to the panelists featured in ... AI in Smart Engineered Systems Mini-Symposium.

August 28, 2022

Algorithm optimizes antibiotic use in settings with poor hygiene

In developing countries, inappropriate antibiotic use is a persistent, difficult challenge. An international group of scientists that includes investigators from Bangladesh, Mali, and the United States have a solution: an artificial intelligence-driven tool that uses an algorithm to estimate the probability a case of diarrhea is caused by a virus alone.

August 22, 2022

UF researchers use AI to predict new coronavirus variants

A world awash in waves of novel coronavirus variants is left to react to each new emergence. Will this one be as deadly as delta? As transmissible as omicron?

August 22, 2022

Here's how AI could bring better fruit to your table - Explore Magazine

On a farm outside Gainesville, plant geneticist Patricio Muñoz strides through rows of shoulder-high blueberry bushes. He’ll log up to 10 miles a day traversing experimental plots where a single 4-acre field can hold 300 new varieties, berries of unparalleled deliciousness that you can’t find in any farmer’s market or grocery store

August 9, 2022

Hey Chatbot, Tell Me How Kids Can Learn About AI

Soccer-bot, stress-bot and fashion-bot are just three examples of conversational apps created by middle schoolers using a unique digital interface developed by University of Florida researchers. AMBY, which stands for AI Made By You, was piloted this summer as a part of Camp DIALOGS, an NSF-funded project aimed at making artificial intelligence and computer science more accessible, particularly for students in lower-income areas.

September

September 22, 2022

UF helps State Launch AI Curriculum in Florida Public Schools

As students across the nation return to the classroom this fall, Florida is among the first states to adopt a K-12 artificial intelligence, or AI, education program designed to prepare its youth for the growing global demand for an AI-enabled workforce.

September 14, 2022

Coding, creating, culture jamming: AI and the Arts at UF

The curiosity and conversation buzzing through the University of Florida about artificial intelligence (AI) should come as no surprise: #AIatUF is a big deal.

September 5, 2022

UF Health researcher aims to create AI algorithm to help map human body's cells

Researchers at UF Health are developing an artificial intelligence algorithm to be used by scientists around the nation who are mapping out the entire human body at the single-cell level.

October

October 27, 2022

PHHP names Mattia Prosperi associate dean for AI and innovation

The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions has appointed Mattia Prosperi, Ph.D., to a new leadership role within the college, associate dean for artificial intelligence and innovation.

October 24, 2022

Researchers will use AI to predict who may develop certain rare diseases

A team of researchers from University of Florida Health and Penn Medicine is using a set of artificial intelligence-powered algorithms called PANDA to find rare “zebras” in patient medical records and help patients affected by certain rare diseases get diagnosed and treated more quickly.

October 22, 2022

How the Perceived Economic Risk of Workplace AI Affects Sharing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is projected to reshape the global economy. Automation technology is already permeating a broad spectrum of industries worldwide.

October 22, 2022

Social Media - Florida Engineering Experiment Station

AI Professional Development to Practice Convening; Social Media. Social Media.

October 18, 2022

UF researchers’ AI system gives doctors better insight into patients’ conditions

Using data collected from patients’ vital signs, University of Florida researchers have designed an artificial intelligence system that can accelerate and focus doctors’ decision-making during the crucial, early stages of hospitalization.

October 10, 2022

AI Systems That Are Perceived to Be Helpful Lower User Frustration and Improve Trust

A new study has found that when users perceive an artificial Intelligence (AI) system to be a helper, their frustration level lowers and their trust in the system increases.

October 4, 2022

How employees can thrive amid changes brought on by AI

Businesses have been incorporating AI technologies into their practices for several years, but how will these changing technologies impact our workforce? Clinical Professor and Executive Director of the Miller Retail Center Joel Davis explains what changes our workforce might expect to see and how employees can advance alongside the new technologies businesses are using.

October 3, 2022

Before the Algorithm, What’s in the Imagination?

Algorithms are becoming pervasive in our daily lives, from recommending what movies we should watch to determining who should be approved for loans or certain medical care.

November

November 14, 2022

Courses in technical skills for AI in medicine coming soon

After the College of Medicine successfully launched a course on the fundamentals of artificial intelligence terminology and applications in medicineearlier this year, additional courses will soon enable clinicians and physician-scientists to dive deeper into the topic.

November 11, 2022

#AIatUF

Page 1. ARTIFICIAL. Intelligence. #AIatUF.

November 7, 2022

Innovation corner: The next era of patient care

Complications after surgery can pose many challenges for both physicians and patients. Now, UF researchers have confirmed their artificial intelligence system accurately helps doctors predict and manage these problems.

November 6, 2022

Fire Neural Network wins UF AI Days Pitch Competition

Fire Neural Network rose to the top of the business ideas presented at the inaugural UF AI Days Pitch Competition. Fire Neural Network uses AI to quickly and accurately locate lightning-initiated wildfires, reducing detection times from 24 hours to 40 seconds and locating ignition points within 40 meters instead of kilometers.

December

December 21, 2022

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