Category: Artificial Intelligence

Xiang “Jacob” Yan, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, is trying to make public transit more appealing to passengers and potential users.  Traditional approaches for bus stop amenities assessment often rely on manual surveys of each stop, which can be labor intensive. Instead, Yan and his research team developed […]

The University of Florida’s Center for Coastal Solutions (CCS) and SAS Institute (SAS) entered a strategic partnership to develop tools, training programs, curriculum and research that will continue to trailblaze around the UF AI initiative and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. The partnership began in January to integrate the center’s cutting-edge research and SAS’ […]

A building’s shape is one of the earliest design decisions that has an impact on its structural system, performance, life-cycle costs and architectural appeal. The current design of buildings is based on blueprints that have historically provided good performance for structural loads, performance under extreme loads and life-cycle costs. Brian Phillips, Ph.D., a civil engineering […]

Eric Jing Du, Ph.D., an associate professor of civil and coastal engineering within the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, received an award from NASA’s Human Research Program to investigate teleoperation robot delays. NASA reports there are perceivable delays in most remote operation robots due to telecommunication bandwidth, distance and computing limitations. Dr. Du […]

The University of Florida and Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, in concert with North Carolina State University, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University and UF’s Innovation Station-Sarasota, recently convened a five-session virtual summit on “Innovating Coastal Resilience.” Thought leaders and industry experts gathered online to help envision new technologies and applications, and converse about a workforce […]

The unprecedented coronavirus pandemic forced the world to shut down for months. Homes turned into classrooms, work places and restaurants. Now, as America continues to reopen, people are adjusting to a new normal when entering public places and interacting with others. Eric Jing Du, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure […]

Eric Jing Du, Ph.D., associate professor of civil engineering in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE), along with colleagues from Texas A&M University and Virginia Tech, has been awarded a $999,327 grant by the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator (C-Accel) effort to develop a mixed reality-enabled training system to bring the latest […]

Boats, yachts and other commercial and recreational ships are among the biggest threats to maintaining coastal habitats along in Florida, according to Christine Angelini, Ph.D., associate professor in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment (ESSIE). There has been a significant decrease in oyster reef and coastal wetlands due to erosion from boat traffic, […]