Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D., Professor, ESSIE; Gerrit Hoogenboom, Ph.D., professor, ABE; Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., Professor, CISE; Cheryl Palm, Ph.D., professor emerita, ABE; Carlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos, Ph.D., Chair, CHE
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected 19 faculty from the University of Florida, including 5 from Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, to its newest class, breaking previous records for the number of faculty awarded in a single year. The honor, which includes alumni such as Thomas Edison and W.E.B. DuBois, is among the most distinctive in academia and recognizes extraordinary impact and achievement across disciplines, from research, teaching, and technology, to administration in academia, industry and government, to excellence in communicating and interpreting science to the public.
AAAS has awarded the following faculty from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering:
Ageliki (Lily) Elefteriadou, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, is a professor of civil engineering and director of the UF Transportation Institute. Her research focuses on traffic flow theory, highway capacity analysis, traffic simulation, autonomous and connected vehicles, signal control optimization, freeway management, traffic data collection and analysis, and intelligent transportation systems. Elefteriadou has developed several methods and analysis tools that have been published in the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), the major traffic operations publication used by most highway transportation agencies in the U.S. and widely used and referenced internationally. She has led a series of research projects with funding from NSF and FDOT to develop algorithms for a smart intersection that would control autonomous vehicle trajectories to optimize movement. Elefteriadou has published extensively and has been invited to present her work at many conferences and institutes worldwide.
Gerrit Hoogenboom, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, is a professor and preeminent scholar in the UF/IFAS agricultural and biological engineering department and a member of the Global Food Systems Institute. Over the last three decades, Hoogenboom’s research on developing computer models to predict crop yields has had wide-ranging applications, including crop variety selection, water resource management and projecting the impact of climate change on crop production. Hoogenboom currently coordinates the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT), a computer application that is used by scientists, educators, decision makers and others around the world.
Prabhat Mishra, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, is a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering and a UF Research Foundation Professor. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He is also the Director of CISE Embedded Systems Lab. Mishra’s research interests include embedded and cyber-physical systems, hardware security and trust, computer architecture, energy-aware computing, machine learning, and quantum computing. His research enabled automated and scalable hardware validation using an effective combination of formal verification, test generation, and side-channel analysis to design secure and energy-efficient systems.
Cheryl Palm, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, is a professor emerita in the UF/IFAS agricultural and biological engineering department and former associate director of the UF/IFAS Global Food Systems Institute. Her research focuses on ecosystem processes in tropical agricultural landscapes under land-use change, degradation and rehabilitation. Palm’s accomplishments include leading a major effort quantifying carbon stocks, losses and net greenhouse gas emissions following slash and burn and alternative land-use systems in the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon, Indonesia and Cameroon. She is currently leading efforts to quantify and compare the potential for sustainable intensification of different cropping systems in East and Southern Africa.
Carlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, is the chair and professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is an international leader in the fields of ferrohydrodynamics, biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticles, and diffusion of nanoparticles in complex and biological fluids. In the field of nanomedicine, Rinaldi-Ramos has made outstanding contributions to harnessing localized nanoscale heating for magnetic nanoparticle thermal cancer therapy.
The 2022 class of AAAS Fellows are among 506 scientists, engineers and innovators who have been recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.
“An important measure of the university’s prowess is the accolades its faculty members receive from national and international organizations,” said David Norton, vice president for UF Research. “The awarding of Fellow from AAAS to so many UF researchers this year is the result of the remarkable achievements of these individuals and reflects very positively on UF as we strive to become the best public research university in the country.”
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See the full list of UF AAAS Fellows on UF News.