Stephen Anton researches the influence of lifestyle factors on people’s health and performance as they age. Specifically, he investigates how lifestyle can affect the risk of chronic disease conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disease, and how those conditions impact quality of life and longevity.

Swarup Bhunia is a world leader in IoT and smart/connected systems. He specializes in hardware and systems security, food and medicine safety, adaptive and energy-efficient computing, and wearable and implantable systems.

Eduardo Candelario-Jalil, a professor of neuroscience, studies how inflammation contributes to injury following ischemic stroke. His research aims to better understand disease development, discover new ways to block inflammation and halt the progression of injury.

Larisa Cavallari aims to establish effective precision medicine approaches to drug prescribing that improve outcomes across populations. As a professor of pharmacotherapy and translational research, she concentrates on the discovery of genetic associations with drug response, the translation of pharmacogenetic evidence into clinical practice and the examination of clinical pharmacogenetic implementation outcomes.

Huan Chen studies the intersection of new technology and communication, particularly how that affects advertising and marketing practices as well as consumers’ responses to the new, artificial intelligence-driven digital landscape.

Zhanao Deng has been breeding ornamental plants and emerging crops for 22 years. In that time, he has released or co-released 64 new cultivars. In the last five years alone, Deng has issued 13 new caladium and lantana cultivars.

Rhoel Dinglasan works on developing new tools to combat malaria and arboviruses, which are transmitted by mosquitoes. Arboviruses – including dengue, Zika and West Nile – are increasingly a threat in Florida, while outbreaks of malaria are a persistent public health concern in the state.

In seven years at the University of Florida, Yiannis Ampatzidis has invented Agroview and AgroSense, artificial intelligence technologies that are giving farmers fast, accurate data. The information helps growers control pests and diseases and gives them knowledge on tree inventory, canopy and health.