Paul Ortiz is a historian whose work challenges us to rethink our assumptions about American history. His research focuses on the intersections of race, class and social movements.

Leslie Parker is an internationally recognized scholar in neonatal nursing whose scientific work has impacted the care of infants globally.

Duncan Purves is an emerging leader in the ethics of technology and artificial intelligence, publishing extensively on a range of applied ethics topics, particularly artificial intelligence.

Liangfei Qiu focuses his research on the role of information technology and digitalization in the development of innovative business models, with an emphasis on social, platform and telecommunications technologies.

Jawwad Qureshi works in the heart of one of Florida’s citrus-producing regions at the UF/IFAS Southwest Florida Research and Education Center in Immokalee. He sees, and helps, commercial growers fight the Asian citrus psyllid, the pin-sized insect that injects a devastating disease into citrus trees.

During his career, Sanjay Ranka’s research in the fields of parallel and distributed computing and data science has identified important problems, developed a theoretical framework to solve them, and had a practical impact on applications from a variety of disciplines.

Parisa Rashidi is widely known for her contributions to the emerging area of medical AI.

In 2012, Schmidt teamed with Lawrence Lesko, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to establish the Center for Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology at the UF Research and Academic Center in Lake Nona.

Rachael Seidler’s work on aging and spaceflight has garnered international recognition, with implications for human health on Earth and in outer space.

Eric Wang specializes in the study of RNA biology and mechanisms that underlie repeat expansion diseases, in particular myotonic dystrophy.