Professor
Associate Dean for Research & Facilities

Contact

Email: azare@ufl.edu
Phone: 352-273-2604
Mailing Address:  PO Box 116130, Gainesville, FL 32611-6130

Office Location

Weil 300E

Primary Research Area

Signals and Systems

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing

ABOUT

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Honors and Awards:

• H.E.R.S. Leadership Institute Participant, 2021-2022
• Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Teacher/Scholar of the Year, 2021-2022
• Term Professorship Award, University of Florida, August 2021-July 2024
• Advanced Leadership for Academics and Professionals Participant, 2022-2023
• Best Reviewer Recognition, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2011
• NSF CAREER Award for research entitled “Supervised Learning with Incomplete and Uncertain Data” 2014
• NGA New Investigator Award, 2014
• University of Missouri College of Engineering Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award, Mar. 2014
• Outstanding Reviewer Recognition, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2016
• Rising Researcher Award, SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing, 2018
• Best Reviewer Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2019
• ECE Graduate Student Organization Best New Faculty Award, 2019
• Best Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Jan. 2020
• Faculty Research Excellence Award, UF Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, May 2020
• Faculty Service Excellence Award, UF Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, May 2021

Education

• Ph.D., University of Florida, 2008