May 15, 2024
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University of Florida President Bernie Machen
Press Release
UF recruits 37 faculty in first round of preeminence hiring
| UF College | Topic | Hire | Previous Institution |
| Agricultural & Life Sciences/Microbiology | Informatics for Life Sciences | Ana Conesa – 8/30/14 | Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, SP |
| Agricultural & Life Sciences/Animal Sciences | Food Hub | Arie Havelaar – 10/1/14 | Utrecht University |
| Education | Online Learning Institute | Carole Beale – 8/16/14 | The University of Arizona |
| Education | Optimizing Early Childhood | Brian Riechow – 7/7/14 | Yale |
| Engineering/Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Autonomous Systems | Riccardo Bevilacqua – 8/16/14 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Engineering/Biomedical Engineering | Biomedical Informatics | Lin Yang – 8/16/14 | University of Kentucky |
| Engineering/Computer and Information Science and Engineering | Cybersecurity | Patrick Traynor – 8/16/14 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Engineering/Computer and Information Science and Engineering | Human Centered Computing | Shaundra Daily – 8/15/14 | Clemson University |
| Christina Gardner-McCune – 8/16/14 | |||
| Juan Gilbert - 7/1/14 | |||
| Kyla McMullen - 8/11/14 | |||
| Damon Woodward - 1/1/15 | |||
| Engineering/Industrial and Systems Engineering | Informatics Techniques and Technologies | Alfredo Garcia – 1/1/15 | University of Virginia |
| Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering | Informatics Techniques and Technologies | Daniela Oliveira – 7/1/14 | Bowdoin College |
| Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering | Informatics for Engineered Systems and the Physical Systems | Richard Hennig – 8/16/14 | Cornelll University |
| Engineering/Biomedical Engineering | Neuroscience and Brain | Kevin Otto – 8/16/14 | Purdue University |
| Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering | Neuroscience and Brain | Karim Oweiss – 8/16/14 | Michigan State |
| Engineering/Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Renewable Energy and Storage | Jonathan Scheffe – 8/16/14 | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Fine Arts | Online Learning Institute | Angelos Barmpoutis – 8/16/14 | University of Florida |
| Florida Museum of Natural History | Informatics for Life Sciences | Robert Guralnick – 1/1/15 | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Florida Museum of Natural History | Historical & Environmental Archeology | Charles Cobb – 8/16/14 | University of South Carolina |
| Health and Health Professions/Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Skeletal Muscle Biology | Elizabeth Barton – 4/30/15 | University of Pennsylvania |
| Journalism | Online Learning Institute | Sriram “Sri” Kalyanaraman – 08/14 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Law | Corporate Law | Robert Rhee – 8/16/14 | University of Maryland |
| Liberal Arts & Sciences/Physics | Informatics for Engineered Systems and the Physical Systems | Xiao-Guang Zhang – 8/16/14 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Liberal Arts & Sciences/Political Science | Informatics in Social Science Humanities | Michael McDonald – 8/16/14 | George Mason University |
| Liberal Arts & Sciences/Anthropology | Latin American Development | Catherine Tucker – 8/16/15 | Indiana University |
| Liberal Arts & Sciences/Geography | Latin American Development | Robert Walker – 8/16/14 | Michigan State University |
| Liberal Arts & Sciences/Geography | Mathematical Modeling of Diseases | Gregory Glass – 8/16/14 | Johns Hopkins University |
| Liberal Arts & Sciences/Anthropology | Social Network Analysis | Jeffrey Johnson – 8/16/14 | East Carolina University |
| Medicine/Health Outcomes | Biomedical Informatics | William Hogan – 6/1/14 | Harvard University |
| Medicine/Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Neuroscience and Brain | Steve Munger – 9/1/14 | University of Maryland |
| Lee Sweeney – 1/5/15 | University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Pharmacy | Metabolomics | Jatinder Lamba – 7/1/14 | University of Minnesota |
| Medicine/Public Health & Health Professions/Epidemiology | Biomedical Informatics | Mattia Prosperi – 1/1/15 | The University of Manchester |
| Medicine/Public Health & Health Professions/Biostatistics | Informatics for Life Sciences | Faming Liang – 7/15/14 | Rutgers University |
| Public Health & Health Professions/Physical Therapy | Neuroscience and Brain | Gordon Mitchell – 12/1/14 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
