Get to Know Our Summer Intern: Omar Rivera

UFTI intern and rising 3rd-year student Omar Rivera shared with us some interesting facts about his research, preliminary inferences and a little about his background. Rivera is a computer science major whose main interest is aerospace engineering. He is from Houston, Texas, and recently finished his AA at San Jacinto Community College. He will start […]

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UFTI Professor and Ph.D. Student Participate in Summit

Seung Woo Hwangbo, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Occupational Therapy, presented at the 2023 Occupational Therapy Summit of Scholars on June 23 in Columbus, Ohio. Seung Woo presented his poster on qualitative findings of people across the lifespan after autonomous shuttle exposure. Dr. Sherrilene Classen, Hwangbo’s mentor, professor and chair of the Department […]

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I-STREET Recognized by Florida Legislature

The Florida legislature recently recognized the University of Florida’s Transportation Institute (UFTI) I-STREET program with the passage of Senate Bill 64 and House Bill 425 – emphasizing collaboration with other universities in Florida and transportation companies around the world. I-STREET (aka Implementing Solutions from Transportation Research and Evaluation of Emerging Technologies) has been in existence […]

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