Aladdin Alwisy, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Rinker School of Construction Management and the director of the Smart Industrialized Design and Construction (IDC) lab at the University of Florida. Dr. Alwaisy’s research interests lie in developing and assessing practices for the future of intelligent industrialized construction, such as robotics, sensing technologies, machine learning, augmented/virtual/mixed reality, simulation, and lean manufacturing to reduce the expense of the design, manufacturing process, and system control.

OUTLINE:0:00 - intro0:46 - Industrialized construction (IC)5:01 - Metrics for IC12:37 - Why increase "made in America" products?19:02 - Construction robotics compared to manufacturing robotics39:37 - Framing with an intelligent robotics arm 56:45 - Academic research and industry applications gap1:05:23 - Impact of advances in fundamental robotics in construction1:12:44 - Human robot collaboration

EPISODE LINKS:Dr. Alwisy's profile: https://dcp.ufl.edu/faculties/aladdin-alwisy/

Lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/smart-idc-lab/home

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Elias Sayour, M.D., PhD, is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, and Pediatrics, as well as Principal Investigator of the RNA Engineering Laboratory, and Co-Leader of the UFHCC Cancer Therapeutics & Host Response.

OUTLINE:

0:00 - Intro

00:30 - What is cancer, how it presents in the body and its causes

17:26 - Treatments: chemo, T-cell, surgery

25:22 - Immunotherapy (vaccines)

32:10 - mRNA cancer vaccine

01:03:10 - Validation and verification of the research studies

01:10:58 - Goals of research and future vision

01:16:12 - Personal effect of diseases and death

01:20:16 - Gratefulness

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UF Health Profile: https://ufhealth.org/doctors/elias-sayour#prettyPhoto/1/

UF Profile: https://neurosurgery.ufl.edu/faculty-staff/research-faculty/elias-sayour/

Innovator of the year technology: https://ufinnovate.technologypublisher.com/bio.aspx?id=50682

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elias-Sayour

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Dr. Kent Fuchs was the head of the School of Engineering at Purdue University, then he became the dean and later provost at Cornell University. He then served for eight years as the president at the University of Florida and he is still at UF as a professor in electrical engineering. OUTLINE: 0:00 - Intro 01:15 - What does the president at a university do? 13:57 - His personality and philosophy in the presidency 19:13 - University rankings 31:28 - Is higher education declining? 38:14 - Meeting honors demands 42:38 - Political ideologies inside campus 51:46 - Influence of the state government in public universities 57:24 - Handling of the pandemic 01:05:36 - Censorship of professors 01:13:48 - Gratefulness EPISODE LINKS: Dr. Fuchs wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Fuchs Dr. Fuchs UF profile: https://president.ufl.edu/past-presidents/kent-fuchs/ PODCAST INFO: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lIxLKAKO8pDt6vkmU7TBX Anchor: https://anchor.fm/andres-pulido5 Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFn7Fn5wd5p-quHz_YdoxrUryu0MRP6d0 SOCIAL: Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrespulido28 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-a-pulido/

Carlos de la Torre is Director of the UF Center for Latin American Studies. He was a fellow at the Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. His most recent books are The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism; Populisms a Quick Immersion, De Velasco a Correa: Insurreciones, populismo y elecciones en Ecuador, The Promise and Perils of Populism, Latin American Populism of the Twenty-First Century. Resarch interest: Populism, democratization, and authoritarianism; racism and citizenship in the Americas. Geographic expertise: Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia OUTLINE: 0:00 - what is populism? 5:30 - Give back power to the people9:53 - Restructuring institutions 13:01 - Psychology of a populist19:11 - Latin American Politics25:29 - Left and right politics. Should we fear populists? 30:45 - Javier Milei37:34 - Rafael Correa54:08 - Nicolas Maduro 56:14 - Evo Morales01:01:25 - Brasil, Lula, Jair Bolsonaro01:04:18 - Hugo Chavez01:09:56 - Lesson for the future 01:13:07 - Gratefulness EPISODE LINKS: Dr. de la Torre's UF profile: https://www.latam.ufl.edu/people/center-based-faculty/carlos-de-la-torre/ Dr. de la Torre's Twitter: https://twitter.com/cdela_torre?lang=en Dr. de la Torre's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Carlos-de-la-Torre/author/B001JO7X5G?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true PODCAST INFO: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lIxLKAKO8pDt6vkmU7TBX Anchor: https://anchor.fm/andres-pulido5 Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFn7Fn5wd5p-quHz_YdoxrUryu0MRP6d0 SOCIAL: Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrespulido28 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-a-pulido/

Dr. Imre Bartos received his PhD from Columbia University, where he subsequently remained as a lecturer and then research scientist, before joining the faculty at the University of Florida. His broad field of interest is multi-messenger astrophysics. He primarily studies extreme cosmic processes related to the formation and evolution of black holes. Dr. Bartos is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the LISA Consortium and is an associate member of the IceCube Collaboration. I apologize for Dr. Bartos' camera being low resolution. I normally have a better camera but for this interview it had been broken. I will have better quality for the next ones. Thank you for the patience. OUTLINE: 0:00 - Extreme events in space 02:56 - Black Holes 08:40 - How do we know black holes exist? 22:38 - Other messengers from space, gravitational waves 35:52 - Motivation for spending money on fundamental science 39:12 - LIGO & LISA, search for gravitational waves 43:01 - IceCube, search for neutrinos in south pole 46:08 - Fire Neural Networks 58:15 - Advice for students 01:00:10 - Gratefulness EPISODE LINKS: Dr. Barto’s profile: https://www.phys.ufl.edu/wp/index.php/people/faculty/imre-bartos/ Fire Neural Networks: https://www.fireneuralnetwork.com/hrl-mapping TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdjGGnscLdo LISA: https://www.elisascience.org/ LIGO: https://www.ligo.org/science/faq.php#what-is-ligo IceCube: https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/icecube/ PODCAST INFO: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lIxLKAKO8pDt6vkmU7TBX Anchor: https://anchor.fm/andres-pulido5 Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFn7Fn5wd5p-quHz_YdoxrUryu0MRP6d0 SOCIAL: Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrespulido28 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-a-pulido/

Humberto Ramos was a controls and mechatronic design professor at the Universidad Politécnica del Sur de Zacatecas. In 2020 he obtained his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University. In 2020 he joined UF first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a research scientist and manager of the Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory at the UF REEF facility. Here he continues collaborations with the Air Force Research Laboratory on GPS-denied navigation systems for Guidance, Navigation, and Control applications, extending the Kalman filter's practical applicability.

OUTLINE:

0:00 - intro

1:24 - different areas of autonomy 

3:20 - navigation and estimators 

8:22 - causes of sensor noise

10:40 - sensor bias

12:20 - designing an estimator and linear models

14 Observability analysis

20 bad sound 

22:15 - kalman filters abd benefits

26:50 - how does the KF work?

32:01 - how to get the actual value. We know the error

37:20 - improving applicability of KF

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Huumberto’s profile: https://mae.ufl.edu/people/profiles/humberto-ramos/

Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Humbert312/featured

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Professor Joseph F. Spillane is a professor in the History department at the University of Florida. He has published Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States1, co-authored A History of Modern Criminal Justice, and co-edited Federal Drug Control: The Evolution of Policy and Practice and Prison Work: A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of Corrections. His most recent monograph, Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform, appeared in 2014 from the Johns Hopkins University Press.

OUTLINE:

(0:00) Studying the history of drugs

(10:18) Public perspective on drug history

(13:13) Talking to people as a historian

(18:14) History of cocaine in the US

(39:42) War on drugs

(52:52) Should drugs be legalized?

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Dr. Spillane’s website: https://josephspillane.wordpress.com/

Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States: https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_OQycfkoasC&pg=PP4&lpg=PP4&dq=spillane+cocaine&source=bl&ots=mgMZYcO0xW&sig=9NbNB1SK__lXopJORb26VswphSQ&hl=en&ei=hB1MTvK_FvCJsALB8Im9CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q&f=false

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