Category: Students

Online master’s student Kathryn Sloan seeks an EDGE in industry
October 26, 2026Online master’s student Kathryn Sloan strives to be a leader in the classroom and in the workplace. A student in the University of Florida’s Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, known as ISE, Sloan represents the determination of successful professionals who are advancing their careers online with UF’s Electrical Delivery of Gator Engineering, known as […]
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From El Salvador to Gainesville: Meet ISE master’s student Ximena Merino
October 20, 2026Meet ISE master’s student Ximena Merino, whose research focuses on using network optimization to improve sewer system design.
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Meet industrial engineer and master’s student Emily Stout, a former Nole thriving in Gator Nation
September 28, 2026Former FSU engineering student Emily Stout found her path to graduate school at UF, where the Outreach Engineering Management program is helping her grow as an engineer and leader while balancing a career at Northrop Grumman.
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‘Truly exceptional’: ISE student wins fellowship for leadership, academic excellence
May 27, 2026Zihan Li, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Industrial & Systems Engineering, recently won the prestigious E.J. Sierleja Memorial Fellowship.
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ISE’s Anna Yang wins an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
May 26, 2026Anna Yang, a Ph.D. student with the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was among the 15 Gator engineers who won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships this year.
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ISE Ambassadors demystify, elevate student experience
March 12, 2026ISE Ambassadors are strengthening the student experience in UF’s Industrial and Systems Engineering department through mentorship, career-building events and peer-led resources that help students navigate research, internships and professional opportunities.
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Balancing the court and classroom
November 19, 2025ISE senior Corey Reynolds balances his passion for basketball with the precision of engineering as a student manager for the national champion Gators. From logistics to leadership, he’s learning what it takes to support a winning program on and off the court.
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Protecting Lives with Biomechanics: Meet Hossein Bahreinizad
September 15, 2025Hossein Bahreinizad’s journey from a small town in southern Iran to the forefront of traumatic brain injury research at the University of Florida is grounded in lifelong curiosity about the human body.
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Head-First: A Researcher’s Fight Against Traumatic Brain Injury: Meet Gustavo Paulon
August 22, 2025With a background in mechatronics, Gustavo Paulon is a third-year Ph.D. student in industrial and systems engineering (ISE) working to design smarter, safer helmets for first responders.
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Networks, Algorithms, and Ambition: Tanner Staggs’ Path to Research Excellence
August 13, 2025Tanner Staggs, a Ph.D. student in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, develops novel algorithms to address large-scale network interdiction problems that strengthen infrastructure systems against disruptions and vulnerabilities.
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