People Group Archives: Faculty

Megha Parikh is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Healthy Aging Lab in UCF’s College of Nursing. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her research focuses on machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision with applications in the segmentation and recognition of handwritten conjuncts in the low-resource Gujarati language. She has also applied machine learning […]

Dr. Ania Lipat completed her Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, and PhD in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology at the University of Florida, specializing in Biomechanics. Throughout her training, she has gained extensive experience in gait analysis, with a specific focus on aging and chronic pain populations. During her undergraduate studies, she worked in the Orthopedic Biomedical […]

Olajumoke (Jummy) Ojeleye is a nurse-midwife and maternal and child health nurse scientist with experience in both clinical and academic settings. Her research, which has been recognized by global organizations, focuses on women’s mental health and seeks to improve the childbearing experiences for all women and their families on a global level. During her doctoral […]

Joy Baylis is a dedicated Pediatric Nurse Practitioner whose multifaceted career reflects a deep commitment to child health, education and clinical excellence. She has nearly two decades of clinical experience spanning emergency care, school health and private pediatric practice. As an educator, she is bringing her real-world experience and passion for pediatric nursing into the […]

Jian (Frank) Zou is an associate professor of statistics at UCF’s College of Nursing. He previously worked at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Duke University, Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute before joining UCF. His research interests include time series, high dimensional statistical inference, biosurveillance, spatial statistics and Bayesian analysis […]

Linda Foley is a Certified Nurse Educator and associate lecturer at UCF’s College of Nursing. Her clinical nursing experience has spanned various healthcare settings, including critical care, medical-surgical acute care, community health and home healthcare. She began her role as a nurse educator during her doctoral studies and discovered a passion for teaching undergraduate pre-licensure […]

Kaitlyn Rechenberg is an associate professor at the University of Central Florida College of Nursing and director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Anxiety Lab. She is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner and pediatric mental health specialist with 10 years of clinical experience working with adolescents and young adults. She is an expert in conducting […]

Sergi Garcia-Retortillo is an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Nursing and serves as a member of the Complex Systems in Sport Research Group at the University of Barcelona in Spain. His research program focuses on the emerging field of network physiology. He investigates the basic laws of interactions and principles […]

Kworweinski Lafontant is an NSCA-certified strength coach and an ACSM-certified exercise physiologist and personal trainer from Orlando, Florida. As a master’s student at the University of South Florida, he served as research coordinator for the Physique & Performance Enhancement Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Bill Campbell. Lafontant is currently completing his PhD in Kinesiology […]

Jethro Raphael Suarez is a Biomedical Engineering PhD student in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in UCF’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. As a Graduate Research Assistant in the College of Nursing, he manages all physical activity measurement devices in the Healthy Aging Lab, overseeing their continuous operation and maintenance. Suarez’s research […]