Dr. Lisa Anthony
Director, Associate Professor
For over two decades, Lisa has worked on multimodal and advanced interaction technologies, such as speech, touch, and gesture, especially for children in the context of educational interfaces. Lisa earned her PhD in human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008, and spent two years at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories and two years at UMBC prior to joining UF in August 2013.
Ph.D. Students
Dinank Bista
Human AI Interactions, Human Computer Interactions, Machine learning, and AR/VR
Niriksha Regmi
UX/UI Design and Human-Computer Interaction for AR/VR environments, natural interaction, gamifying, and games for education
Wanyi Min
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Master’s & Undergraduate Students
Janav Saluja
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Kiyanaz Foroogh
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Ph.D. Student Alumni
Yu-Peng Chen
2026
Nikita Soni
2021
Aishat Aloba
2021
Jeremiah Blanchard
2020
Alex Shaw
2020
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Other Alumni and Former Students
Over the years, INIT lab has been proud to host many undergraduate volunteers, interns, Master’s students, and other scholars:
- Maeson Vallee
- Chaitra Peddireddy
- Ishvina Singh
- Tina Jethwa
- Annalina Becker
- Angelica Almeida
- Katarina Jurczyk
- Ailish Tierney
- Prerna Arora
- Sahas Thyarala
- Emily Pilley
- Sagar Parmar
- Brittany Craig
- Danielle Sikich
- Qingchuan Zhao “Bruce”
- Sydney Richardson
- Aaliyah Richlen
- Elisabeth Schreiber
- Ziyang Chen
- Kimberly Suarez
- Schuyler Gleaves
- Shaghayegh Esmaeili
- Sayli Bapat
- Ian Mayne
- Gianne Flores
- Annie Luc
- Alice Darrow
- John Bell
- Akshay Holla
- Alexander Popeil
- Julia Woodward
- Jaida Langham
- Zari McFadden
- Jeremy Alexandre
- Shaila Patel
- Ayushi Jain
- Amanda Morales
- Kristen Morga
- Amir Ben-hayon
- Nicole Shiver
- Phillip Hall
- Juthika Das
- Callum Jago
- Nikita Dagar
- Amanda Castonguay