top of page
Lab_photo_Fall_2025.jpg
2025 Fall Lab Meeting on 08/27/2025
DSC_0617 2.jpg
2026 SRCOS Meeting on 06/08/2026
2025 Spring Lab Meeting on 01/17/2025
2024 Spring Lab Meeting on 04/19/2024
IMG_1770.heic
2024 Fall Lab Meeting on 08/25/2024
MAA-2.jpg
MAA MathFest 2023 in Tampa
Left to right: Gail, Usman, Dylan, Dr. Pu, Nitul and Mingfang
MAA2023.jpg
Sunset Sailboats

Pu's MIND Lab Members
(updated 08/04/2026)

  • Name: Audrey Hewitt

  • Field of Study: Statistics and Machine Learning

  • Date Joined the Lab: Spring 2025

  • Project: Correlation Between Regional UV Index Averages and Skin Cancer Rates in America

  • Current Position: Undergraduate Student

  • Name: Lily-ana Campbell

  • Field of Study: Mathematics and Data Science

  • Date Joined the Lab: Fall 2025

  • Project: Enviromental Factors of Cancer Rates in the US

  • Current Position: Undergraduate Student

 

  • Name: Kellie Tamimi

  • Field of Study: Biology, Mathematics, Psychology

  • Date Joined the Lab: Fall 2023

  • Project: Salivary pH v Life Satisfaction through Perceived Stress and Sleep Quality

  • Current Position: Undergraduate Student

  • Name: Shiv Patel

  • Field of Study: Applied Data Analysis

  • Date Joined the Lab: Fall 2025

  • Project: Data analysis for biological datasets collected on Kellie's project

  • Current Position: Graduate Student

 

  • Name: Ming Zou

  • Field of Study: Biomedical Sciences

  • Date Joined the Lab: Fall 2025

  • Project: OUR works program at UWF 

  • Current Position: Undergraduate Student

  • Name: Simone Landry

  • Field of Study: Statistics

  • Date Joined the Lab: Fall 2024

  • Project: Statistical modeling of urban flooding in coastal areas

  • Current Position: Undergraduate Student

  • Name: Declan McGurk

  • Field of Study: Mathematics / Neuroscience

  • Data Joined the Lab: Fall 2023

  • Projects: Computational Neuroscience Review Paper, Spiking Neural Network Simulations, Neuronal Readings Data Analysis, and New Statistical Distributions Exploration

  • Current Position: Undergraduate student

 

  • Name: Phi Truong

  • Field of Study: Biology

  • Date Joined the Lab: Fall 2024

  • Project: The efficiencies of iPSCS against Parkinson's Disease 

  • Current Position: Master’s Student (Full-Time)

  • Name: Angelique Jefferson

  • Field of Study: Psychology 

  • Date Joined the Lab: Spring 2025

  • Project: Computational neuroscience with the mathematical insights

  • Current Position: Undergraduate Student

 

  • Name: Brianna Perea

  • Field of Study: Statistics

  • Date Joined the Lab: Spring 2024

  • Project: Applied probability and generalized statistical distributions

  • Current Position: Undergraduate Student

  • Name: Sunny Anderson

  • Field of Study: Statistics

  • Date Joined the Lab: Spring 2024

  • Project: Applied probability and generalized statistical distributions

  • Current Position: Undergraduate Student

  • Name: Thanh Bui

  • Field of Study: Statistics/Mathematics

  • Date Joined the Lab: Spring 2024

  • Project: Statistical simulation and generalized statistical distributions

  • Current Position: Graduate Student

 

  • Name: Christina Hoffman

  • Field of Study: Data Science

  • Date Joined the Lab: Fall 2024

  • Project: Organ transplant and its data analysis

 

  • Name: Lance Penaflor

  • Field of Study: Data Science

  • Date Joined the Lab: Fall 2024

  • Project: Data Science and Python for everyone (project co-lead)

  • Current Position: Undergraduate student

  • Name: Leaf Wood

  • Field of Study: Computer Science

  • Date Joined the Lab: Fall 2024

  • Project: Data Science and Python for everyone (project co-lead)

  • Current Position: Undergraduate student

 

  • Name: Will Ezeogu

  • Field of Study: Psychology

  • Date Joined the Lab: Fall 2025

  • Project: Emotion Research with IAPS, GAPED, and HRV

  • Current Position: Undergraduate student

  • Name: Gabriel Patton

  • Field of Study: Computer Science

  • Date Joined the Lab: Fall 2025

  • Project: Machine learning in stock trading

  • Current Position: Undergraduate student

  • Name: Benjamin Green

  • Field of Study: Computer Science

  • Date Joined the Lab: Summer 2025

  • Project: AI in stock trading

  • Current Position: Undergraduate student

  • Name: Chris Jackson

  • Field of Study: Computer Science

  • Date Joined the Lab: Summer 2025

  • Project: Machine learning in stock trading

  • Current Position: Undergraduate student

  • Name: Frank Liu

  • Field of Study: Computer Science

  • Date Joined the Lab: Summer 2025

  • Project: AI in computational neuroscience

  • Current Position: Ph.D. student at Case Western Reserve University (co-advised with Dr. Jing Ma at CWRU)

  • Name: Peng Jiang

  • Field of Study: Computer Science

  • Date Joined the Lab: Spring 2025

  • Project: AI in computational neuroscience

  • Current Position: undergraduate student at New York University (co-advised with Dr. Yue Liu at NYU)

  • Name: Zhuomin Chen

  • Field of Study: Computer Science

  • Date Joined the Lab: Summer 2025

  • Project: machine learning models in neuroscience data analysis

  • Current Position: Ph.D. student at Florida International University (co-advised with Dr. Ning Xie and Dr. Dongsheng Luo at FIU)

  • Name: Michael (Chenlin) Fang

  • Field of Study: Statistics and Machine Learning Models

  • Date Joined the Lab: Spring 2024

  • Project: Statistical model development, computation, inference methods and model fitting

  • Current Position: dual-enrolled undergraduate student/senior at Pensacola High School

Blurred Motion

Lab Alumni

  • Aaron Stringfellow, undergraduate student  (2022-2023)

  • Dylan Wright, undergraduate/graduate student (2022-25)

  • Adjoa Ofori, graduate student (2024-2025)

  • Siting Dai, undergraduate student (2023-2024)

  • Jason Gerstenberger, graduate student (2023-2024)

  • Luis Madrigal Gonzalez, undergraduate/graduate student (2024-25)

  • Luke Synoground, undergraduate student (2024-2025)

  • Sudakshina Singha Roy, graduate student (2023-2024)

  • Leon Schröder, graduate student (2022-2023)

  • Muhammad Usman Aslam, graduate student (2022-2023)

  • Michael Carnival, graduate student (2023‑present)

  • Steven Le, graduate student (2024)

  • Mingfang Huang, graduate student (2022‑2024)

  • FNU Shrishti, undergraduate student (2024-2025)

  • Xinyu Chen, graduate student (2023‑2024)

  • Nitul Singha, graduate student (2023‑2024)

  • Hector Gavilanes, graduate student (2023‑2024)

  • Alex Dampier, undergraduate student (2023‑2024)

  • Hank Thompson, undergraduate student (2023‑2024)

  • Hunter Evans, undergraduate student (2023‑2024)

  • Hannah Knehr, graduate student (2023‑2024)

  • Maxime Martin, graduate student (2023‑2024)

  • Josh Cook, graduate student (2023‑2024)

  • Sy Fontenot, graduate student (2023‑2024)

  • Natalie Belford, graduate student (2023‑2024)

  • Muhammad Usman Aslam, graduate student (2022‑2023)

  • Leon Schröder, graduate student (2022‑2023)

  • Aaron Stringfellow, undergraduate student (2022‑2023)

Open Book
  • BrandPortalImages_2018_PrimaryStacked_Inset
  • LinkedIn

Thanks for submitting!

Contact

11000 University Pkwy
Building 4 Room 341
Pensacola, FL 32514

Tel: 850-474-2180

Email: spu@uwf.edu

©2026 By Shusen Pu

bottom of page