Ryan T. White

Ryan T. White is an Associate Professor at Florida Institute of Technology in the Department of Mathematics and Systems Engineering within the College of Engineering and Science. He serves as Director of the NEural TransmissionS (NETS) Lab, focusing on deep learning, computer vision, and data science. He is also an Affiliate Faculty member in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (2015) from Florida Tech

His research bridges deep learning and computer vision with applications in autonomous satellite operations, physics-informed neural networks for biomedical and geoscience problems, and NLP in aerospace domains. Projects include real-time edge computing, stochastic process analysis, and generative AI for synthetic data. The NETS Lab he directs has produced 15+ recent publications in conferences like IEEE Aerospace, AIAA SCITECH, and AAS/AIAA, with funding from the U.S. Space Force, Air Force Research Lab, and NSF.

His teaching spans graduate/undergraduate courses in deep learning, machine learning, probability, and honors calculus. Current advisees include Ph.D. candidates and M.S. students working on topics like 3D object detection, information-theoretic neural analysis, and geophysical signal processing.

The lab’s scientific contributions include real-time satellite feature detection, physics-guided neural networks for blood flow modeling, and entropy-based visual explanations for AI interpretability. Collaborations span Georgia Tech, Mulitscale Cardiovascular Fluids Laboratory, and Engage-AI for global development projects analyzing UNDP Sustainable Development Goals.