AIFARMS

Team

Staff

Rob Kooper

Research Data Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois

Ana Lucic

Assistant Director for Data Management, The Grainger College of Engineering Applied Research Institute, University of Illinois

Melanie Rodriguez

Project Manager, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois

Jessica Wedow

AIFARMS Executive Director

Lisa Yanello

Administrative Support, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ENGINEERING GROUP

COMPUTER VISION

Narendra Ahuja

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Research Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

Saurabh Gupta

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Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

Alex Schwing

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Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

Yuxiong Wang

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Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

ROBOTICS AND CONTROLS

Girish Chowdhary

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Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, and College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Katherine Driggs-Campbell

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Assistant Professor,  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

Kris Hauser

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Professor, Department of Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering,  University of Illinois

Girish Krishnan

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Associate Professor, Department of Industrial & Enterprise System Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

John Reid

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Research Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, and College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS

Jingrui He

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Professor, School of Information Science, University of Illinois

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Julia Hockenmaier

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Professor, Department of Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

Heng Ji

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Professor, Department of Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

Sanmi Koyejo

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Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

Mohammed El-Kebir

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Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

Hanghang Tong

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Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

EDGE MACHINE LEARNING FOR SENSOR DATA

Vikram Adve

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Professor, Department of Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

Supratik Guha

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Professor of Molecular Engineering, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

Paris Smaragdis

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Professor, Department of Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

AGRICULTURE GROUP

CROP SCIENCES AND PLANT BIOLOGY

Lisa Ainsworth

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Research Molecular Biologist, USDA ARS

Bruno Basso

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Foundation Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Michigan State University

Carl Bernacchi

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Professor, School of Integrative Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois

Gregory Bernard

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Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Plant Sciences, Tuskegee University

David Bullock

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Professor, Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Adam Davis

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Professor, Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Andrea Eveland

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Principal Investigator, Associate Member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
 

Kaiyu Guan

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Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES), College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Joseph E. Quansah

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Associate Professor, Environmental and Natural Resource Science, Tuskegee University

Andrew Leakey

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Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences  University of Illinois

SOIL SCIENCES

Andrew Margenot

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Associate Professor,  Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Roser Matamala

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Senior Terrestrial Ecologist, Argonne National Laboratory

Wendy Yang

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Professor,  School of Integrative Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois

ANIMAL SYSTEMS

Brian Aldridge

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Clinical Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois

Isabella Condotta

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Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Ryan Dilger

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Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Angela Green Miller

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Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Chukwuemeka Okere

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Research & Extension Professor of Animal Science, Department of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Tuskegee University

CROP GENETICS AND GENOMICS

Matt Hudson

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Professor, Department of Crop Sciences, , College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Alex Lipka

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Associate Professor, Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Steve Moose

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Professor, Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

Anthony Studer

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Assistant Professor, Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

POLICY, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH GROUP

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY

Madhu Khanna

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Distinguished Professor and Director of Graduate Recruiting and Admissions, College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, Agricultural & Consumer Economics, University of Illinois

Rui Chen

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Assistant Professor Agricultural and Resource Economics, Tuskegee University

Shadi Atallah

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Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH

Olga Bolden-Tiller

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Dean of the College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences (CAENS), Tuskegee University

Raya Hegeman-Davis

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Director of Engagement, School of Computing, Wyoming University

Rachel Switzky

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Director, Siebel Center for Design, & Assistant Professor, Technology Entrepreneurship, University of Illinois

Christina Tucker

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Assistant Director of Programs, Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences University of Illinois

Tiffani Williams

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Teaching Professor and Director of Onramp Programs, Department of Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois

EXTENSION AND FARMER OUTREACH

Mark Becker

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4-H Youth Development Extension Specialist, Food Systems

Dennis Bowman

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Extension Educator, Commercial Agriculture Field Crops III, College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois

Elizabeth Wahle

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Extension, Commercial Agriculture Educator, Fruit & Vegetables  University of Illinois

The Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability (AIFARMS) Institute is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation.

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