AIFARMS

Category: Honor and Awards

AIFARMS Associate Director Madhu Khanna Named 2025 AAAS Fellow

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Madhu Khanna, Director of iSEE, has been named a 2025 AAAS Fellow for her contributions to social and economic sciences. Her work at AIFARMS advances understanding of how policy and economics shape adoption of sustainable, AI-driven agricultural technologies.

AIFARMS Benchmark Papers on MIRAGE and AgMMU Accepted to NeurIPS 2025

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AIFARMS’ MIRAGE and AgMMU datasets, accepted to NeurIPS 2025, advance agricultural AI through real-world user expert data. AgMMU targets factual and visual understanding, while MIRAGE enables multimodal, expert-level reasoning, together setting new benchmarks for agricultural decision-making and evaluation.