October 2, 2024 • Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Join the National AI for Agriculture Institute team in St. Louis, MO, on October 2nd to learn about AIFARMS research and outcomes from the institute’s first four years and AI for Agriculture research priorities in the next five years.
Agenda
Time
Description
8:30 a.m.
Light Breakfast
9:05 a.m.
AIFARMS Year 4 Highlights
Vikram Adve and Jessica Wedow
9:35 a.m.
AI – ML in Genomics, Phenomes and their Associations
Opportunities in AI for Agriculture Research
Matt Hudson
AIFARMS Research Presentations
10:00 a.m.
Robust Visual Learning for Under-Canopy Navigation
Arun Narenthiran
10:10 a.m.
Advancing Toward Automated Behavior Analysis for Individually-Housed Pigs
Tawni Williams-Stroud
10:20 a.m.
Genomic Prediction of Maize Tassel Traits Through LiDAR Point Cloud Segmentation and ML Phenotyping
Edoardo Bertolini
10:30 a.m.
Joint Question and Answer
10:45 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.
Enhancing Genotype to Phenotype Associations and Unveiling Rare Variants
Talissa Floriani
11:10 a.m.
Identifying Highly Heritable Synthetic Traits with Gradient Descent
Stefan Ivanovic
11:20 a.m.
AI-driven Body Condition Score Classification of Dairy Cow Using Depth Image Processing
Xavier Diego
11:30 a.m.
CropWizard: LLM-based Reasoning & Decision-Making in Agriculture
Vardhan Dongre
11:40 a.m.
Joint Question and Answer
12:10 p.m.
Lunch
Challenges and Future of AI for Agriculture Research
1:30 p.m.
Generative AI for Agriculture
Vikram Adve
1:45 p.m.
Building Partnerships with MSIs to Enhance AI
Olga Bolden-Tiller
2:00 p.m.
Towards Data Interoperability in the Agriculture Domain
Rob Kooper
2:15 p.m.
Joint Question and Answer
2:30 p.m.
Break
2:50 p.m.
Next-Generation Autonomous Farming: Redefining Agriculture through AI and Robotics
John Reid
3:05 p.m.
Breaking the Barrier of Human-annotated Training Data for Machine-learning-aided Plant Research using Aerial Imagery
Andrew Leakey
3:20 p.m.
Joint Question and Answer
3:30 p.m.
Panel - How will AI in Agriculture and your Research into it Evolve in the Next 5 Years?
Kris Hauser (AIFARMS), Christopher Topp (DDPSC), Janice Siegford (MSU)
4:30 p.m.
Networking
PI and Students will present interactive demonstrations and posters
6:00 p.m.
Dinner at the Danforth Center
Conference Venue
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
975 N Warson Rd. Olivette, MO 63132
