Center for Digital Agriculture

Center Affiliates

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Vikram Adve
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Artificial Intelligence; Compilers, Architecture, and Parallel Computing; Programming Languages / Formal Methods / Software Engineering; Security and Privacy
Narendra Ahuja
Research Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Computer Vision, Robotics, Image Processing, Sensors, Pattern Recognition, Virtual Environments, Intelligent Interfaces
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Elizabeth Ainsworth
Adjunct Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Plant Biology
University of Illinois
Climate change; Photosynthesis; Genomics
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Brian Aldridge
Clinical Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Veterinary Medicine
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Animal health resilience; Disease detection
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Mohamad Alipour
Research Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois
Drones, AI, Soil Moisture, Remote Sensing, Digital Twins
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Cody Allen
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Automation and autonomy; On-machine job quality sensing; In-field machine testing; Sustainable fuels
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Luciano Alves de Oliveira
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Water Management; Water Quality; Drainage and Irrigation; Livestock Waste Management; Sensors and Automation
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Nancy Amato
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Robotics task and motion planning; Collaborative robotics with VR/AR interfaces; parallel and distributed computation; applications in indoor and outdoor settings.
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Shadi Atallah
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Consumer Economics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Agriculture, choice experiment surveys, farmer technology adoption.
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Mark Becker
4-H Youth Development Extension Specialist

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Illinois Extension
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Positive Youth Development, Culturally Affirming Practices, Diversifying Ag Education, Building Partnerships w/ Youth Youth-Serving Institutions
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Talon Becker
Commercial Ag Specialist

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Illinois Extension, Crops
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Crop management, conservation agriculture, regenerative agriculture, cover crops, crop production systems
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Cabral Bigman-Galimore
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Communications
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Risk Communication, Programmable plants, Emerging technologies
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Martin Bohn
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Crop Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Quantitative genetics, plant breeding, genomic prediction, phenomics, genomics, interactions
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Dennis Bowman
Extension Digital Agriculture Specialist

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Illinois Extension
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Implementation of variable rate nitrogen strategies for corn; Application of GPS and GIS technology for field crop production; Evaluation of remote sensing imagery for field crop production; Implications of the adoption of genetically enhances crops; Impact of fertilizers and pesticides on water quality; Cost effectiveness of precision farming technologies
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Tiago Bresolin
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Animal Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Quantitative and Statistical Genetics; Artificial Intelligence Techniques; High-Throughput Phenotyping; Precision Livestock Farm; Multi-Omics Analysis
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David Bullock
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Consumer Economics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
On-farm precision experimentation, data-intensive farm management
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Steven Burgess
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

School of Integrative Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Synthetic biology, photosynthesis, physiology, biochemistry
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Marco Caccamo
Adjunct Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cyber-Physical Systems, Real-Time Resource management, Safe Reinforcement Learning
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Ximing Cai
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Irrigation scheduling, environmental sustainability, food-energy-water nexus, circular water systems
Boris Camiletti
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Crop Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Disease Management, Multi-Scale Sensing, pesticides
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Li-Qing Chen
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Plant Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Control of sugar allocation to improve crop yield or biomass for food and biofuels
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Girish Chowdhary
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Robotics, Digital Agriculture, Field Robotics
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Isabella Condotta
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Animal Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Precision management of animals; digital agriculture; artificial intelligence applied to animal systems
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Sandy Dall’Erba
Professor, CREATE Founding Director

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Consumer Economics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Agrifood supply chain; Impact of extreme weather events
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Paul Davidson
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Wastewater; Hydroponics; Controlled-environment agriculture; Nutrients
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Angela Di Fulvio
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Remote sensing, radiological assay, in-soil carbon content
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Ryan Dilger
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Animal Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nutrition, digital agriculture, translational pig model, neuroimaging, behavior
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Yiwen Dong
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Grainger College of Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ambient Intelligence, Smart Buildings, Animal
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Katie Driggs-Campbell
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Robotics, AI, human-robot interaction, decision-making and control, safety
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Mohammed El-Kebir
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Combinatorial optimization and its applications to cancer and infection genomics; Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Theory and Algorithms
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Elhan Ersoz
Clinical Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Crop Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Ersoz’s research identifies sustainable and cost-effective best management practices for farmers through systems-scale computer modeling of agricultural production systems, as well as technology and policy proposals.
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George Gollin
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Physics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Medical instrumentation; Methane analysis; Equine laminitis therapy
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Angela Green-Miller
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Animal welfare, animal behavior, digital monitoring, sensors, computer vision
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Kaiyu Guan
Professor, Founding Director

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agroecosystem Sustainability Center
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Agroecosystem Modeling, Cross-scale Remote Sensing (ground/airborne/satellite), Model-Data Fusion, Terrestrial Carbon Cycle, Biogeochemistry, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Agroecosystem Forecasting, Artificial Intelligence, Science-to-Policy, Science-to-Practical Solutions.
Saurabh Gupta
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
I work on computer vision, robotics and machine learning. I am interested in building agents that can intelligently interact with the physical world around them. I am specifically interested in improving their generalization capabilities. Some of my recent work has focussed on 3D image and video understanding, understanding hand-object interaction, robot learning from videos, mobile manipulation, imitation learning, and control of humanoid robots.
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John Hart
Principal Research Engineer

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Artificial Intelligence, computer vision, robotics, prototype design and field implementation.
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Kris Hauser
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Open-world robotics, robot motion planning and control, and semi-autonomous systems, with applications to intelligent vehicles, robotic manipulation, robot-assisted medicine, and legged locomotion.
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Jingrui He
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

School of Information Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
AI, foundation models, climate impact, plant phenotyping, heterogeneous environments
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Julia Hockenmaier
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Artificial intelligence
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Naira Hovakimyan
W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Mechanical Science & Engineer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Control, optimization, machine learning, crop analytics, AI Farmer
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Matthew Hudson
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Crop Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Hudson uses supercomputing and DNA sequencing to solve problems in plant, animal, and human genetics. His current research focuses on how crops are bred and on ways to treat and prevent plant, animal, and human diseases. He is particularly interested in the genetics of crop traits and the genetic and molecular interactions of soybeans with pathogens, pests, and other organisms.
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Andrew Hultgren
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Consumer Economics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
agriculture, climate change, adaptation
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Salah Issa
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Agricultural safety, virtual reality, autonomy, grain safety,
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Heng Ji
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Natural Language Processing and its connections with Data Mining, Social Science and Vision.
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Mohammed Kamruzzaman
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hyperspectral imaging, machine learning, crop growth, digital agriculture
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Madhu Khanna
Director, Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Consumer Economics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Economic analysis policy analysis; Digital technologies; Sustainability
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Megan Konar
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Modeling; Water resources; Resilience; Security; Sustainability; Agri-food supply chains
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Girish Krishnan
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Adaptive Structures; Active Wearable Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices; Flexible Pneumatic and Hydraulic; Actuators; Agricultural robots; Soft Robots
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Praveen Kumar
Executive Director

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Prairie Research Institute
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Critical Zone, Complex Hydrologic Systems, Hydroecology, Hydroclimatology
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Andrew Leakey
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Plant Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Computer vision, phenotyping, crop
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Alex Lipka
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Crop Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Statistical genetics, GWAS, genomic prediction, quantitative genetics, crops
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Ting Lu
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Bioengineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Synthetic biology, mathematical modeling, microbial consortia, biomanufacturing
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Amir Malvandi
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digital Twin, Advanced Manufacturing, Cyber-physical systems (CPS), Scientific Machine Learning
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Nicolas Martin
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Crop Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Precision agriculture, remote sensing, crop modeling, spatial analytics, systems theory.
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Hope Michelson
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Agricultural development and poverty; Food security and livelihoods; Soil, fertilizer, and productivity
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Sayan Mitra
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Safe autonomy (e.g., self-driving cars, spacecraft, and drones), formal methods, distributed systems, programming languages, robotics.
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Steve Moose
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Crop Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Corn, biotechnology, nutrient-use efficiency
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Sasa Msailovic
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Programming languages, Compilers, Software Engineering, Edge AI
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Margaret Yee Man Ng
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Journalism
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Computational Social Science, Technology Adoption & Abandonment, Social Media
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Yanfeng Ouyang
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Transportation Engineering; Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability; Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Systems
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Bin Peng
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Crop Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Modeling, Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence, Agroecosystems, Watersheds
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Cristian Proistosescu
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Coupled atmosphere-ocean dynamics; Climate sensitivity, clouds and radiative feedbacks; Stochastic climate variability & climate extremes; Palaeoclimate; Statistical inference and machine learning in earth sciences
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John Reid
Research Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Deployment of embodied AI in agriculture, circular bioeconomy in agriculture, precision agriculture technologies, agricultural robotics and autonomy, and automation of agricultural and biological systems
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Sandra Rodriguez-Zas
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Animal Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Data sciences, bioinformatics, animal production and health, training programs
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Luis Rodriguez
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Design justice; Data justice; FEW nexus; Circular bioeconomies
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James Santiago
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Crop Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Controlled Environment Agriculture, Plant Stress Physiology, Sustainable Horticulture
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Alex Schwing
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Computer Vision; Machine Learning
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Sunoj Shajahan
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Computer vision, Robotics, Remote Sensing, Artificial intelligence, Field testing
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Rebecca Smith
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Pathobiology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Epidemiology, infectious disease, modeling
Elahe Soltanaghai
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Systems and Networking; Wireless Sensing and Communication; Wireless Embedded Systems; Cyber-physical Systems
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Anthony Studer
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Crop Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Maize, photosynthesis, genetics, water-use, plant architecture
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Leona Yi-Fan Su
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Advertising
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Agricultural marketing, social media analytics, artificial intelligence, public opinion, consumer research
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Sharifa Sultana
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Human-computer interaction (HCI), Human AI (HAI), farming information
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KC Ting
Professor Emeritus

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Systems, Automation, Robotics, Controlled environment agriculture, Biomass production logistics
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Hanghang Tong
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Large Scale Data Mining, Graph Mining, Social Networks, Agriculture, Healthcare
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Carmen Ugarte
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Soil organic matter dynamics, nutrient cycling, plant-soil interactions, soil food webs
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Deepak Vasisht
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
My group’s research focuses on designing the next generation of mobile computing and wireless networking systems such as AI-driven networks, satellite networks, in-body systems, and 6G. I am deeply interested in developing solutions for human-critical problems in various application domains such as rural connectivity, agriculture, and healthcare.
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Sheng Wang
Research Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agroecosystem Sustainability Center
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Remote Sensing, Precision Agriculture, Environmental Sustainability, Ecohydrology, Machine Learning, Imaging Spectroscopy
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Shenlong Wang
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
My research interests lie at the intersection of 3D computer vision and robotics.
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Yi-Cheng Wang
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Food Science & Human Nutrition
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
fFood safety, food processing, sensing, intelligent packaging
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Yuxiong Wang
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
My research lies in computer vision, machine learning, and robotics, with a specific focus on open-world perception, meta-learning, multi-modal learning, generative modeling, and agent learning.
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Changmou Xu
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Food Science & Human Nutrition
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
AI-Driven Food Processing, Personalized Nutrition, Sustainable Food Technologies
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Wendy Yang
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

School of Integrative Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Terrestrial biogeochemistry, ecosystem ecology, stable isotope ecology, soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas dynamics, climate change
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Yuanhui Zhang
Professor

DEPARTMENT / ORGANIZATION

Agricuktural & Biological Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Circularity Index, hydrothermal liquefaction, SAF