AI in Agriculture: Innovation and Discovery to Equitably meet Producer Needs and Perceptions

2023 AI Conference • April 17-19, 2023 • Marriott Orlando Airport Lakeside • Orlando, FL

AI in Agriculture: Innovation and Discovery to Equitably meet Producer Needs and Perceptions

2023 AI Conference • April 17-19, 2023 • Marriott Orlando Airport Lakeside • Orlando, FL

A person in front of a corn field pointing to a poster about AI and Agriculture.

Yiannis Ampatzidis

Meeting PI, Associate Professor

Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida

i.ampatzidis@ufl.edu

Georgios Anagnostopoulos

Associate Professor

Computer Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology

georgio@fit.edu

Yin Bao

Assistant Professor

Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University

yzb0016@auburn.edu

Daeun Choi

Assistant Professor

Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida

dana.choi@ufl.edu

Jeremiah Davis, P.E.

Associate Professor, Director, National Poultry Technology Center

Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University

jdd0042@auburn.edu

Ali Fares

Professor

Water Security, Prairie View A&M University

alfares@pvamu.edu

Thanos Gentimis

Assistant Professor

Experimental Statistics Department, Louisiana State University

tgentimis@agcenter.lsu.edu

David Hughes

Chair in Global Food Security

Department of Entomology, Penn State

dhughes@psu.edu

Jasmeet Judge

Professor

Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida

jasmeet@ufl.edu

Won Suk "Daniel" Lee

Professor

Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida

wslee@ufl.edu

Changying "Charlie" Li

Professor

Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida

cli2@ufl.edu

Carlos Rodriguez Lopez

Assistant Professor

Department of Horticulture, University of Kentucky

carlos.rodriguezlopez@uky.edu

Kati Migliaccio, P.E.

Professor and Chair

Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida

klwhite@ufl.edu

Brenda V. Ortiz

Meeting Co-PI, Professor

Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences Department, Auburn University

bvo0001@auburn.edu

Panos M. Pardalos

EMERITUS, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR

Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida

pardalos@ufl.edu

Bob Pitzer

Co-Founder and CTO

Harvest Croo Robotics

bob@hcr.farm

Joby Sherrod

Director of Agronomy

Alico, Inc.

jsherrod@alicoinc.com

Luciano Shiratsuchi

Associate Professor

Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University

lshiratsuchi@agcenter.lsu.edu

Alex Thomasson

Meeting Co-PI, Professor and Head

Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University

athomasson@abe.msstate.edu

Margarita Velandia

Meeting Co-PI, Professor

Agricultural Economics, University of Tennessee

mvelandi@utk.edu

Jeffrey Vitale

Meeting Co-PI, Associate Professor

Agricultural Economics Department, Oklahoma State University

jeffrey.vitale@okstate.edu

Stavros Vougioukas

Professor

Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis

svougioukas@ucdavis.edu

Matthew Whiting

Professor

Department of Horticulture, Washington State University

mdwhiting@wsu.edu

Timothy Young

Professor

Center for Renewable Carbon, University of Tennessee

tmyoung1@utk.edu

Scientific Committee

Name	Contact	Title	Institution
Akinbode A. Adedeji	akinbode.adedeji@uky.edu	Associate Professor	University of Kentucky
Ahmed Ahmed	Amahmed@pvamu.edu	Assistant Professor	Prairie View A&M University
Ripendra Awal	riawal@pvamu.edu	Associate Professor	Prairie View A&M University
Mahendra Bhandari	mahendra.bhandari@ag.tamu.edu	Assistant Professor	Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Nedret Billor	billone@auburn.edu	Professor	Auburn University
Tom Burks	tburks@ufl.edu	Professor	University of Florida
Matthew Donovan	matt@agintel.ai	Chief Executive Officer	Agriculture Intelligence
Susan Duncan	duncans@vt.edu	Professor	Virginia Tech University
Reza Ehsani	rehsani@ucmerced.edu	Professor	University of California, Merced
Clyde Fraisse	cfraisse@ufl.edu	Professor	University of Florida
Becky Trout Fryxell	RFryxell@utk.edu	Associate Professor	University of Tennessee
Sandra Guzman	sandra.guzmangut@ufl.edu	Assistant Professor	University of Florida
Long He	luh378@psu.edu	Assistant Professor	Penn State University
Neelendra Joshi	nkjoshi@uark.edu	Associate Professor	University of Arkansas
Gopal Kakani	vgkakani@ufl.edu	Professor, Department Chair	University of Florida
Lav Khot	lav.khot@wsu.edu	Associate Professor	Washington State University
Juan A. Landivar	jalandivar@ag.tamu.edu	Resident Director, Professor	Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Joe Mari Maja	jmaja@clemson.edu	Assistant Professor	Clemson University
Henry Medeiros	hmedeiros@ufl.edu	Associate Professor	University of Florida
Ali Moghimi	amoghimi@ucdavis.edu	Assistant Professor	University of California, Davis
Kim Morgan	kimorgan@ufl.edu	Associate Professor	University of Florida
Abhijit Nagchaudhuri	nagchaudhuri@umes.edu	Professor	University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Alireza Pourreza	apourreza@ucdavis.edu	Assistant Professor	University of California, Davis
Joseph E. Quansah	jquansah@tuskegee.edu	Associate Professor	Tuskegee University
Khaled M. Rasheed	khaled@cs.uga.edu	Professor	University of Georgia
Benjamin Reading	bjreadin@ncsu.edu	Associate Professor	North Carolina State University
Abhisesh Silwal	asilwal@andrew.cmu.edu	Senior Project Scientist	Carnegie Mellon University
Jeyamkondan Subbiah	jsubbiah@uark.edu	Department Head, Professor	University of Arkansas
Gary Allen Thompson	gat009@uark.edu	Executive Director, SAAESD	University of Arkansas
Di Tian	tiandi@auburn.edu	Assistant Professor	Auburn University
Nikos Tziolas	ntziolas@ufl.edu	Assistant Professor	University of Florida
George Vellidis	yiorgos@uga.edu	Professor	University of Georgia
Kevin Wang	xuwang1@ufl.edu	Assistant Professor	University of Florida
Cranos Williams	cmwilli5@ncsu.edu	Professor	North Carolina State University
Ziwen Yu	ziwen.yu@ufl.edu	Assistant Professor	University of Florida