
Qing Zhao
Professor of Engineering, Cornell University
Researcher
Qing joined Cornell in 2015, where she is the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering. Prior to that, she was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis from 2004 to 2015 and a system engineer with Aware., Inc. from 2001 to 2003. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 2001.
Professor Zhao is a Fellow of IEEE, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow of the European Union research and innovation program, a Jubilee Chair Professor of Chalmers University during her 2018-2019 sabbatical leave, and is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She received the 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award and the 2000 Young Author Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Project Involvement

Multi-Prong Approach to Achieving Digital Food Safety from Farm to Table

Use-Inspired Framework for AI for Food Safety Across the Supply Chain

Digital Twin Models Integrated AI for Food Safety Across the Supply Chain
AIFS Publications
- Journal Article ⏐ Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 2022Journal Article ⏐ Comput. Electron. Agric. 2022
Special Report: AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS)
Tagkopoulos, Ilias,Steve Brown,Xin Liu,Qing Zhao,Tarek I Zohdi,Mason Earles,Nitin Nitin,Daniel Runcie,Danielle G Lemay,Aaron Smith,Pamela Ronald,Hao Feng,and Gabriel YoutseyDOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2022.106819 - Journal Article ⏐ Nutrients 2022Journal Article ⏐ Nutrients 2022
The Development of the Davis Food Glycopedia—A Glycan Encyclopedia of Food
Castillo, Juan J,Garret Couture,Nikita P Bacalzo,Ye Chen,Elizabeth L Chin,Sarah E Blecksmith,Yasmine Y Bouzid,Yael Vainberg,Chad Masarweh,Qing Zhao,Jennifer T Smilowitz,Bruce German,David A Mills,Danielle G Lemay,and Carlito B LebrillaDOI: 10.3390/nu14081639 - Conference Article ⏐ International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2021Conference Article ⏐ ICASSP 2021
An Order-Optimal Adaptive Test Plan for Noisy Group Testing Under Unknown Noise Models
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414111 - Journal Article ⏐ Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 2022Journal Article ⏐ Crit. Rev. Food Sci. Nutr. 2022
A Perspective on Data Sharing in Digital Food Safety Systems
Qian, Chenhao,Yuhan Liu,Cecil Barnett-Neefs,Sudeep Salgia,Omer Serbetci,Aaron Adalja,Jayadev Acharya,Qing Zhao,Renata Ivanek,and Martin WiedmannDOI: 10.1080/10408398.2022.2103086 - Conference Article ⏐ IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2021Conference Article ⏐ Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process. 2021
An Order-Optimal Adaptive Test Plan for Noisy Group Testing Under Unknown Noise
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414111 - Journal Article ⏐ Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 2022Journal Article ⏐ Front. Artif. Intell. 2022
Spectroscopy Approaches for Food Safety Applications: Improving Data Efficiency Using Active Learning and Semi-supervised Learning
DOI: 10.3389/frai.2022.863261