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The Team

AIFS comprises over 100 researchers and leaders from six institutions to be inclusive, fostering collaborations to develop open-source AI solutions across the food system.

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Researchers
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Rebecca Abergel

Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering, Chemistry, UC Berkeley

Nuclear Chemistry, Cellular Biology

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Jayadev Acharya

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University

Machine Learning, Algorithms

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Shamim Ahamed

Assistant Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis

Controlled Environment Agricultural

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Ana Arias

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Flexible and Printed Electronics

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Brian Bailey

Assistant Professor of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Plant Modeling, Remote Sensing

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Ellen Bonnel

Human Studies Manager, USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center

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Francesco Borrelli

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Predictive Control

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Charlie Brummer

Director and Professor, Center for Plant Breeding, UC Davis

Enhancing Crop Yields, Molecular Markers

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Christine Diepenbrock

Assistant Professor of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Crop Nutrition and Resilience

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Lee Fleming

Coleman Fung Chair of Engineering Leadership, School of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Machine Learning, Social Science

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Bruce German

Professor of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis

Diet, Health, Metabolism

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Yufang Jin

Associate Professor of Land, Air, and Water Resources, UC Davis

Remote Sensing, Precision Agriculture, Machine Learning

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Maggi Kelly

Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Geography, UC Berkeley

Remote Sensing, Geospatial Research

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Isaya Kisekka

Associate Professor of Land, Air, and Water Resources, UC Davis

Sustainable Water Management

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Steven Knapp

Professor and Director of the Strawberry Breeding Program, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Strawberry Breeding and Genomics

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Zhaodan Kong

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis

Control Theory, Autonomous Systems

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Jules Larke

Professional Researcher, Department of Nutrition, UC Davis

Machine Learning, Precision Nutrition

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Carlito Lebrilla

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, UC Davis

Mass Spectrometry, Cancer, Nutrition

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Ethan Ligon

Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

Applied Microeconomics

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Troy Magney

Assistant Professor of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Environmental Data Science, Sensor Development

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David Mills

Professor of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis

Movelcular Biology, Bacteria

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Ali Moghimi

Assistant Professor of Teaching, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis

Remote Sensing and Applied AI

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Khalid Mosalam

Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley

Structure Assessment, Simulations, Energy Efficiency

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Mark Mueller

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Dynamics and Control

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Simo Mäkiharju

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Flow Optimization

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Klara Nahrstedt

Swanlund Endowed Chair and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering

Edge Systems, Secure Infrastructure

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Hamed Pirsiavash

Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Davis

Computer Vision, Machine Learning

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Alireza Pourreza

Assistant CE Specialist of Agricultural Mechanization, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis

Agricultural Robotics and Automation

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James Sayre

Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension, UC Davis

Agricultural Distribution

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Chenhui Shao

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC

Automated and Intelligent Manufacturing

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Christopher Simmons

Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis

Reclaiming and Recycing Waste Biomass

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Jennifer Smilowitz

UCD Human Studies Director, Foods for Health Institute, UC Davis

Clinical Nutrition, Lactation Research

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Edward Spang

Assistant Professor of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis

Water, Energy, Food Systems

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Charles Stephensen

Research Leader at the USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center (WHNRC) in Davis, CA

Nutrition, Immune System, Vitamins

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Dean Tantillo

Professor at UC Davis

Biosynthesis, Catalysis

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Gail Taylor

Professor and Department Chair of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Plant Adaptation

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Allen Van Deynze

Director of Research Seed Biotechnology Center, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Disease Resistant Crop Breeding

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Stavros Vougioukas

Associate Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis

Agricultural Robotic, Harvesting

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Luxin Wang

Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis

Genomics, Foodborne Pathogens

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Qiong Wang

Associate Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois

Financial Engineering, Operations Research

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Martin Wiedmann

Professor in Food Safety, Department of Food Science, Cornell University

Foodborne and Zoonotic Diseases

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Mark Yarborough

Professor of Bioethics, UC Davis

Public Trust, Biomedical Research

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Zhou Yu

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Davis

NLP, Multimodal Analysis

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Qing Zhao

Professor of Engineering, Cornell University

Sequential Decision Theory, Machine Learning

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Graduate Student Researchers
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Ian Anderson

Graduate Student Researcher

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Cecil Barnett-Neefs

Graduate Student Researcher

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Carla Becker

Graduate Student Researcher

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Omar Betancourt

Graduate Student Researcher

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Sarah Blecksmith

Graduate Student Researcher

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Yazmine Bouzid

Graduate Student Researcher

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Momtanu Chakraborty

Graduate Student Researcher

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Trevor Chan

Graduate Student Researcher

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Mengyi Dong

Graduate Student Researcher

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Jesus Fernandez Bayo

Graduate Student Researcher

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Abelina Fuentes

Graduate Student Researcher

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Tommy Hosmer

Graduate Student Researcher

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Fan Hu

Graduate Student Researcher

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Roger Isied

Graduate Student Researcher

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Minjae Jeon

Graduate Student Researcher

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YeonJin Jung

Graduate Student Researcher

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Linda Kalunga

Graduate Student Researcher

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Hamid Kamangir

Graduate Student Researcher

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Erin Kealey

Graduate Student Researcher

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Yoonbin Kim

Graduate Student Researcher

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Lucas Lahann

Graduate Student Researcher

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Fangzhou Li

Graduate Student Researcher

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Ze-Xuan Liu

Graduate Student Researcher

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Yuhan Liu

Graduate Student Researcher

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Yongshuai Liu

Graduate Student Researcher

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Manan Mehta

Graduate Student Researcher

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Fanyu Meng

Graduate Student Researcher

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Emre Mengi

Graduate Student Researcher

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Christian Millsop

Graduate Student Researcher

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Tu Nguyen

Graduate Student Researcher

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Floyid Nicolas

Graduate Student Researcher

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Alexander Olenskyj

Graduate Student Researcher

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Allison O’Brien

Graduate Student Researcher

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Luke Qian

Graduate Student Researcher

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Andy Rodriguez

Graduate Student Researcher

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Sudeep Salgia

Graduate Student Researcher

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Peter Savchik

Graduate Student Researcher

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Mostafa Sedky

Graduate Student Researcher

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Gabriel Simmons

Graduate Student Researcher

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Zhehan Tang

Graduate Student Researcher

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Mariana Larrañaga Tapia

Graduate Student Researcher

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Xiaoxiao Wang

Graduate Student Researcher

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Ting-Hao Wang

Graduate Student Researcher

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Teaya Yang

Graduate Student Researcher

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Arielle Yoo

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Jason Youn

Graduate Student Researcher

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Shao-Yi Yu

Graduate Student Researcher

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Jiaming Zha

Graduate Student Researcher

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Tony Zheng

Graduate Student Researcher