The Team

AIFS brings together 120+ researchers and leaders from six institutions to develop open-source AI solutions across the food system.

13 people

Leadership

9 people

Advisory Board Members

12 people

Staff

45 people

Researchers

Rebecca Abergel
Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering, Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Nuclear Chemistry, Cellular Biology
Jayadev Acharya
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
Machine Learning, Algorithms
Shamim Ahamed
Assistant Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis
Controlled Environment Agricultural
Ana Arias
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Flexible and Printed Electronics
Brian Bailey
Assistant Professor of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Plant Modeling, Remote Sensing
Ellen Bonnel
Human Studies Manager, USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center
Francesco Borrelli
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Predictive Control
Charlie Brummer
Director and Professor, Center for Plant Breeding, UC Davis
Enhancing Crop Yields, Molecular Markers
Christine Diepenbrock
Assistant Professor of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Crop Nutrition and Resilience
Lee Fleming
Coleman Fung Chair of Engineering Leadership, School of Engineering, UC Berkeley
Machine Learning, Social Science
Bruce German
Professor of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis
Diet, Health, Metabolism
Jean-Xavier Guinard
Professor and Sensory Scientist, UC Davis
Sensory Properties of Foods and Beverages, Humans Perception and Decision-Making
Yufang Jin
Associate Professor of Land, Air, and Water Resources, UC Davis
Remote Sensing, Precision Agriculture, Machine Learning
Maggi Kelly
Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Geography, UC Berkeley
Remote Sensing, Geospatial Research
Isaya Kisekka
Associate Professor of Land, Air, and Water Resources, UC Davis
Sustainable Water Management
Steven Knapp
Professor and Director of the Strawberry Breeding Program, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Strawberry Breeding and Genomics
Zhaodan Kong
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis
Control Theory, Autonomous Systems
Jules Larke
Professional Researcher, Department of Nutrition, UC Davis
Machine Learning, Precision Nutrition
Carlito Lebrilla
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, UC Davis
Mass Spectrometry, Cancer, Nutrition
Ethan Ligon
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Applied Microeconomics
Troy Magney
Assistant Professor of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Environmental Data Science, Sensor Development
David Mills
Professor of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis
Movelcular Biology, Bacteria
Ali Moghimi
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis
Remote Sensing and Applied AI
Khalid Mosalam
Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley
Structure Assessment, Simulations, Energy Efficiency
Mark Mueller
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Dynamics and Control
Simo Mäkiharju
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Flow Optimization
Klara Nahrstedt
Swanlund Endowed Chair and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering
Edge Systems, Secure Infrastructure
Hamed Pirsiavash
Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Davis
Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Alireza Pourreza
Assistant CE Specialist of Agricultural Mechanization, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis
Agricultural Robotics and Automation
James Sayre
Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension, UC Davis
Agricultural Distribution
Chenhui Shao
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC
Automated and Intelligent Manufacturing
Christopher Simmons
Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis
Reclaiming and Recycing Waste Biomass
Jennifer Smilowitz
UCD Human Studies Director, Foods for Health Institute, UC Davis
Clinical Nutrition, Lactation Research
Edward Spang
Assistant Professor of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis
Water, Energy, Food Systems
Charles Stephensen
Research Leader at the USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center (WHNRC) in Davis, CA
Nutrition, Immune System, Vitamins
Dean Tantillo
Professor at UC Davis
Biosynthesis, Catalysis
Gail Taylor
Professor and Department Chair of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Plant Adaptation
Allen Van Deynze
Director of Research Seed Biotechnology Center, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Disease Resistant Crop Breeding
Stavros Vougioukas
Associate Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis
Agricultural Robotic, Harvesting
Luxin Wang
Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis
Genomics, Foodborne Pathogens
Qiong Wang
Associate Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois
Financial Engineering, Operations Research
Martin Wiedmann
Professor in Food Safety, Department of Food Science, Cornell University
Foodborne and Zoonotic Diseases
Mark Yarborough
Professor of Bioethics, UC Davis
Public Trust, Biomedical Research
Zhou Yu
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Davis
NLP, Multimodal Analysis
Qing Zhao
Professor of Engineering, Cornell University
Sequential Decision Theory, Machine Learning

17 people

Postdoctoral Researchers

52 people

Graduate Student Researchers

11 people

Alumni