
Year 4 Research Project
Multi-Prong Approach to Achieving Digital Food Safety from Farm to Table
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Description
This multidisciplinary project will address four bottlenecks for achieving digital food safety along the farm-to-table supply chain by developing novel algorithms and standards for food safety data, as well as frameworks for accelerating the adoption of privacy and text analytics in digital food safety. These are 1.) Active learning algorithms for optimization of environmental monitoring programs. 2.) Standardized environmental monitoring program data to facilitate data sharing and analysis. 3.) Implement algorithms for privacy-guaranteed data sharing to food safety datasets. 4.) Performance of machine learning for text screening and thematic analysis.
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Team

Renata Ivanek
Principal Investigator

Jayadev Acharya
Co Principal Investigator

Martin Wiedmann
Co Principal Investigator

Qing Zhao
Co Principal Investigator

Aaron Smith
Co Principal Investigator
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Publications

Journal Article ⏐ Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2021Journal Article ⏐ Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2021
In Silico Models for Design and Optimization of Science-Based Listeria Environmental Monitoring Programs in Fresh-Cut Produce Facilities
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00799-21

Journal Article ⏐ Journal of Food Protection 2022Journal Article ⏐ J. Food Prot. 2022
Examining Patterns of Persistent Listeria Contamination in Packinghouses Using Agent-Based Models
DOI: 10.4315/JFP-22-119

Journal Article ⏐ PLoS One 2022Journal Article ⏐ PLoS One 2022
Using Agent-based Modeling to Compare Corrective Actions for Listeria Contamination in Produce Packinghouses
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265251

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 Wiedmann
DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2022.2103086

Journal Article ⏐ Journal of Food Protection 2024Journal Article ⏐ JFP 2024
Developing an Agent-Based Model That Predicts Listeria Spp. Transmission to Assess Listeria Control Strategies in Retail Stores
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfp.2024.100337

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

Conference Article ⏐ Neural Information Processing Systems 2021Conference Article ⏐ NeurIPS 2021