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A Precision Ag Field day will take place on the front lawn of Driftmier Engineering Center, located on D.W Brooks Drive/Agriculture Drive, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on October 16^th.  The rain date is October 17^th.

The field day will include displays of state-of-the-art equipment used in precision agriculture, equipment under development by UGA graduate students and faculty, and an opportunity to meet members of the new student Precision Ag Club as well as the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers student chapter.  The Fountain Wars student club will conduct a demonstration.

For more information, please contact Dr. George Vellidis.

A $10 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences was awarded to the University of Georgia’s GenAI center, a research and development space aimed at establishing best practices for generative artificial intelligence use in middle school science classrooms.

Cage-free poultry systems—indoor aviaries that house colonies of up to thousands of birds—offer an improved level of animal welfare for egg-laying hens. They are free to walk, scratch, forage, spread their wings, and perch—all vital natural behaviors.

Applications of UAV-Borne Hyperspectral Imaging in Crop Nutrient Assessments and Precision Breeding

Dr. Aditya Singh
Assistant Professor
Geospatial Sciences
Texas A&M

Date:  Monday, October 7^th, 2024
Time:   12:00 – 12:30 PM

Join Zoom Meeting  (Meeting ID: 996 3653 7305;  Passcode: 619940)

Members of the newly formed Integrative Precision Ag (IPA) Student Club had their first official meeting on Tuesday, September, 17. Approximately 45 people attended (20 in Athens, 16 in Tifton and 6 via Zoom).

Enthusiasm was high with the students indicating that networking and opportunities for professional and personal development (workshops, industry contacts, career counseling, etc.) are high on their list of expectations for the club.

Congratulations to Dr. Lorena Lacerda (faculty sponsor) and all of the students for a successful launch!

The IPA Student Club is open to both undergrads and graduate students.

For more information, please contact Dr. Lacerda.

Date:  Monday, September 16th

Time:   12:00 – 12:30 PM

Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 986 7550 4424;  Passcode: 590243)

Speaker:  

Jay W. Pscheidt

Title:  “Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Change Extension and Diagnostics?”

Qin Lu and Guoyu Lu, both IIPA members and Assistant Professors in the College of Engineering, are among five UGA scholars who have received Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) foundation awards in 2024 from the National Science Foundation for their research and potential as academic role models.

Qin Lu specializes in signal processing, machine learning, and communication. Her research focuses on creating safe and reliable Internet of Things (IoT) applications for important areas like health care, surveillance, and self-driving cars. She aims to develop algorithms that can measure and evaluate their own accuracy and reliability in making decisions.

Using this award, Qin Lu’s next step is pursuing further uncertainty-aware learning and optimization algorithms and exploring how to enhance foundation models with uncertainty quantifiability and reliability for IoT-related tasks.

“My research aspires to advance the current tools for real-time IoT tasks, with direct impact on the number of safety-critical domains, including health care, transportation, and environmental sensing,” she said.

Guoyu Lu researches at the intersection of robotics, perception and vision, and machine learning, specifically developing AI techniques to tackle challenges in robot perception under various sensing modalities. Guoyu Lu’s methods can be applied to a variety of fields ranging from remote sensing to plant science.

“I have established extensive collaborations with researchers across various fields at UGA, such as agriculture, geography, forestry, and environmental science,” he said. “These partnerships have been instrumental in achieving the NSF CAREER Award, which aims to develop AI methodologies for building and assessing 3D models of both underground and aboveground environments at multiple scales and establishing their connections.”

The University of Georgia is enhancing its AI research capabilities with a $2.4 million upgrade to its High-Performance Computing cluster. This summer, the Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center will add 26 new Graphical Processing Unit compute nodes and three high-RAM nodes to the Sapelo2 cluster.