Date: Monday, September 16th
Time: 12:00 – 12:30 PM
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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.
IIPA member faculty and graduate students attended the International Conference on Precision Agriculture which took place in Manhattan, Kansas from July 21 – 24, 2024.
Four students received outstanding graduate student awards and two students placed 1st and 2nd in the poster competition.
Pictured (l-r): George Vellidis, Guoyu Lu, Sara Maktabi, Luan Oliveira, Lorena Lacerda, Leo Bastos, Binita Ghimire, Ramaraja Ramasamy, Cole Byers, Marcelo Barbosa, Sandesh Shrestha, Ravi Meena (partially hidden), Anish Bhattarai, Amrinder Jakhar, Emily Bedwell, Thiago Barboza, and Ramana Pidaparti
Four Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture graduate students were named “Outstanding Graduate Students” at the 16th International Conference on Precision Agriculture held in Manhattan, Kansas.
Congratulations to Binita Ghimire (advised by Dr. Lorena Lacerda, UGA-Athens), Emily Bedwell (advised by Dr. George Vellidis, UGA-Tifton), Cole Byers (advised by Dr. Simerjeet Virk, UGA-Tifton), and Amrinder Jakhar (advised by Dr. Leo Bastos, UGA-Athens) for this achievement!
The 16th International Conference on Precision Agriculture highlights significant research and its applications in precision agriculture and showcase emerging technologies and information management for agriculture.
Emily Bedwell, a graduate student advised by Dr. George Vellidis, has been selected to participate in the International Soil Moisture School in Budapest, Hungary on July 14-17, 2024.
The school is intended for Ph.D. scholars, postdocs, and early career scientists interested in learning how to collect and utilize soil moisture resources from in situ and microwave satellite sensors.
Bedwell is one of only three graduate students in the United States awarded a Fulbright scholarship that will cover all her travel expenses.
Congratulations on this honor, Emily!
The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) and Grand Farm, a leading innovator in agricultural technology, announced a collaboration to create a robust regional agricultural innovation ecosystem.
With the global population expected to increase from 8 billion to 9.7 billion by 2050, agricultural researchers and producers are faced with the looming challenges of how to feed a growing world.
A key tool in the effort to propel Georgia’s No. 1 industry into the future is the expanding field of integrative precision agriculture (IPA).
At the University of Georgia Tifton campus, the new Tifton Integrative Precision Agriculture Research, Education and Demonstration Laboratory will be the first of its kind in the Southeast to provide state-of-the-art collaborative spaces, top-of-the-line autonomous equipment and job training for the next generation of agricultural leaders.
Speaker: Ali Moghimi
Title: “Drone-based Aerial Imagery: Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Agriculture”
Date: Thursday, April 25th
Time: 12:00 – 12:30 PM
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Date: Friday, March 29th
Time: 12:00 – 12:30 PM
Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 956 5162 5142; Passcode: 864324)
Speaker: Beshoy Morkos
Title: “Bringing Industry 4.0 to Agriculture – A study of Pecan Cracking and Shelling Processes“
