IIPA-Funded Research
Since its inception, the Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture has annually issued requests for proposals and awarded pre-seed, seed, infrastructure, and equipment grants to its members. The submitted proposals were peer reviewed for scientific rigor and multidisciplinarity. To date, $1.88 million has been awarded.
- Pre-Seed Grants support early team-building activities.
- Seed Grants provide funding for preliminary data collection and proof-of-concept activities.
- Large-Team Infrastructure Projects provide funding for establishing a foundation for conducting cutting-edge research that provides a competitive advantage when submitting federal grant proposals.
- Equipment Grants fund shared equipment that accelerates integrative precision agriculture research.
| Project Title | Project Director | Department/School | Grant Type | Fiscal Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cultivating Innovation: Precision Agriculture and Controlled Environment Agriculture in a Transdisciplinary Framework | Rhuanito Ferrarezi | Horticulture | Pre-Seed | FY24 |
| Mobile Sensing for Precision Poultry Disease Management | Guoming Li | Poultry Science | Pre-Seed | FY24 |
| Advancing Precision Agriculture through Innovative Sensors and Data Science | WenZhan Song | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Pre-Seed | FY24 |
| Exploring Autonomous Machinery Operations and Applications in Georgia Agricultural Crops | Simerjeet Virk | Crop and Soil Sciences | Pre-Seed | FY24 |
| Future Agriculture: Joining the Force of Farmers, Machines, Sensors, Social Science and Data Science | Hongyue Sun | Environmental, Civil, Agricultural, and Mechanical Engineering | Pre-Seed | FY24 |
| Advancing Precision Crop Pest Management Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture | Md Sultan Mahmud | Plant Pathology | Pre-Seed | FY24 |
| Precision in Food Supply Chains: The Digital Twin Approach | Christopher Kucha | Food Science and Technology | Pre-Seed | FY24 |
| Precision Animal Pest Management Team | Glen Rains | Entomology | Pre-Seed | FY25 |
| Retrofitting Legacy Processing Equipment with AI Solutions for Smarter Food Safety and Quality in Rural Georgia | Kaitlyn Casulli | Food Science and Technology | Pre-Seed | FY25 |
| NextGen Precision Ag Pioneers | Chin-Ling Lee | Agricultural Leadership, Education, & Communication | Pre-Seed | FY25 |
| Enhancing Blueberry Breeding Programs in Georgia: Integrating Precision Agriculture Technologies to Select Machine Harvestable Genotypes | Luan Oliveira | Horticulture | Pre-Seed | FY25 |
| Developing a Prototype of an Intelligent CPS-Clean Energy System for Precision Frost Protection | Linbing Wang | Environmental, Civil, Agricultural, and Mechanical Engineering | Pre-Seed | FY25 |
| Machine Learning- and Soft Robotics-Expediated Sorting of Peanuts Contaminated with Aflatoxin | Kenan Song | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Pre-Seed | FY25 |
| Smart Forest Harvesting Operations: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Management and Logistics | Alicia Peduzzi | Forestry & Natural Resources | Seed | FY23 |
| Engineering Synthetic Communities of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) in Sorghum bicolor for biofuel production | Jonathan Arnold | Genetics | Seed | FY23 |
| Real time stress-risk mapping for agricultural communities: The Precision Agriculture Stress Support (PASS) initiative | Wesley Porter | Crop and Soil Sciences | Seed | FY23 |
| A Precision Tracking and Tracing System in Food Supply Chain Through Ubiquitous Wireless Connectivity | Haijian Sun | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Seed | FY23 |
| Prediction model for breeding peanuts with desired roasted flavor | Joonhyuk Suh | Food Science and Technology | Seed | FY24 |
| Enhancing Efficacy of Ornamental Crop Production: Application of Advanced Technologies for Automating Nursery Production Operations to Improve Labor Use Efficiency | Md Sultan Mahmud | Plant Pathology | Seed | FY24 |
| PrecisionDetect(PD): AI-Enhanced Hyperspectral Imaging for Early Chicken Egg Fertility Detection | Christopher Kucha | Food Science and Technology | Seed | FY24 |
| Harnessing Deep Learning Algorithms for Ultrasound Image Analysis to Support Reproductive Management Decisions in Cattle | Todd Callaway | Animal & Dairy Science | Seed | FY24 |
| Revolutionizing Agriculture with Data-Driven Solutions: Exploring Microbiome Function and Modulation in Animals through Machine Learning | Aditya Mishra | Statistics | Seed | FY24 |
| SSIF: A Deep Generative Model for Remote Sensing Image Spatial-Spectral Super-Resolution for Precision Agriculture | Gengchen Mai | Geography | Seed | FY24 |
| Integrating Hydrothermal and Biological Conversion Platforms to Maximize Carbon and Nutrient Recovery from Agricultural Waste | Joseph Usack | Food Science and Technology | Seed | FY25 |
| EggPicker: A mobile robotic system for identifying, localizing, and collecting floor eggs in cage-free hen housing environments | Guoming Li | Poultry Science | Seed | FY25 |
| Advancing Sustainable Poultry Production through Climate-Smart Farming Practices and Large Animal Phenotyping Foundation Models | Lilong Chai | Poultry Science | Seed | FY25 |
| An Autonomous Robotic Laser Weeding System for Enhanced Organic Crop Production and Sustainability | Md Sultan Mahmud | Plant Pathology | Seed | FY25 |
| PrecisionDetect(PD): AI-Enhanced Hyperspectral Imaging for Early Chicken Egg Fertility Detection | Christopher Kucha | Food Science and Technology | Seed (Continuation) | FY25 |
| Continuation: Advancing Precision Crop Pest Management Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture | Md Sultan Mahmud | Plant Pathology | Seed (Continuation) | FY25 |
| Enabling Smart Farming Through Interconnected Infrastructure Systems | Haijian Sun | School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Infrastructure (Large Team) | FY23 |
| Precision Farming Formworks for Climate Smart Poultry Production | Lilong Chai | Poultry Science | Infrastructure (Large Team) | FY23 |
| Artificial Intelligence Assisted Harvest to Improve Cotton and Peanut Harvest Efficiency | Simerjeet Virk | Crop and Soil Sciences | Equipment | FY23 |
| Optimizing controlled environment agriculture using automated image acquisition and analysis | Marc van Iersel | Horticulture | Equipment | FY23 |
| Development and Evaluation of a Precision Seed Metering System for Uniform Seed Singulation and Emergence | Wesley Porter | Crop and Soil Sciences | Equipment | FY23 |
| Enhancing Research and Teaching Capabilities in Integrative Precision Agriculture with a Variable Rate Irrigation-Enabled Center Pivot | George Vellidis | Crop and Soil Sciences | Equipment | FY23 |
| Self-Propelled Sprayer for Evaluation of the Feasibility of Variable Rate Application on Georgia's Row Crop Rotation | Simerjeet Virk | Crop and Soil Sciences | Equipment | FY23 |
| Reduction of the environmental impact and increasing production efficiency and animal welfare through the collection of individual gas emissions using the C-Lock GreenFeed system | Romdhane Rekaya | Animal & Dairy Science | Equipment | FY23 |
| Greenhouse Gas Monitoring for Agriculture and Forestry | Alicia Peduzzi | Forestry & Natural Resources | Equipment | FY23 |
| PlantEnviroPrecisionAg: A multi-user approach using cutting-edge instrumentation to develop precision agriculture technologies in the field and CEA | Rhuanito Ferrarezi | Horticulture | Equipment | FY23 |
| Whole-Plant Sensing: Non-destructive Approaches for Above- and Below-ground Phenotyping | Guoyu Lu | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Equipment | FY23 |
| Mapping soil properties spatial variability for site-specific management across scales | Lorena Lacerda | Crop and Soil Sciences | Equipment | FY23 |
| Near-Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Box Solution | Leo Bastos | Crop and Soil Sciences | Equipment | FY23 |
| A picoDAS (Distributed Acoustic Sensing) System for Soil and Plant Moisture Condition Monitoring | Linbing Wang | Environmental, Civil, Agricultural, and Mechanical Engineering | Equipment | FY23 |
| Acquisition of a Shared-Use Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging Equipment to Support Research and Training in Integrated Precision Agriculture | Christopher Kucha | Food Science and Technology | Equipment | FY25 |