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We have received a USDA ARS AI Innovation grant to expand the use of BlackBird imaging robot and the development of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for various agricultural and life science projects led by ARS scientists. Continue reading “We received a USDA ARS AI Innovation Grant”

We have received the Research Innovation Fund from Cornell Institute of Digital Agriculture to seed the radical collaboration for the development of a human-centered hyperspectral imaging robot for grape disease research, breeding, and management. Continue reading “We received a new CIDA seed grant!”

Congratulations! During the 2021 ASABE AIM, Tian received the best student paper and presentation awards (both ranking the second place) from the AOCABFE, an independent, non-political, non-profit organization for professionals with Chinese origins in agricultural, biological, and food engineering fields worldwide.

Congratulations! Tian’s ASABE paper, Deep Learning-Based Saliency Maps for the Quantification of Grape Powdery Mildew at the Microscopic Level, has been selected for the Best ITSC Paper Award in the 2021 ASABE Annual International Meeting. Continue reading “Congratulations on the ASABE ITSC Best Paper Award!”

Welcome Charles Brinsfield to join the CAIR Lab as a summer Research Intern. Charles is currently a senior at Rochester Institute of Technology and will improve the user interface of a fluorescent imaging system for data acquisition.

Welcome Tian Qiu to join the CAIR Lab to pursue his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Tian received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from South China University of Technology in 2019, and Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell in 2020. He will work on the development of 3D perception system for precision apple crop load management.

We have received a USDA NIFA Hatch grant to support the evaluation of multiple sensing modalities for grape disease detection and quantification.

Welcome Ertai “Leo” Liu to join the CAIR Lab and pursue his Ph.D. degree in Biological and Environmental Engineering. Ertai has obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UW-Madison and Cornell in 2018 and 2020, respectively. He will focus on the development of agricultural robots for grape disease management.

As a part of the team, we have received a USDA SCRI grant “Precision Crop Load Management” led by Dr. Terence Robinson. We will work with academic colleagues and industrial partners to develop digital agriculture tools to optimize apple crop load at the tree level to enhance apple productivity and profitability.

Led by Dr. Justine Vanden Heuvel, our project on “determining bud mortality via thermal and multispectral imaging to guide pruning practices” has been fully funded by the New York Wine & Grape Foundation. We will develop a thermal imaging system to differentiate grape bud living status so that winter pruning can be more effective.