At the AgAID Institute, Education is essential in order to create an AI-ready and Ag-aware workforce that can help to facilitate technology adoption. Our research students are incorporated into our research projects via hands-on learning experiences and participation in all-team meetings, training, mentoring, and other opportunities.

All Research Alumni
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Graduate (A)
Postdoctoral (A)
Farm Operations Intelligence (A)
Water Allocation Intelligence (A)
Labor Intelligence (A)

Abhilash Kumar Chandel
Postdoctoral Researcher at Washington State University (2022)
Labor Intelligence
Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems applied in Precision spray technology

Abrar Fallatah
Graduate Research Alumnus at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics

Achyut Paudel
Graduate Research Alumnus at Washington State University
Labor Intelligence
Robotics for tree-fruit field operations (flower thinning, pollination, and pruning)

Alexander You
Graduate Research Alumnus at Oregon State University
Labor Intelligence
Robotics for fruit picking, tree pruning, and precision management

Andrew Droubay
Graduate Research Alumnus at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Machine Learning and Quantitative Ecology

Andrew Anderson
Graduate Research Alumnus at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
eXplainable AI (XAI) problems from both the human side and the system side

Belkhouja Taha
Graduate Research Alumnus at Washington State University
Water Intelligence

Behnaz Molaei
Postdoctoral Researcher at Washington State University (2023)
Farm Operations Intelligence
Deficit Irrigation

Britne Clifton
Graduate Research Alumnus at University of California Merced
Water Allocation Intelligence
Ecological restoration and ecosystem services

Chenchen Kang
Graduate Research Alumnus at Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Thermal Imaging for assessing crop water status in grapevines

Chris Goodhart
Undergraduate Research Alumnus at University of Virginia
Water Intelligence

Gustavo Facincani Dourado
Graduate Research Alumnus at University of California Merced
Water Allocation Intelligence

Jake Schrader
Smart Farm Engineering Technician, Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Demo Farm Technician

Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik
Postdoctoral Researcher at Washington State University (2021)
Farm Operations Intelligence
Machine learning models to provide weather data and forecasts to individual fields

Jonathan Dodge
Graduate Research Alumnus at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
eXplainable AI (XAI) problems from both the human side and the system side

Josyula Gopala
Graduate Research Alumnus at Oregon State University
Labor Intelligence
Semantic segmentation and branching point detection for pruning in apple and cherry Orchards

Jui Sen
Graduate Research Alumnus at Washington State University
Water Allocation Intelligence
Economical implications of climate change and droughts

Lam Kin-Ho
Graduate Research Alumnus at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Deep Reinforcement Learning

Liqiang He
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Labor Intelligence
Computer Vision and Visual object tracking

Nicholas Kraabel
Undergraduate Research Alumnus at Washington State University
Research Mentor:
Kirti Rajagopalan at Washington State University
Water Intelligence

Puja Agarwal
Graduate Research Alumnus at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics

Rohan Ballapragada
Undergraduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Research Mentor:
Alan Fern at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence:
Deep Reinforcement Learning for prediction of cold hardiness in grapes

Salik Khanal
Postdoctoral Researcher at Washington State University (2024)
Labor Intelligence
Agricultural Automation Engineering - Computer Vision, Deep Learning

Sejal Welankar
Undergraduate Research Alumnus at Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Exploring the structure of cold hardiness data with persistence homology

Tanvir Ferdousi
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Virginia (2024)
Water Allocation Intelligence
Detection of potential large-scale shifts in agricultural yields due to climate change

Trung Vu
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Deep Reinforcement Learning

Uddhav Bhattarai
Graduate Research Alumnus at Washington State University
Labor Intelligence
Robotics for tree-fruit field operations (flower thinning, pollination, and pruning)

Vicky Espinoza
Graduate Research Alumnus at University of California Merced
Water Allocation Intelligence
Environmental Systems, Water-energy-food nexus issues

Zhengxian Lin
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Deficit Irrigation - Plant Water Stress

Zixuan He
Graduate Research Alumnus at Washington State University
Labor Intelligence
Agricultural Automation Engineering