The AgAID Institute is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative effort involving faculty and scientists with expertise in a diverse range of areas in computer science, agriculture, and agricultural outreach.
For the Institute, Education and extension are essential to create an AI-ready and Ag-aware workforce and facilitate technology adoption. When our research students get incorporated into an iterative process with a philosophy of continual engagement through hands-on learning experiences, extension and education can become a vehicle for responsible innovation.

All Research Students
Undergraduate
Graduate
Postdoctoral
Intern
Alumni
Labor Intelligence (S)
Farm Operations Intelligence (S)
Water Allocation Intelligence (S)

Aayam Kumar Shrestha
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Deep Reinforcement Learning

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

Abhinav Jain
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Labor Intelligence
Deep Learning and Computer Vision for pruning and thinning

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

Alejandro Velasquez Lopez
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Labor Intelligence
Robotics applied in apple-picking

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

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

Andrew Droubey
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Machine Learning and Quantitative Ecology


Aseem Saxena
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Deep Reinforcement Learning

Ashwin Baluja
Undergraduate Research Student at University of Virginia
Water Allocation Intelligence

Ayaka Smart
Undergraduate Intern at Washington State University
Water Allocation Intelligence
Climate analogs and water intelligence

Basavaraj Amogi
Graduate Research Student at Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Tree fruit heat stress management

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

Bhupinderjeet Singh
Graduate Research Student at Washington State University
Water Allocation Intelligence
Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

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

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

Dawood Ahmed
Graduate Research Student at Washington State University
Labor Intelligence
Robotics for tree-fruit field operations (flower thinning, pollination, and pruning)

Deanna Flynn
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Labor Intelligence
Robotics for pruning rules and tree structures

Jennifer Porter
Undergraduate Intern at Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Nitrogen concentration for irrigation water to control vigor and the impact under heat or cold stress

Jing Wang
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Spatial Data Analysis

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

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

Joshua Bailey
Undergraduate Intern at Innov8.ag
Farm Operations Intelligence
Empowering Agriculture through economical integrations

Joshua Oliver
Undergraduate Intern at Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Crops physiology sensing system

Joshua Yuan
Undergraduate Intern at Washington State University
Water Allocation Intelligence
Data pipilines in ECESpark

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

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

Kristen Goebel
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Frost Mitigation, Plant Water Stress

Lam Kin-Ho
Graduate Research Student (Alumni) at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Deep Reinforcement Learning

Lina Hernandez
Undergraduate Research Student at University of California Merced
Water Allocation Intelligence
Mechanical Engineering - CITRIS

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

Manojna Pichikala
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Deep Reinforcement Learning

Mark Roth
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Computational Sustainability with machine learning and environmentalism

Martin Churuvija
Graduate Research Student (Alumni) at Washington State University
Labor Intelligence
Agricultural Automation Engineering for pruning rules and tree structures

Md Montaser Hami
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
eXplainable AI (XAI) problems from both the human side and the system side

Mia Hargrave
Undergraduate Intern at Innov8.ag
Farm Operations Intelligence
Empowering Agriculture through data visualizations

Michael Oliver
Undergraduate Intern at Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Sweet cherries cold hardiness

Mohammed Amine Gharsallaoui
Graduate Research Student at Washington State University
Water Allocation Intelligence
Machine Learning for Streamflow forecasts

Mohammad Rafid Islam
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Weather data imputation using machine learning

Nidhi Homey Parayil
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Labor Intelligence
Pruning vision-based motion planning for scanning branches to detect the cut point

Nigel Swenson
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Labor Intelligence
Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation Engineering

Nirvan Mehra
Undergraduate Research Student at University of California Merced
Water Allocation Intelligence
Bioengineering, Water management

Nolan Shepherd
Undergraduate Intern at Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Predicting calf success with Machine Learning

Oishee Hoque
Graduate Research Student at University of Virginia
Water Allocation Intelligence
Biodiversity and Climate Change with machine learning

Ozmen Erkin Kokten
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Deficit Irrigation - Plant Water Stress

Paul Conanan
Undergraduate Research Student at University of California Merced
Water Allocation Intelligence
Mechanical Engineering - CITRIS

Peter Sou
Undergraduate Research Student at University of California Merced
Water Allocation Intelligence
Computer Science - CITRIS

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

Rachel Stehle
Undergraduate Intern at Washington State University
Labor Intelligence
Instance segmentation and diameter estimation of trunks and branches for robotic pruning and flower thinning

Ranjan Sapkota
Graduate Research Student at Washington State University
Labor Intelligence
Robotics for tree-fruit field operations (flower thinning, pollination, and pruning)

Rohan Ballapragada
Undergraduate Research Student 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
Labor Intelligence
Agricultural Automation Engineering - Computer Vision, Deep Learning

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

Shannon Whiting
Undergraduate Intern at Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Communication of research performed at WSU DEMO Farm

Supriya Savalkar
Graduate Research Student at Washington State University
Water Allocation Intelligence
Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability and https://www.linkedin.com/in/supriya-savalkar/Computational Hydraulics

Thomas Noel
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Machine Learning and Quantitative Ecology

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

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

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

William Mueller
Undergraduate Student at University of Virginia
Water Allocation Intelligence
Biodiversity and Climate Change with machine learning

Wyatt Croucher
Undergraduate Intern at Washington State University
Water Allocation Intelligence
Waterflow modeling and prediction

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

Piper Horning
Undergraduate Intern at Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence
Stem water potential for water conservation

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

Tieqiao Wang
Graduate Research Student at Oregon State University
Labor Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in pruning and thinning


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