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

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

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 Droubay
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

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

Belkhouja Taha
Graduate Research Student at Washington State University
Water Intelligence

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

Chris Goodhart
Undergraduate Research Student at University of Virginia
Water Intelligence

Dattatray Bhalekar
Graduate Research Student at Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence

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

Hossein Noorazar
Postdoctoral Researcher at Washington State University
Water Intelligence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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
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

Srikanth Gorthi
Graduate Research Student at Washington State University
Farm Operations Intelligence

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

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

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