Precision Agriculture Center Leadership
Director

Research interests: crop modeling, remote sensing, water quality, soil conservation
mulla003@umn.edu | +1 612 625 6721
Dept. of Agronomy & Plant Genetics

Research interests: corn, nitrogen, cropping systems
jeffcoulter@umn.edu | +1 612 625 1796

Research interests: sustainable cropping systems, crop modeling, water and nitrogen use efficiency, climate and crop production
axel@umn.edu | +1 507 752 5080

Research interests: translational genomics in maize, high throughput phenotyping, hyperspectral imaging

Research interests: annual and perennial biomass cropping systems, integrated weed management
johns510@umn.edu | +1 507 837 5617

Research interests: soybean production and physiology, yield and seed quality
naeve002@umn.edu | +1 612 625 4298
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

Research interests: robotics for environmental monitoring
isler@umn.edu | +1 612 625 1067

Research interests: data mining, object recognition
kumar001@umn.edu | +1 612 626 7514

Research interests: distributed robotics, computer vision
morellas@umn.edu | +1 612 624 4822

Research interests: spatial computing, data mining, parallel computing
shekhar@cs.umn.edu | +1 612 624 8307

Research interests: computer vision
npapas@cs.umn.edu | +1 612 625 0163
Dept. of Entomology

Research interests: integrated pest management in soybean, environmental and economic sustainability
koch0125@umn.edu | +1 612 624 6771

Research interests: site-specific integrated pest management, landscape ecology, GIS, spatial statistics
imacrae@umn.edu | +1 218 281 8611
Associate Director

Research interests: nutrient management, remote sensing, crop growth modeling
ymiao@umn.edu | +1 612 625 4731
Dept. of Soil, Water, & Climate

Research interests: pedology, geospatial analysis, soil mapping, wetland soils and ecology
bellx007@umn.edu | +1 651 328 1359

Research interests: water quality issues, row crop production systems, drainage, and nutrient management
bcarlson@umn.edu | +1 507 389 6745

Research interests: nutrient management, plant mineral nutrition, environmental impacts of agriculture
fabiangf@umn.edu | +1 612 625 7460

Research interests: nutrient management, nutrient cycling, fertilizer placement, soil test methods
dekaiser@umn.edu | +1 612 624 3482

Research interests: nutrient management, fertilizer use in irrigated crops, fertilizer use in MN fruit and vegetable crops, water quality
crosen@umn.edu | +1 612 625 8114

Research interests: irrigation water management, water and nitrogen fertilizer interactions, crop evapotranspiration, soil-water dynamics, variable-rate irrigation and cover-crop water management
vasudha@umn.edu | +1 612 626 4986
Dept. of Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering

Research interests: biosensors, bionanotechnology, environmental control
aabbas@umn.edu | +1 612 624 4292

Research interests: domain knowledge, satellite data, computational models, and machine learning
jinzn@umn.edu | +1 612 625 5200

Research interests: environmental and biological sensing, robotics, UAVs
pmarchet@umn.edu | +1 612 625 0361

Research interests: hyperspectral imaging, machine learning, computer vision
ceyang@umn.edu | +1 612 626 6419
Dept. of Forest Resources

Research interests: remote sensing and geospatial analysis, land use impacts on environment and natural resources
jknight@umn.edu | +1 612 625 5354
Dept. of Plant Pathology

Research interests: phenotypic information to understand abiotic and biotic stresses
cdhirsch@umn.edu | +1 612 625 1211
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics

Research interests: navigation, guidance, and control of aerospace vehicles, image georegistration