Faculty | Precision Agriculture Center

Precision Agriculture Center Leadership

Director

Yuxin Miao, Associate Professor
Research interests: nutrient management, remote sensing, crop growth modeling
[email protected] | +1 612 625 4731

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Associate Director

Ce Yang, Associate Professor
Research interests: Precision Agriculture, High-throughput Phenotyping, Remote Sensing, Drone Hyperspectral Imaging, Machine Learning.
[email protected] | +1 612 626 6419

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Associate Director

Vasudha Sharma, Assistant Extension Professor
Research interests: Irrigation water management, water and nitrogen fertilizer interactions, crop evapotranspiration, soil-water dynamics, variable-rate irrigation and cover-crop water management
[email protected] | +1 612 626 4989

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Dept. of Agronomy & Plant Genetics

Jeffrey Coulter, Professor and Extension Agronomist
Research interests: corn, nitrogen, cropping systems
[email protected] | +1 612 625 1796
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Axel Garcia y Garcia, Associate Professor, Sustainable Cropping Systems Specialist, UMN Extension
Research interests: sustainable cropping systems, crop modeling, water and nitrogen use efficiency, climate and crop production
[email protected] | +1 507 752 5080
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Candice Hirsch, Professor
Research interests: translational genomics in maize, high throughput phenotyping, hyperspectral imaging
[email protected] | +1 612 301 9522
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Gregg Johnson, Associate Professor
Research interests: annual and perennial biomass cropping systems, integrated weed management
[email protected] | +1 507 837 5617
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Seth Naeve, Professor and Extension Agronomist
Research interests: soybean production and physiology, yield and seed quality
[email protected] | +1 612 625 4298
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Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

Ibrahim Volkan Isler, Professor
Research interests: robotics for environmental monitoring
[email protected] | +1 612 625 1067
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Vipin Kumar, Regents Professor, William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing, Data Science Initiative Director
Research interests: data mining, object recognition
[email protected] | +1 612 624 8023
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Vassilios Morellas, Research Professor
Research interests: distributed robotics, computer vision
[email protected] | +1 612 624 4822
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Shashi Shekhar, Professor, ADC/CSE Chair, AI-CLIMATE Institute Director
Research interests: spatial computing, data mining, parallel computing
[email protected] | +1 612 624 8307
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Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Professor, Computer Science & Engineering Institute Director, Director of Graduate Studies, MnRI
Research interests: computer vision
[email protected] | +1 612 301 6519
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Dept. of Soil, Water, & Climate

David Mulla, Professor, Soil and Water Resources Larson Endowed Chair, Soil and Water Resources Director, Precision Agriculture Center
Research interests: (1) the measurement, modeling, and management of uncertainty and risk for non-point source pollution of surface and groundwater; (2) the characterization and estimation of field-scale variability for precision farming; (3) the evaluation of alternative farm management strategies for improved soil quality and sustainability; and (4) evaluation of policies for soil and water resources
[email protected] | +1 612 625 6721 Research Gate | Google Scholar

Brad Carlson, Extension Educator
Research interests: water quality issues, row crop production systems, drainage, and nutrient management
[email protected] | +1 507 521 6012

Fabián Fernández, Professor, Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Research interests: nutrient management, plant mineral nutrition, environmental impacts of agriculture
[email protected] | +1 612 625 7460
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Daniel Kaiser, Associate Professor
Research interests: nutrient management, nutrient cycling, fertilizer placement, soil test methods
[email protected] | +1 612 624 3482 Google Scholar

Jay Bell, Professor Emeritus
Research interests: pedology, geospatial analysis, soil mapping, wetland soils and ecology
[email protected] | +1 651 328 1359

Carl Rosen, Professor
Research interests: nutrient management, fertilizer use in irrigated crops, fertilizer use in MN fruit and vegetable crops, water quality
[email protected] | +1 612 625 8114
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Vasudha Sharma, Assistant Extension Professor
Research interests: irrigation water management, water and nitrogen fertilizer interactions, crop evapotranspiration, soil-water dynamics, variable-rate irrigation and cover-crop water management
[email protected] | +1 612 626 4986 Google Scholar | Research Gate

Dept. of Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering

Abdennour Abbas, Associate Professor
Research interests: biosensors, bionanotechnology, environmental control, Nanotechnology, Rapid Diagnostics, Food Safety
[email protected] | +1 612 624 4292
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Ce Yang, Associate Professor Research interests: Precision Agriculture, High-throughput Phenotyping, Remote Sensing, Drone Hyperspectral Imaging, Machine Learning. [email protected] | +1 612 626 6419
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