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Speakers for the data science day Data science in Agriculture Session Alex Schwing Title: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Presentation: Deep learning and structured prediction for big data in agriculture Bio: Alex Schwing is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with talented students on computer vision and machine learning topics. He received his B.S. and diploma in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Technical University of Munich in 2006 and 2008 respectively, and obtained a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 2014. Afterwards he joined University of Toronto as a postdoctoral fellow until 2016. His research interests are in the area of computer vision and machine learning, where he has co-authored numerous papers on topics in scene understanding, inference and learning algorithms, deep learning, image and language processing and generative modeling. His PhD thesis was awarded an ETH medal.

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SpeakersforthedatasciencedayDatascienceinAgricultureSession

AlexSchwing

Title:AssistantProfessorofElectricalandComputerEngineering

Presentation:Deeplearningandstructuredpredictionforbigdatainagriculture

Bio:AlexSchwingisanAssistantProfessorattheUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaignworkingwithtalentedstudentsoncomputervisionandmachinelearningtopics.HereceivedhisB.S.anddiplomainElectricalEngineeringandInformationTechnologyfromTechnicalUniversityofMunichin2006and2008respectively,andobtainedaPhDinComputerSciencefromETHZurichin2014.AfterwardshejoinedUniversityofTorontoasapostdoctoralfellowuntil2016.Hisresearchinterestsareintheareaofcomputervisionandmachinelearning,wherehehasco-authorednumerouspapersontopicsinsceneunderstanding,inferenceandlearningalgorithms,deeplearning,imageandlanguageprocessingandgenerativemodeling.HisPhDthesiswasawardedanETHmedal.

DavidBullock

Title:ProfessorinAgriculturalandConsumerEconomicsPresentation:TBD

Bio:Dr.Bullockimprovesthewaytheworldfertilizesitscrops.HeleadsamultinationalprojectthatusesprecisionagriculturetechnologyandtheGlobalPositioningSystem(GPS)toconducton-farmfieldtrialsintheNorthernandSouthernHemispheres.Hestudieshowfertilizermanagement,soilcharacteristics,andweatherinteracttoaffectcropyieldsinordertohelpfarmersfertilizemoreefficiently,whichlowersproductioncostsandimproveswaterquality.

DavidDeCapp

Title:SeniorVPofMarketingPresidentofFarmersMutualHailInsurancePresentation:DataScienceinCropInsurance

Bio:Davehas22yearsofinsuranceexperienceincludingsales,underwriting,marketingandleveragingprecisionagtechnologyincropinsurance.DavecurrentlyleadstheMarketingDepartmentatFarmersMutualHailInsuranceCompanyofIowa(FMH),wherehedrivesthecontinueddevelopmentofFMH’skeystrategicinitiativesofprecisionAGtechnologyandbusinessdevelopment.

GirishChowdhary

Title:AssistantProfessor,Director:DistributedAutonomousSystemsLabPresentation:TheRobotsareComing-ForyourFood!

Bio:Girish'songoingresearchinterestisintheoreticalinsightsandpracticalalgorithmsforadaptiveautonomy,withaparticularapplicationfocusonfield-roboticsandUnmannedAerialSystems.Hehasauthoredover90peerreviewedpublicationsinadaptiveandfaulttolerantcontrol,sequentialdecisionmakingandmissionplanning,aircraftsystemidentification,distributedsensingandinference,Bayesiannonparametriclearningforcontrol,andvisionaidednavigationandcontrol.Hisrecentresearchisfocusedonlearningandcontrolofdistributedandspatiotemporallyvaryingsystems.Onthepracticalside,Girishhasledthedevelopmentandflight-testingofover10researchUASplatform.UASautopilotsbasedonGirish'sworkhavebeendesignedandflight-testedonsixUASs,includingbyindependentinternationalinstitutions.GirishisaPrimaryInvestigatoronNSF,AFOSR,NASA,andDOEgrants.HeisthewinneroftheAirForceYoungInvestigatorAward,andtheAerospaceGuidanceandControlsSystemsCommitteeDaveWardMemorialaward.

KaiyuGuan

Title:

AssistantProfessor,DeptofNaturalResourcesandEnvironmentalSciences

BlueWatersProfessor,NationalCenterforSupercomputingApplication

Presentation:Harnessingsatellitebigdataforpredictingfoodproduction

Bio:KaiyuGuanisanAssistantProfessorinecohydrologyandgeoinformaticsintheDepartmentofNaturalResourcesandEnvironmentalSciencesattheUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,andaBlueWatersprofessorattheNationalCenterforSupercomputingApplications(NCSA).Heusessatellitedata,computationalmodels,fieldwork,andmachinelearningapproachestoaddresshowclimateandhumanpracticesaffectcropproductivity,waterresourceavailability,andecosystemfunctioning.Hislabhaskeeninterestsinapplyingdomainknowledgeandadvancedcomputationinsolvingreal-lifeproblems,suchaslarge-scalecropmonitoringandforecasting,watermanagementandsustainability,andglobalfoodsecurity.Website:http://faculty.nres.illinois.edu/~kaiyuguan/.

MinhDo

Title:ProfessorofElectricalandComputerEngineeringPresentation:TBD

Bio:MinhN.DoisaProfessorintheDepartmentofElectricalandComputerEngineeringattheUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign(UIUC).Hisworkcoversimageandmulti-dimensionalsignalprocessing,waveletsandmultiscalegeometricanalysis,computationalimaging,andvisualinformationrepresentation,andhasledtoabout50journalpapers.HereceivedaSilverMedalfromthe32ndInternationalMathematicalOlympiadin1991,aUniversityMedalfromtheUniversityofCanberrain1997,aDoctorateAwardfromtheEPFLin2001,aCAREERAwardfromtheNationalScienceFoundationin2003,andaYoungAuthorBestPaperAwardfromIEEEin2008.HewasnamedaBeckmanFellowattheCenterforAdvancedStudy,UIUC,in2006,andreceivedaXeroxAwardforFacultyResearchfromtheCollegeofEngineering,UIUC,in2007.HewasanAssociateEditoroftheIEEETransactionsonImageProcessing,andamemberoftheIEEETechnicalCommitteesonSignalProcessingTheoryandMethods,andonImage,Video,andMultidimensionalSignalProcessing.HewaselectedasanIEEEFellowforhiscontributionstoimagerepresentationandcomputationalimaging.Hewasaco-founderandChiefScientistofPersonifyInc.,aspin-offfromUIUCtocommercializedepth-basedvisualcommunication.

NicolasMartin

Title:AssistantProfessorinCropSciencesPresentation:PredictiveanalyticsofcroprotationsBio:MyundergraduatedegreeisinAgronomyatUniversityofMardelPlata.Mygraduatestudies,startingin2000atUniversityofIllinoisfocusedonstudyingSoil-Plantrelationshipswithmultivariateanalysisandspatialstatistics.Aftergraduation,Iworkedformorethantenyearsintheseedindustrydevelopingdrought-tolerantcornhybridsandusinglargegeospatialdatasetstopositiontrialsandsoybeanvarietiesinthemarketplace.Inrecentyearsmyfocuswasapplyingnewanalyticstechniquestooptimizeseedcultivardevelopmentprocess.AsanAssistantProfessorattheUniversityofIllinois,mygoalistoimprovelong-termprofitabilityandstabilityofcroppingsystems,byexploringapplicationsofquantitativemethodsonbigdata.Iemphasizeinterdisciplinaryeffortstoexpandthefrontiersofagriculturalresearchandstudyeffectiveapproachestoimplementnewinsightsanddiscoveriesinagriculturaldecisionsandoperations.