AIIRA's Faculty Team

Artifical Intelligence (AI) Team

13 Faculty Members (Faculty members sorted by last name in alphabetical order)
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Ph.D.
Professor
Iowa State University
Principal Investigator / Director
Chinmay Hegde, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
New York University
George A. Kantor, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
T1 Co-Lead / BP Co-Lead
Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Iowa State University
Oliver Kroemer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Srinivasa Narasimhan, Ph.D.
Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel Nettleton, Ph.D.
Professor
Iowa State University
Nancy Pollard, Ph.D.
Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Soumik Sarkar, Ph.D.
Professor
Iowa State University
T1 Lead
Aarti Singh, Ph.D.
Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
T3 Co-Lead
Katia Sycara, Ph.D.
Edward Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University
T2 Co-Lead
Lizhi Wang, Ph.D.
Professor
Oklahoma State University
T2 Lead
David Wettergreen, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Carnegie Mellon University

Cyber-Infrastructure (CI) Team

2 Faculty Members (Faculty members sorted by last name in alphabetical order)
Nirav Merchant, Ph.D.
Director, University of Arizona Data Science Institute
University of Arizona
CCT2 / BP Lead
Edwin Skidmore, Ph.D.
Director, Infrastructure at CyVerse
University of Arizona
CCT2 Co-Lead

Data-Driven Agriculture Team

6 Faculty Members (Faculty members sorted by last name in alphabetical order)
Sotirios Archontoulis, Ph.D.
Professor
Iowa State University
Liang Dong, Ph.D.
Professor
Iowa State University
James Schnable, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Patrick S. Schnable, Ph.D.
Professor
Iowa State University
CCT1 Lead / CKT Co-Lead
Arti Singh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Iowa State University
Asheesh K. Singh, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Discovery
Iowa State University
CCT1 Co-Lead

Adoption Team

7 Faculty Members (Faculty members sorted by last name in alphabetical order)
Stephanie Carroll, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor / Associate Director Native Nations Institute
University of Arizona
Cassandra Dorius, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Iowa State University
Shawn Dorius, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Iowa State University
Priyanka Jayashankar, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
Sree Nilakanta, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Iowa State University
Michelle S. Segovia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Delaware
T3 Lead
Corinne Valdivia, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Missouri

Education & Outreach Team

4 Faculty Members (Faculty members sorted by last name in alphabetical order)
Matthew Carroll, Ph.D.
Analytics & Insights Lead
Iowa Soybean Association
CKT Lead
Aditya Johri, Ph.D.
Professor
George Mason University
EWD Co-Lead
Ajay Nair, Ph.D.
Professor
Iowa State University
Theresa Richards, Ph.D.
Outreach Program Manager, Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Artifical Intelligence (AI)
13 Faculty Members
Cyber-Infrastructure (CI)
2 Faculty Members
Data-Driven Agriculture
6 Faculty Members
Adoption
7 Faculty Members
Education & Outreach
4 Faculty Members
AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture (AIIRA) is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and United States Department of Agriculture - National Institute of Food and Agriculture award #2021-67021-35329
National Science Foundation
United States Department of Agriculture - National Intitute of Food and Agriculture
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