I-FARM Leadership

PI Girish Chowdhary

I-FARM Director; Associate Professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering and Computer Science

John Reid

Executive Director, Center for Digital Agriculture; Research Professor in Computer Science and Agricultural & Biological Engineering 

Naveen Uppalapati

I-FARM Executive Director; Research Scientist, Center for Digital Agriculture

The Research Team

Vikram Adve

Center for Digital Agriculture Co-Director and Donald B. Gillies Professor of Computer Science

Madhu Khanna

iSEE Alvin H. Baum Family Fund Chair and Director, ACES Distinguished Professor of Agricultural & Consumer Economics

Bin Peng

Senior Research Scientist at iSEE and NCSA

Isabella Condotta

Assistant Professor of Animal Sciences

Salah Issa

Assistant Professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Kaiyu Guan

Agroecosystem Sustainabilty Center Founding Director, Associate Professor of Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences

Deepak Vasisht

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Andrew Margenot

Associate Professor of Crop Sciences

Shadi Atallah

Associate Professor of Agricultural & Consumer Economics

DoKyoung Lee

Professor of Crop Sciences

Operating Team

  • Italo Braz Goncalves de Lima, Postdoc, Condotta
  • Faiza Aziz, Graduate Student, Chowdhary
  • Menglin Liu, Graduate Student, Atallah/Khanna
  • Arun Narenthiran, Graduate Student, Chowdhary
  • Emerson Sie, Graduate Student, Vasisht
  • Yi Yang, Graduate Student, Guan
  • James Shin, Undergraduate Student, Chowdhary
  • Jiaming Xu, Undergraduate Student, Chowdhary

Project Manager

  • Melanie Rodriguez, Project Manager, Center for Digital Agriculture, NCSA

Former Team Member

  • Hamze Dokoohaki, Assistant Professor of Crop Sciences