Our Team

Efficaci Team
Investigators

Daniel Aliaga
Computer Science
Associate Professor
EFFICACI FOCUS: Optimization, Region-wide digital ForestEngine

Bedrich Benes
Computer Science
Professor
EFFICACI Focus: Optimization, Region wide digital ForestEngine, LiDAR-based StemMapper, Smartphone-based iForester

Victor Chen
Polytechnic Institute
Associate Professor
EFFICACI Focus: LiDAR-based StemMapper, Smartphone-based iForester

Songlin Fei
Purdue University Forestry and Natural Resources
Professor and Dean's Chair of Remote Sensing, Director of Institute for Digital Forestry
EFFICACI Focus: Region-wide digital ForestEngine

Morgan Furze
Purdue University Botany & Plant Pathology
Assistant Professor Botany & Plant Pathology/FNR, Forestry & Natural Resources
EFFICACI Focus: Climate smart commodities

Rado Gazo
Forestry and Natural Resources
Professor
EFFICACI Focus: LiDAR-based StemMapper, Smartphone-based iForester

Ayman Habib
Lyles School of Civil Engineering
Thomas A Page Professor of Civil Engineering/ Associate Director of the Institute of Digital Forestry
EFFICACI Focus: LiDAR-based StemMapper

Brady Hardiman
Foresty and Natural Resources
Assistant Professor
EFFICACI Focus: Climate smart commodities

Joseph Hupy
Aviation and Transportation Technology
Associate Professor
EFFICACI Focus: Region-wide digital ForestEngine, LiDAR-based StemMapper

Mike Jenkins
Purdue University Foresty & Natural Resources
Professor of FNR
EFFICACI Focus: Practice development

Jinha Jung
Lyles School of Civil Engineering
Assistant Professor
Objectives: Measurement, Modeling

Nicole Kong
Information Studies
Associate Professor
EFFICACI Focus: Optimization, Region-wide digital ForestEngine

Zhao Ma
Forestry and Natural Resources
Professor
EFFICACI Focus: Practice development

Mindy Mallory
Associate Professor, Clearing Corporation Charitable Foundation Endowed Chair Of Food & Agricultural Marketing, Department Of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
EFFICACI Focus: Climate smart commodities, Smartphone-based iForester

Cheryl Zhenyu Qian
Art and Design, Industrial Design, Rueff School Faculty
Chair and Professor
EFFICACI Focus: Smartphone-based iForester

Ankita Raturi
Agriculture & Biological Engineering
Assistant Professor of Ag & Bio Engr
EFFICACI Focus: Practice development

Michael Saunders
Forestry and Natural Resources
Associate Professor
EFFICACI Focus: Practice development, Optimization, LiDAR-based StemMapper

Gang Shao
Information Studies
Associate Professor
EFFICACI Focus: Region-wide digital ForestEngine

Song Zhang
Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Assistant Head for Experiential Learning
| Professor of Mechanical Engineering
EFFICACI Focus: Smartphone-based iForester
Students

Su Sun
Polytechnic Institute, Chen Lab
Ph.D.
EFFICACI Focus: Smartphone-based iForester