IDAAS People
IDAAS Executive Committee
Our team embodies the spirit of innovation and excellence that Purdue is renowned for. We are a dynamic group of Purdue faculty, extension educators, staff, and experts, united by our passion for leveraging cutting-edge digital solutions to solve complex challenges.


Dennis Buckmaster
Specialties: animal agriculture, artificial intelligence, data management, field crops

Bruce Erickson
Specialties: economics & ddoption, field crops, remote sensing & UAV's

Chad Fiechter
Specialities: data management, economics & adoption, field crops

Margaret Gitau
Specialties: soil, water and environmental management, data management
Dharmendra Saraswat
Specialties: automation & robots, data management, field crops, remote sensing & UAV's, AI/ML, soil, water, & environmental management

Adam Shanks
Specialties: economics & adoption, field crops, remote sensing & UAV's, AI/ML

IDAAS Affiliated Faculty

Shalamar Armstrong
Specilaties: soil, water, & environmental management, field crops

David Barbarash
Specialties: digital forestry, specialty crops, AI/ML

Bedrich Benes
Specialties: data managment, digital forestry, AI/ML

Jacquelyn Boerman
Specialties: animal agriculture, data management, sensors & data aquisition
Laura Bowling
Specilties: field crops, soil, water, & environmental managment

Sylvie Brouder
Specialties: data management, field crops, soil, water, & environmental managment

Tommy Butts
Specialties: economics & adoption, field crops

Dave Capelleri
Specialties: automation & robots, remote sensing & UAV's, sensor & data aquisition

Shaun Casteel
Specialties: field crops, economics & adoption, remote sensing & UAV's

Somali Chaterji
Specialties: data management, genetics & omics, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition

Keith Cherkauer
Specialties: data management, remote sensing & UAV's, sensors & data aquisition, soil, water, & environmental managment

John Couture
Specialties: data management, digital forestry, remote sensing & UAV's

Melba Crawford
Specialties: digital forestry, field crops, remote sensing & UAV's, AI/ML, soil, water & environmental managment

Amanda Deering
Specialties: food systems, economics & adoption, specialty crops

Ed Delp
Specialties: data management, AI/ML, sensors, & data aquisition


John Evans
Specialty: automation & robots, economics & adoption, field crops, sensors & data aquisition

Songlin Fei
Specialties: data management, digital forestry, remote sensing & UV's, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition

Ken Foster
Specialties: data management, economics & adoption

Roberto Gallardo
Specialties: economics & adoption

Rado Gazo
Specialty: digital forestry, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition

Allan Gray
Specialties: economics & adoption
Jessica Gurevitch
Specialties: digital forestry, soil, water & environmental management

Ayman Habib
Specialties: data management, digital forestry, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition

Brady Hardiman
Specialty: digital forestry, remote sensing & UAV's

Jacob Hosen
Specialty: digital forestry, sensors & data aquisition, soil, water & environmental management

Joseph Hupy
Specialties: digital forestry, remote sensing & UAV's, sensors & data aquisition

Jian Jin
Specialties: automation & robots, data management, economics & adoption, sensors & data aquisition
Tim Johnson
Specialties: animal agriculture, genetics & omics

William Johnson
Specialties: economics & adoption, field crops
Tingting Ju
Specialties: animal agriculture, genetics & omics

Jinha Jung
Specialty: data management, digital forestry, field crops, remote sensing & UAV's, sensors & data aquisition

Darrin Karcher
Specialty: animal agriculture, economics & adoption
Upinder Kaur
Specialties: animal agriculture, automation & robots, specialty crops, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition

Valerie Kilders
Specialties: data management, economics & adoption, food systems

Nicole Kong
Specialty: digital forestry, data management

James Krogmeier
Specialties: data management, field crops, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition


Michael Langemeier
Specialties: economics & adoption

Petrus Langenhoven
Specialties: specialty crops

Jingjing Liang
Specialties: digital forestry, data management, remote sensing & UAV's, AI/ML

David Love
Specialties: data management, sensors & data aquisition

John Lumkes
Specialty: automation & robots, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition
Meilin Ma
Specialties: economics & adoption, food systems

Trey Malone
Specialties: economics & adoption, food systems


Lourival Monaco
Specialties: economics & agbusiness

Krishna Nemali
Specialties: automation & robots, data management, specialty crops, sensors & data aquisition

Jiqin Ni
Specialties: animal agriculture, sensors & data aquisition, soil, water & environmental management
Hinayah Rojas de Oliveira
Specialties: genomics and animal breeding

Suranjan Panigrahi
Specialties; data management, field crops, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition

Pete Pascuzzi
Specialty: data management, field crops
Siddhartho Paul
Specialties: field crops, soil, water & environmental management

Bryan Pijanowski
Specialties: data management, digital forestry, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition

Rahim Rahimi

Katy Rainey
Specialties: data management, field crops, genetics & omics, remote sensing & UAV's

Ankita Raturi
Specialties: data management, economics & adoption, specialty crops, sensors & data aquisition

Amy Reibman
Specialties: animal agriculture, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition



Anthony Smith
Specialty: LAN, WAN and wireless network design and implementation.
Robert Stwalley
Specialties: animal agriculture, field crops, sensors & data aquisition


Darcy Telenko
Specialties: economics & adoption, field crops


Mitch Tuinstra
Specialty: genetics & omics, field crops, remote sensing & UAV's, AI/ML

Mohit Verma
Specialty: animal agriculture, genetics & omics, specialty crops, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition

Jeff Volenec
Specialty: data managemen, field crops, soil, water & environmental management

Chih-Chun Wang

Mark Daniel Ward
Specialty: data management

Nicole Widmar
Specialties: data management, economics & adoption, food systems
Roland Wilhelm
Specialites: field crops, genetics & omics, soil, water & environmental management

Bryan Young
Specialty: economics & adoption, field crops
Yaguang Zhang
Specialties: data management, AI/ML, sensor & data aquisition
IDAAS Affiliated Staff
Ashley Adair
Specialities: economics & adoption, specialty crops
Jason Adams
Specialties: field crops, remote sensing & UAV's

Aaron Ault
Specialties: animal agriculture, data management, field crops

Jeff Boyer
Specialities: economics & adoption, field crops, remoste sensing & UAV's, soil, water & environmental management

Sarah Brackney
Specialties: economics & adoption, soil, water & environemntal management

April Agee Carroll
Specialties: crop sciences, research & decelopment, global breeding, trait & pipline delivery

Mark Carter
Specialties: economics & adoption, remote sensing & UAV's
Scott Gabbard
Specialties: economics & adoption, field crops, soil, water & environmental management

Beth Hall
Specialties: economics & adoption, sensors & data aquisition, soil, water & environmental management

Rachel Haselby
Specialties: 4-H Youth Education
Alex Helms
Specialties: economics & adoption, remote sensing & UAV's, soil, water & environmental management
Chloe Henscheid
Specialties: data management, food systems, specialty crops

Jon Leuck
Specialties: economics & adoption, soil, water & environmental management

James Scott Monroe
Specialties: economics & adoption, food systems, specialty crops


Joe Rorick
Specialties: field crops, soil, water & environmental management

Rachel Stevens
Specialties: economic adoption, data management, field crops, soil, water & environmental management


Yang Yang
Specialties: automation & robots, data management, field crops, sensors & data aquisition