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.

Bill Bogan

Agricultural Research and Graduate Education

Operations Manager

Contact

Luiz Brito

Animal Sciences

Associate Professor | IDAAS Social Sciences

Specialties: animal agriculture, data management, genetics & omics

Dennis Buckmaster

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Professor and Dean’s Fellow for Digital Ag | IDAAS Founding Director

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

Ignacio Ciampitti

Agronomy

Professor | IDAAS Director

Specialties: statistics, remote sensing and modeling research

Christian Cruz

Botany & Plant Pathology

Assistant Professor | IDAAS Plant Production

Specialties: field crops, remote sensing & UAV's

Bruce Erickson

Agronomy

Clinical Associate Professor of Digital Agriculture | IDAAS Education Clinical Professor, Digital Agriculture/Agronomy

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

Yaohua "Betty" Feng

Food Sciences

Associate Professor | IDAAS Post-Farming Processing

Specialties: data management, food systems, specialty crops

Chad Fiechter

Agricultural Economics

Assistant Professor | IDAAS Social Sciences

Specialities: data management, economics & adoption, field crops

Margaret Gitau

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Professor | IDAAS International Outreach

Specialties: soil, water and environmental management, data management

Dharmendra Saraswat

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Professor | IDAAS Research

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

Adam Shanks

Digital Agriculture and Natural Resources

IDAAS Extension Outreach

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

Melinda Smith

College of Agriculture

Project Manager

Contact

IDAAS Affiliated Faculty

Shalamar Armstrong

Agronomy

Associate Professor

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

David Barbarash

Horticulture & Landscape Architecture

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Coordinator of Cooperative Education Program

Specialties: digital forestry, specialty crops, AI/ML

Bedrich Benes

Computer Science

Professor of Computer Science

Specialties: data managment, digital forestry, AI/ML

Jacquelyn Boerman

Animal Sciences

Assistant Professor

Specialties: animal agriculture, data management, sensors & data aquisition

Laura Bowling

Agronomy

Department Head, Professor

Specilties: field crops, soil, water, & environmental managment

Sylvie Brouder

Agronomy

Professor and Wickersham Chair

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

Tommy Butts

Extension - Weed Sciences

Clinical Assistant Professor

Specialties: economics & adoption, field crops

Dave Capelleri

Mechanical Engineering

Associate Professor

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

Shaun Casteel

Agronomy

Associate Professor and Extension Soybean and Small Grains Specialist

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

Somali Chaterji

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Assistant Professor

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

Keith Cherkauer

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Professor

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

John Couture

Entomology/Forestry & Natural Resources

Associate Professor

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

Melba Crawford

Agronomy; Civil Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor

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

Amanda Deering

Food Science

Associate Professor of Produce Food Safety

Specialties: food systems, economics & adoption, specialty crops

Ed Delp

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Distinguished Professor

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

Marisa Erasmus

Animal Sciences

Associate Professor

Specialties: animal agriculture

John Evans

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Assistant Professor

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

Songlin Fei

Forestry & Natural Resources

Professor and Dean's Fellow of Remote Sensing

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

Ken Foster

Agricultural Economics

Professor

Specialties: data management, economics & adoption

Roberto Gallardo

Agricultural Economics

Vice President for Engagement and an Associate Professor

Specialties: economics & adoption

Rado Gazo

Forestry & Natural Resources

Professor of Wood Processing and Industrial Engineering

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

Allan Gray

Agricultural Economics

Executive Director, Professor

Specialties: economics & adoption

Jessica Gurevitch

Forestry

Distinguished Professor, Deans Research Fellow

Specialties: digital forestry, soil, water & environmental management

Ayman Habib

Civil Engineering

Thomas A. Page Professor of Civil Engineering

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

Brady Hardiman

Forestry and Natural Resources

Assistant Professor of Urban Ecology

Specialty: digital forestry, remote sensing & UAV's

Jacob Hosen

Forestry and Natural Resources

Assistant Professor of Internet-of-Things and Ecological Analytics

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

Joseph Hupy

Polytechnic Institute

Associate Professor

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

Jian Jin

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Assistant Professor

Specialties: automation & robots, data management, economics & adoption, sensors & data aquisition

Tim Johnson

Animal Science

Associate Professor

Specialties: animal agriculture, genetics & omics

William Johnson

Botany & Plant Pathology

Professor

Specialties: economics & adoption, field crops

Tingting Ju

Animal Science

Assistant Professor

Specialties: animal agriculture, genetics & omics

Jinha Jung

Civil Engineering

Assistant Professor

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

Darrin Karcher

Animal Sciences

Associate Professor

Specialty: animal agriculture, economics & adoption

Upinder Kaur

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Assistant Professor

Specialties: animal agriculture, automation & robots, specialty crops, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition

Valerie Kilders

Agribusiness

Assistant Professor

Specialties: data management, economics & adoption, food systems

Nicole Kong

Purdue Libraries

Associate Professor, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Specialty: digital forestry, data management

James Krogmeier

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor

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

Chad Laux

Polytech

Associate Professor, Graduate Chair

Specialties: social sciences

Michael Langemeier

Agricultural Economics

Associate Director, Center for Commercial Agriculture and Professor

Specialties: economics & adoption

Petrus Langenhoven

Horticulture & Landscape Architecture

Assistant Clinical Professor

Specialties: specialty crops

Jingjing Liang

Forestry and Natural Resources

Assistant Professor of Quantitative Forest Ecology

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

David Love

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nick Trbovich Professor

Specialties: data management, sensors & data aquisition

John Lumkes

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Professor

Specialty: automation & robots, AI/ML, sensors & data aquisition

Meilin Ma

Agriculture Economics

Associate Professor

Specialties: economics & adoption, food systems

Trey Malone

Agricultural Economics

Boehlje Chair in Managerial Economics for Agribusiness

Specialties: economics & adoption, food systems

Maria Marshall

Agricultural Economics

Professor

Specialties: economics & adoption

Lourival Monaco

Agricultural Economics

Research Assistant Professor

Specialties: economics & agbusiness

Heather Neave

Animal Science

Assistant Professor

Specialties: animal agriculture

Krishna Nemali

Horticulture

Associate Professor

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

Jiqin Ni

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Professor

Specialties: animal agriculture, sensors & data aquisition, soil, water & environmental management

Hinayah Rojas de Oliveira

Animal Science

Assistant Professor

Specialties: genomics and animal breeding

Suranjan Panigrahi

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor

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

Pete Pascuzzi

Libraries, Health & Life Sciences

Associate Professor

Specialty: data management, field crops

Siddhartho Paul

Agronomy

Assistant Professor

Specialties: field crops, soil, water & environmental management

Bryan Pijanowski

Forestry and Natural Resources

Professor of Landscape and Soundscape Ecology

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

Pratishtha Poudel

Agronomy

Assistant Professor

Specialties: field crops, AI/ML

Dan Quinn

Agronomy

Assistant Professor

Specialties: economics & adoption, field crops

Rahim Rahimi

Materials Engineering

Assistant Professor

Specialties: sensors & data aquistion

Katy Rainey

Agronomy

Associate Professor

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

Ankita Raturi

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Assistant Professor

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

Amy Reibman

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Professor

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

Jon Schoonmaker

Animal Sciences

Associate Professor

Specialty: animal agriculture

Juan Sesmero

Agricultural Economics

Professor

Specialties: economics & adoption

Gang Shao

Libraries, Research Data

Assistant Professor

Specialty: digital forestry

Robert Stwalley

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Clinical Associate Professor

Specialties: animal agriculture, field crops, sensors & data aquisition

Guy Tchuente

Agricultural Economics

Assistant Professor

Specialites: economics & adoption

Darcy Telenko

Botany & Plant Pathology

Assistant Professor

Specialties: economics & adoption, field crops

Mitch Tuinstra

Agronomy

Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics

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

Mohit Verma

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Assistant Professor

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

Jeff Volenec

Agronomy

Professor

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

Chih-Chun Wang

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor, and Associate Head for Facilities, Planning, and Staff

Contact

Diane Wang

Agronomy

Assistant Professor

Specialties: data management, field crops

Mark Daniel Ward

Statistics, Data Mine

Professor, Director of Data Mine

Specialty: data management

Nicole Widmar

Agricultural Economics

Interim Department Head, Professor

Specialties: data management, economics & adoption, food systems

Roland Wilhelm

Agronomy

Assistant Professor

Specialites: field crops, genetics & omics, soil, water & environmental management

Bryan Young

Botany & Plant Pathology

Professor of Weed Science

Specialty: economics & adoption, field crops

Yaguang Zhang

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Clinical Assistant Professor

Specialties: data management, AI/ML, sensor & data aquisition

IDAAS Affiliated Staff

Ashley Adair

Horticulture & Landscape Architecture

Extension Organic Agriculture Specialist

Specialities: economics & adoption, specialty crops

Jason Adams

Agricultural Research and Graduate Education

Lead Adv Phenotyping & Plan Proc Facility Manager

Specialties: field crops, remote sensing & UAV's

Aaron Ault

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Senior Research Engineer, Open Ag Tech & Systems Group

Specialties: animal agriculture, data management, field crops

Jeff Boyer

Agricultural Research and Graduate Education

Superintendent

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

Sarah Brackney

Agriculture/Natural Resources

Extension Educator

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

April Agee Carroll

Bayer U.S.

TPD Pipeline Analytics & IT Strategy Lead

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

Mark Carter

Agriculture/Natural Resources

Extension Educator

Specialties: economics & adoption, remote sensing & UAV's

Jarrod Doucette

Ag Data Services

Director

Specialties: data management, AI/ML

Scott Gabbard

Purdue on the Farm

Senior Administrator

Specialties: economics & adoption, field crops, soil, water & environmental management

Beth Hall

Agronomy

State Climatologist

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

Alex Helms

Agricultural Research and Graduate Education

Asst. Director of Purdue Ag Centers

Specialties: economics & adoption, remote sensing & UAV's, soil, water & environmental management

Chloe Henscheid

Agricultural Research and Graduate Education

Specialty Crops Systems Specialist

Specialties: data management, food systems, specialty crops

Jon Leuck

Agricultural Research and Graduate Education

Director of Purdue Ag Centers

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

James Scott Monroe

Agriculture/Natural Resources

Food Safety Extension Educator

Specialties: economics & adoption, food systems, specialty crops

Joe Rorick

Agriculture/Natural Resources

On-Farm Sustainability Programs/ Research Coordinator

Specialties: field crops, soil, water & environmental management

Rachel Stevens

ACRE – Research Farm

Farm Manager

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

Yang Yang

Agricultural Research and Graduate Education

Director of Digital Phenomics

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

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