Alex Schwing
Associate Professor
AIFARMS, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign (UIUC)
Ali Fares
Professor
Prairie View A&M University
Allison Chatrchyan
Research Associate
AI-CLIMATE, Cornell University
Alton Thompson
Executive Director
Association of 1890 Research Director (ARD)
Ana Claudia Arias
Professor
AIFS, University of California, Berkeley
Ananth Kalyanaraman
Lead PI, Director
AgAID, Washington State University
Andrew Leakey
Professor
AIFARMS, UIUC
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian
Director, PI, AIIRA
Iowa State University
Carlos Alvarado
Dairy Product Specialist
Langston University
Cherese Winstead
Dean, College of Agriculture, Science & Technology
Delaware State University
Christine Diepenbrock
Associate Professor
AIFS, University of California, Davis
Christopher Alvares
Chief Data Officer
USDA
Christopher Stewart
Associate Professor
ICICLE, Ohio State University
Cindy Grimm
Professor
Oregon State University
Diane Charlton
Associate Professor
Montana State University
Dionne Toombs
NIFA Associate Director for Programs
USDA-NIFA
Erik Nicholson
Interim Executive Director
Semillero de Ideas
George Kantor
Research Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Gulnihal Ozbay
Associate Dean of Cooperative Extension & Applied Research
Delaware State University
Hamid Ekbia
Professor
Syracuse University
Hendrik Hamann
Chief Science Officer for Climate and Sustainability
IBM Research
Holly Mayton
Principal Scientist, Sustainability Solutions
Deere & Co. | Intelligent Solutions Group
Jana Doppa
Associate Professor
Washington State University
Janie Hipp
CEO/President
Native Agriculture Financial Services
Jim Donlon
Program Director
NSF
Joe Cornelius
CEO
Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations
Josh Viers
Professor
UC Merced
Julian Reyes
Climate Adaptation Program Lead
BLM (formerly OSTP)
Lawrence Ibarria
CEO
Nighthawk Robotics
Leif Fixen
North America Agriculture Strategy Manager
The Nature Conservancy
Michael Littman
Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems (CISE/IIS)
National Science Foundation
Molly Jahn
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Olga Bolden-Tiller
Dean, College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences
Tuskegee University
Pat Schnable
Professor
Iowa State University
Rachel Melnick
Division Director, Division of Global Climate Change
USDA-NIFA
Ramana Gosukonda
Professor
Fort Valley State University
Ranveer Chandra
Managing Director, Research for Industry
Microsoft
Saharah Moon Chapotin
Executive Director
Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR)
Simon Liu
Administrator of the Agricultural Research Services (ARS)
USDA
Vikram Adve
Director, PI
AIFARMS
Vipin Kumar
Regents Professor
AI-CLIMATE, University of Minnesota
Walt Duflock
Senior Vice President, Innovation
Western Growers
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grants 2231251 and 2332864 and USDA-NIFA (AFRI) grant no. 2024-03378. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.