Planning Committee
Planning Committee
Dr. Alex Thomasson
Director and Department Head
Agricultural Autonomy Institute/Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Mississippi State University
Dr. Ali Fares
TAMUS-Regents Professor Chair of Water Security & Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Cooperative Agricultural Research Center
Prairie View A&M University
Dr. Jagman Dhillon
Assistant Professor
Department of Plant &Soil Sciences
Mississippi State University
Dr. Xiaofei Li
Associate Professor
Agricultural Economics
Mississippi State University
Dr. Vitor Martins
Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Mississippi State University
Dr. Robert Strong
Professor
Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications
Texas A&M University
Dr. Diego Thompson
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Mississippi State University
Dr. Nuwan Wijewardane
Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Mississippi State University
Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis
Associate Professor
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
University of Florida
Dr. Manoj Karkee
Professor and Director
Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems
Washington State University
Dr. Somayeh Bakhtiari Ramezani
Assistant Teaching Professor
Data Science Academic Institute
Mississippi State University
Dr. Hussein Gharakhani
Assistant Professor
Agricultural and Biological Engineering & Agricultural Autonomy Institute
Mississippi State University
Madison Dixon
Associate Director
Agricultural Autonomy Institute
Mississippi State University
Dr. Shahram Rahimi
Head and Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Alabama
Dr. Stavros G. Vougioukas
Professor
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
University of California, Davis
Dr. Brenda Ortiz
Professor & Precision Ag. Extension Specialist
Crop, Soil, & Env. Sciences Department
Auburn University
Dr. Thanos Gentimis
Assistant Professor
Experimental Statistics
Louisiana State University
Dr. Joshua Peeples
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
Dr. David Mulla
Professor and Larson Chair for
Soil & Water Resources
Soil, Water & Climate Department
University of Minnesota
Dr. Marcus McGee
Assistant Clinical Professor
Animal and Dairy Sciences
Mississippi State University
Dr. Carlos Rodriguez Lopez
Martin-Gatton Distinguished Profession Plant Microbiomes
Horticulture Department
University of Kentucky
Dr. Mahendra Bhandari
Assistant Professor
Digital Agriculture Research Lab
Texas A&M University
Mr. Luke Gray
