Planning Committee
Planning Committee
Alex Thomasson

Director and Department Head
Agricultural Autonomy Institute/Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Mississippi State University
Ali Fares

TAMUS-Regents Professor Chair of Water Security & Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Cooperative Agricultural Research Center
Prairie View A&M University
Jagman Dhillon

Assistant Professor
Department of Plant &Soil Sciences
Mississippi State University
Xiaofei Li

Associate Professor
Agricultural Economics
Mississippi State University
Vitor Martins

Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Mississippi State University
Robert Strong

Professor
Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications
Texas A&M University
Diego Thompson

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Mississippi State University
Nuwan Wijewardane

Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Mississippi State University
Yiannis Ampatzidis

Associate Professor
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
University of Florida
Manoj Karkee

Professor and Director
Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems
Washington State University
Somayeh Bakhtiari Ramezani

Assistant Teaching Professor
Data Science Academic Institute
Mississippi State University
Hussein Gharakhani

Assistant Professor
Agricultural and Biological Engineering & Agricultural Autonomy Institute
Mississippi State University
Madison Dixon

Associate Director
Agricultural Autonomy Institute
Mississippi State University
Shahram Rahimi

Head and Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Alabama
Stavros G. Vougioukas

Professor
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
University of California, Davis
Brenda Ortiz

Professor & Precision Ag. Extension Specialist
Crop, Soil, & Env. Sciences Department
Auburn University
Thanos Gentimis

Assistant Professor
Experimental Statistics
Louisiana State University
Joshua Peeples

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
David Mulla

Professor and Larson Chair for
Soil & Water Resources
Soil, Water & Climate Department
University of Minnesota
Marcus McGee

Assistant Clinical Professor
Animal and Dairy Sciences
Mississippi State University
Carlos Rodriguez Lopez

Martin-Gatton Distinguished Profession Plant Microbiomes
Horticulture Department
University of Kentucky
Mahendra Bhandari

Assistant Professor
Digital Agriculture Research Lab
Texas A&M University
Luke Gray
