Plant Breeding Seminar - March 27th, 2024 3:10 room 2020 Agronomy Hall 

Join us (2020 Agronomy Hall) for a presentation by Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Baskar Ganapathysubramanian: “Artificial Intelligence and Procedural Models”

Agron 2020, 3:10 – 4:10 pm

Baskar Ganapathysubramanian is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. His research interests are in the areas of computational mechanics, physics and scientific computing. His lab leverages advances in applied mathematics and high-performance computing to model, design and control real-world physical phenomena. From the application point-of-view, his lab is particularly interested in energy and environment-related phenomena. They develop mathematical techniques and computational tools — model reduction, multi-scale frameworks, multi-physics simulators, control algorithms, data-driven methods to efficiently model these systems. Whenever possible, they validate the techniques using the expertise of their experimental collaborators.

Dr. Ganapathysubramanian's projects focuses on high-throughput algorithms for image processing, data dimensionality reduction, as well as mechanistic models of plant growth.

Abstract: As Principal Investigator/Director for the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture (AIIRA), Dr. Ganapathysubramanian will share updates and information about AIIRA. AIIRA’s vision is to transform agriculture by creating a new AI-driven framework for modeling plants at various agronomically relevant scales. They accomplish this by introducing AI-driven digital twins that fuse diverse data with siloed domain knowledge. AIIRA’s signature education activities will build an AI-aware workforce. For more information about AIIRA see their YouTube video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Awn5Bdx2vY 

AIIRA website- AIIRA :: Home (iastate.edu) 

Translational AI Center website- Translational AI Center – TrAC (iastate.edu) 

PSI Faculty Scholar- https://www.psi.iastate.edu/faculty-scholars/  

Zoom link: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/94094044904?pwd=S2tsV29zbmE0bHpBeFZvdlRtYWlkUT09