The University of Connecticut will receive $1,000,000 under a Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to establish the Coordinated Innovation Network in Big Data and Modern Artificial Intelligence. The Network will conduct multidisciplinary research on food production, processing, and consumption systems through January 2026. Leveraging a unique mobility dataset of 200 million cell phone users, the Network aims to address food systems questions and complete three immediate research applications using big data and AI beyond traditional farm-level production data analysis. Key planned products include a geospatial cyberinfrastructure integrating large-scale heterogeneous mobility data with other sources to facilitate frontier food systems research. The Network will also develop location-based heterogeneous graphs and conduct trajectory mining to gain insights into producer, retailer, and consumer interactions. Under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (CFDA No. 10.310), the award will support the Network's transdisciplinary training and research symposium while engaging stakeholders across all project aspects.
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