This $243,007 Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants program (CFDA 10.223) will support the California State University Fresno Foundation's efforts to address the rise of artificial intelligence and big data in agricultural technology. The funding will provide undergraduate research experiences for underserved students in applying AI and big data techniques to agriculture, with a focus on skills like object detection and classification using computer vision. Students from computer science and agriculture will work collaboratively on projects integrating their respective domains, such as developing systems to automatically classify and detect fruits in fields. This aims to equip the next generation workforce with in-demand data science skills while exposing them to real-world agricultural problems. The grant period is from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2026.
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