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Flavio Esposito
Role: Lead PI, Associate Professor (Saint Louis University)
Summary: Flavio Esposito is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a Fellow of the Research Institute at Saint Louis University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Boston University, USA, and a MS in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Florence, Italy. His research interests are Cyber-Physical Systems, in general, and Computer Networks, Edge Computing, and Applied Artificial Intelligence, in particular.
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Nadia Shakoor
Role: PI (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center)
Summary: Dr. Shakoor is an expert in crop genetics and plant phenotyping and is engaged in several initiatives to develop cyber-physical platforms for remote sensing and the use of sensor networks and digital devices for in-field data capture. Sensor platforms and hardware from her previously-funded projects will be leveraged as testbeds for the current project’s software and infrastructure deliverables. She has an established and extensive network of collaborators in the farming community and will work closely with Drs. Esposito and Sagan in the community engagement and crop science validation activities of the proposed project. She will also co-advise one of the postdocs with co-PI Sagan on the crop science activities.
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Vasit Sagan
Role: co-PI, Professor (Saint Louis University)
Summary: Dr. Vasit Sagan is responsible for developing remote sensing applications for the project. He establishes field experimental sites, lead ground truth data collection on plant disease and water stress, and develop computer vision, generative AI, ML algorithms, and software pipelines to detect plant disease and water stress.
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Reza Tourani
Role: co-PI, Associate Professor (Saint Louis University)
Summary: Reza Tourani (GSM’12, M’18) is an assistant professor with the Computer Science department at Saint Louis University since 2018. He received his PhD in Computer Science from New Mexico State University in 2018. His research interests are the broader areas of security and privacy, with a focus on building secure by design protocols and resilient systems, ranging from cyber-physical system such as Internet Things to edge computing with a particular emphasis on distributed access control, trusted and verifiable computing.
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Kate Holdener
Role: co-PI, Assistant Professor (Saint Louis University)
Summary: Dr. Kate Holdener is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science. Before joining SLU, Dr. Holdener completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2008. She subsequently worked in industry for 10 years, at Exegy, Inc. in various roles such as software engineer, senior API engineering, and product manager. Her research interests focus on the automation of software engineering processes, software development methodologies, and on the application of evolutionary algorithms to software engineering.
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Nurzaman Ahmed
Role: Engineering Research Scientist (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center)
Summary: Nurzaman Ahmed is an Engineering Research Scientist at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Before joining Danforth he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Dartmouth College. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, in 2020.His current research interests include Internet of Things (IoT), Software-Defined Networks (SDN), and WiFi-based long-distance networks.
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Felipe A. Lopes
Role: Post Doctoral Researcher (Saint Louis University)
Summary: Felipe A. Lopes is an Assistant Professor at the Federal Institute of Alagoas, currently on leave to pursue postdoctoral research at Saint Louis University in collaboration with the Remote Sensing Laboratory. His work within the project focuses on researching Generative Adversarial Networks and their potential in shaping intelligent models for field crop monitoring.
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Chiara Camerota
Role: Post Doctoral Researcher (Saint Louis University)
Summary: Chiara Camerota is a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science at Saint Louis University, holding a PhD from the University of Florence with a specialization in pattern recognition. Her research within the project concentrates on the methodology of Computer Vision in Cyber-Physical Systems, specifically addressing classification and segmentation challenges.
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Mansi Gidugu
Role: PhD student (Saint Louis University)
Summary: Mansi Gidugu is a PhD student at Saint Louis University working in the areas of Machine Learning and Explainable AI.
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Shamim Yazdani
Role: PhD student (Saint Louis University)
Summary: I am a PhD student at saint louis university, and I am working on machine learning privacy and security.
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Siri Chandana Garimella
Role: MS Student (Saint Louis University)
Summary: Siri Chandana Garimella is a Master's student in Artificial Intelligence at Saint Louis University. As a Graduate Research Assistant, she works on software development projects while pursuing interests in Machine Learning and AI in modern Software Development.