Illinois CS faculty will benefit from recent funding from the Discovery Partners Institute, encouraging research and development in areas like autonomous farming technologies and artificial intelligence.
DPI recently made eight grants to launch world-class interdisciplinary centers for significant economic and societal impact. Four of these teams are led by professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering and College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES). Each will receive $125,000, in addition to grant-writing support, access to corporate partners, and DPI’s downtown Chicago office.
This team will develop and test autonomous robots that will weed and spray corn and soybean crops; work in urban food gardens; and care for berry and nut orchards.
“We’ve been thinking about this problem for a while now. We’ve questioned how to provide more alternatives to farmers who now have to rely heavily on chemicals for replacing labor, and we think robotics and AI hold the key,” explained computer science vs computer engineering salary, Associate Professor and Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Fellow, Agricultural and Biological Engineering. The project also involves Donald B. Gillies Professor in Computer Science Vikram Adve and Illinois CS Associate Professor Kris Hauser, plus Illinois ECE Assistant Professors Katie Driggs Campbell and Saurabh Gupta.
“We’re really excited that DPI has provided resources to help build our Autonomous Farm testbed. Now all our AI work on campus has a place where it can be applied and translated to application.” Chowdhary is also affiliated with the Departments of Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as the Coordinated Science Lab.
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