UCSC AgTech Symposium

• Aaron Hunter, PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering: “Open Source Autonomous Vehicle Controller” (slide presentation)
• Jeffrey Bury, Professor of Environmental Studies: “Agtech in the Andes: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Livelihoods in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru” (slide presentation)
• Melissa Gwyn, Associate Professor of Art: “Rust Belt Solutions: Healing Land and People”
• Mohammad Jafari, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Applied Mathematics: “Towards Sustainable Agriculture Technology by Using Machine Learning Techniques”
• Grant Hartzog, Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology (MCD); “Global and Community Health: Opportunities for AgTech” (slide presentation)
• Shun-Nan Chiang, PhD Candidate in Sociology: “How Contested Agri-Innovations for Nutrition Co-Exist in the Same Infrastructural Environment” (slide presentation)
• Jon Detka, PhD Student in Environmental Studies: “Developing low-cost leaf wetness and fog event sensors for plant disease monitoring”
• Steve McGuire, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering: “Multimodal Scene Understanding in Field Robotics”
• Gregory Gilbert, Professor of Environmental Studies: “Computerized tomography for tree health and hazard assessment”
• J. Xavier Prochaska, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics: “Deep Learning of Sea Surface Temperature Patterns to Identify Ocean Extremes” (slide presentation)
• Rebecca DuBois, Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering: “New vaccines for agriculture”
• Julie Guthman, Professor of Community Studies: “The funding pitch as window onto the limitations of Silicon Valley ag tech”
• Ricardo Sanfelice, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of Cyber-Physical Research Center: “Agriculture Cyber-Physical Systems (ACPS): Opportunities and Challenges”

• Sylvie Childress, Director of UCSC Greenhouses: “Opportunities for AgTech connections at the UCSC Greenhouses” (slide presentation)
• Ingrid Parker, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Faculty Executive Director of the UCSC Greenhouses: “Cannabis & Hemp Initiative for Interdisciplinary Plant Studies”
• Michael Loik, Professor of Environmental Studies: “Trade-offs between glasshouse conditions and plant production” (slide presentation)
• Brian Nguyen, PhD Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering: “The Continuous Monitoring of Nitrate Content in Soil using Time-Domain-Reflectivity”
• Chris Benner, Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology and Director of the Institute for Social Transformation and Everett Program: “Delivering Insecurity: E-commerce and the Future of Work in Food Retail” (slide presentation)
• Jennifer Parker, Professor of Art: “OpenLab Collaborative Research Center and The Algae Society: Bio Art & Design”
• Katia Obraczka, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering: “IoT for Environmental Monitoring: Applications to Wildfire Mitigation and Preparedness”
• Stacy Philpott, Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems: “Insects, community gardens, and ag-technology”
• Robert Wilson, Postdoctoral Researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering: “Psychophysiological Modeling for the Improvement of Human-Robot Interaction”
• Maywa Montenegro, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies: “Digital Agriculture & Surveillance Capitalism”
• Zouheir Rezki, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering: “Agro Health Monitoring via Wireless Communication Networks”
• Lissa Caldwell, Professor of Anthropology: “What If? Hacktivism and Anticipatory Food Justice”
• Pallab Sarker, Associate Research Professor in Environmental Studies: “Recycling microalgal co-product to develop ocean-friendly fish-free feed for sustainable aquaculture”

• Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS): “Farmer creation, adaptation and adoption of technologies: research, extension and evaluation strategies”

—Damian Parr, Research and Education Coordinator at CASFS
—Joji Muramoto, Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist at CASFS and Environmental Studies
—Darryl Wong, Farm Site and Research Lands Manager at CASFS and Environmental Studies
—Jan Perez, Food Systems Research and Education Specialist at CASFS

• Summer Sullivan, PhD Student in Environmental Studies: “Different Fields, Different Farms?: An Investigation into the Synergies and Frictions into Ag-Tech and Agroecology”

• What have you learned today that was new, interesting and valuable, that you would be interested in pursuing?
• What do you see as valuable areas of strength at UCSC AgTech that are worth supporting/building?
• What would you like to see as valuable next steps in developing more AgTech work at UCSC?