Talk: Empowering Farmers with Affordable Digital Agriculture.
Speaker: Ranveer Chandra. (CTO, Agri-Food; and Chief Scientist, Microsoft Azure Industry; and Managing Director, Research for Industry, Microsoft Research.)
When: Wednesday March 31, 2021, 12 pm - 1 pm US Central time.
Attendees can Register for Zoom Webinar (Pre-registration Required) at: https://just-infras.illinois.edu/speaker-series/register/
Abstract: Data-driven techniques help boost agricultural productivity by increasing yields, reducing losses and cutting down input costs. However, these techniques have seen sparse adoption owing to high costs of manual data collection and limited connectivity solutions. In this talk we will describe our innovations that leverage the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence to help make affordable digital agriculture solutions. We will also present our product, Azure FarmBeats, which is in preview, and can be used by partners to build their digital agriculture solutions.
Bio: Ranveer Chandra is the CTO of Agri-Food, Chief Scientist of Microsoft Azure Industry, and Managing Director of the Research for Industry initiative at Microsoft Research. Ranveer's research, including FarmBeats, has shipped in multiple Microsoft products, including XBOX, Azure, Windows, and Visual Studio.Ranveer has published over 90 research papers and has over 100 patents granted by the USPTO.He is an IEEE Fellow,and appeared on the MIT Technology Review’s Top Innovators Under 35 award in 2010.Bill Gates featured Ranveer's work on FarmBeats on GatesNotes, and Ranveer has been invited to present to the Secretary of Agriculture, and on TV White Spaces to the FCC Chairman. Ranveer has an undergraduate degree from IIT Kharagpur, India, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Poster: https://just-infras.illinois.edu/
Sponsors: Organized by Just Infrastructures center. Co-sponsored by: Grainger College of Engineering, iSchool, CS@Illinois., Community Data Clinic.
Talk is equipped with live ASL (American Sign Language) Interpretation.
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