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AI2EAR

AI2EAR

The International Collaboration to Accelerate Integration of Engineering, Plant Sciences & Agricultural Research using Artificial Intelligence

Our Mission

Our mission is to enable long-term global food security and safety by accelerating collaboration between all the necessary disciplinary thought leaders and provide a framework for the sharing of critical resources and information needed to drive innovation.

“We want to help nourish the growing population without further destroying the environment.”

“The way in which our universities have divided up the sciences does not reflect the ways in which nature has divided up its problems.”

– AI2EAR Workshop 01 ICAR, Chiba, Japan 

Key Challenges that Hinder our Ability to Meet the World’s Food Security Needs:

  1. Our inability to sense, quantify and predict physical and chemical variables in the environment, including the microbiome;
  2. The lack of data analytics and models that transform concurrent multi-scale datasets into decision-making strategies for improving crop yield and minimizing crop loss;
  3. The lack of open-source data cyber-infrastructure for accessing, analyzing, and sharing the “insight” extracted from heterogeneous biological, agricultural, and environmental datasets.

Our Vision and Goal

Advance our understanding of how to support successful integration of agriculture, life sciences, and engineering to resolve scientific and technological gaps as well as social barriers with the overarching goal of ensuring global food security.