Our research seeks to unlock AI’s full potential as a trustworthy catalyst to redefine what’s possible in plant biotechnology and shape the future of field R&D, where precision meets scale.
Research Projects
- Automation and AI for accelerating plant bioengineering and design cycles
- Autonomous ModEX (iterative Modeling-EXperiments) for reliable spatial scaling and forecasting in commercial plantations
- Systems biology of plant-microbe-soil interactions
- SMART systems (Sensors, Machine Vision, Automation and Robotics for Transforming plant systems)
Since 2019, I have led custom bio-automation projects at ORNL as Principal Investigator. Collectively, our advanced automation technologies bridge critical data and plant handling gaps, enabling breakthroughs that redefine what’s possible in autonomous, high-throughput plant genetic transformation and phenotyping.
Links
- ORCID
- Google Scholar
- Harvesting plant data with robotics, sensors and advanced computing
- Bio-automation to develop predictive biology capabilities
- SMART field automation and INTERSECT project
- Predicting receptor-ligand molecular interactions underlying plant-microbe interactions
- Plant systems biology to understand and optimize productivity of bioenergy crops
Publications
News
February 17, 2026
5 MIN READ
Engineers, plant biologists automate plant transformation for faster discovery
