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The AIIRA team during a visit by Steven Thomson of USDA NIFA, which featured demonstrations of 3D reconstruction for digital twins, VLA robotics and flexible manipulators, and the PestID bot.
September 2026 · Photo: AIIRA via LinkedIn
A demonstration during AIIRA's showcase for Steven Thomson of USDA NIFA, which included 3D reconstruction for digital twins and VLA robotics and flexible manipulators.
September 2026 · Photo: AIIRA via LinkedIn
A discussion among potted plants at an outdoor hoop house during AIIRA's showcase for Steven Thomson of USDA NIFA.
September 2026 · Photo: AIIRA via LinkedIn
Muhammad Arbab Arshad presenting his Ph.D. thesis defense (top), before moving to the Bay Area to join Waymo (bottom).
September 2026 · Photo: Muhammad Arbab Arshad via LinkedIn · More
Soumik Sarkar, Director of TrAC, in Washington, D.C., representing TrAC and Iowa State University at the Genesis Mission Annual Summit.
July 2026 · Photo: TrAC – Translational AI Center via LinkedIn · More
The 2026 REU cohort hosted by TrAC at Iowa State University.
July 2026 · Photo: TrAC – Translational AI Center via LinkedIn · More
REU-TrACE students at Collins Aerospace during an industry visit that included a museum tour, a networking lunch, an AI in Aviation presentation and an avionics tour.
Summer 2026 · Photo: TrAC – Translational AI Center via LinkedIn
Souradeep Chattopadhyay after successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation, “Data-driven modeling and uncertainty quantification for decision support in complex real-world systems,” at Iowa State University.
July 2026 · Photo: Souradeep Chattopadhyay via LinkedIn · More
Summer AI+X researchers at Iowa State University, posing on the Iowa State University sign with the Campanile behind them.
June 2026 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Summer AI+X researchers at Iowa State University, shared with wishes for their summer research accomplishments.
June 2026 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Presenting recent work on agentic visual reasoning for agriculture at the Vision for Agriculture workshop at CVPR 2026; the slide shows the SAGE image and symptoms dataset.
June 2026 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Panel at CVPR 2026; the post names fellow panelists Gary Bradski, Jason Corso, Girish Chowdhary and Shenlong Wang.
June 2026 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Tirtho Roy presented his first poster at a major venue, CVPR 2026 in Denver, Colorado; the poster is on SAGE, scalable agentic grounded evaluation for crop disease diagnosis.
June 2026 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Tirtho Roy at his poster "SAGE: Scalable Agentic Grounded Evaluation for Crop Disease Diagnosis" at the DataMFM Workshop, CVPR 2026 in Denver, Colorado.
June 2026 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More · Paper
The ICRA 2026 poster "Find the Fruit: Zero-Shot Sim2Real RL for Occlusion-Aware Plant Manipulation" by Nitesh Subedi, Hsin-Jung Yang, Devesh Jha and Soumik Sarkar, presented by Nitesh Subedi in Vienna.
June 2026 · Photo: Nitesh Subedi via LinkedIn · More · Paper
Participants, judges and organizers at the final presentations of TrAC's first Statewide High School AI Hackathon at Iowa State University.
May 2026 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
A prize certificate presented to a high school team at TrAC's first Statewide High School AI Hackathon at Iowa State University.
May 2026 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Souradeep Chattopadhyay presenting “Exploring Geometric Concentration for Quantifying Uncertainty in Scientific Image Caption Generation” at AISTATS 2026 in Tangier, Morocco.
May 2026 · Photo: Souradeep Chattopadhyay via LinkedIn · More · Paper
TrAC Day
April 2026 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar
A talk at TrAC Day 2026 in Iowa State University's Student Innovation Center, which welcomed about 150 faculty, staff, students, industry partners and high school students; the slide reads "From Field to Gene: RGB drone phenotyping unlocks mungbean early seedling vigor."
April 2026 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
A panel discussion during TrAC Day 2026 at Iowa State University's Student Innovation Center.
April 2026 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Presenting TrAC's work on automating property condition surveying to the City of Des Moines; the post credits Aditya Balu, Hossein Zare Mehrjerdi, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian and Anuprit Kaur Minhas.
April 2026 · Photo: TrAC – Translational AI Center via LinkedIn
TrAC and Iowa State University represented at the Genesis Mission Summit in Washington, D.C.
February 2026 · Photo: TrAC – Translational AI Center via LinkedIn · More
Showcasing AI for agriculture research during Iowa State University's day at the Iowa State Capitol, at a table with drones and the Soynomics Team display.
February 2026 · Photo: TrAC – Translational AI Center via LinkedIn · More
Jaydeep Rade with the title slide of his PhD thesis, "Deep Learning Frameworks for Generating High-Resolution 3D Structures," in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University.
January 2026 · Photo: Jaydeep-Ravindra Rade via LinkedIn · More
The TrAC Holiday Lunch, celebrating the team's accomplishments and wrapping up 2025.
January 2026 · Photo: TrAC – Translational AI Center via LinkedIn
Hooding of new PhDs Dr. Ashutosh Nirala and Dr. Ibne Farabi Shihab at Iowa State University commencement.
December 2025 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Timilehin Ayanlade presenting "Multimodal Learning for Crop Trait Estimation" at his PhD preliminary exam, after which he advanced to PhD candidacy.
November 2025 · Photo: Timilehin Ayanlade via LinkedIn · More
Soumik Sarkar's keynote at the K-State AI Symposium at Kansas State University on AI-enabled Cyber-Agricultural Systems to reduce input costs in agriculture and increase profitability.
October 2025 · Photo: TrAC – Translational AI Center via LinkedIn
Group photo shared with thanks to Chris Cournoyer for her support and encouragement.
July 2025 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Nitesh Subedi with his workshop poster "Can Pretrained Vision-Language Embeddings Alone Guide Robot Navigation?" at the Robot Planning in the Era of Foundation Models workshop, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025.
July 2025 · Photo: Nitesh Subedi via LinkedIn · More
The "CPS in the Age of AI" panel, moderated by Cathy Wu, at the 2025 NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators' Meeting, with Soumik Sarkar among the panelists.
March 2025 · Photo: Zahid Hasan via LinkedIn · More
Md Zahid Hasan with the poster for the NSF CAREER project "Robustifying Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems" at the 2025 NSF Cyber-Physical Systems PI Meeting.
March 2025 · Photo: Zahid Hasan via LinkedIn · More
Muhammad Arbab Arshad presenting "Leveraging Vision Language Models for Specialized Agricultural Tasks" at WACV 2025.
March 2025 · Photo: Muhammad Arbab Arshad via LinkedIn · More · Paper
Provost Jason Keith visits the Translational AI Center (TrAC) at Iowa State University to share his vision for AI research and education.
January 2025 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
A field robot in corn plots, shared with a post about a new data resource for the Ag-AI community.
January 2025 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Lab Party
December 2024 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar
Opening of the Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning for Cyber-Agricultural Systems (MLCAS 2024) at the Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center.
October 2024 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
MLCAS 2024 drew more than 150 attendees, six invited speakers and 30+ contributed talks and posters.
October 2024 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
A talk at MLCAS 2024 on the Ag-ML competition for corn yield prediction from satellite data, which drew 66 teams from 15 countries.
October 2024 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Panel discussion "Translating AI-Ag Research into Practice" at MLCAS 2024.
October 2024 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
A certificate presentation at MLCAS 2024 at the Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center.
October 2024 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Mahsa Khosravi with her poster "Model-Free Control of Soft Continuum Arms Using Visual Servoing and Soft Actor-Critic" at MLCAS 2024.
October 2024 · Photo: Mahsa Khosravi via LinkedIn · More
Hooding of Dr. Xian Yeow Lee, Dr. Sin Yong Tan and Dr. Russell Tan at the Iowa State University Spring 2024 commencement ceremony.
May 2024 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
A "Women in Ag and AI" presentation at the inaugural TrAC Day at Iowa State University.
April 2024 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Students, faculty and industry partners at the inaugural TrAC Day at Iowa State University.
April 2024 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Poster session at the inaugural TrAC Day at Iowa State University.
April 2024 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Mahsa Khosravi presenting her AIIRA research at IROS 2023; the slide covers precision pest and disease management.
October 2023 · Photo: Mahsa Khosravi via LinkedIn · More
Researchers with wheeled robots and rows of corn plants at the Field Robotics Engineering and Sciences Hub (FRESH), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where Mahsa Khosravi and Hsin-Jung Yang joined Prof. Girish Krishnan's team for a research collaboration.
July 2023 · Photo: Mahsa Khosravi via LinkedIn · More
Fateme Fotouhi's poster "Communication-efficient Decentralized Deep Learning," which proposes the DSMA decentralized learning algorithm, at the Decentralization and Machine Learning in Web 3.0 workshop, NeurIPS 2022.
December 2022 · Photo: Fateme Fotouhi Ardakani via LinkedIn · More
Plenary talk at MLCAS 2022, organized by TrAC at Iowa State; the post thanks John Deere CTO Jahmy Hindman for his plenary talk.
October 2022 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Attendees at MLCAS 2022, the Fourth International Workshop on Machine Learning for Cyber-Agricultural Systems, at Iowa State University.
October 2022 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Startup Round Table at MLCAS 2022.
October 2022 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Keynote speech at AFITA/WCCA 2018 at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, on October 25, 2018.
October 2018 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
Demonstrating a deep learning iPhone app for soybean disease detection at the 2018 Farm Progress Show, with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.
September 2018 · Photo: Soumik Sarkar via LinkedIn · More
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Lab party
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Lab party
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Lab party
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Lab party
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REU
Photo: Tirtho
REU
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REU
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Lab group photo outdoors
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Lab members celebrating with a cake
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Lab group photo indoors
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