Agricultural Informatics LabI joined the Agricultural Informatics Lab in February of 2022. I currently work as an undergraduate research assistant doing web development and migration. I work on the Plant Data Service API and support migration and maintenance of the MCCC Species Selector Tools. I am an undergraduate in Purdue’s Agricultural and Biological Engineering program, majoring in…Continue readingAutumn Denny
My background has primarily been in food science but my growing curiosity in tech and drive for social impact led me to the Agricultural Informatics Lab. I completed my BSc in Food Science at the University of Minnesota, where I did both field and lab research work with maize and intermediate wheatgrass. After, I worked…Continue readingMegan Low
I’m an undergraduate Environmental Engineering student from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia. I’m a research assistant under the guidance of Dr. Ankita Raturi, and my current work centers around soil health data management in agriculture. During my time in Colombia I’ve come to value the importance of working with communities (mainly ‘campesinos’) maintaining knowledge…Continue readingClaudia Becerra Rativa
I am a first year graduate student pursuing User Experience Design in the Computer Graphics Technology Department at Purdue University. I have a background in Design, with a Bachelors in Architecture from National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India and my work experience thereafter, under Wolf Jaipur, India. Under the advisory of Ankita Raturi, my work…Continue readingPrateek Mondan
I am a PhD student at Purdue University, majoring in Agricultural and Biological Engineering under the watch of my advisor, Ankita Raturi. I graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Bachelor of Science in Plant & Soil Sciences. For the past 3 years I’ve been working hands-on with plants; first at a greenhouse…Continue readingJillian Arber
I am currently an undergraduate student in Environmental and Natural Resource Engineering at Purdue University. I’m interested in making our food systems work better for farmers, consumers, and the environment. I’m currently working with the Agricultural Informatics Lab on Informatics for Community Food Resilience, specifically focusing on the qualitative research study and software for local foods.Continue readingHaley Thomas
I am a first year PhD student advised by Ankita Raturi in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. My current research centers around informational structures in the agricultural program domain in collaboration with the Open Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Management (OpenTEAM) community. I am particularly interested in decision support tools and…Continue readingSteven Doyle
I am an Informatics Research Scholar in the Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering at Purdue University working with Dr. Ankita Raturi. Currently, I am the data steward for two cooperative agreements between OpenTEAM and the USDA NRCS that focus on producer reporting data from implemented conservation practices and conservation cost data. I continue to…Continue readingJuliet Norton
As of Fall 2019, I am an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering at Purdue University. I lead the Agricultural Informatics Lab, focused on human-centered design, information modeling, and software engineering, for increased resilience in food and agricultural systems. Our current work includes: the development of modular, open source, decision support…Continue readingAnkita Raturi