Congratulations to Alex! He defended his Ph.D. final exam successfully!

We organized a CVPR workshop: Agriculture-vision: Challenge & Opportunities for Computer Vision in Agriculture in conjunction with IEEE/CVF CVPR 2020.   Link to the webpage. Link to the workshop website.

Congratulations! Our article “Modeling yield response to crop management using convolutional neural networks” appears among the most downloaded articles. We have 3995 downloads in the last 90 days. Link to most downloaded articles page. Link to deeplearning.ai blog.

The research work of applying machine learning techniques to crop yield prediction in our group attracted researchers’ attention and recognition from AI community and was reported on today’s Batch newsletter. As Professor Andrew Ng mentioned as sidenote of the news, application of machine learning in agriculture is promising and can help even every stage of […]

Congratulations, researchers from our group are employing visual pattern recognition techniques in agricultural setting, providing more opportunities in data-driven farming. The dataset produced by IntelinAir, a spinout from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and where our lab Principal Investigator, Professor Naira Hovakimyan is also co-founder and chief scientist at, will offer farmers with constructive and […]

Professor Naira Hovakimyan gave a science talk on “Aerial Co-Robots of the Future”.

We met our previous group member-Venanzio Cichella,  currently a faculty at the University of Iowa and Ziyi Wang from Evangelos Theodorou’s group at CDC in Nice. We have two students in our group presented at CDC 2019. Check our gallery for pictures.

Prof. Naira Hovakimyan from CSL speaks on her ongoing project, Virtual Sully, an advanced autopilot system designed to handle large uncertainties on Friday, November 8th at 3 pm in CSL.

Congratulations! We start a very interesting NSF funded project: “Virtual Sully”: Autopilot with Multilevel Adaptation for Handling Large Uncertainties. An interesting project regarding autopilots and their ability to mitigate risks inspired by the US Airways Flight 1549 in 2009 and Captain Chesley Sullenberger (“Sully”) and his co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles. Link to Grainger College of Engineering […]

Link to MechSE News. On July 12 2019, our lab and CSL participated to at the next generation outreach event at Montessori School in Champaign, IL. Students were able to get hands on the the ground robot (Jackal UGV) and the UAV (Intel drone) proving them with an introduction into the robotics.