DAD Team
Team Leader
Dr. Dharmendra Saraswat
Associate Professor
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Current Graduate Students
Varun Aggarwal
Agricultural and Biological Engineering (Ph.D. Student)
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Aanis Ahmad
Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ph.D. Student)
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Adeayo Adewumi
Agricultural and Biological Engineering (Ph.D. Student)
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Shih-Yun Lin
Agricultural and Biological Engineering (MS Student)
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
2023 Purdue University OUR Fellows and 2023 SURF Fellows
Son Ha
Computer Science (Undergraduate)
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Jung Hwang
Computer Science (Undergraduate)
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
2023 Visiting Scholar
Selvaprakash Ramalingam
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Staff Programmer
Benjamin (Ben) Hancock
Application Developer
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
SURF 2022 Students
Sharon Bhupathy
Senior in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Biological Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Project: Simulation of Co-operative UAV-UGV in Agricultural Fields
Kenta Hirashima
Junior in Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Champaign, IL
Samia Sohail Azim
Senior in Computer Science
Institute of Business Administration
Karachi, Pakistan
2021 - 2022 Visiting Scholars
Current Visiting Scholars
Pooja Tiwari
Atmospheric Science
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Shoobhangi Tyagi
Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Ankit Saurav
Civil Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Ankit Kumar Saini
Civil Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
SURF 2021 Students
Ava Riaziat
First Year Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Alumni
Anthony A Hearst - Ph.D.
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Thesis Topic: Sensing and Modeling Impacts of Moisture Stress on Soybean Growth and Yield Using Imagery from an Unmanned Aircraft System
Dr. Naresh Pai
Senior Research Scientist
Bayer
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Dr. Gurdeep Singh
Research Data Engineer
The Climate Corporation
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Aaron Etienne - M.S.
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Thesis Topic: Automating Weed Detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Acquired Images by Using Machine Learning Methods
Jeff Fiechter - M.S.
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Thesis Topic: Comparative Evaluation of Machine Learning and Geospatial Modeling for Field-Scale Predictive Soil Mapping
Eeshan Kumar
Water Resource Engineer
Wood plc.
Wichita, Kansas, USA
Hannah Klein - M.S.
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Thesis Topic: Comparative Evaluation of Machine Learning and Geospatial Modeling for Field-Scale Predictive Soil Mapping
Nikhil Thomas
Software Engineer
Red Hat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India