Thought For Food

The Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) community is a dynamic ecosystem of scholars, teachers, and practitioners. Through seed grants, collaborations, education, and outreach, our members seek to drive agriculture innovation and tackle social, economic, policy,  and environmental challenges at scale.

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2025 Research Innovation Fund (RIF) Faculty Call for Proposals

To foster the collaborations needed for such endeavors, and to catalyze the development of tools for New York and regions beyond, the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) seeks original proposals under our Research Innovation Fund (RIF) for projects that will advance digital agriculture.

Opportunities for faculty planning and seed grants are available.

Agriculture Robotics

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Farming brought into the future

New Knowledge, New Practices

Sustainably feeding people, improving livelihoods, and protecting the environment are among the most significant challenges of our time. CIDA’s mission is to create a dynamic community of researchers, farmers, industry partners, and other stakeholders working to advance more sustainable agriculture and food systems through a cross-disciplinary approach that integrates fundamental discoveries across the life sciences, engineering, computing, and social sciences.

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Continuous discovery, Innovation, and Dialogue

The combined passions and talents of Cornell’s world-renowned researchers manifest in transformational knowledge and technologies that help farmers increase their productivity and profitability while also protecting the environment. Watch this video to learn more.

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What we are working on

Projects

Learn more about the projects we fund through Research Innovation Fund Seed Grants

  • CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT AGRICULTURE

    Advancing Autonomous Greenhouse Technology with AI for Sustainable Food and Plant Production in Controlled Environment Agriculture

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  • COMPUTATIONAL MODELING

    Quantifying 3D vegetative growth and light environment for orchard trees with terrestrial lidar and computational modeling

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  • FOOD SAFETY

    Optimized pathogen environmental monitoring program in food processing facilities through reinforcement learning and privatized federated learning algorithms

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RESEARCH IN ACTION

Thought Leadership

  • Yu Jiang Video

    01_Yu Jiang

    Yu Jiang
    Executive Committee member, CIDA, and Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Julio Giordano Video

    02_Julio Giordano

    Julio Giordano
    Associate Director, CIDA and Associate Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Katie Gold Video

    03_Katie Gold

    Katie Gold
    Executive Committee member, CIDA, and Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Ed Mabaya Video

    04_Ed Mabaya

    Ed Mabaya
    Executive Committee member, CIDA, and Research Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Hakim Weatherspoon Video

    05_Hakim Weatherspoon

    Hakim Weatherspoon
    Associate Director, CIDA and Professor, Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

  • Renata Ivanek Video

    06_Renata Ivanek

    Renata Ivanek
    Associate Director, CIDA, and Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine

  • Jonathan Jaramillo Video

    07_Jonathan Jaramillo

    Jonathan Jaramillo
    PhD Student, College of Engineering

  • Steven Wolf Video

    08_Steven Wolf

    Steven Wolf
    Executive Committee member, CIDA, and Associate Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Continuous discovery, Innovation, and Dialogue

Yu Jiang

Julio Giordano

KATIE GOLD

ED MABAYA

HAKIM WEATHERSPOON

RENATA IVANEK

JONATHAN JARAMILO

STEVEN WOLF

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