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This is a 9-month tenure-accruing position that will be 70% research (Florida Agricultural Experiment Station) and 30% extension (Florida Cooperative Extension Service), available at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center (GCREC), Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, at the University of Florida. This assignment may change in accordance with the needs of the unit. Tenure will accrue in the Department of Agriculture and Biological Engineering. The faculty member will actively seek contract and grant funding to support their program. The faculty member will engage in Extension activities in their program area.
This position is part of a cohort of new hires for the GCREC Agricultural AI Institute that will focus on the advancement of applied artificial intelligence (AI)
in agriculture with an emphasis on automation and efficiency within specialty crop production.
Primary responsibilities include conducting innovative research in decision-focused AI for agriculture; developing reinforcement learning frameworks for adaptive farm management; advancing causal inference methods to improve decision making from observational and experimental data; designing agentic AI systems capable of planning, reasoning, and coordinating agricultural operations; creating prescriptive decision support systems for farm resource allocation, including things such as labor, equipment, water, fertilizer, and crop protection inputs.
The decision intelligence specialist will contribute to extension activities by training extension specialists and industry representatives on the use of decision support technologies and the integration of those technologies into current production systems.
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📌 Assistant/associate Professor (La Florida)
🏢 University of Florida
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