AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems

The Artificial Intelligence Institute for Next Generation Food Systems, (AIFS) launched Sept 1, 2020 to solve the world’s biggest challenges to crop and food production facing our planet: ensuring a sustainable, nutritious, efficient and safe food supply while mitigating the impacts of changing conditions. 

The institute is designed to be inclusive, fostering collaborations to develop open-source AI solutions across the food system. Given food’s fundamental role in human health and well-being, coupled with its far-reaching impacts on the national economy and environment, the institute will bring together more than 50 researchers, 50 graduate students, and coordinating staff from six institutions.  UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cornell University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and USDA's Agricultural Research Service

This work is supported by AFRI Competitive Grant no. 2020-67021-32855/project accession no. 1024262 from the USDA/NIFA.