Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 11/18/20

Cranos Williams, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named the director of the Data-Driven Plant Sciences platform for the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative (N.C. PSI).

He is well-known for his interdisciplinary research leveraging big data and machine learning to solve biological challenges. He was highly involved in shaping the N.C. PSI as a co-chair of the Plant Data Sciences Platform Sub Task Force and as a member of the Research and Technology Task Force. He is leading one of the GRIP4PSI research projects and is involved in another.

As the platform director for Data-Driven Plant Sciences, he will help guide the development of the initiative’s research activities where they intersect with his platform. Specifically, he will help steer the infrastructure needed for plant science data collection and analysis and data science training for plant scientists, as well as leading his own data-driven plant science research.

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