To ensure food security and other social needs, support profitable farms that create jobs, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and bolster resilience to climate extremes and other shocks, agriculture must become more productive, resource efficient, and environmentally...

A program implemented by Tanager, an international development organization, is transforming the poultry sector in Burkina Faso. Published online version

Recent advances in machine learning, simulation, algorithm design, and computer hardware have allowed reinforcement learning (RL) to become a powerful tool which can solve a variety of challenging problems that have been difficult or impossible to solve with other appro...

Internet of Things (IoT)-based remote health monitoring (RHM) generates a paradigm shift from traditional healthcare services. RHM applications deliver healthcare solutions to the national and global demand of improving the health and wellness of the population. Recent ...

With the fast-paced proliferation of robots in our daily lives, it is especially important that the human experience is prioritized for human-robot interactions and automated systems. We investigated how human eye movements can be leveraged in real-time by robotic syste...

Robots have shown prowess in demonstrating navigation in many extreme environments, except in granular media (GM), which remains relatively unexplored. GM such as sand, dry snow, and gravel are some of the most common substrates on Earth as well as other terrestrial pla...

To gain an empirical understanding of the utility of near-nadir Ka-band for mapping surface changes, particularly with respect to water and wet surfaces, this dissertation demonstrates the utility for mapping water surface elevation (WSE) and inundation as observed by t...

The advancing frontier of modern robotics has enabled the automation of dental implant surgery, which also invokes the problem of physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI) in the clinical environment. In this dissertation, the concern for pHRI is integrated into the desig...

Physical cash and commercial bank money are dominant vehicles for retail payments around the world, including in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Yet payments in EMDEs are marked by several key deficiencies, such as lack of universal access to transacti...

California faces complicated water challenges and increased drought that have put pressure on agricultural systems to cut back on water consumption. Responding to changes in water supply and improving adaptive capacity requires that knowledge and expertise be available ...