The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will hold a series of Q&A seminars for candidates for the Assistant Professorship in Artificial Intelligence with Applications for Integrated Food Animal Systems position.

Building upon existing strengths in CALS and across the university, this position will provide AI expertise applied specifically to food-animal systems. Candidates should be able to provide a broad expertise in the application of AI, machine learning, computer vision, imaging systems, decision intelligence, and modeling biological system with a focus on digital animal agriculture and specifically livestock and/or poultry production and downstream processing operations.

Interested faculty and staff are invited to attend the seminars to learn more about the candidates and the position. Each candidate will give a 50-minute presentation followed by a Q&A session.

The candidates include:

• Catie McVey, founder and CEO of OsRostrum Inc., Jan. 22, 12-1 p.m., 2405 Williams Hall
• Luiz Victor Ferrato Melo de Carvalho, nutrition manager with Alltech, Feb. 3, 12-1 p.m., 2405 Williams Hall
• Ramesh Bahadur Bist, post-doctoral fellow, biological and agricultural engineering at the University of Arkansas, Feb. 5, 12-1 p.m., 2405 Williams Hall
• Drew Swartz, teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate in veterinary medicine at the University of Minnesota, Feb. 12, 12-1 p.m., 2405 Williams Hall