Daniela Jones
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Assistant Professor
JOINT APPOINTMENT WITH IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY
4168B Plant Sciences Building
Bio
Dr. Jones is a Research Assistant Professor in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at North Carolina State University and holds a Joint-faculty appointment with Idaho National Laboratory. At NCSU, Dr. Jones is also the Data Science Academy Director of Agricultural Analytics; Director of the Agricultural Data Science Certificate; Office of Research and Innovation Faculty Fellow; Graduate Faculty of the Operations Research Program; Faculty Fellow of the Center of Geospatial Analytics; Faculty Affiliate of the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center; and Faculty Affiliate of the Agricultural Biotechnology In Our Evolving Food, Energy, and Water Systems NSF Research Traineeship Program.
She earned her PhD in Biological and Agricultural Engineering with a concentration on energy systems from Texas A&M University, where she was an Alfred P. Sloan Scholar and received a certificate in Business Management. She received her Masters and Bachelor of Science degrees in Industrial Engineering with an emphasis in operations research and a Minor in Mathematics from Mississippi State University. She interned at Idaho National Laboratory and collaborated with multidisciplinary teams at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through her work on biofuels and renewable energy. Before this role, she was a postdoctoral associate at Duke University, where she performed quantitative and qualitative research on student interventions and supported programming of educational, career development workshops and community development events for underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students in the biosciences.
Education
Ph.D. Biological and Agricultural Engineering Texas A&M University 2017
M.S. Industrial Engineering Mississippi State University 2012
B.S. Industrial Engineering Mississippi State University 2009
Publications
- Advancing sweetpotato quality assessment with hyperspectral imaging and explainable artificial intelligence , Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2024)
- Characterizing Value-Added Pellets Obtained from Blends of Miscanthus, Corn Stover, and Switchgrass. , Renewable Energy (2024)
- Manure nutrient cycling in US animal agriculture basins-North Carolina case study , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (2024)
- Nth-plant scenario for blended pellets of Miscanthus, Switchgrass, and Corn Stover using multi-modal transportation: Biorefineries and depots in the contiguous U.S. , Biomass and Bioenergy (2024)
- Cultivating PhD Aspirations during College , CBE-LIFE SCIENCES EDUCATION (2022)
- Data-Driven Decisions for Food and Energy , (2022)
- Fostering Responsible Innovation through Stakeholder Engagement: Case Study of North Carolina Sweetpotato Stakeholders , Sustainability (2022)
- Nth-plant scenario for forest resources and short rotation woody crops: Biorefineries and depots in the contiguous US , APPLIED ENERGY (2022)
- Nth-plant supply: corn stover supplies and costs in a fleet of biorefineries , BIOFUELS BIOPRODUCTS & BIOREFINING-BIOFPR (2021)
- Replacing liquid fossil fuels and hydrocarbon chemical feedstocks with liquid biofuels from large-scale nuclear biorefineries , APPLIED ENERGY (2021)