Everything You Wanted to Know About Smart Agriculture
3:30 p.m. - Congdon Hall
Overview:
The world population is projected to reach the 8 billion mark which will cause a rapid increase in food demand. It is noticed that socio-economic and well-being
fallout affects food security. However, the amount of farmland that is available for forming purposes has been significantly decreasing for various reasons,
including rapid urbanization. To cater to the needs of the increasing population with reduced cultivable land, the agricultural industry is evolving to become
efficient and smart with the use of the latest technologies. Traditional agriculture needs to adopt technologies to be efficient, sustainable, eco-friendly,
leading to smart agriculture. This talk will present the trends and challenges in the smart agriculture which is essentially agriculture Cyber-Physical System (A-CPS)
built using Internet-of-Agro-Things (IoAT). The talk will focus on technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) which supports automation, along with the blockchain
and Security-by-Design (SbD) which provides agriculture data integrity and security. The talk will address many questions about smart agriculture including: (1) What are
some Trends of Agriculture? (2) What is IoAT and A-CPS? (3) What are the challenges of design and operation of smart agriculture? (4) What are AI solutions for smart agriculture?
(5) What are cybersecurity solutions for smart agriculture? (6) What are some smart agriculture examples?
Bio:
Dr. Saraju P. Mohanty is a Professor at the University of North Texas. Prof. Mohanty’s research is in “Smart Electronic Systems” which has been funded by NSF, SRC,
US Air Force, IUSSTF, and Mission Innovation. He has over 20 years of research experience on security and protection of media, hardware, and systems. He introduced the
Secure Digital Camera in 2004 with built-in security features designed using Hardware Assisted Security (HAS) or Security by Design (SbD) principle. He is widely credited as
the designer for the first digital watermarking chip in 2004 and first the low-power digital watermarking chip in 2006. He has authored 500 research articles, 5 books, and 10
granted and pending patents. His Google Scholar h-index is 56 and i10-index is 239 with 13,000 citations. He is a recipient of 18 best paper awards, Fulbright Specialist Award in
2021, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Outstanding Service Award in 2020, the IEEE-CS-TCVLSI Distinguished Leadership Award in 2018, and the PROSE Award for Best Textbook in Physical
Sciences and Mathematics category in 2016. He has delivered 24 keynotes and served on 14 panels at various International Conferences. He has been serving on the editorial board of
several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Bigdata and ACM Journal on Emerging Technology in Computing. He was the EiC of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine during 2016-2021.
He is Section-EiC for Springer-Nature of Computing Science since 2020. He served as the Chair of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on VLSI during 2014-2018 and served on the Board of
Governors of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society during 2019-2021. He is the steering committee chair/vice-chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems,
the IEEE-CS Symposium on VLSI, and the OITS International Conference on IT. He has mentored 3 post-doctoral researchers, and supervised 15 Ph.D. dissertations, 26 M.S. theses, and 20
undergraduate projects.