News

Aug 6, 2025

Research grant awarded - Multistate/McIntire-Stennis Programmatic Funding Program (Co-PI)

Jul 27–30, 2025

A huge congratulations to the team at IAFP 2025 in Cleveland, OH!

  • MeiLi won 1st Place in the Developing Scientist Awards Competition, was a finalist in the 3-Minute Thesis Competition, and presented a poster.
  • Gillian won 1st Place in the Undergraduate Student Award Competition.
  • Dr. Yi presented Sid’s technical work at the oral session.

So proud of the team’s incredible work and presence at the conference! ... Read more LinkedIn

Jul 29, 2025

MeiLi's 2nd paper got accepted to the Foods (special issue on AI/ML for foods). Congrats!

Jul 18, 2025

Research grant awarded - Rackham Research Endowment Grant Program (PI)

Jul 17, 2025

Sid's paper got accepted to the Frontiers in AI (section: AI in Food, Agriculture and Water). Congrats!

Jun 1–3, 2025

Mateja presented his poster at IPS 2025 in East Lansing, MI.

May 28, 2025

Dr. Yi has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.

May 7, 2025

Dr. Yi was invited as a panelist at the MSU AI Summit, hosted by the Office of the Provost. LinkedIn

May 4, 2025

Congratulations to Aarham, Sania, Justin, and Jakob on their graduation!
Aarham will be returning to Meta HQ as a full-time software engineer. Sania has been admitted to graduate school in Computer Science. Justin is heading to the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, and Jakob is starting his MS in Bioengineering at UCLA. Thanks for all your contributions to the lab. 

May 2, 2025

MeiLi has officially earned her MS degree and is ready to continue as a PhD student! LinkedIn

Apr 11, 2025

Gillian and Sid presented their posters at MSU UURAF 2025 in East Lansing, MI. LinkedIn

Mar 10, 2025

Research grant awarded - Project GREEEN (PI) ... Read more

Jan 31, 2025

Gillian got a summer internship at Meijer! LinkedIn


Dec 10–12, 2024

MeiLi's poster was presented at GLEXPO2024 in Grand Rapids, MI.

Dec 4, 2024

MeiLi's 1st paper got accepted to the Journal of Food Protection (special issue on AI and food safety)! Congrats!!

Nov 19, 2024

Our new preprint led by Sid is now on arXiv!

Oct 17, 2024

Our new preprint led by Sania is now on arXiv!

Sep 26, 2024

Aarham is returning to Meta headquarters as a full-time Software Engineer. Congrats! LinkedIn

Aug 1, 2024

Research grant awarded - USDA ARS RSA (PI).

Jul 28–31, 2024

MeiLi presented her poster at ASABE 2024 in Toronto, Canada. LinkedIn

Jul 15, 2024

Mateja’s co-authored paper was accepted to Microorganisms. Congrats!

Jul 14–17, 2024

Aarham's poster was presented at IAFP 2024 in Anaheim, CA.

Jul 3–5, 2024

Dr. Yi gave an invited talk on AI for sustainable food production at KoSFoST 2024 in South Korea.

May 13, 2024

Research grant awarded - Center for Produce Safety (Co-PI).

Mar 7, 2024

Aarham got a software engineer internship at Meta headquarters this summer. LinkedIn

Feb 21, 2024

Mateja will be starting his PhD degree program in Fall 2024. Welcome!

Feb 19, 2024

Research grant awarded - MSU Research Foundation Tetrad (PI) ... Read more


Aug 15, 2023

Research grant awarded - USDA ARS RSA (PI).

Jul 26, 2023

Aarham presented his poster at Mid-SURE 2023 in East Lansing, MI.

Jul 12, 2023

MeiLi will be starting her Dual BS/MS degree program in Fall 2023. Welcome!

Jan 1, 2023

Dr. Yi joined Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor.