Food, Energy and the Environment

CSE faculty are spurring innovations in the agricultural and environmental sciences by addressing key issues, such as sustainable farming techniques, crop surveillance, and green energy.
Affiliated Faculty




Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering


Department Head, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Chemistry

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering

Director of Research and Knowledge Initiatives and Principal Environmental Decision Scientist, Institute on the Environment

Regents Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing,
Director, CSE Data Science Initiative

Professor, Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering



Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry

Researcher, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
Assistant Director, CSE Data Science Initiative



Richard and Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Labs and Research Groups
- Agricultural Robotics Lab
- Computational Reactive Flow & Energy Lab (CRFEL)
- Decision Discovery and Optimization Lab
- Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
- Goodpaster Research Group
- Minnesota Geological Survey
Selected Projects
- Extending Forecast Skills of Global Precipitation: A Deep Learning Framework for IMERG Data Assimilation over the Wasserstein Space. See also Study explores impacts of a warming climate on global snowfall patterns
- AI-LEAF (AI Institute for Land, Economy, Agriculture & Forestry)
- Advancing Deep Learning to Monitor Global Change
- Building Communities to Harness the Data Revolution
- Harnessing the Data Revolution: Knowledge Guided Machine Learning, A Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
- Innovations for Sustainable Food, Energy, And Water Supplies In Intensively Cultivated Regions
- NSF Expedition in Computing : Understanding Climate Change - A Data Driven Approach
- Removing plastic particle pollution from Minnesota water bodies
- Simulations of Air-Sea Boundary Layers at Submesoscale Fronts and Filaments