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Towards Sustainable Agriculture prioritizing Global South using Machine Learning

Series: CSA Open Day Keynote Talk

Speaker: Radhika Dua, Pre-doctoral Researcher, Google Research India

Date/Time: Mar 04 15:00:00

Location: CSA Seminar Hall (Room No. 254, First Floor)

Abstract:
The agricultural sector, which is a major source of employment in the global south, is unfortunately the second largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions globally after energy. Farmers are vulnerable to climate-related problems such as droughts, floods, and crop failure due to extreme temperatures. To mitigate these problems, it is crucial to develop innovative technological solutions that cater to the specific climate and socio-economic needs of the agricultural sector, thereby enabling it to advance rapidly in developing countries. Identifying different land features, such as fields, trees, and dug wells, and analyzing them to optimize water consumption, crop yields, and soil carbon sequestration is essential. Therefore, we concentrate on three areas: Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) for automatic identification of land features, Agriculture Monitoring and Event Detection (AMED) for automatic crop monitoring, and Soil Carbon Sequestration for a deeper understanding of the soil organic carbon change.

Speaker Bio:
Radhika is a pre-doctoral researcher at Google Research India. She is passionate about leveraging the capabilities of machine learning to solve real-world problems. She recently completed her Masters in Artificial Intelligence from KAIST, South Korea, where she worked on enhancing the reliability of deep neural networks against natural and synthetic distribution shifts. Radhika was selected as a Grace Hopper Celebration India (GHCI) Scholar. Before joining Google, she also spent time at Brown University and IIT Hyderabad as a visiting researcher, which gave her valuable exposure to different research environments.

Host Faculty: The Chair, Dept. of CSA