RESEARCH PROFILES

AJ Christensen: Visualizing a Sustainable Future

Apr 15, 2019 | Crops in silico Project, RESEARCH PROFILES

AJ Christensen has always wanted to use his computer science and graphic design talents in service of a worthy cause. Now, as a programmer in Illinois’ Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) and a member of the Crops in silico research team, his visualizations appear on...

Reading the leaves: Illinois Ph.D. student models crops in silico

Nov 29, 2018 | Crops in silico Project, iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES

Reading the leaves: Illinois Ph.D. student models crops in silico Nov. 29, 2019 “Before finding high-performance computing and scientific visualization, I really didn’t know what area of computer science I wanted to work in.” It might come as a surprise that Colleen...

Ilsa Kantola: Sustainable Farming has its Roots in Soil

Sep 26, 2018 | iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES

“From an early age, I was aware of farming going on around me, and the importance of land and soil to everything in our lives.” Originally from Sacramento, a vibrant city nestled at the top of California’s Central Valley, iSEE Postdoctoral Research Associate Ilsa...

Meet Allison Parker — Taking the Battle to the Mosquitoes

Nov 30, 2017 | iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES, Stormwater and Mosquito Control Project

Meet Allison Parker — Taking the Battle to the Mosquitoes The saying goes that in war you must “know your enemy” to defeat it, and that’s exactly the aim of Allison Parker’s research. She’s a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in Entomology at the University of Illinois, and...

Meet Sam Lindgren — Selling Sun Buckets to the Next Generation

Oct 30, 2017 | iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES, Stored Solar Stove Project

Meet Sam Lindgren — Selling Sun Buckets to the Next Generation Sam Lindgren is a Ph.D. Candidate in Agricultural and Biological Engineering and a member of iSEE’s Stored Solar Stove research team. While her teammates work to technically perfect the “Sun Bucket”...

Kavya Kannan: From Computation to Meaningful Biology

Mar 1, 2017 | Crops in silico Project, iSEE Bios, RESEARCH PROFILES

Ph.D. Candidate Kavya Kannan confidently sits behind her laptop explaining a series of charts and graphs. By looking at her screen, you’d never know that her computer — a manmade mixture of metals and complex engineering — allows her to enhance one of the earth’s most...