News

Dr. Yu presented the project led by Jin, “Transfer Learning for Improving Dairy Cattle Body Weight Prediction in Small Farms Using Depth Images and Point Cloud Data”, at the 2025 American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) meeting. </em>

Yu’s lab attended the 3rd US Conference on Precision Livestock Farming in Lincoln, NE. Angelo gave his first poster presentation at the conference.

Welcome Zhou Tang to our lab! Zhou has joined as a postdoctoral scholar. His research focuses on using high-throughput phenotyping and remote sensing to support precision livestock farming.

Dr. Jack Dekkers visited our lab and gave a seminar in the Department of Animal Sciences.

Angelo’s first PhD paper AnimalMotionViz: an interactive software tool for tracking and visualizing animal motion patterns using computer vision is now online at JDS Communications. Congrats, Angelo!

Jin’s new preprint assessing the impact of cross-validation designs on cattle behavior prediction using accelerometer data is now on bioRxiv!

Our new preprint, led by Angelo, which introduces an interactive computer vision tool for tracking and visualizing animal motion patterns, is now on bioRxiv! Congratulations, Angelo!

Our lab’s research has been highlighted in the ANS department newsletter (pages 12-13).

Welcome Angelo De Castro to our lab! Angelo is a new PhD student with a focus on precision livestock farming.

Lucas Basolli Borsatto joined our lab as a visiting student. Welcome to the lab, Lucas!

Yuxi Zhang joined our lab as a master’s student in quantitative genetics. Welcome, Yuxi!

Our paper Use of the linear regression method to evaluate population accuracy of predictions from non-linear models is now published!

Dr. Rohan Fernando visited our lab and gave an invited talk at the IFAS AI and Data Science Seminar.

Jin’s first PhD paper Technical note: ShinyAnimalCV: open-source cloud-based web application for object detection, segmentation, and three-dimensional visualization of animals using computer vision has been published in the Journal of Animal Science. Congrats!

Haipeng gave an invited talk in the Gene Mapping by Segregation session at the PAG 31 meeting.

Yuechen joined our lab as a research intern. Welcome!

Haipeng gave an invited talk in 2023 National Swine Improvement Federation.

Jin gave her first oral presentation at the UF/IFAS Animal Sciences 9th Graduate Symposium. Good job!

Our open-source online computer vision web application, ShinyAnimalCV, led by Jin Wang and Yu Hu is on arXiv! ShinyAnimalCV is designed for performing computer vision tasks using animal image data. Congratulations, Jin and Yu!

Jin presented her first poster at the 2023 Future of Food Forum - Transforming Food Systems with Artificial Intelligence.

Yu Hu joined our lab as a research intern. Welcome!

Haipeng gave an invited talk in the Genomic Selection and Genome-Wide Association Studies session at the PAG 30 meeting.

Jin Wang joined our lab as the first Ph.D. student. Welcome, Jin!

Fan joined our lab as a research intern. Welcome to the team!

Our collaborative proposal Integrating High-Throughput Phenotyping into Genomic Evaluation to Advance Northern Quahogs Mercenaria mercenaria Breeding for program LIFT AI at UF was funded!

Our collaborative proposal Dissecting genetic controls of plant root and shoot architecture using AI methods was awarded by an internal grant program (LIFT AI) at UF!

Our paper Validation of the linear regression method to evaluate population accuracy and bias of predictions for non-linear models is up on bioRxiv!

Welcome Jin, who joined our lab as a research intern.

Welcome Yue, who joined our lab as a research intern.

Yugang joined our lab as a research intern. Welcome!

Haipeng joins UF and the AIAOS lab is established!