News

08/26/2026
milestone
Two exciting student milestones: After completing her Master's degree in the lab, Yuxi (Fiona) Zhang began her PhD studies with us, with research focused on quantitative genetics. Angelo De Castro successfully passed his PhD qualifying examination and is now a PhD candidate. Congratulations, Yuxi and Angelo!
08/10/2026
Impact & Outreach
Our cloud-based, pen-level heat-stress monitoring system was featured in Hoard's Dairyman. Results from three summers on a large commercial dairy show how monitoring and rapid response can help reduce heat stress and improve management on Southeast dairy farms. Read the article.
08/01/2026
funding
Our proposal to improve heat-stress management and labor efficiency on Southeast dairy farms through a regional decision-support platform has been funded by the Southeast Dairy Producer's Check-Off Program.
07/19/2026
event
Dr. Yu presented "Leveraging AI-derived Digital Phenotypes for Precision Monitoring of Dairy Cattle Production, Health, and Behavior" at the 2026 ASAS-NANP Symposium on Mathematical Modeling in Nutrition. View the LinkedIn post.
07/17/2026
event
The lab attended the 13th WCGALP in Madison, Wisconsin, July 12-17. Dr. Yu co-chaired the Genetic Gain and Inbreeding session. Both Angelo and Dr. Yu presented the lab's research projects.
07/01/2026
milestone
The AIAOS Lab celebrated four milestones: Jin's PhD graduation, Fiona's Master's defense, Angelo's First Place ADSA award, and Zhou's completion of postdoctoral training. View photos from the celebration.
06/29/2026
milestone
Yuxi (Fiona) successfully defended her Master's thesis as the first Master's graduate from the AIAOS Lab. She will continue with the lab as a PhD student in Animal Breeding and Genetics.
06/24/2026
award
The lab had a successful week at ADSA 2026 in Milwaukee. Dr. Yu presented an invited symposium talk and one oral presentation.
Our PhD student, Angelo De Castro delivered one oral presentation and earned First Place in the Production Division PhD Poster Competition. Congratulations, Angelo!
06/09/2026
funding
The lab is contributing to a USDA NIFA-funded collaboration developing AI models that support dairy cow health and help reduce antibiotic use. PhD student Angelo De Castro is actively contributing to the interdisciplinary research. Watch the interview.
02/03/2026
preprint
Zhou's new preprint compares 3D point-cloud and depth-image data for automated body condition score prediction.
01/03/2026
preprint
Jin's new preprint investigates how transfer learning can improve image-based dairy cattle body-weight prediction for small farms.
07/14/2025
event
Dr. Rodrigo Mezencio Godinho from Topigs Norsvin visited the AIAOS Lab and joined the team for a research group discussion.
06/05/2025
event
Yu's lab attended the 3rd US Conference on Precision Livestock Farming in Lincoln, NE. Angelo gave his first poster presentation at the conference.
05/01/2025
welcome
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.
04/03/2025
event
Dr. Jack Dekkers visited our lab and gave a seminar in the Department of Animal Sciences.
01/23/2025
preprint
Jin's new preprint assessing the impact of cross-validation designs on cattle behavior prediction using accelerometer data is now on bioRxiv!
10/22/2024
preprint
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!
08/13/2024
welcome
Welcome Angelo De Castro to our lab! Angelo is a new PhD student with a focus on precision livestock farming.
08/05/2024
welcome
Lucas Basolli Borsatto joined our lab as a visiting student. Welcome to the lab, Lucas!
07/25/2024
welcome
Yuxi Zhang joined our lab as a master's student in quantitative genetics. Welcome, Yuxi!
11/27/2023
welcome
Yuechen joined our lab as a research intern. Welcome!
10/12/2023
event
Jin gave her first oral presentation at the UF/IFAS Animal Sciences 9th Graduate Symposium. Good job!
07/28/2023
preprint
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!
03/20/2023
event
Jin presented her first poster at the 2023 Future of Food Forum - Transforming Food Systems with Artificial Intelligence.
03/10/2023
welcome
Yu Hu joined our lab as a research intern. Welcome!
01/2023
welcome
Jin Wang joined our lab as the first Ph.D. student. Welcome, Jin!
11/2022
welcome
Fan joined our lab as a research intern. Welcome to the team!
10/21/2022
funding
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!
10/21/2022
funding
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!
09/2022
welcome
Welcome Jin, who joined our lab as a research intern.
09/2022
welcome
Welcome Yue, who joined our lab as a research intern.
09/2022
welcome
Yugang joined our lab as a research intern. Welcome!
08/16/2022
milestone
Haipeng joins UF and the AIAOS lab is established!