About Me
Jinhong is a Ph.D. student in Food Science and Technology with a background in computer engineering. His research focuses on developing next-generation food quality monitoring and intelligent control systems by integrating advanced optical sensing solutions with artificial intelligence.
The development of the robot is critical as managing such diseases as powdery and downy mildews in vineyards is the top concern for grape growers and viticulturists.
An autonomous robot – a base on wheels fitted with computer vision technology that snaps images of grapevines in near real-time – rolls down a long row of plants in a vineyard at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, New York.
Next spring, a small army of Cornell-developed PhytoPatholoBots (PPB) will be deployed to four grape breeding programs across the U.S. on a mission to guide the global grape and wine industry into the 21st century.
Nick makes online mapping software through his business, Orbitist LLC.
