News & Events
Latest research milestones, awards, outreach, and upcoming events from our lab at The Ohio State University.
Upcoming Events
Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL) 2026
The annual Summit for AI Institutes Leadership brings together researchers, staff, and leaders from the national AI Institutes to share research, build connections, discuss best practices, and explore opportunities for collaboration. The conference is organized by the NSF AI Institutes Virtual Organization.
SAI Lab Brings End-to-End Agricultural AI Workflows to Farm Science Review 2026
SAI Lab brings precision spot spraying, Smart Labeler, Intelligent Edge Management Service (IEMS), and Ask the Farm to Farm Science Review 2026, connecting field data collection, AI, high-performance computing, and agricultural decision support.
Brijesh Nanda B Y Receives Best Poster Award at AgWireless’26
Brijesh Nanda B Y received the Best Poster Award at AgWireless’26 for No-Code Workflow Studio, an ICICLE-enabled platform that makes agricultural automation accessible through a visual, no-code interface.
SAI Lab Showcases ICICLE-Enabled Agricultural AI at AgWireless’26 and the Farm Progress Show
SAI Lab Showcases ICICLE-Enabled Agricultural AI at AgWireless’26 and the Farm Progress Show; Brijesh Nanda B Y receives Best Poster Award for the No-Code Workflow Studio; the SAI Lab team engages farmers, researchers, and industry partners on practical AI and edge-computing challenges in agriculture.
Bringing AI to the Field: ICICLE and SAI Lab Showcase Scalable Agricultural Intelligence at the 2026 Ohio State Fair
SAI Lab / ICICLE presented Auto-Harvest, Intelligent Edge Management Service (IEMS), and Smart Labeler at the 2026 Ohio State Fair, demonstrating end-to-end AI and cyberinfrastructure for precision agriculture.
SAI Lab Undergraduates Advance to Round 2 of AISEHack 2.0
Ohio State undergraduates Amrithaa Ashok Kumar, Aarush Katta, and Maanav Jajodia advanced to Round 2 of AISEHack 2.0 in the Remote Sensing and Yield Prediction track.
SAI Lab at PEARC 2026
SAI Lab members participated in PEARC 2026 through tutorials, Birds of a Feather sessions, and demos of ICICLE tools including Smart Labeler, Preprocessing Studio, and Edge Device Manager.
ICICLE Team Presents AI & Cyberinfrastructure at ExploreAg Technology Camp
SAI Lab / ICICLE members presented AI and cyberinfrastructure tools to high school students at ExploreAg — Ag Technology Camp, with hands-on demos of Smart Labeling, Segmentation, and Intelligent Edge Management services.
AI-Driven Conservation Decision Framework Presented at ICPA 2026
Research led by Khushboo Mundada on an AI-driven decision framework connecting conservation practices, climate conditions, crop yield, and conservation payments was presented at the 17th International Conference on Precision Agriculture in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Hari Subramoni Presents ICICLE Digital Agriculture and AI at the 7NRP Workshop
NSF ICICLE faculty member Hari Subramoni presented ICICLE's Digital Agriculture Pipeline, introduced the institute's AI and cyberinfrastructure research, and participated in a panel discussion on AI and robotics in agriculture at the Seventh National Research Platform Workshop.
Hari Subramoni Receives NVIDIA Academic Grant Program Award for Edge AI Crop Disease Detection
Assistant Professor Hari Subramoni was awarded an NVIDIA Academic Grant for the project "Deploying Edge AI for Crop Disease Detection at OSU Extension Offices," receiving 32K A100 GPU-hours and two Jetson AGX Orin Dev Kits to design farm-deployable edge computing systems across four Ohio counties.
HARVEST-Vision 2026 Advances Computer Vision and High-Performance Computing in Agriculture
The second HARVEST-Vision workshop brought together researchers and practitioners in computer vision, high-performance computing, and agriculture to share innovative approaches and advance accessible, interdisciplinary digital agriculture.
ICICLE Webinar: AI in Agriculture
The NSF-funded ICICLE AI Institute hosted a webinar highlighting how artificial intelligence supports scalable, data-driven decision-making across modern agricultural systems.
ICICLE Mentors High School Students for the Presidential AI Challenge
ICICLE team members mentored high school students participating in the Presidential AI Challenge, a national initiative encouraging K-12 youth to develop AI-powered solutions addressing community challenges.
NSF ICICLE Webinar: AI-enabled Digital Agriculture — An Overview of ICICLE Software Components
A webinar covering ICICLE's software components including HARVEST, Open Pass & ArrayMorph, demonstrating how AI-enabled tools are advancing digital agriculture research and practice.
NSF ICICLE Faculty Members Receive Two Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Awards
ICICLE faculty were recognized with two Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Awards from Ohio State's College of Engineering, honoring outstanding collaborative research across departmental boundaries.
Ohio Supercomputer Center Press Release: NSF ICICLE Project Helping Empower Farmers Through AI and HPC
OSC highlighted ICICLE's work using drone imagery and AI-powered analysis to help farmers detect crop stress, optimize irrigation, and make data-driven decisions — demonstrating how AI can be democratized for non-tech industries.
Hari Subramoni Receives the Prestigious Intel Rising Star Faculty Award
Assistant Professor Hari Subramoni was named one of just 8 recipients nationally of the 2024 Intel Rising Star Faculty Award, recognizing his work on HPC systems for AI and democratizing AI for agriculture.
NSF ICICLE Team Wins Third Place at ISC24
The ICICLE team earned third place at ISC High Performance 2024 in Hamburg, Germany for their research poster in the High Performance Computing category.
NSF ICICLE & AIIRA Sign MOU to Strengthen Collaboration
ICICLE and the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture (AIIRA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to combine AIIRA's agricultural data collection with ICICLE's HPC-accelerated training solutions for AI models.
NSF ICICLE Workshop "Unlocking the Potential of AI" at Central Ohio's One Day Hackathon
ICICLE presented a workshop on AI at the High School I/O hackathon held at Columbus School for Girls, introducing high schoolers to the potential of artificial intelligence and ICICLE's research.
OSC Hosts NSF ICICLE Meeting: Planning Year Three of the AI Project
The Ohio Supercomputer Center hosted a planning meeting for NSF ICICLE's third year, bringing together researchers and partners to chart the next phase of the AI institute's work.
NSF AI Institutes AI4OPT and ICICLE Sign MOU to Strengthen Collaboration
ICICLE partnered with the AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT) through a formal MOU, combining expertise in intelligent cyberinfrastructure and computational learning with optimization research.