TALiS Leadership
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Agricultural and Biorenewable Systems Management Undergraduate Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Specialty crop mechanization and automation
- Precision agriculture applications for specialty crops
- Applications of artificial intelligence to agricultural systems management and control
- Email hzh@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2633
- Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
- Director of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station
- Email bds313@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3136
- Director of Research Development and Initiatives
Areas of Expertise
- Provide strategic leadership and consultation for the development and sustainability of interdisciplinary teams
- Provide proposal development and project management services to investigators preparing complex research proposals for submission to external sponsors
- Support faculty and early stage investigators in improving their grantsmanship skills and developing interdisciplinary projects
- Assist faculty members, trainees, and staff in navigating the Penn State research support infrastructure
- Serve as a referral resource for investigators, facilitating access to institutional resources, connecting researchers with appropriate offices and staff, and matching research needs with faculty expertise
- Facilitate conversations across groups to develop strategic directions for growth/development/collaboration in building a research initiative
TALiS Affiliates
- Assistant professor of Entomology/Arthropod ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Insect plant interactions
- Integrated pest management
- Chemical ecology
- Molecular biology
- Associate Professor of Aquatic Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- The relationship between community structure and ecosystem processes in rivers and streams, and factors which influence this relationship across local, landscape, and regional spatial scales.
- Associate Research Professor
- Extension Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Transition cow management
- Dairy cattle reproduction
- Farm personnel training and performance
- Dairy production medicine
- Cow comfort
- Professor of Mushrooms
Areas of Expertise
- Mushroom cultivation
- Composting
- Mushroom nutrition and physiology
- IPM and Disease Management for Mushroom cultivation
- Mushroom extension services for the North American mushroom industry
- Assistant Professor Precision Dairy Science
Areas of Expertise
- Precision Livestock Farming
- Precision Technology
- Animal health
- Calf Nutrition
- Animal behavior
- Animal welfare
- Dairy cattle management
- Email mmc7081@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1105
- Associate Professor of Vegetable Crop Science
Areas of Expertise
- Sustainable vegetable production systems
- Plant nutrition, soil fertility and irrigation management
- Alternatives to chemical soil fumigation
- Vegetable response to abiotic stress
- Vegetable quality
- Agrobiodiversity and novel vegetable products
- Agronomic biofortification
- Assistant Professor of Phytobiomes
Areas of Expertise
- Microbial community ecology
- Plant-microbe interaction
- Environmental microbiology
- Soil microbiology
- Ecological resilience and resistance
- Causes and consequences of biodiversity
- Director of E. coli Reference Center
- Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Microbiology
- Microbial pathogens
- Molecular microbiology
- Microbial genomics
- Food Safety
- Food Microbiology
- Professor of Epidemiology and Field Crop Pathology
Areas of Expertise
- Integrated management of field crop diseases
- Plant disease epidemiology
- Statistical methods for the agricultural sciences
- Email pde6@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0680
- Assistant Professor of Food Animal Microbiomes
Areas of Expertise
- Microbiome
- Epidemiology
- Food Production Systems
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Dairy Cattle
- Mastitis
- Animal Health and Productivity
- Email ganda@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4084
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Machinery Design
- Mechatronics and Robotics
- Precision/Digital Agriculture
- UAVs applications in Agriculture
- Remote Sensing and Wireless Sensor Network
- Artificial intelligence applications in Agricultural System
- Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology
- Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Bees
- Genomics, Immunity, Behavior, Physiology, Ecology
- Decision Support Tools
- Technology for Identification and Monitoring of Insects
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Mechanization and Automation for Specialty Crops
- Robotic Solutions for Agricultural Applications
- Precision Agriculture
- Electro-Hydraulic Control System
- Email luh378@psu.edu
- Office 717-778-4599
- Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security
- Graduate Student, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Email msh5334@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5997
- Professor of Production Systems and Modeling
Areas of Expertise
- Agroecosystems
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling
- Hydrologic and Nutrient Cycling Modeling
- Environmental Biophysics
- Plant Ecophysiology
- Lester Earl and Veronica Casida Career Development Professor of Food Safety
- Associate Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Microbial Food Safety
- Foodborne Pathogens
- Genomic Epidemiology
- Microbiomes in Food Systems
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Email jzk303@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2883
- Lorenzo L. Langstroth Early Career Professor
- Associate Professor of Entomology
- Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Water quality
- Stormwater management
- Green infrastructure
- Urban ecohydrology
- Biogeochemistry
- Associate Research Professor
- Cropping Systems Modeling
Areas of Expertise
- Physically Distributed Hydrological Modeling
- Agricultural Systems Modeling
- Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture
- Micrometeorological Measurements and Eddy Covariance Systems
- Laser Diffraction Soil Particle Size Analysis
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
- Instrumentation
- Email frm10@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-4612
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Natural Resource Engineering
- Director of the Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Science
Areas of Expertise
- Emerging Contaminants
- Contaminant Fate and Transport
- Environmental Hydrology
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Storm water management
- Watershed modeling
- Application of optimization tools in watershed analysis
- Ecohydrological impacts of climate and land use change
- Email craj@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5616
- Associate Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Land-Atmosphere Water and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Modeling
- Meteorology
- Model-Data Assimilation
- Email yshi@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7393
Director, TALiS
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Email hzh@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2633
Director, TALiS
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Email hzh@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2633
