Meet The Team

Executive Commitee

 

Dr. Kristan Reed

Animal Module, Project Management 

Cornell University 

 

Fengqi You

Systems Balance Team

Cornell University 

 

Daryl Nydam

Prof. of Dairy Health and Production

Cornell University 

 

Peter Vadas

Crop & Soil Module

USDA Agricultural Research Service

 

Kevin Panke-Buisse

Feed Storage Module

USDA Dairy Forage Research Center

 

Greg Thoma

Systems Balance Team, Manure Module

Colorado State University 

 

Victor Cabrera

Animal Module, Data Integration

University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Ermias Kebreab

Animal Module, Nutrition

University of California Davis

 

April Leytem

Animal Module, Project Management 

USDA Agricultural Research Service Idaho

 

Juan Tricarico

Dairy Management Inc.

 

Kaitlyn Briggs

Industry Liason

Dairy Management Inc.

 

Dennis Hancock

USDA Dairy Forage Research Center

 

Eric Young

Crop & Soil Field Management

USDA Research, Education, & Economics

 

Jennifer Vadas

Project Manager/Economic Module Leader

Graduate Students and Post-Docs

 

Roohi Menon

Systems Balance Team, Phd Student

Cornell University

 

Yijing Gong

Animal Life Cycle, Phd Student

University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Haowen Hu

Animal Nutrition and Production, Phd Student

Cornell University

 

Julie Adamchick

Postdoc

Cornell University

 

Edward Garcia

Animal Nutrition, Postdoc

Cornell University

 

Joseph Waddell

Animal Management and Model Evaluation, Postdoc

Cornell University

 

Kat Koebel

Animal Module, Phd Student

Cornell University

Software Engineers

 

Pooya Hekmati

Lead Software Engineer

Cornell University

 

Loi Pham

Full-time Software Engineer

Cornell University

 

Niko Tomlinson

Full-time Software Engineer

Cornell University

 

Ed Hansen

Full-time Software Engineer

Cornell University

 

Allister Liu

Full-time Software Engineer

Cornell University

 

Simon Ucedavelez

Student Software Engineer

Cornell University

 

Matthew Liu

Student Software Engineer

University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Catherine Yang

Student Software Engineer

Cornell University

 

Katherine Li

Student Software Engineer

Cornell University

 

Oluchi Okorafor

Student Software Engineer

Cornell University

 

Tina Cheng

Student Software Engineer

Cornell University

External Subject Experts

 

Jennie Popp

Economics

University of Arkansas

 

Jennifer Van Os

Animal Module, Welfare

University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Xuesong Zhang

USDA

Alumni

 

Manfei Li

Animal Life Cycle, PhD Student

University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Tadeu da Silva

Animal Welfare and Data Integration, Postdoc

University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Celina Laplacette

Pasture

Cornell University

 

Varma Sempali

Manure Module, Postdoc

University of Arkansas

 

Takis Panagliotis

Decision Support Sociology, Postdoc

University of Vermont

 

Carson Wolber

Student Engineer

Cornell University

 

Hector Menendez

San Diego State University

 

Anchey Peng

Student Engineer

Cornell University

Stakeholder Advisory Council

 

Doug Young

Spruce Haven Farm

 

Stephen Maddox

Maddox Dairy

 

Bill Wavrin

Darigold Member (Producer-SunnyDee)

 

Kevin Ellis

Upstate Niagara Cooperative

 

Amie Gabriel

Cayuga Milk Ingredients

 

Jim Eckberg

General Mills

 

Roberta Osborne

Chobani

 

Allie Hines

World Wildlife Fund

 

Kelly Racette

The Nature Conservancy

 

Dennis Hancock

U.S. Agricultural Research Service

 

Alexandra Newmann

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

 

John Dawes

The Commons

 

April VonRuden

Associated Milk Producers Inc. Cooperative

 

Katie Morison

Hershey

Manure Module Advisory Council

 

Andrew VanderZaag

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

 

Jason Oliver

Cornell Pro Dairy

 

Horacio Aguirre-Villegas

University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Wei Liao

Michigan State University

 

Mahmoud Sharara

North Carolina State University

 

Richard Grant

Purdue University

 

Rebecca Larson

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cow photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash