Biography

Wei Li has developed his PhD degree in crop genetics and breeding at China Agricultural University with the research group of maize doubled haploid (DH) engineering breeding. Maize DH technology has become an integral part of many commercial maize breeding programs for its great convenience in line development. The main research in his PhD is the genetics of maize DH related traits. Meanwhile, he gained interests in machine learning and used this technique to identify haploid seeds from thousands of non-haploids. Now he is working on precision agriculture, which is using machine learning and crop growth models to make decisions on smart farming. High throughput phenotyping is involved in these research topics.