Assistant/Associate Professor: Prescriptive AI for Agriculture

AACTE Connect360; Wimauma (FL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Florida's Gulf Coast Research and Education Center (GCREC) in Wimauma invites applications for a tenure-accruing position focused on prescriptive AI for agriculture within the Agricultural AI Institute. The role emphasizes research, extension, and teaching across disciplines with collaboration among industry partners.

The successful candidate will develop decision intelligence methods, reinforcement learning, causal inference, and agentic AI systems to transform agricultural

Qualifications

• PhD required in Engineering, CS, Horticultural Sciences or closely related discipline.
• Evidence of strong communication and collaborative skills.
• Experience with AI deployment in agricultural systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct innovative research in decision-focused AI for agriculture.
• Develop reinforcement learning frameworks for adaptive farm management.
• Advance causal inference methods to improve decision making from data.
• Design agentic AI systems for planning, reasoning, and coordinating agricultural operations.
• Create prescriptive decision support tools for farm resource allocation.

Skills

Artificial intelligence

Reinforcement learning

Python

C++

Data science

Research funding

Education

Doctorate (PhD) in Engineering/CS/ABE or related

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

The University of Florida's Gulf Coast Research and Education Center (GCREC) in Wimauma invites applications for a tenure-accruing position focused on prescriptive AI for agriculture within the Agricultural AI Institute. The role emphasizes research, extension, and teaching across disciplines with collaboration among industry partners.

The successful candidate will develop decision intelligence methods, reinforcement learning, causal inference, and agentic AI systems to transform agricultural