Ye Bi 毕晔
Deep Learning ⎟ Computer Vision ⎟ Genetics ⎟ Data Science
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate from Dr. Juan Pedro Steibel’s group in the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University.
I earned my Ph.D. under the mentorship of Dr. Gota Morota in the School of Animal Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
My research interests focus on incorporating artificial intelligence, computer vision, statistics, phenomics, and genetics to study animal and plant sciences.
Happy Summer! 🌷🌸🌿🌞🐦🌼🌻🐝🦋.
Please note that my VT email (yebi@vt.edu) has already expired.
Feel free to contact me via yebi@iastate.edu 📩
My Google Scholar profile will also be updated here
Research Topics
✓ Precision Livestock Farming 🐷🐽🐄🐖
✓ Quantitative Genetics for animals 🐄🐂
✓ Quantitative Genetics for plants 🌿🌾
Recent News (See All)
| Jul 12, 2026 | [WCGALP] Happy to have joined #WCGALP for the first time last week in Madison, Wisconsin! I had the opportunity to present our recent research on animal tracking and novel behavior phenotyping using zero-shot learning and foundation models. It was a great experience to share our work and receive valuable feedback from the community.  |
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| Apr 24, 2026 | [New paper accepted! Last paper from my PhD journey] 🎨👩🏻💻🎓 Ye Bi, Yijian Huang, Haipeng Yu, and Gota Morota. "Impact of Trait Measurement Error on Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Computer Vision-Derived Traits." Genes 17, no. 5 (2026): 506. doi:10.3390/genes17050506. |
| Apr 3, 2026 | [New Preprint] The first project I lead as a postdoc in Dr. Steibel's group in ISU! Big milestone!🐷🐖📸📽️ Ye Bi, Bimala Acharya, David Rosero, and Juan Steibel. "Automated Segmentation and Tracking of Group Housed Pigs Using Foundation Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.03426 (2026). doi:10.48550/arXiv.2604.03426  |
| Aug 11, 2025 | [New Paper Accepted] Ye Bi, Yijian Huang, Jianhua Xuan, and Gota Morota. Industry-scale prediction of video-derived pig body weight using efficient convolutional neural networks and vision transformers. Biosystems Engineering 257 (2025): 104243. doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2025.104243  |
Selected Publications
Check out Google Scholar for a full list of my publications.
- DissertationDigital Phenotyping and Genomic Prediction Using Machine and Deep Learning in Animals and Plants2024