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Sep 18, 2024    [Pass PhD defense!] I’m excited to share that I’ve successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation, “Digital phenotyping and genomic prediction using machine and deep learning in animals and plants.” Grateful for all the support throughout this journey

July 25, 2024    [New Preprint] Ye Bi, Harkamal Walia, Toshihiro Obata, and Gota Morota. Genomic prediction of metabolic content in rice grain in response to warmer night conditions. doi:10.1101/2024.07.23.604827

July 25, 2024 Industry-scale prediction of video-derived pig body weight using efficient convolutional neural networks and vision transformers. The impact of trait measurement error on quantitative genetic analysis. 2024 ASAS-CSAS-WSASAS Annual Meeting. Calgary TELUS Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. July 21-25, 2024.

June 26, 2024 I’m excited to share that I received the Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) Student Conference Travel Award ($1500) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).

June 20, 2024 I’m thrilled to announce that I was awarded the CAIA Graduate Student Travel Award ($1000) from Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture (CAIA), Virginia Tech.

May 20, 2024    [New Paper Accepted!] Idan Sabag, Ye Bi, Maitreya Mohan sahoo, Ittai Herrmann, Gota Morota, and Zvi Peleg. Leveraging genomics and temporal high-throughput phenotyping to enhance association mapping and yield prediction in sesame. The Plant Genome. Early view. doi: 10.1002/tpg2.20481

Feb 23, 2024    [Summer Intern]. Excited to announce that I’ll be starting on my summer internship with the Precision Animal Health group at Zoetis. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Looking forward to the journey ahead!

Feb 1, 2024    [New Preprint!] Idan Sabag, Ye Bi, Maitreya Mohan sahoo, Ittai Herrmann, Gota Morota, and Zvi Peleg. Leveraging genomics and temporal high-throughput phenotyping to enhance association mapping and yield prediction in sesame. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.02.01.578346

Jan 11, 2024    [New paper accepted!] Kenan Burak Aydin, Ye Bi, Luiz F. Brito, Zafer Uluta¸s, and Gota Morota. Review of sheep breeding and genetic research in Turkiye. Frontiers in Genetics. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2024.1308113.

Dec 1, 2023    [Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics] I got the Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics! [URL]. Completed 15 credits related to advanced data science courses from the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistics.

Nov 17, 2023    [Passed preliminary] Excited to share that I’ve achieved a significant milestone in my academic journey! Please call me Candidate Bi. 😆😆 Grateful for the invaluable guidance from my advisor and the tremendous efforts of my dedicated committee members. Special thanks to all my teammates and collaborators for their unwavering support – this achievement wouldn’t have been possible without you! 🙌 Here’s to the next chapter! 🎓🌟

Oct 31, 2023    [New paper accepted!] Ye Bi, Leticia M. Campos, Jin Wang, Haipeng Yu, Mark D. Hanigan, and Gota Morota. Depth video data-enabled predictions of longitudinal dairy cow body weight using thresholding and Mask R-CNN algorithms. Smart Agricultural Technology. doi: 10.1016/j.atech.2023.100352

Aug 14, 2023    [Oral presentation]. Gota Morota and Ye Bi. Animal data science applied to digital data. Smithfield Premium Genetics. Rose Hill, NC. August 14.

July 20, 2023    [Oral presentation]. Depth video data-enabled predictions of longitudinal dairy cow body weight using thresholding and Mask R-CNN algorithms. 2023 ASAS-CSAS-WSASAS Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, New Mexico. July 16-20.

July 5, 2023    [New preprint]. Ye Bi, Leticia M. Campos, Jin Wang, Haipeng Yu, Mark D. Hanigan, and Gota Morota. Depth video data-enabled predictions of longitudinal dairy cow body weight using thresholding and Mask R-CNN algorithms. doi: arXiv:2307.01383

June 2, 2023    [Travel fund award]. The Summer 2023 Cycle Travel Fund Program, Graduate and Professional Student Senate, Virginia Tech.

May 16, 2023    [Oral Presentation]. Depth video data-enabled predictions of longitudinal dairy cow body weight using thresholding and Mask R-CNN algorithms. School of Animal Sciences Research Day. Slides.

May 3, 2023    [Oral Presentation]. Diversity for Global Society Presentation. Engaging in Anti-Asian-Hate on Virginia Tech Campus. Slides. Interesting class.

Mar 16, 2023    [Poster Presentation]. Depth video data enabled prediction of dairy cow body weight. Virginia Tech Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture (CAIA) Big Event.

Feb 28, 2023    [Guest Lecture]• ALS 3104 Animal Breeding and Genetics – Statistical Concepts in Quantitative Genetics

Feb 27, 2023    [New paper accepted!] 🌾🌾🌾 Ye Bi, Rafael Massahiro Yassue, Puneet Paul, Balpreet Kaur Dhatt, Jaspreet Sandhu, Thi Phuc Do, Harkamal Walia, Toshihiro Obata, and Gota Morota. 2023. Evaluating metabolic and genomic data for predicting grain traits under high night temperature stress in rice. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. Early view. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad052

Feb 27, 2023    [New paper accepted!] ☘️☘️☘️ Idan Sabag, Ye Bi, Zvi Peleg, and Gota Morota. Multi-environment analysis enhances genomic prediction accuracy of agronomic traits in sesame. Frontiers in Genetics 14 (2023): 380.doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1108416

Dec 2, 2022    [New paper accepted!] 🐄📸🐄📸 Robert Kadlec, Sam Indest, Kayla Castro, Shayan Waqar, Leticia M Campos, Sabrina T Amorim, Ye Bi, Mark D Hanigan, and Gota Morota. Automated acquisition of top-view dairy cow depth image data using an RGB-D sensor camera. Translational Animal Sciences 6.4 (2022): txac163. doi: 10.1093/tas/txac163

Sep 9, 2022    Intramural Seminar, Utility of Metabolites and Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms for Classification of High Night Temperature Stress Conditions and Prediction of Grain Size Related Traits in Rice. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacsburg, VA, Sep 09.

Aug 1, 2022    Modern Programming in Genome to Phenome, University of California, Davis, CA. August 1-5.

Jul 18, 2022    27th Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (SISG) Scholarship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, July 18-27.

Jun 26, 2022    Poster Presentation. Development of Automated Computer Vision Systems for Evaluating Dairy Cow Body Weight and Body Condition Scores. ASAS-CSAS 2022 annual meeting, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. June 26-30.