News
News so far.
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.