Jennifer Clarke, Ph.D.

A Professor in Food Science and Technology, and Statistics, and the Director of the Quantitative Life Sciences Initiative at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (https://bigdata.unl.edu ). Dr. Clarke is Chair of the International Plant Phenotyping Network (https://www.plant-phenotyping.org/) and served on the Executive Board for the Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (https://www.ag2pi.org/). Since 2021 she has been leading an effort by USDA to develop a national agricultural producers data framework (https://agdatacoop.org/ ). Her current interests include statistical and AI methodology; research data sharing and policy; and training the next generation of data scientists.