More than 450 people from 24 countries participated in the 2013 Global Water for Food Conference in Lincoln. The theme was “Too Hot, Too Wet, Too Dry: Building Resilient Agroecosystems." The conference brings together experts from around the world to discuss one of the greatest obstacles facing our world today: how can we double agricultural production by 2050 to feed approximately 9 billion people and do it using less water than we currently use?
CSE professors that presented include Carrick Detweiler, Sebastian Elbaum, Steve Goddard, and M. Can Vuran. They were able to share their research and provide valuable input. Carrick Detweiler’s research interests include aerial robots, underwater robots and sensor networks, adaptive sampling, localization, and multi-robot systems. Sebastian Elbaum’s research aims to improve software dependability through testing, monitoring, and analysis. Steve Goddard’s primary research interests are embedded, real-time, and distributed systems with emphases in cyber-physical systems and rate-based scheduling. He has also been active in interdisciplinary research projects, including the creation and development of the Self-Calibrating Palmer Severity Index, which is used worldwide to quantify the severity of drought. M. Can Vuran researches wireless sensor networks, underground communication and networking, cognitive radio networks, and cyber-physical networks.