Biography
I am a Data Science Fellow and Turing ASG at The Joint Centre for Excellence in Environmental Intelligence (JCEEI) at University of Exeter and The Alan Turing Institute in London. I am currently working on the integration of crop and disease models with remote sensing, climate re-analysis data and climate projections. At JCEEI, I am developing innovative approaches to understanding abiotic and biotic pressures on crop production under climate change.
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Interests
- Plant Disease Epidemiology
- Climate change
- Spatial Statistics
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
Education
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PhD in Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Iowa State University
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Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Iowa State University
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Leadership and Cultural Development
Syracuse University
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MSc (Hons.) in Plant Pathology, 2014
University of Agriculture Faisalabad
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BSc (Hons.) in Agriculture, 2012
University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Skills
Data Science
Statistics
R
Python
Remote Sensing
Machine Learning
Experience
Data Science Fellow
University of Exeter
Responsibilities include:
- Integrated crop and disease models with remote sensing, climate re-analysis data and climate projections.
- Developed innovative approaches to understanding abiotic and biotic pressures on crop production under climate change.
Data Scientist
UpWork
Responsibilities include:
- Guide recommendations for Experimental design, Data Collection and Analysis
- Remote collaboration with different research groups and lead the data analysis
- Facilitate data wrangling, cleaning, and engineering
- Handle big data analytics and Machine learning tasks
- Support ArcGIS and Remote Sensing related projects
- Create stunning and interactive data visualizations using Dashboards and Geo-Apps
- Work with R, Python, Exploratory, ArcGIS Pro, SAS and GeoDA
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Microbiology
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University
Responsibilities include:
- Facilitated a lab section (24 undergraduate students) of mycology course
- Assisted instructor in preparing lab material
- Guided students in the observation and identification of Macro and Micro fungal specimens
- Graded lab exams, fungal collections, and final exam
Graduate Research Assistant - Plant Pathology
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University
Responsibilities include:
- Designed and supervised field experiments
- Used ground-based remote sensing and aerial imagery to monitor crop health
- Surveyed grower fields in Iowa for disease assessment and sampling
- Coordinated data collection from field experiments and grower fields in Iowa
- Extracted fungal DNA from soil and roots, conducted qPCR and analyzed data
- Obtained satellite images, followed by pre-processing and Image Analysis
- Wrote three technical manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals and over five abstracts for international conferences
- Led soil sampling and data collection in a collaborative research project
Accomplishments
Courses and Trainings
Going Places with Spatial Analysis
- Exploring spatial questions and problems
- Understanding and Comparing Places
- Determining How Places are Related
- Finding the Best Locations and Paths
- Detecting and Quantifying Patterns
- Making Predictions
The Location Advantage
- Business, Geography, and the Location Advantage
- Understanding Market Opportunity
- Site Selection: Choosing the Right Location
- Marketing: Understanding Your Customers
- Location and Supply Chain Management
- Understanding Risk using Location Based InformationCartography
- Multiscale Topographic Maps
- Maths for Map Makers
- The Language of Graphics
- Labels and Composition
- Going 3D
- Mapping Movement and Change/Animation Maps
Spatial Data Science - The New Frontier in Analytics
- Deep knowledge of Spatial Data Science
- The Spatial Approach to Predictive Analysis and
- Finding Optimal Locations Using Suitability Models
- Pattern Detection and Clustering
- Object Detection with Deep Learning
- Communicating Results with Impact - Story MapsP3-sponsored sUAS workshop
- Instructions on safety practices during flight - such as flying a drone in inclement weather - and basic proficiency and knowledge of UAS flight operations
- Training on the written Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) exam towards remote pilot certificationGetting Started with Geoprocessing
Covered key concepts and geoprocessing techniques for spatial data analysis
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Getting Started with Spatial Analysis
Explored different categories of spatial analysis to answer geographic questions
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Do-It-Yourself Geo Apps
- Combined location and narrative in one application to better communicate and broadcast stories
- Created custom web applications to solve problems in the community
- Built powerful native applications
Second International Workshop on Machine Learning for Cyber-Agricultural Systems (MLCAS)
- Covered talks, posters and field visits demonstrating the applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in agriculture
- Panel discussion on charting the roadmap for Future MLCAS ResearchDrone Uses for Agriculture Roadshow in Iowa
- Discussed current and future uses of drones for agriculture
- Demonstration of large-area and real-time mapping, subsampling and aerial application using popular models of dronesggplot2 graphics with R
- Hands-on training covering making high-quality graphics in R
- Explained structuring complex graphicsStatistical Analysis System (SAS) Workshop
- Covered a formal introduction to traditional SAS programming
- Explained procedures that involve some applications and statistical graphics
- Introduced SAS Enterprise guideRecent Publications
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(2021).
Effectiveness of Different Soft Acaricides against Honey Bee Ectoparasitic Mite Varroa destructor.
Insects, 12(11).
(2021).
Research Compendium Effectiveness of different soft acaricides against honeybee ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor.
Open Source Framework.
(2021).
Epidemiological trends of foodborne Campylobacter outbreaks in the United States of America, 1998-2016.
Food Microbiology, 97(XX).
(2020).
First Report of Brown Leaf Spot of Rice Caused by Bipolaris zeicola in Pakistan.
Plant Disease, 105(1).
(2020).
A Gated Recurrent Units (GRU)-based model for early detection of soybean sudden death syndrome through time-series satellite imagery.
Remote Sensing, 12(21).
Contact
- mohsin1570@gmail.com
- +1 323 9848490
- Pinhoe Road, Exeter, South-West EX4 7HJ
- Monday to Friday 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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