Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan & GIFS Chair, Computational Agriculture, Global Institute for Food Security
Ian Stavness is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan and the GIFS Research Chair in Computational Agriculture. He received his PhD at UBC in 2011 and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University with the NIH Center for Biomedical Computation in 2012. He directs the Biological Imaging & Graphics (BIG) lab focused on 3D modeling, computer graphics, image analysis and machine learning for biological and biomedical applications. His research group is currently focused on agricultural applications of computer modeling and machine learning, including plant breeding, image-informed agronomy, and economic and environmental sustainability in food production.
He has been a member of the PIMS Board of Directors since 2021.