Raj Khosla

Cultivating intelligence: AI’s past, present and future in precision agriculture

Biography

Raj Khosla is the incoming Cashup Davis Family Endowed Dean of the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University. He is a globally recognized authority on precision agriculture.

Khosla has been involved in precision agriculture since its inception and has made significant contributions to its development and global adoption. He is the founder and past president of the International Society of Precision Agriculture.His research focuses on harnessing spatial and temporal variability in managed agro-ecosystems to improve decision-making. His team has used remote sensing and other geospatial data layers to pioneer methods for stratifying productivity zones in crop fields. These efforts aim to improve production, water and nitrogen use efficiency, economic returns, and the sustainability of agricultural systems.

Currently, Khosla is co-leading multi-state, multi-year, federally funded projects to develop and evaluate next-generation sensors and novel AI algorithms designed to enhance water and nitrogen use in irrigated systems.Khosla is a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, the Soil Science Society of America, the Soil and Water Conservation Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also an honorary life fellow of the International Society of Precision Agriculture.