Tucker is currently an Agricultural and Biological Engineering instructor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as the Assistant Director of Education for the Center for Digital AG (CDA) and The Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability Institute (AIFARMS).
Layne Ellen Harris is a Ph.D. Research Fellow for the Alltech Center for Animal Nutrigenomics & Applied Animal Nutrition in Nicholasville. Her experiments observe how nutrition influences the gene expression of plants and animals and how the downstream effects of that expression can affect the overall health of the plant or animal.
“I am currently an Asset Technology Intern for Royal DSM Nutritional Products in Winchester, Ky. The facility is a pilot plant that supports both scaling up of new research and development projects as well as improvement of current industrial scale processes.”
“My favorite part of the job is interacting with the customers,” said TJ. “Farmers are easy to talk to. But I do enjoy this job, providing preventative service plans, more than fixing things. The farmers are typically in a better mood if something’s not broken.”
