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Franz Kurfess
Principal Investigator
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Vision, Intelligent Systems
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Dr. Franz Kurfess advances AI and data science at Cal Poly through industry and public‑sector collaborations across public safety, agriculture, wildlife, infrastructure, and energy. He contributed to a Data Science Institute planning effort and holds issued patents in networking systems.
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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Ethical and Social Justice Assessment Rubric for Data-Driven Agriculture Projects
An evaluation rubric and guidance framework for assessing ethical and social justice considerations in agronomic data collection and analysis. Helps researchers and practitioners make decisions that go beyond narrow tech...
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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
AI-driven drone optimization for precision agriculture and land management
Cal Poly researchers apply AI methods—planning, scheduling, machine learning, and image processing—to improve drone use in precision agriculture. The work optimizes flight paths, scheduling, and resource utilization for ...
TechnologyConceptualUniversity
The Search Intelligence Process Using Artificial Intelligence
The Journal of Search and Rescue
•2024
A software pipeline for automated wildlife population sampling
Frontiers in Conservation Science
•2023
Deep Learning for Safer School Infrastructure: An Interdisciplinary and Cross-organizational Collaboration
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings
•2021
Tutorial: Deep Learning in the Fields—Deep Learning and its Applications in Agriculture.
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)
•2020
Deep Learning for Agriculture
American Society for Engineering Education 2020 ASEE Annual Conference
•2020
Deep Learning in Biotechnology: A Hands-On Workshop
32nd Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium, CSU Program for Education & Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB )
•2020
Use of Drones for Oilfield Equipment Inventory
SPE Western Regional Meeting
•2018
Digital Democracy Project: Making Government More Transparent one Video at a Time
Digital Humanities 2015
•2015
Continuous real-time agent path planning using adaptive navigation mesh refinement
M.S. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
•2007
Special Issue on Integration of Symbolic and Connectionist Systems
Cognitive Systems Research Journal
•2002
Monitoring distributed processes with intelligent agents.
IEEE Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems - ECBS
•1999
Strategic Research Initiative - Data Science
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
•$400,000
•2020
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