Experience

As a former researcher at the Climate Corporation, a precision agricultural subsidiary of Bayer Crop Science, I developed data science methods to generate precision site-specific nitrogen (N) fertilizer recommendations, conducted large-scale field trials over multiple states to test these methods on both research farms and private fields, designed soil sampling schemes and protocols to collect more informative data for developing biogeochemical and statistical models, and visited farms every year, collecting feedback from farm managers on my experiment designs.

I am interested in all the interesting problems in agriculture, especially precision agriculture, experiment designs, and sensor placement. Feel free to contact me (contact@katehu.com) if you want to discuss ideas or look for people to analyze your data.

Patents

Hu, J & Ladoni, M. (2021)
Location Selection for Treatment Sampling — A field Study Design Tool to Optimize Treatment Assignment and Soil Sampling Locations for Model Calibration
(U.S. Patent No. #10,963,606)

Hu, J. (2021)
Location Selection for Model Assessment
(U.S. Patent No. #10, 990,716)

Hu, J & Carrion C. (2022)
Using Causal Learning Algorithms to Assist in Agricultural Management Decisions
(U.S. Patent No. #11,406,053)

Technical Reports

Hu, J., Casquilho C., Chen, M.
Combining Measurements and Models for Nitrogen Management *
The Climate Corporation, 2018

Hu, J.
Adjust Measurement-based Nitrogen Management Decisions using Biogeochemical Process Models *
The Climate Corporation, 2018

Zheng, ZS, Hu, J, Malone, M, Vogel N.
A Time-Series Clustering Approach for Soil Moisture Probes Placement *
The Climate Corporation, 2017

Hu, J
A Model-Assisted Probability Sampling Design for Representative Locations *
The Climate Corporation, 2017

Hu, J
Evaluation of the 2015 Climatology Field Experiments *
The Climate Corporation, 2015

Hu, J
Variable Seeding Rate Corn Research Partner Trials Analysis *
The Climate Corporation, 2015

*Internal Peer-Reviewed Technical Reports @ The Climate Corporation, A subsidary of Bayer Crop Science