About this opportunity

The CDA REU program is a 10-week paid on-site opportunity hosted by the Center for Digital Agriculture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It brings together students with backgrounds in computation, agriculture, and biosystems and provides valuable hands-on training to work in academia, industry, and beyond.This program is designed to equip REU participants with the necessary skills to work across disciplines and empower them to address grand challenges in their future careers with robust problem-solving. By participating in CDA REU, students will:1)Conduct research alongside experts and faculty affiliates from our center, the AIFARMS Institute, the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS), and external partnerships.2)Increase their ability to engage with dig