Current Grants

USDA AFRI-NIFA: Combining High-Throughput Phenotyping and Genomic Information of Calves to Improve Productive Life in Dairy Cattle (2020-2024). PI: Dorea; Co-PI: Rosa, Hernandez.

USDA Hatch-Multidisciplinary: Milk Fat Depression Understanding its causes and mechanisms (2020-2024). PI: Arriola-Apelo; Co-PI: Dorea.

USDA Hatch: Using Computer Vision Systems To Predict Body Shape Changes And Animal Identification In Transition Dairy Cows (2020-2022). PI: Dorea.

Dairy Innovation Hub: Harnessing the power of computer vision systems to improve animal health and welfare in transition dairy cows (2020-2022). PI: Dorea; Co-PI: Bockelman and Livny.

Dairy Innovation Hub (Capital Equipment): Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Instrument. PI: Dorea.

Dairy Innovation Hub (Capital Equipment): Barn Video-Recording System. PI: Van Os; Co-PI: Dorea.

USDA-FACT-CIN: A Coordinated Innovation Network for Advancing Computer Vision in Precision Livestock Farming (2020-2024). PI: Steibel; Co-PIs: Psota, Dorea, Morris, Brown-Brandl, Rosa, Siegford, Norton.

Dairy Innovation Hub (Capital Equipment): Multi-barn high-resolution camera system for behavioral monitoring of dairy heifers. PI: Van Os; Co-PI: Dorea.

USDA Hatch-Multidisciplinary: Leveraging computer vision systems to extract image-based features of mammary gland ultrasound and 3D udder biometrics in lactating dairy cows (2022-2026). PI: Dorea; Co-PI: Hernandez.

USDA Hatch: Development of an identification system to individually recognize growing dairy calves based on 3D images (2022-2026). PI: Dorea.

WARF-Accelerator Program: Digital Solutions for Optimal Management of Beef Cattle Feedyards (2022-2023). PI: Dorea; Co-PI: Rosa

USDA-AG2PI: Democratizing the access to artificial intelligence solutions for underrepresented and non-expert communities (2022). PI: Dorea; Co-PIs: Bresolin and Ferreira.

Dairy Innovation Hub: DairyTrader®: An Instantaneous Cull Dairy Cow Price Estimation to Help Farmers Decision (2022). PI: Rosa; Co-PI: Dorea.

DIH Short-Term High Impacts: Predicting meat cuts and carcass traits of beef-on-dairy calves through 3D images of live animals (2022-2023). PI: Dorea; Co-PIs: Bresolin, Akins.

Hatch/McIntire-Stennis Capital Equipment: Big Data Server.