Associate Professor
Campus Box 7616
Raleigh, NC 27695

almila@ncsu.edu
Tel: (919) 513-1291
Fax: (919) 515-8795

 Data Science for Plants & Pests

Although data is major component of the program we have a favorite pathogen to play in the lab:  Ralstonia solanacearum, the causal agent of Bacterial wilt

Keywords: Plant Epidemiology, Bayesian Statistics, Statistical modeling, Machine Learning, Sensor generated data, functional analysis, Bacterial Wilt management

Education

Certificate in Data Science, UC-Irvine, June 2014-August 2015

Ph. D. in Plant Pathology (major), Statistics (minor) and Resource Economics (minor), December 2002, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.

Dpl. in Agricultural Economics (Honors), July 1998, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Dpl. in Plant Production, major Plant Protection and Environment, September 1996, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Teaching

Undergraduate

IPGE 295 Big data in your pocket: call it a smartphone, 2016 – present

Click here to see final team projects for 2016

Graduate 

P506 Plant Disease Epidemiology and Management, core course for Plant Pathology graduate students, 2015- present

PP 502 Plant Disease Methods, core course for Plant Pathology graduate students, 2011-2014

PP790 Translational Plant Pathology, spring 2011

CS 062 Tobacco Production course, Guest Lectures

Selected Publications (click here)

Members (present and past)