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)