Carly Becker is the program coordinator for the Ohio Controlled Environment Agricultural Center (OHCEAC) at Ohio State University, reporting to OHCEAC director Dr. Chieri Kubota.

Carly manages communications, media, events, and donor and stakeholder relations for OHCEAC. She also works closely with OptimIA’s multi-state project team of researchers and extension specialists to support their outreach and extension initiatives. 

Devin Brewer is a MS student at Michigan State University under the advisement of Dr. Roberto Lopez.

His research explores possible end of production treatments in controlled environment production of microgreens and leafy greens.

Project/Thesis Title: Energy/Cost savings and tipburn mitigation with intermittent and dynamic airflow.  

Erick Dzeketey is an Accelerated Masters Student at the University of Arizona under the advisement of Dr. Murat Kacira.

Ian Kelly is an undergraduate genetics and horticulture double major at Purdue University under the advisement of Dr. Cary Mitchell. 

Ian works with Dr. Mitchell’s graduate students (Fatemeh Sheibani and Michael Gildersleeve) with their experiments including improving the efficiency of LED fixtures based on their distance to the crop canopy and incorporation of far red light into the output spectrum. His current project is researching mats of different material to determine an alternative to a coco coir and perlite mixture in order to make commercial production easier.

Jiyong Shin is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Horticulture at Michigan State University under the advisement of Dr. Erik Runkle.