2023 Industry Award Sponsored by Phenospex

Brice Floyd

Research Scientist, Field Sensing Technologies
Corteva Agriscience
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Brice has been a Researcher at Corteva Agriscience since Mid-2015. His work has been focused on developing, validating, and deploying technologies within the Corteva organization. This focused work has enabled greater data quality, throughput, prediction, and novelty in the phenotypes collected across multiple crops and global geographies.

The use of phenotyping technologies within Corteva has funneled into finding the best seed or crop protection product to be sold to our grower customers. Not only are these techniques resulting in lower operations cost, but they are enabling new phenotypes to be detected that previously were overlooked.

Brice has been an important team member and thought-leader in what technologies to evaluate, building collaborative networks with stakeholders, end users, and vendors to build experiments to validate technology, and working to deploy technology into the way people complete their work. Because of this, phenotyping technologies of various types are actively deployed and used, in some cases in the place of human data collection, within Corteva. How these tools can be used in a larger grower context is also an interest of Brice.

2022 Industry Award Sponsored by Phenospex

Alencar Xavier

Quantitative Geneticist, Corteva Agrosciences
Adjunct Professor, Purdue University
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Alencar got his PhD at Purdue University in Soybean Breeding and Statistical Genetics. Alencar works at Corteva Agrisciences since 2016 as a quantitative geneticist, and since 2017 he is an adjunct professor at Purdue University. His research focus on computational quantitative genetics (mixed models, Bayesian methods and machine learning) and on integrating GxE, genomics, environmental information in plant breeding.