Publications

Peer-reviewed papers, manuscripts, preprints, workshop papers, and technical reports.

2026

From Simulation to Discovery: AI Enabled Probabilistic Emulation of Mechanistic Crop Systems
Mojdeh Saadati, Juan Panelo, Gustavo Visentini, Soumik Sarkar, Carlos Messina, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian
Under review, 2026
AI-integrated models for assessing agricultural resilience
Joshua R. Waite, Dana Golden, Brett Indelicato, Kevin Camp, Mojdeh Saadati, Shannon Regan, Patrick S. Schnable, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Carlos Messina, Suzanne Thornsbury, Soumik Sarkar
arXiv preprint, 2026

2025

Genomic and phenomic prediction for soybean seed yield, protein, and oil
L. Van der Laan, K. Parmley, M. Saadati, H. T. Pacin, S. Panthulugiri, S. Sarkar, B. Ganapathysubramanian, A. Lorenz, A. K. Singh
The Plant Genome, 18(1), e70002
WeedNet: A Foundation Model-Based Global-to-Local AI Approach for Real-Time Weed Species Identification and Classification
Y. Shen, T. Ayanlade, V. N. Boddepalli, M. Saadati, A. Rairdin, Z. K. Deng, M. A. Arshad, A. Balu, D. S. Mueller, A. K. Singh, W. Everman, N. C. Merchant, B. Ganapathysubramanian, M. Anderson, S. Sarkar, A. Singh
arXiv preprint, 2025
InsectNet: Real-time identification of insects using an end-to-end machine learning pipeline
S. Chiranjeevi, M. Saadati, Z. K. Deng, J. Koushik, T. Z. Jubery, D. S. Mueller, M. O'Neal, N. Merchant, A. Singh, A. K. Singh, S. Sarkar, A. Singh, B. Ganapathysubramanian
PNAS Nexus, 4(1), pgae575

2024

Out-of-Distribution Detection Algorithms for Robust Insect Classification
M. Saadati, A. Balu, S. Chiranjeevi, T. Z. Jubery, A. K. Singh, S. Sarkar, A. Singh, B. Ganapathysubramanian
Plant Phenomics, 6:0170

2023

3D reconstruction of plants using probabilistic voxel carving
J. Feng, M. Saadati, T. Z. Jubery, A. Jignasu, A. Balu, Y. Li, L. Attigala, P. S. Schnable, S. Sarkar, B. Ganapathysubramanian, A. Krishnamurthy
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 213, 108248

2021

Introducing an efficient sampling method for national surveys with limited sample sizes: application to a national study to determine quality and cost of healthcare
M. Parsaeian, M. Mahdavi, M. Saadati, P. Mehdipour, A. Sheidaei, S. Khatibzadeh, F. Farzadfar, S. Shahraz
BMC Public Health, 21, 1414

2019

Adjustment criterion for recovering causal effects from missing data
M. Saadati, J. Tian
ECML-PKDD
Movie recommender systems: implementation and performance evaluation
M. Saadati, S. Shihab, M. Rahman
Technical report, arXiv

Earlier Work

Change in testing, awareness of hemoglobin A1c result, and glycemic control in U.S. adults, 2007–2014
S. Shahraz, A. G. Pittas, M. Saadati, C. P. Thomas, C. M. Lundquist, D. M. Kent
JAMA, 318(18):1825–1827