GEMS Labs

GEMS Labs Overview

GEMS Labs are the research and development engine behind the GEMS Service offerings. Their primary organizational role is to identify high-impact areas for new agrifood technologies, prototype new technologies, and test them with potential end users. Those technologies that demonstrate sufficient interest to be self-sustaining financially are either converted into a GEMS Service Organization (Platform, Exchange, Sensing, or other new vertical) or licensed through the U of M’s Office of Technology Commercialization to external organizations who can help fulfil the University’s mission of using technology to solve grand challenges for the benefit of all people.

Secondary and tertiary roles of labs are the training of undergraduate and graduate students and the development of new educational modules for GEMS Learning. Through our labs, students learn-by-doing, working in close mentorship and collaboration with GEMS Informatics Center staff. Each lab maintains a pool of modules in GEMS Learning reflecting that groups’ unique expertise. Undergraduate and graduate research assistants coming from GEMS Labs are in high demand at graduation, being employed by prestigious organizations such as NASA, Amazon, and other firms renowned for their science and engineering excellence.

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