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Jennifer Clarke, Ph.D., is a Professor in Food Science and Technology, and Statistics, and the Director of the Quantitative Life Sciences Initiative at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (https://bigdata.unl.edu ). Dr. Clarke is Chair of the Academic Section of the International Plant Phenotyping Network and a member of the Executive Committee for AAAS Section U – Statistics. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (https://ag2pi.org/) . She is leading efforts to develop a national agricultural producers data framework for the USDA (https://agdatacoop.org/). Her current interests include statistical and AI methodology for robust prediction, research data sharing and policy, and training the next generation of data scientists.