Kenneth Tran is the Founding CTO of Koidra. Koidra is a tech startup based in Seattle with a mission of making manufacturing smarter and more efficient, via innovations in industrial IoT and AI. Koidra has received numerous awards for the application of its tech in autonomous greenhouses.
Before Koidra, Kenneth was a Principal Applied Scientist in the Machine Learning Group, Microsoft Research. His research expertise and experience includes Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Optimization, and Distributed Computing. At Microsoft, he led the research and development for strategic AI projects such as Deep Reinforcement Learning for real-world control problems, Computer Vision API for Cognitive Services, Autonomous Greenhouses.
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How a former Microsoft researcher used AI to grow award-winning lettuce from 5,000 miles away
It’s pretty impressive to grow award-winning lettuce in a greenhouse competition against 42 teams from nearly two dozens countries. It’s even more remarkable when you do it from 5,000 miles… Read More
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A primer on AI and its rise in the greenhouse - Greenhouse Canada
For horticulture, artificial intelligence is no longer a work of science fiction. Here's how it could improve operations in the greenhouse.
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Digital Horticulture: An Essential Step Toward Autonomous Growing - Greenhouse Canada
Through our article titled "A primer on AI and its rise in the greenhouse", we learned that a well-architected artificial intelligence (AI) system can
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Microsoft researchers beat Tencent and Intel in autonomous greenhouse competition
Members of Microsoft Research, together with students from Dutch and Danish universities, won an AI-driven cucumber-growing competition in Holland.
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