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Devin Chen gained an intimate understanding of how food brings people together as he grew up working in his parents’ Louisville restaurant. Now, the junior cybersecurity major is using skills he’s learning at Mississippi State, artificial intelligence tools powered by Amazon Web Services and a partnership with a far-reaching nonprofit, to bring nourishment to those in need and help alleviate one of the Magnolia State’s biggest issues: food insecurity.

This summer, seven graduate students from across the country gathered at Mississippi State to address real-world problems in agriculture using geospatial science and high-performance computing.