Internship supervisor · Auburn 2025
Dr. Desmond R. Layne
Head & Professor, Department of Horticulture
Auburn University · Alabama, USA
Supervised my Fall 2025 research internship on integrated aquaponic systems
coupling tilapia production with greenhouse tomato cultivation. Witnessed my
bench work on water-quality datasets and biometric monitoring pipelines.
drl0021@auburn.edu
Graduation thesis supervisor
Dr. Víctor Hugo Morales Peña
Professor of Tropical Forestry · Director, Geomatics Center
EARTH University · Costa Rica
Supervisor of my graduation thesis, which compares three deep-learning segmentation architectures for coffee leaf rust and ojo de gallo severity, and lead author of our 2026 preprint on coffee yield prediction. Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences (Universidad de Costa Rica). Holds the longest-running view of my computational research practice.
vmorales@earth.ac.cr
Aquaponics research coordinator
Mollie R. Smith
Outreach Programs Coordinator · Aquaponics Research
E.W. Shell Fisheries Center, Auburn University · USA
Day-to-day coordinator of my Auburn internship, observed my data-pipeline
work, biometric monitoring contributions, and integration into a
multidisciplinary team of fisheries scientists and plant biologists.
mrs0018@auburn.edu
+1 334 707 5699
Senior reference · public service
Dr. Luis Felipe Arauz Cavallini
Former Minister of Agriculture & Livestock of Costa Rica · Plant Pathology Professor
Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) · Costa Rica
Former Dean of UCR's Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and head of
Costa Rica's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (2014–2018). Ph.D. in
Plant Pathology (NC State, 1990). Senior endorser with national-policy
perspective on tropical-agriculture research and food security.
luis.arauz@ucr.ac.cr