About FoodAtlas

Meet and connect with the team behind FoodAtlas

FoodAtlas is an ongoing, USDA-NSF-funded research project dedicated to creating a comprehensive knowledge base where every piece of data is traceable back to its source. We use AI to survey the ever-expanding body of peer-reviewed scientific literature and capture the relationships between foods and their chemical components. For an in-depth description of FoodAtlas, please refer to our background page or to the full publication.

For questions, or any other inquiry, such as requesting data access, please use our contact form.


Research Team

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Ilias Tagkopoulos

Principal Investigator

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Jason Youn

Graduate Student Researcher

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Fangzhou Li

Graduate Student Researcher

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Pranav Gupta

Graduate Student Researcher

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Arielle Yoo

Graduate Student Researcher

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Shanghyeon Kim

Postdoctoral Researcher

Software Engineering Team

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Lukas Masopust

Frontend Engineer

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Kaichi Xie

Backend Engineer

FoodAtlas was created and is maintained by AIFS at the University of California, Davis.

About AIFS

The AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems, or AIFS aims to meet growing demands in our food supply by increasing efficiencies using Al and bioinformatics spanning the entire system–from growing crops through consumption. We are dedicated to creating AI applications for a healthier, more sustainable planet from farm to fork.

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This work is supported by AFRI Competitive Grant no. 2020-67021-32855/project accession no. 1024262 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

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