Affiliate Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Crop Sciences
Associate Professor, Statistics
Associate Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Associate Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies

Recent Publications

Bertolini, E., Rice, B. R., Braud, M., Yang, J., Hake, S., Strable, J., Lipka, A. E., & Eveland, A. L. (2025). Regulatory variation controlling architectural pleiotropy in maize. Nature communications, 16(1), Article 2140. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56884-w

Floriani, T., & Lipka, A. E. (2025). Rare variants in crops: Theoretical insights and emerging detection strategies. In Silico Plants, 7(2), Article diaf012. https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diaf012

Howard, R., & Lipka, A. E. (2025). Genomic selection and reproducibility: are complex models distracting us from true scientific validity in the presence of genotype-by-environment interaction? G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 15(12). https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf244

Ismail, Y. M. A., Mujjabi, C., Olatoye, M. O., Gray, S., Lipka, A. E., & Bohn, M. O. (2025). Mean and variance heterogeneity loci impact kernel compositional traits in maize. Plant Genome, 18(4), Article e70131. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.70131

Azam, R., Truong, S. T., Fernandes, S. B., Leakey, A., Lipka, A. E., El-Kebir, M., & Koyejo, S. (2024). Bayesian Optimization for Crop Genetics with Scalable Probabilistic Models. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 253, 30-44.

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