Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract/Objectives

Facing challenges of aging populations, labor shortages, and climate change, farmers endure tremendous pressure. Professor Nen-Fu Huang from the Department of Computer Science at NTHU spearheads the development of "Technology Farms" and "Smart Agriculture" solutions. Professor Huang leads students into the fields to create digital twins of crops, AI visual recognition systems (AR smart glasses), and AI acoustic recognition systems (AI smart tapping rods). These innovations help farmers improve crop quality and yield, predict harvest times, achieve precise grading, preserve veteran farmers' expertise, and attract young "tech farmers." Professor Huang has received NTHU's Outstanding Teaching Award three times and Outstanding Industry-Academia Collaboration Award twice. He founded NTHU's MOOCs platform and has taught courses with over 100,000 total enrollments. Professor Huang advocates bringing AI out of the laboratory to solve real-world problems and has established the "AI Maker" platform—a hands-on AI talent cultivation platform and distributed computing power sharing alliance—enabling students to easily create and validate AI visual and acoustic recognition models with no-code solutions. Through this exhibition, visitors are invited to explore the practical applications of AI, IoT, and big data in agriculture, highlighting how technology-driven innovation can advance sustainable development.

Results/Contributions

The exhibition, themed around Professor Nen-Fu Huang’s work in advancing smart agriculture and cultivating a new generation of AI talent, integrates physical displays with digital content to demonstrate how technology responds to agricultural challenges such as population aging, labor shortages, and climate change. Featured exhibits include create digital twins of crops, AI visual recognition systems (AR smart glasses), and AI acoustic recognition systems (AI smart tapping rods)　how artificial intelligence is brought directly into the fields to help farmers enhance efficiency and crop quality.

Complementing the exhibition, a series of lectures and hands-on experience activities were organized, with Professor Huang personally sharing his research vision and teaching practices. These sessions deepened public understanding of AI, the Internet of Things, and sustainable agriculture.

Through social media outreach and video promotions, the exhibition successfully attracted strong participation from students, faculty, and visiting groups from both on and off campus. Lively interactions and positive feedback significantly expanded the exhibition’s impact, highlighting concrete outcomes of technology-driven innovation in advancing the SDGs.

Keywords

AI Pioneer in Action、Nen-Fu Huang、Smart Agriculture、AI Maker、AI visual recognition、AI acoustic recognition、AI、big data、AIoT

Contact Information

趙慶芬
cfchao@lib.nthu.edu.tw