About Us

SoilTwin is being developed by the Center for eXascale Spatial Data Analytics and Computing at Colorado State University. The project is led by Shrideep Pallickara, with Sangmi Lee Pallickara serving as co-lead.

Housed in the Department of Computer Science, SoilTwin brings together expertise in geospatial data systems, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, visualization, and environmental data analytics. The platform is being built with the contributions of graduate and undergraduate students at Colorado State University, whose work spans data ingestion, scalable storage, query processing, machine learning, and interactive web-based visualization.

SoilTwin is supported by grants from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). These investments support our broader goal: to make soil variation visible, queryable, and usable at decision-relevant scales. By combining foundational soil data, satellite and in-situ observations, physics-guided AI models, and scalable geospatial infrastructure, SoilTwin aims to help researchers, educators, students, and decision-makers better understand the living landscape beneath our feet.