Over the next five years, the CDA will collaboratively focus on these three research projects, while simultaneously building the infrastructure and intellectual capacity needed to foster sustainable agricultural practices in field and controlled environment agriculture settings. As the Center grows and matures, the CDA will increasingly partner with existing KAUST faculty members (e.g., in engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning, visualization, desalination, etc.), as well as hire additional faculty members who complement our existing strengths. The CDA will exploit this complementarity to accelerate our quest to develop novel ways to meet our vision.