Pawel Petelewicz, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Agronomy Department in Gainesville, Florida. His primary responsibilities include research related to weed management in various turfgrass settings and providing outreach to the Florida turfgrass industry.
His program focuses on effective and environmentally sound strategies for the control of state-priority weed species. He also leads multi-dimensional research advancing AI-guided ground-based targeted spraying systems in turfgrass, focusing on improving weed detection capabilities, optimizing machine-vision and spraying components, and refining system performance to maximize practical benefits and accelerate adoption.
Pawel received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Horticulture in 2011 and 2012, respectively, and earned his Ph.D. in Agriculture in 2016, all from Warsaw University of Life Sciences in Poland. From 2017 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Turfgrass Sciences at the University of California, Riverside.