{"id":172,"date":"2021-03-19T16:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cse.unl.edu\/~rquinones\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2026-09-08T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:33:14","slug":"recent-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cs.siue.edu\/~rquinon\/recent-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>2026 &#8211; Became Associate Editor for\u00a0The Plant Phenome Journal Editorial Board<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 &#8211; Became Guest Editor for the Ecology &amp; Society Journal <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 &#8211; Received $40,000 from NIH for the &#8220;Customized Infant Feeding Accessories for Breastfeeding Success&#8221; project<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 &#8211; Founded SIUE&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/getinvolved.siue.edu\/organization\/acmw\" target=\"_blank\">ACM-W Student Chapter<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 &#8211; Received SIUE&#8217;s STEP Grant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 &#8211; Received the First &#8220;e&#8221; Award at SIUE\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alestlelive.com\/ifestyles\/article_5473ea78-d998-11ed-9d35-83ecc0c91ec0.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.alestlelive.com\/ifestyles\/article_5473ea78-d998-11ed-9d35-83ecc0c91ec0.html\">The Alestle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 &#8211; Keynote speaker at the <strong>North American Plant Phenotyping Network (NAPPN)<\/strong> conference<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022 &#8211; Top 5% of Principal Investigators who submitted External Grants at SIUE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022 &#8211; Featured in NRT&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nrt.unl.edu\/nrt-aided-career-past-students-say\" target=\"_blank\">Aided Career Panel<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022 &#8211; Featured in NRT&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nrt.unl.edu\/nrt-gains-steam-during-pandemic-art\" target=\"_blank\">STEAM Initiative<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022 &#8211; Began my tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022 &#8211; Defended my Ph.D dissertation &#8216;<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/search.proquest.com\/openview\/bf11909210ad2b92b5a55620dd127201\/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;cbl=18750&amp;diss=y\" target=\"_blank\">Unsupervised Cosegmentation and Phenotypes for Multi-Modal, -View, and -State Imagery<\/a><\/em>&#8216; at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022 &#8211; Received the 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantphenotyping.org\/graduate-student-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NAPPN<strong> <\/strong>Graduate Student Award<\/a> in Research and Service\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.unl.edu\/announce\/cse\/14180\/80832\" target=\"_blank\">CSE Bits &amp; Bytes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ard.unl.edu\/phenotyping\/unl-ph-d-candidate-earns-2022-nappn-graduate-student-award\" target=\"_blank\">Agriculture Research Division Student Spotlight<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022 &#8211; Presented at the <strong>American Meteorological Society<\/strong> in artificial intelligence methods for dynamic environments in plants <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 &#8211; Received my <strong>PhD Candidacy<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 &#8211; Dissertation Research Spotlight\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nrt.unl.edu\/rubi-qui\u00f1ones\">NRT Student Spotlight<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.unl.edu\/newsrooms\/today\/article\/qui-ones-puts-coding-expertise-global-perspectives-to-use\/\">Nebraska Today<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ianrnews.unl.edu\/qui-ones-puts-coding-expertise-global-perspectives-use\">IANR News<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefencepost.com\/news\/quinones-puts-coding-expertise-global-perspectives-to-use\/\">The Fence Post<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.unl.edu\/announce\/cse\/13000\/75357\">CSE Bits &amp; Bytes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyadvent.com\/news\/ac6a5aa2aac64c5aa638fb7daaadb382-Quiones-puts-coding-expertise-global-perspectives-to-use\">Daily Advent<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020 &#8211; Book Chapter Publication &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/chapters\/data-driven-techniques-plant-phenotyping-using-hyperspectral-imagery-suraj-gampa-rubi-qui%C3%B1ones\/e\/10.1201\/9781315177304-11\">Data Driven Techniques for Plant Phenotyping Using Hyperspectral Imagery<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ciera.northwestsern.edu\/programs\/scope\/\">Science Communication Online Programme<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/ciera.northwestsern.edu\/programs\/scope\/\">SCOPE) Completion<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020 &#8211; Council for Resilience Education <a href=\"https:\/\/ianrnews.unl.edu\/students-helping-public-tackle-environmental-changes\">Feature<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020 &#8211; Council for Resilience Education <a href=\"https:\/\/nrt.unl.edu\/student-honors\">Honor<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017 &#8211; Mid-America Transportation Center Scholar&#8217;s Program &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/matc.unl.edu\/education\/MATC%20Scholars%20Program%202017%20Final.pdf\">Graduate Guest Speaker<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016 &#8211; 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