{"id":143476,"date":"2026-01-03T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143476"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:00:11","slug":"ai-scientist-ling-haibin-father-of-worlds-first-plant-id-app-leaves-us-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143476","title":{"rendered":"AI scientist Ling Haibin, father of world\u2019s first plant ID app, leaves US for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAI scientist Ling Haibin, the acclaimed computer scientist behind the world\u2019s first mobile plant identification app, has left his position in the United States to take up a full-time role at Westlake University in Hangzhou, eastern China.<br \/>\nOne of Ling\u2019s PhD research projects, which involved using computers to recognise leaves of different shapes, led to the creation of the identification app LeafSnap. The app teaches users about plant diversity, how to care for houseplants, diagnose disease and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3338607\/ai-scientist-ling-haibin-father-worlds-first-plant-id-app-leaves-us-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAI scientist Ling Haibin, the acclaimed computer scientist behind the world\u2019s first mobile plant identification app, has left his position in the United States&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}