Dr. Lei Tian, Director

Dr. Lei Tian is an assistant professor of Agricultural Engineering in the Division of Off-Road Equipment Engineering (OREE), Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He coordinates research in agricultural remote sensing, data management and information system for precision agriculture, field instrumentation and control systems, and intelligent variable-rate chemical application equipment.

Research Interests:  Dr. Tian's research interests are in the development of new generation artificial intelligent equipment for agriculture: outdoor field robotic systems, remote/local field sensing systems, and image analysis/pattern recognition algorithms for outdoor biological objective detection.

Education: Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering, University of California, 1995. M.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, Jilin University of Technology, 1988. BS, Agricultural Engineering, Jilin University of Technology, 1982.

Honors and Awards: "NSF/NCSA Faculty Fellow Award", NCSA/University of Illinois, 2000-2001. "ASAE Superior Paper Award," American Society of Agricultural Engineers,1999-2000.

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Yuliang Zhang

Yuliang Zhang is a Ph.D candidate of Automobile Engineering Department of Beihang University. He came to U of I as a visiting scholar since 07, 2007.

Research Interests: 

Intelligent Vehicle System, Vehicle Dynamic Sysetem Model and Simulation, 

Control Algorithm Development, Remote Sensing  Platform Development,

 Path tracking and field vehicle working environment monitoring.

Education:  

Bachelor of Science, Beihang University, 2003

Master of Science  Beihang University, 2005

            PhD candidate Beihang University

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Yan Jiang

Research Interests:  Intelligent Vehicle Technologies and Droplets Spectrum Measurement

Education:  BS in Mechanic Engineering, BeiHang University, 2004, 

                    PhD candidate in Mechanic Engineering, BeiHang University

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Yonghua Xiong

Yonghua Xiong is a Ph.D candidate of Automobile Engineering Department of Beihang University. He came to U of I as a visiting scholar since 07, 2007.

Research Interests:  

 Off-Road Data Collection Vehicle System

Simulation modeling and Dynamic analysis of Precision Farming Machinery

Education: 

· Visiting Scholar, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2007-Present

· PhD Candidate, School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, China, 2005-Present

· MS, School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, China, 2003-2005

· BS, Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, China, 1999-2003

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Tofael Ahamed 

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Energy Bioscience Institute

Research Interests: 

Precision Agriculture, Remote Sensing & GIS Automation of Agricultural Machinery

Education: 

BS in Agricultural Engineering, Bangladesh Agricultural University, 1996

MS in Farm Power and Machinery, Bangladesh Agricultural University, 2000

PhD in Agricultural Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 2006

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Yanshui Jiang

Research Interests:  Sensing and control for precision agriculture
Machine vision, algorithm development

Education:   

      B.S. 2008 Beihang University

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Francisco Pinto

Home Institution:

Agricultural Engineering Department, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil

Visiting Scholar

Research Interests:

·Precision Farming

·Remote Sensing

      Image Processing

Education:  

· BS in Agricultural Engineering, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil, 1990

· MS in Agricultural Engineering, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil, 1993

· PhD in Agricultural Engineering, University of Illinois, 2000

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Casimiro

Research Interests:

Education:  

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Bin Zhao

Research Interests: 

Education:  Bachelor of Science, School of transportation science and engineering, 

Beihang University, China, 2006

PhD candidate, School of transportation science and engineering, 

Beihang University, China

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