Agriculture

Prof. Dr. Massimo Cecchini

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Department of Agricultural and Forestry sciences (DAFNE), University of Tuscia, Via S. Camillo de Lellis, SNC, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: agricultural machinery; occupational safety and health; ergonomics; agriculture; energy
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Dr. Raju Adhikari

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School of Science, College of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM), RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Interests: polymers and biopolymers application in medical; agriculture; industrial applications
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Dr. Vincenzo Alfano

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Council for Research in Agriculture and the analysis of the agricultural economy (CREA), Research Centre for Engineering and Agro-Food Processing, Via della Pascolare, 16, 00015 Monterotondo (RM), Italy
Interests: biomass availability assessment; bioenergy chain development; agricultural mechanization; biomass logistics and storage; industrial and energy crops; biomass and byproducts; circular bioeconomy; engineering for energy and environment

Dr. Simone Bergonzoli

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Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Via della Pascolare 15, 00015 Monterotondo, Italy
Interests: harvesting logistics; energy crops; crop by-products; agroforestry; agricultural engineering

Prof. Dr. Bruno Bernardi

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Dipartimento di Agraria, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Feo di Vito, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: agricultural engineering; precision farming; agroforestry; post-harvest technology; energy
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Prof. Dr. José Boaventura Ribeiro da Cunha

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1. School of Science and Technology (ECT-UTAD), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
2. Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS), Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC-TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: modelling; control applied to industrial and agroforestry processes; automation

Prof. Dr. Roberto Alves Braga Júnior

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Department of Automatica, Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Caixa Postal 3037, CEP 37200-900 Lavras, MG, Brazil
Interests: optical metrology; biospeckle laser; agricultural engineering; sensors; image analysis
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Prof. Dr. Alessio Cappelli

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Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment, and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Interests: agricultural engineering; food science; environmental sustainability; Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA); waste management; wheat and bakery product; dough rheology; ancients wheats; food processing equipment; food processing and engineering; Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO); cereal technology; usability engineering; process and product innovations; insects as food; agricultural mechanization
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Dr. Francisco J. Castillo Ruiz

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Departamento de Ingeniería Rural, Construcciones Civiles y Proyectos de Ingeniería, Área de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Universidad de Córdoba Edificio Leonardo da Vinci, 1ª planta Despacho LV2P170, Campus de Rabanales, Ctra. N-IV, km 396, 14014 Córdoba, Spain
Interests: agricultural machinery; olive growing; harvesting equipment; spraying equipment; agricultural soil management; olive irrigation

Dr. Eugenio Cavallo

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Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility (STEMS) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Strada delle Cacce 73, 10135 Torino, Italy
Interests: agriculture; innovation; sustainability; soil management; natural resources; occupational safety and health; ergonomics
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Dr. Andrea Colantoni

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Department of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (DAFNE), Tuscia University of Viterbo, Via San Camillo de Lellis, snc, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: energy; environment; agriculture
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Dr. Tao Cui

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College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: precision seeding equipment; harvest technology and equipment; modern agricultural equipment; computer measurement and control; grading equipment
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Dr. Alessandro D'Emilio

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Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente (Di3A), Università degli Studi di Catania, Via S. Sofia, 100, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: greenhouses; livestock buildings; modelling; geographic information systems and soil science
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Prof. Dr. Renjie Dong

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1. National Center for International Joint Research of BioEnergy Science and Technology (iBEST), China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
2. College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: assessment of agricultural biowaste generation, valorization, and treatment; bioenergy; pellet and briquette; combustion; clean heating; hydro-thermal conversion; biochar; biogas; biogas digestates; slurry; acidification; field application; insect protein; greenhouse gas; climate change; green development; sustainability
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Dr. Filipe Neves Dos Santos

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Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: robotics; automation; sensor fusion; perception
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Prof. Dr. Adam Ekielski

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Department of Production Management and Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: agrobots; biomaterials; biosensors; deep learning; food and feed production lines; food, sensors; hydraulic driving; circular economy; control systems
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Prof. Dr. John M. Fielke

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UniSA STEM, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia
Interests: agricultural mechanisation; tillage and seeding (DEM and FEA studies); spraying (CFD studies); harvesting (cutting, threshing and sizing using DEM and CFD); post harvest processing (cleaning, threshing, sizing and sorting - DEM studies, grain storage, moisture measurement and control); processing of dried grapes, almonds and olives

Dr. Fengwei Gu

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Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, China
Interests: agricultural machinery; straw retention; no-tillage planting; combine harvesting; experiment design; discrete element method
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Prof. Dr. Jin He

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College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Interests: agricultural engineering; soil tillage equipment; straw cover; seeding equipment
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Prof. Dr. Koki Homma

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Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, 468-1 Aramaki Aza-Aoba, Aoba, Sendai 980-8572, Japan
Interests: crop production; simulation model; farmers’ fields evaluation
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Prof. Dr. Lixia Hou

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College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Interests: intelligent agricultural equipment; processing and storage of agricultural product; radio frequency treatment

Prof. Dr. Jianping Hu

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College of Agricultural Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: seed machine; trancplanting machine and intelligence

Dr. Yongguang Hu

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1. School of Agricultural Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
2. Key Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Equipment and Technology (Jiangsu University), Ministry of Education, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: agrometeorology; irrigation; frost protection; abiotic stress; harvesting technology; tea plucking; robotics; environment control; weather modification

Dr. Zhi Huang

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College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Interests: heat and mass transport; physical food processing; porous media; multi-field coupling numerical analysis; pasteurization; food nutrition; food safety

Dr. Wei Ji

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School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: picking robot; robotic manipulator; machine vision
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Dr. Tarendra Lakhankar

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NOAA-CESSRST, The City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
Interests: remote sensing; snow and soil moisture; flood; drought
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Dr. Juan-Ignacio Latorre-Biel

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Department of Engineering, Public University of Navarre, Campus Tudela, 31500 Tudela, Spain
Interests: design and optimal operation of automatic mechanical systems; roll-over protection systems for industrial vehicles; production; agri-food and logistics systems; industry 4.0; collaborative industrial robotics

Prof. Dr. Changyou Li

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College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Interests: intelligent agricultural machinery; intelligent measurement and control algorithm; drying equipment; remoting monitor of agricultural machinery; analytical theory of dryingsing technology
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Dr. Hao Li

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Department of Agricultural Structure Environment Engineering, College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: livestock environmental engineering; indoor environment and ventilation; precise ventilation of livestock houses; CFD; environmental control system and strategy
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Dr. Jiangbo Li

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Intelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China
Interests: quality and safety assessment of agricultural products; development of agricultural product grading systems; computer vision and machine learning; hyperspectral and multispectral imaging; near infrared spectroscopy analysis and modeling
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