**About the Editors**

## **Muhammad Sultan**

Muhammad Sultan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan (Pakistan). He holds a B.Sc. (2008) and M.Sc. (2010) in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (Pakistan), and a Ph.D. (2015) in Energy and Environmental Engineering from Kyushu University (Japan). He did his postdoctoral research in Energy and Environmental Engineering (2017) at Kyushu University (Japan) and in Mechatronic Systems Engineering (2019) at Simon Fraser University (Canada). He has published more than 200 articles in international journals, conferences, books, and book chapters. He has been a reviewer for more than 80 renowned journals and holds an editor role for five journals with publishers such as SAGE, MDPI, and Frontiers. His research focuses on developing energy-efficient temperature and humidity control systems for agricultural applications including greenhouse, fruits/vegetable storage, livestock, and poultry applications. His research keywords include adsorption heat pumps, desiccant air-conditioning, evaporative cooling, Maisotsenko cycle, adsorption desalination, energy recovery ventilator, atmospheric water harvesting, and wastewater treatment.

### **Yuguang Zhou**

Dr. Zhou Yuguang is currently appointed as an Associate Professor at the College of Engineering, China Agricultural University. His research investigatres biogas engineering technology and the clean combustion of biomass and its emission control, based on platforms such as "National Center for International Research on BioEnergy Science and Technology" (iBEST), Ministry of Science and Technology, and "Key Laboratory of Clean Production and Utilization of Renewable Energy" (CPURE), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. He has conducted more than 20 projects that were granted by the National Science Foundation of China, the United Nations Development Programme, Worldbank, etc.

### **Redmond R. Shamshiri**

Dr. Redmond R. Shamshiri holds a Ph.D. in agricultural automation with a focus on control systems and dynamics. He is a scientist at the Leibniz-Institut fur Agrartechnik und Bio ¨ okonomie ¨ working toward the digitization of agriculture for food security. His main research fields include simulation and modeling for closed-field plant production systems, LPWAN sensors, wireless control, and autonomous navigation. His works have appeared in over 110 publications, including peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He is the founder of Adaptive AgroTech Consultancy Network and serves as a section editor and reviewer for various peer-reviewed journals in the field of smart farming.

### **Aitazaz A. Farooque**

Dr. Aitazaz A. Farooque is working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island. Dr. Farooque's research focuses on the fundamental understanding and development of state-of-the-art precision agriculture (PA) technologies for Eastern Canada's agriculture industry. The development of innovative and novel PA systems requires knowledge of engineering design, development and management, instrumentation, design and evaluation of sensors and controllers, development of hardware and software for automation of machines to sense targets in real time for spot applications of agrochemicals on an as-needed basis to improve farm profitability while maintaining environmental sustainability. Dr. Farooque is actively working on machine vision, the application of multispectral and thermal imagery using drone technology, the delineation of management zones for site-specific fertilization, electromagnetic induction methods, remote sensing, and digital photography techniques for mapping, modeling bio-systems, artificial neural networks, deep learning, and analog and digital sensor integrations into agricultural equipment for real-time soil, plant, and yield mapping. Dr. Farooque has been evaluating the variable rate technologies for potential environmental risks. Dr. Farooque has been very successful in securing research funding from Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada, Provincial and Federal Governments and agriculture industry. He has been supervising undergraduate and graduate students, research assistants, and a post-doctoral fellow at UPEI and other collaborating institutions. Dr. Farooque's research has been published/shown in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, workshops, industry meetings and farmer's field days.
