**About the Editors**

**Yongliang Qiao** (Research Associate) received B.S.in Electrical Engineering and Automation and M.S. degree in Agricultural Electrification and Automation from Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, in 2010 and 2013 respectively. He received Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France in 2017. He was a research associate ´ at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, the University of Sydney, Australia. Since 2021, he has been on the youth editorial board of the journal of Smart Agriculture. His research interests include computer vision, agricultural robots, deep learning, multi-sensor fusion, and pattern recognition.

**Lilong Chai** (Assistant Professor) is a tenure-track Assistant Professor & Engineering Specialist in the Department of Poultry Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, USA. Chai is an affiliated member of Phenomics and Plant Robotics Center & Integrative Precision Agriculture team at UGA. He is a leading researcher in the areas of animal environmental engineering & precision poultry farming. Chai's current projects at UGA focus on innovation in machine vision-based methods for monitoring behaviors, health, and welfare indicators of layers and broilers and air emissions mitigation from poultry houses. Prior to joining UGA, Chai was a postdoc in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU). At ISU, Chai led the field study on commercial farms for two USDA-NIFA programs for improving animal welfare and air quality of commercial poultry houses. Chai's contributions include 110 scientific publications, PI/Co-PI of over 20 grants/contracts, and 20+ awards/honors including the 2021 Sunkist Young Designer Award from American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). Chai is currently the Coordinator of Georgia Precision Poultry Farming Conference, and the Vice Chair of ASABE-Environmental Air Quality Committee.

**Dongjian He** (Professor) received his PhD from College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University in 1998 and worked as PhD Adviser and Professor in College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University from 1998 to 2000. He also worked as Senior visiting research fellow at Agric. Info. Technol, Tsukuba University, Japan from 1999 to 2000. Between 2000 and 2009, he worked as Dean, PhD Adviser and Professor of the College of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University. From 2009 to 2015, he works as Dean, PhD Adviser and Professor of the College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University and Managing Dean of the Yangling International Academy of Modern Agriculture. His research interests are image analysis and recognition; intelligent detecting and control; agricultural information technology; digital plant and Virtual technology; animal health and welfare.

**Daobilige Su** (Associate Professor) received his B. Eng. in Mechatronic Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 2010, M. Eng. in Automation and Robotics from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland and M.Eng. in Automation from University of Genova, Italy through European Master on Advanced Robotics (EMARO) program in 2012, and Ph. D. in robotics at Centre for Autonomous System (CAS), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia in 2017. He was a post-doctoral research associate at Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR), The University of Sydney from 2017 to 2020. He is currently an Associate Professor at College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, China. His current research areas include field robotics, SLAM, computer vision, robot audition and machine learning.
