**Jin Yuan**

Jin Yuan is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, and a deputy director of the Artificial Intelligence Branch of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery. He is a postdoctoral fellow at Shanghai Jiaotong University and engaged in scientific cooperation research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has presided over more than 20 scientific research projects in the fields of agricultural robotics, intelligent agricultural equipment, and precision agriculture, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Research and Development Program, etc. He won two National Science and Technology Advancement Prizes in 2009 and 2011, and was awarded the Third Youth Science and Technology Prize of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery in 2012. He has published more than 60 academic papers, and more than 50 invention patents have been authorized.
