Emerging Technologies for Agriculture and Environment

1. Papers on irrigation technologies and precision farming.- 2. Papers on bio-resource technology in agriculture.- 3. Papers on remote sensing for smart farming.- 4. Papers on smart grids and renewable eneergy.- 5. Papers on energy storage technologies.- 6. Papers on green infrastructure.- 7. Papers on biological water treatment.- 8. Papers on industrial waste water management.- 9. Papers on watershed management and sustainability.

Dr. Babu Subramanian is currently Professor and Dean of VIT School of Agricultural Innovations and Advanced Learning (VAIAL). He graduated from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Tamil Nadu, India with vast post-doctoral research experience from University of Angers, France, University of Alberta, Canada, Pennsylvania State University, USA, North Eastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, USA, Florida Atlantic University, USA. His research areas include molecular plant-microbe interactions and functional genomics and he is currently working on proteome level investigations on cross-talking genes in rice during abiotic and biotic stress, role of transcription factors and their downsteam genes in plant disease resistance, metabolic engineering of tomato for over-expression of stigmasterol biosynthesis, molecular interactions of human enteric bacteria in fruits and vegetables, compatibility of bicontrol and biofertilizer bacteria in crop growth and health and bacterial biofilms: metagenomics and bioinformatics. He has published around 75 papers in notable journals and more than 100 papers in reputed conferences. 
Dr. Shiao-Shing Chen is currently working as Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management, National Taipei University of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida, Master from the University of Maryland, College Park, and Bachelor from National Cheng Kung University. He also had his sabbatical researches in University of Washington, Seattle and University of Technology, Sydney. He has over 20 years of research, teaching and consulting experience. His areas of interest include physicochemical process on water and wastewater treatment by incorporation of membrane. Currently, his projects have primarily dealt with membrane, oxidation-reduction, and catalysis processes for application in the High-Tech industries in Taiwan and several full scale plants have been