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Internet of Things Industry Alliance, an Executive Member of the Aviation Branch of Chinese Agricultural Engineering Society. His research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence, Internet of things and intelligent agricultural equipment. He has developed a number of spectral plant and soil detection instruments, intelligent equipment of Internet of Things and cloud service platforms with independent intellectual property rights. He has published 28 papers indexed by SCI, awarded nine Chinese Patents. He has also won eight provincial and ministerial science and technology awards including the National Second Prize for Progress in Science and Technology and the Zhejiang Science and Technology Award. Dr. Pengcheng Nie received his B.S. degree in Electronic Information Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology, his M.S. degree from East China Jiaotong University, and his Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University, all in China.
Dr. Qin Zhang is the Director of the Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems (CPAAS), and a Professor of Agricultural Automation in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, of Washington State University (WSU). His research interests are in the areas of agricultural automation, agricultural robotics, and off-road equipment mechatronics. Prior to his current position, he was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, worked at Caterpillar Inc., and taught at Zhejiang Agricultural University in China. Based on his research outcomes, he has authored/edited eight books, written more than twenty separate book chapters, edited three conference proceedings, published over 180 peer reviewed journal articles, and been awarded 11 U.S. patents. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief for Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. Dr. Qin Zhang received his B.S. degree in engineering from Zhejiang Agricultural University, China; M.S. degree from the University of Idaho and Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Qin Zhang is a Member of Washington State Academy of Science, a Fellow of the International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (iAABE), a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), a Full Member of the Club of Bologna (a World Task-force on the Strategies for the Development of Agricultural Mechanization), and an Honorary Vice President of the International Commission of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (CIGR). Dr, Zhang has guest lectured over 60 universities in more than 20 countries.
Dr. Fei Liu is the Deputy Director of Institute of Agricultural Information Technology of Zhejiang University (ZJU), Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Spectroscopy Sensing of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and a Professor of Agricultural Engineering in the Collegeof Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, ZJU. His research interests are in the areas of spectral/hyperspectral imaging and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for soil-plant-agricultural products information detection, remote sensing and agricultural IoT. He also worked as a Visiting Scholar at Hokkaido University, Japan. He has authored/edited 5 books, published over 70 peer reviewed journal articles, and been awarded 35 Chinese Patents. Dr. Fei Liu received his B.S. degree in Engineering from China Agricultural University (CAU), and his Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University (ZJU), both in China. Dr. Fei Liu has been awarded National Second Prize for Progress in Science and Technology in 2015, three First Prizes of Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Awards in 2012, 2014 and 2016, and two Frist Prizes of China Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award in 2014 and 2019. In addition, Dr. Fei Liu has been awarded for been nominated for Chinese Outstanding Patented Invention and DaBeiNong Science and Technology Awards-Intelligent Agriculture Award, both in 2017. He has also been nominated for the very prestigious National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2013.