Plant Breeding Seminar - April 5th, 2024 1:00pm- room 1306 Elings

Join us (1306 Elings Hall) for a presentation by Ning Wang

Title: "Innovative Agriculture: Harnessing Smart Sensing Technology for Enhanced Agri-Food Production" 

Ning Wang is a professor and graduate coordinator in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at Oklahoma State University (OSU). She specializes in intelligent sensing and control, sensor networks, mechatronics, machine vision, and precision agriculture. Prior to joining OSU, Dr. Wang was a faculty in the Department of Bioresource Engineering at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She received her PhD from Kansas State University in 2002.  Currently Dr. Wang is holding an appointment of teaching and research at OSU. She is teaching a required undergraduate course of Instrumentation and Control and a graduate-level course of Advanced Data Acquisition Systems. She has been involved in many research projects in developing various smart sensing and control technologies for crop production and plant phenotyping and wireless sensor networks (IoT) for crop production, environment, and animal behavior monitoring. She actively contributes to scientific journals, mentors students, and serves on professional communities and editorial boards worldwide.

Abstract: The new smart technologies have been making significant impacts on agriculture industry, e.g. production management, practices, workforce compositions, etc. Recently, the rapid adoption of AI is making transformative impacts on every aspect of agri-food production and process, revolutionizing traditional farming practices, and enabling sustainable, efficient, and resilient agricultural systems. Dr. Ning Wang's research team collaborates closely with researchers and scientists in crop sciences, animal sciences, entomology, computer sciences, environment sciences, and other engineers to study and develop smart sensing technologies enabling precise and timely decision-making for optimized agricultural practice and management. This presentation will provide: 1) an overview of recent/current research projects and 2) a discussion on the challenges in the development and deployment of smart technologies for agriculture.