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We are receiving new competitive funding from USDA-NIFA on postharvest automation technology development for green asparagus. Openinings are immediately available for PhD/MS. Contact me asap if you are interested.

Last updated on Sep 12, 2025 0 min read
We are receiving new competitive funding from USDA-NIFA on postharvest automation technology development for green asparagus. Openinings are immediately available for PhD/MS. Contact me asap if you are interested.

We demonstrated our two in-house designed precision weeding systyems on the MSU HTRC farm to the USDA S1090 multistate group.

Stay tuned to our future demos to vegetable growers and relevant publications.
Last updated on Aug 3, 2025 0 min read
We demonstrated our two in-house designed precision weeding systyems on the MSU HTRC farm to the USDA S1090 multistate group.

Our team gave 8 oral presentations on machine vision/automation for specialty crops and 1 poster on seafoods (catfish) on the ASABE 2025 Annual International Meeting

Stay tuned to our conference papers to be posted by the ASABE soon.
Last updated on Jul 18, 2025 0 min read

Our paper published in the Journal of the ASABE has been selected to receive a 2025 ASABE Superior Paper Award. Congratulations! 👋👋

Last updated on May 7, 2025 0 min read

We delievered six presentations on sensing/automation for food qualilty & specialty crop production at the 2025 SPIE Defense + Commerical Sensing Conference.

Stay tuned to our conference papers to be posted by the SPIE soon.
Last updated on Apr 30, 2026 0 min read

Congratulations to Dr. Lu on being selected for the 2025 ASABE New Holland Young Researcher Award 👋👋

Last updated on Apr 22, 2025 0 min read

Recently on the MarketToMarket channel to talk about research on automated asparagus harvesters and mobile machine vision for blueberries.

Check out the talk from the YouTube video at https://youtu.be/3CK_osDhd-A?si=2uBnRoDIzQISyssK
Last updated on Feb 16, 2025 0 min read
Recently on the MarketToMarket channel to talk about research on automated asparagus harvesters and mobile machine vision for blueberries.

Our specialty crop automation research is making headlines

Check the links for details: https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/msu-ag-engineer-designing-innovative-technologies-to-support-specialty-crop-production and https://www.michiganfarmnews.com/msu-ag-engineer-designing-innovative-technologies-to-support-specialty-crop-production
Last updated on Jan 19, 2025 0 min read

Congratulations to Jiaxu Cai for his graduation with a MS degree 👋👋. Well done with two years but three peer-reviewed publications and one book chapter! Best wishes for his future endeavors.

Last updated on Jan 19, 2025 0 min read

Congratulations on being recognized among the World Top 2% Scientists based on Standford and Elsevier Data in 2024 👋👋

Last updated on Sep 21, 2024 0 min read
Congratulations on being recognized among the World Top 2% Scientists based on Standford and Elsevier Data in 2024 👋👋