Agricultural Cybernetics (eBook)

Dr. Yanbo Huang is a Research Agricultural Engineer and Lead Scientist of aerial application technology and remote sensing in the Crop Production Systems Research Unit of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) at Stoneville, Mississippi. His research interests are in the areas of process modeling, optimization and control, image processing and analysis, and agricultural information technology. Before joining USDA ARS, Dr. Huang worked at Texas A&M University and the Chinese Academy of Mechanics and Electronics Industry. Dr. Huang has authored and co-authored over 200 scientific publications, including 2 books, 10 book chapters and 110 peer-reviewed journal articles, and received best paper awards from a number of international journals and societies. He also has served as Adjunct Professor at Texas A&M University, Mississippi State University, and Delta State University. Dr. Huang served as Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal and Agricultural Science and Technology and the Journal of Agricultural Science and Applications, and Associate Editor of the Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). He is Section Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. He served as Panel Manager for USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and panelist for National Science Foundation (NSF) and USDA NIFA and proposal reviewer for USDA NIFA, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, U.S. Citrus Research and Development Foundation, the US-Israel Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD) and national funding agencies of Europe, including the Belgian Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), the Kazakhstan National Centre of Science and Technology Evaluation, the Dutch Technology Foundation, and the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation. He was the President of the Association of Overseas Chinese Agricultural, Biological and Food Engineers from 2016 to 2017.