Keynote Speaker | 主讲人

Biography: Director digital agriculture research center of Zhejiang University, “Qiushi” Distinguish Professor of Zhejiang University, Director of the Key Laboratory of spectroscopy, Ministry of Agriculture. Academic leaders of National key disciplines of agricultural mechanization engineering, One of the key experts of "12 Five-Year" National 863 modern agriculture "Digital agriculture technology and equipment" , Chief expert of 863 project, The national prestigious teacher, Hundred thousands of national talent, National level experts of the rural area informatization demonstration province, Nominated as the national level teaching team, The first of the ten ethics model, The ten outstanding young scholar of the fourth Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Province outstanding young scholar, and winner of the Yongping teaching award of Zhejiang University. He visited and served as Visiting Professor at University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Agricultural & Technology, Illinois University. In February 26, 2017, he was invited as honored guest in the renowned national CCTV program - "dialogue". CIGR (iAABE) Fellow.He was selected as the 2016-2018 Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics) with “H index” of 54.
Professor Yong He mainly engages in digital agriculture, agricultural Internet of things, rural area informatization, agricultural aviation and intelligent agricultural equipment and other fields of scientific research and education. Hosted the National High-tech R&D Program (863), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and more than 50 provincial and ministerial level of key scientific research projects. Published more than 400 SCI included papers. He has published more than 20 books and textbooks, selected as the chief editor of textbooks for the national fifteen and 11th Five-Year plan and granted over 180 invention patents and more than 50 software copyrights. He was the first winner of the first youth science and technology award of Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering; the winner of the second session of Zhejiang Province Youth Science and technology award; the outstanding young scientific and technical personnel in Zhejiang Province; the first level 151 talent project, the young academic leaders and the renowned teachers in Zhejiang Province. He was granted special government allowances, Bao's fund; Zhu Kezhen the North American fund; Baogang Excellent Teacher Award; Zhejiang special fund for talents; the fourth session of the Ministry of education of college talent outstanding young teacher award; the title of “National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Specialist”. He is the editorin chief of a SCI included authoritative journal of Agricultural Engineering - "Computers and Electronics in Agriculture" and "Journal of Agriculture and Food Research". He is also on the review panelist of More than 10 international academic journals such as “Food and Bioprocess Technology” and so on, and over 10 domestic academic journals, including Journal of agricultural machinery, Journal of Zhejiang University (Engineering Edition), Journal of Agricultural Sciences and more than 10 academic journals. He is the reviewer of more than 30 international academic journals such as “Transactions of the ASABE” and so on. He serves as expert panel of scientific research startup fund in Ministry of Education, evaluation expert panel of International cooperation plan of Ministry of science and technology, the member of Ministry of agriculture, agricultural mechanization, scientific and technological innovation - precision agriculture professional committee. He is the executive director of the Institute of Asian international precision agriculture. He serves as the members of international society of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR) the Second and sixth branches; CIGR, IEEE, ASAE, ADSA member in USA; Vice chairman of Agricultural Chemistry Association of China Agricultural Machinery Society; Vice chairman in the committee of systems engineering, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Engineering; Vice chairman of agricultural aviation branch of China Agricultural Engineering society; Director of China Agricultural Machinery Society and Agricultural Engineering Society; vice chairman the National Agricultural Machinery Standardization Technical Committee and the Agricultural Electronic Technology Committee. He was the vice president of Zhejiang Agricultural Engineering Society and agricultural machinery society. He was the group leader of both the expert group of Zhejiang rural area informatization construction demonstration and the expert group of Yongkang modern agricultural equipment innovation Demonstration Park. He served as the international conference venue, chairman of the academic committee for 30 times. He is the vice dean of Zhejiang agriculture remote sensing and information technology key research laboratory academic committee. His "Precision agriculture" course was awarded National Excellent Course and National Resource Public Course. Two of his doctoral candidates were awarded 2012 and 2013 national awards for excellence in doctoral dissertations under his guidance. Professor He Yong has won one second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, five first prizes and nine second prizes of Zhejiang province Science and Technology Progress award, two first prize and two second prizes of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of education, one first prize of National education Achievement Award, one first prize and two second prizes of Provincial Education Achievement Award.

Biography: Dr. Zhang is an internationally recognized authority in agricultural automation and mechanization, making major contributions to the areas of automated and/or intelligent agricultural machinery, agricultural robotics, and agricultural cybernetics. He is known around the world for his work on tractor auto-guide technologies, robotic machinery for crop production, and cybernetics theory for crop production automation. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief, then the Chair Editor to “Computers and Electronics in Agriculture”, one of the most impactful professional journals in the field of study and the Editor-in-Chief for Encyclopedia of Smart Agriculture Technologies. Recognized by his peers, Dr. Qin Zhang was a recipient of the John Deere Gold Medal, a major award for recognizing distinguished achievement in the application of science and art to the soil by an engineer given by ASABE. He was also elected as a Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the International Academy of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (iAABE), and a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE).
Dr. Zhang is known for building collaborations across disciplines all over the world to solve automation and mechanization problems in crop production and for sharing his expertise and research results with farmers, research peers, and industry. He initialized an international network of precision agricultural centers and organized two summits for enhancing collaborations among the participating centers. This directly resulted in WSU establishing formal partnerships in agricultural robotics research and education with Kyoto University in Japan, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Bio-economy e.V. (ATB) in Germany, University of Technology Sydney in Australia and Valencia Polytech University in Spain. Such collaborations impactfully strengthen WSU’s capacity and reputation in agricultural automation research and graduate education which contributed greatly to make WSU CPAAS be one of the highly recognized centers internationally in the field of precision agriculture and agricultural robotics. He has co-organized a “Next Leaders” event under CIGR (International Commission for Agricultural and Biological Engineering) umbrella to recognize the emerging academic leaders in agricultural mechanization from around the world, involve them in a networking event which would provide the opportunity to learn the most up-to-date knowledge and to build connections for future academic exchanges in their special field of study.
His wide-ranged research programs have resulted in an extensive list of publications and invited presentations. He authored or edited 12 books, authored or co-authored 28 separate book chapters, 200+ refereed journal articles, 60+ other peered reviewed articles, more than 250 published proceedings articles, and been awarded 12 U.S. patents. He also been invited to give 19 keynote speeches and 38 invited talks at international professional conferences, plus numerous invited seminars, and guest lectures at 60+ universities and research institutes worldwide. He has also given talks at more than a dozen major agricultural equipment manufacturers in North/South America, Europe, and Asia. He has also been an important part of the Department’s graduate program: mentored/mentoring 9 PhD students as the major advisor and serving on numerous graduate student committees including 15 PhD committees and 6 MS committees.
Dr. Qin Zhang is a life member the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), and a life member of the Club of Bologna. His professional service included chairing several professional committees, chairing a few international conference organization or scientific committees, serving on journal editorial boards and book series editor. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture from 2011 to 2021, and the Chair Editor of that Journal since 2022. He is also serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Smart Agriculture Technologies, published by Springer Nature.

Biography: Professor Liu Chengliang is a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor appointed by the Ministry of Education, a Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a leading figure in Shanghai, and an outstanding academic leader in Shanghai. He is a member of the National "12th Five-Year Plan" 863 Program Expert Group on Intelligent Robots in the Advanced Manufacturing Field, the Deputy Leader of the General Expert Group on the National "13th Five-Year Plan" Key Special Project on Intelligent Robots, a member of the General Expert Group on the Key Special Project on Intelligent Agricultural Machinery Equipment, and a member of the Key Special Project Expert Group on Critical Technologies and Intelligent Agricultural Machinery Equipment for the National "14th Five-Year Plan" for Factory Agriculture. His main research directions are machine health and intelligent maintenance, fluid transmission and intelligent control, and intelligent control and agricultural robots for agricultural equipment. He has published more than 440 papers and holds more than 160 authorized invention patents. As the first prize winner, he has won two second prizes for national scientific and technological progress, one special prize for scientific and technological progress in the machinery industry, and four first prizes at the provincial and ministerial levels. He is the Deputy Director of the Fluid Transmission and Control Branch of the China Mechanical Engineering Society, the Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Society of Agricultural Engineering, a member of the 15th Central Committee of the China Association for Jiusan Society, and the Vice Chairman of the 18th Committee of the Shanghai Association for Jiusan Society. He is also a member of Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Political Consultative Conference.