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The Norman R. and Sharon R. Scott Professor of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Manoj Karkee is the Norman R. and Sharon R. Scott Professor of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering Department at Cornell. He received his PhD in Agricultural Engineering and Human Computer Interaction from Iowa State University and has been director and professor at Washington State University Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems. Dr. Karkee leads a strong research and education program in the area of sensing, machine vision, AI, and Robotics in Agriculture. He has published widely in such journals as ‘Computers and Electronics in Agriculture’, ‘Computers in Industry’, ‘Journal of Field Robotics’, and ‘Journal of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)’, and has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences and universities. Dr. Karkee is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief for ‘Computers and Electronics in Agriculture’, and associate editor of ‘Journal of the ASABE’ and has served as a guest editor for ‘Journal of Field Robotics’. He is also an elected chair of CIGR (International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering) Section III - Plant Production, and IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Technical Committee 8.1 - Control in Agriculture. Dr. Karkee was awarded ‘2020 Rainbird Engineering Concept of the Year’ by ASABE, and was recognized as ‘2019 Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence and IoT’ by Connected World magazine.
2005 -2009: PhD in Agricultural Engineering and Human Computer Interaction, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
2003 - 2005: ME in Remote Sensing and GIS, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
1998 - 2002: BE in Computer Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
1994 - 1997: Associate Degree in Civil Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Precision, automated and autonomous agricultural machinery and systems
AI, machine vision, and field robotics for smart farming
Agricultural systems modeling, simulation and control
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