Mukhtar Iderawumi Abdulraheem is presently a Member of the Centre for Advanced Agri-optoelectronic Research (CAAOR), and a PhD Scholar (Agricultural Engineering) at Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China, where he conducted various research works and experiments. He has to his credit more than sixty (60) publications in reputed journals, books, and conference proceedings. He has made presentations and attended over forty (40) conferences/webinars/seminars. He is a member of several professional bodies, among which are the Scholars Academic and Scientific Society (SASS), International Union of Soil Science (IUSS), Soil Science Society of Nigeria (SSSN), and American Association for Science and Technology (AASCIT). He is also a reviewer for some journals. His research interests include agronomy, agricultural engineering, plant mechanisms, remote sensing technology, advanced agricultural measurement technology systems, and FBG sensor technology.
Hongjun Chen is a member of the Centre for Advanced Agri-Optoelectronic Research (CAAOR) and a PhD Scholar (Agricultural Engineering) at the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China. His research interests include soil water content measurement, TDR applications, FDR techniques, and applications.
Linze Li is a member of the Centre for Advanced Agri-Optoelectronic Research (CAAOR) and a PhD Scholar (Agricultural Engineering) at the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China. His research interests include soil water content measurement and applications.
Abiodun Yusuff Moshood is a member of the Centre for Advanced Agri-Optoelectronic Research (CAAOR) and a PhD Scholar (Agricultural Engineering) at the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China. His research interests include soil nutrients measurement and applications.
Wei Zhang is a member of the Centre for Advanced Agri-Optoelectronic Research (CAAOR) and is currently a PhD Scholar (Agricultural Engineering) at the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China. His research interests includes sensor measurement and applications.
Yani Xiong is a master’s student at the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China, and a member of the Centre for Advanced Agri-optoelectronic Research (CAAOR). She is currently researching FBG sensor technology, monitoring, instrumentation, and automation.
Prof. Lateef Bamidele Taiwo graduated from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is currently a professor at the Institute of Agricultural Research &Training (IAR&T), Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria since 2008. His research interests are soil moisture measurement, soil pollution and nutrient loss, microbial fermentation and accelerated composting technology, plant-microbial interaction, etc. Professor Taiwo has supervised more than 20 graduate students, including 7 PhD candidates. He has successfully executed more than ten grants with significant results. He was the team leader for the Agricultural Development Programme on Monthly Technology Review Meeting (MTRM) and On-Farm Adaptive Research Team under the Research and Training support for World Bank-assisted ADPs-2002-2013. Prof Taiwo has published some research findings on the non-symbiotic nitrogen fixation potentials of some Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) with more than 50 paper publications and six conference papers, and he has participated in the compilation of 2 books. He is also a member of the Nigerian Soybean Association, the Chili Association, the Soil Science Society, the Biochar Initiative, and the American Society of Microbiology, and is the chairman of the Executive Committee of the United Nations-funded Global Environment Facility (Small Grant) project.
Dr. Aitazaz Farooque is working as a Full Professor and Associate Dean at the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). Aitazaz has earned two consecutive accelerated promotions in the last five years (Associate and Full Professor), based on his exceptional contributions to teaching engineering, scholarly endeavors, professional/community service, and the training of highly qualified personnel. Dr. Farooque is also leading the Centre of Excellence in Food Security and Sustainability at UPEI. Dr. Farooque’s research focuses on the fundamental understanding and development of state-of-the-art climate-smart agriculture technologies to improve soil health, increase farm profitability, and mitigate environmental risks for the Canadian agriculture industry. Dr. Farooque was selected as one of the top 125 researchers in Canada to receive the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Research Grant. Aitazaz has supervised/is supervising 13 PhD students, 16 MSc students, 4 post-doctoral fellows, 8 research associates, and over 30 undergraduate research students. Dr. Farooque has co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed journal articles, 8 book chapters, 80 conference proceedings, 70 industry presentations, and 35 keynote/invited talks at various conferences and professional events.
Jiandong Hu obtained a Ph.D. degree in optical engineering from the College of Information Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2005. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Atomic Physics, Lund University, Sweden, and from December 2018 to April 2019, as a Visiting Senior Professor with the Department of Bioresources Engineering, McGill University, Canada. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, China, where he has been since 1991. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He is the Principal investigator and funder of the Centre for Advanced Agri-Optoelectronic Research Group (CAAOR). His research interests include optical (localized) surface plasma resonance biosensors, advanced agricultural measuring technologies, applied atomic and molecular spectroscopy, and optoelectronic signals acquisition and processing.
