Dr. Sahila Beegum is a research assistant professor at the Nebraska Water Center, University of Nebraska. She is also a visiting scientist at the USDA-ARS-Beltsville MD, Adaptive Cropping Systems laboratory. She received her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at the Cochin University of Science and Technology in 2011 and her master’s degree in Hydraulics Engineering at the College of Engineering Trivandrum in 2013. She completed her PhD studies in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in 2019. Her research interests lie in developing and improving the mathematical representation of soil-plant-atmospheric interactions. Her research focuses on various aspects of soil, including water and solute transport in unsaturated and saturated soil zones, the dynamics of soil carbon, nitrogen, and gas transport in soil, and greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural regions. She has also worked on enhancing the simulation modeling of plant processes, including photosynthesis, transpiration, and crop production quality. She has contributed to developing several publicly available simulation modeling tools, including the USDA-ARS-ACSL crop models and the Hydrus package for Modflow.
Dr. Muhammad Adeel Hassan is an ORISE Research Fellow at the USDA-ARS-Beltsville, MD, Adaptive Cropping Systems laboratory, focusing on the development of high-throughput systems for crop monitoring to assess their responses under stress conditions. He earned his PhD in Crop Breeding Genetics from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2019. Dr. Hassan's research interests encompass a range of topics in plant sciences, including plant phenomics, plant genomics, genomic selection, and remote sensing. His work is dedicated to advancing the methodologies used in monitoring and improving crop performance, particularly under various environmental stressors. His research aims to enhance the understanding of plant responses at the genetic and phenotypic levels, ultimately contributing to more resilient crops.
