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Ronaldo Maghirang

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Head and Professor
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Cody M. Allen

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Assistant Professor
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  • Dr. Allen\'s research focuses improving the productivity, efficiency, and safety of modern agriculture. His primary interests are in controls and sensing for automated on- and off-highway machine systems, precision and digital agriculture technologies, and in-use machinery testing. His group also conducts engine and powertrain research by exploring new technologies, architectures, and fuels that reduce non-renewable energy consumption and harmful emissions.
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Luciano Alves de Oliveira

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Assistant Professor
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Rabin Bhattarai

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Associate Professor
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  • Dr. Bhattarai discovers innovative ways to clean polluted waters. He uses laboratory and field experiments, along with computer simulation models, to study how various factors impact water quality.
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Girish Chowdhary

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Associate Professor
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  • Dr. Chowdhary is advancing how to design, build, and automate collaborative aerial and ground robotic systems. He advances machine learning and decision-making algorithms to enable drones and ground robots to collaboratively manage agricultural tasks. His work improves the robustness of robots utilized in fields, for agriculture, defense, home-land security, and remote environment exploration.
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Maria L. Chu

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Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs
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  • Dr. Chu investigates how climate and land-use changes affect water quantity and quality in order to achieve a sustainable agro-ecosystem where productivity, environmental soundness, and social relevancy are optimized. She models the impacts of changes in environmental stressors on ecosystem services, and provides economic and social endpoints to these impacts.
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Richard Cooke

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Professor
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  • Dr. Cooke is increasing the efficiency of drainage-related best management practices, and developing protocols for their design. He also develops techniques to simplify the extraction of elevation data from a pulsed laser system (LiDAR) images, and creates rainfall harvesting systems to extend cropping into the dry season in Sierra Leone.
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Paul C. Davidson

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Associate Professor
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  • Dr. Davidson improves and maintains surface water systems by reducing the transport of nutrients, pathogens, and pesticides from agricultural systems to waterways. He works with farmers and other stakeholders to develop solutions that protect the quality of our water resources while maintaining efficient farming operations.
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Angela Green-Miller

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Associate Professor
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  • Dr. Green advances our understanding of animal husbandry issues in order to address production and sustainability challenges. Using a systematic “speaking animal” approach to explore the interactions of animals with their environment, she designs housing systems and management strategies to simultaneously promote animal welfare and more efficient resource utilization.
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Tony E. Grift

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Professor
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  • Dr. Grift develops robotics and sensing technologies that aid agriculture with efficiently reaching its production potential while minimizing its environmental impact. The grand challenge is to set humanity on a trajectory where it can feed itself sustainably, indefinitely, and from renewable sources alone.
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Jorge A. Guzman

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Research Assistant Professor
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Zach Huffman

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Assistant Professor of Practice in Construction Management
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Salah F. Issa

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Assistant Professor
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Travis Johnson

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Instructor
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Prasanta K. Kalita

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Professor
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Mohammed Kamruzzaman

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Assistant Professor
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  • Our mission is to drive innovation at the intersection of optical sensing such as hyperspectral imaging, NIR spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy, artificial intelligence, and organic nanozyme engineering to develop sustainable, data-driven solutions for real-time quality assessment, detection of toxic molecules, and characterization of food, bioproducts, and bioprocesses for advancing food security, safety, and environmental sustainability.


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Brendan M. Kuhns

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Instructor
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Laurie B. Leonelli

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Assistant Professor
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  • Dr. Leonelli integrates genomics, proteomics, and synthetic biology to engineer plants with improved photosynthesis. She investigates the natural diversity in photosynthetic enzymes from non-model and emerging model species to source materials for manipulating energy harvesting and dissipation in crops.
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Amir Malvandi

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Assistant Professor
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Gopu Nair

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Teaching Assistant Professor
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Kent D. Rausch

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Professor
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  • Modern grain processes produce a high-valued primary product with an assortment of low-valued coproducts. Dr. Rausch improves nutrient separation in processing streams so the resulting coproducts are better suited to the end user and more valuable to the producer. Improved separation increases efficiency, reduces the environmental footprint, and increases sustainability of grain processing.
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John F. Reid

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Research Professor
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Luis Rodriguez

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Associate Professor
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  • Dr. Rodriguez specializes in biological system modeling, simulation, and analysis. He works to ensure that complex food and agricultural systems can operate efficiently, with minimal wastage, while managing costs for the benefit of both society and the environment.

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Josie M. Rudolphi

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Associate Professor
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Sunoj Shajahan

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Assistant Professor
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Vijay Singh

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Founder Professor
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Pawan Singh Takhar

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Professor of Food Engineering
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  • Dr. Takhar explores polymer mechanics coupled with movement of heat, moisture, and oil in porous foods to improve their quality during processing. He develops and solves multiscale mathematical models to improve food quality and processing technologies.

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Mei Tessum

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Research Assistant Professor
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  • Dr. Mei Tessum\'s research focuses on air pollution monitoring, environmental exposure modeling, and aerosol measurement and control technology. Specifically, she is interested in developing air quality monitoring strategies to collect high quality air pollution data, and producing accurate air pollution exposure estimates for health studies in both ambient and occupational settings using advanced statistical and machine learning methods. Her research also involves developing new approaches to measure aerosol properties and improving control methods for respirable particles. '); document.write('Before joining UIUC, Dr. Tessum was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, the University of Washington in Seattle, and a staff epidemiologist at the China National Institute of Environmental Health in Beijing, China. She received a NIEHS traineeship through Biostatistics, Epidemiologic, and Bioinformatic Training in Environmental Health (BEBTEH), University of Washington (2016-2019), and a NIOSH traineeship through Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety, University of Minnesota. She also received a data science fellowship at Insight Data Science (2019). Dr. Tessum \'s formal training includes a M.S. and Ph.D. in environmental health with focus in exposure science and industrial hygiene, respectively, from the University of Minnesota, and a medical degree from the Tongji Medical College in Wuhan, China.
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Ann-Perry Witmer

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Teaching Associate Professor
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Yuanhui Zhang

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Founder Professor
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  • My lab conducts research in environment and energy. We advance science and develop technology in conversion of biowaste (including food waste, algal bloom, sludge and animal waste) into biocrude oil and other biochemicals via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). The HTL biocrude is then upgraded into drop-in transportation fuels via catalytic hydrotreating and distillation. We also research on treatment, recovery and reuse of nutrients in the post-HTL wastewater (PHW) by means of membrane, electrochemical and algal culture. Algal/crop culture in PHW potentially amplifies the biomass production by using the nutrients in the original biowaste multiple times. This paradigm is referred to as \"Environment-Enhancing Energy\", aimed at achieving zero-carbon emission energy production.

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    My lab also conducts research in room air distribution and air cleaning technologies. (https://www.routledge.com/Indoor-Air-Quality-Engineering/Zhang/p/book/9781566706742). We have developed a non-intrusive, full scale, and real-time measurement technology referred to as Volumetric Particle Tracking Velocimetry (VPTV). This real-time, 3-D VPTV technology is featured by integrating smart cameras, GPU and parallel computing. It has been successfully used in research projects of air quality and disease transmission in indoor environment such as aircraft cabins and air cleaning for vehicles. In the air cleaning area, we conduct research on aerodynamic particle separation technologies utilizing low-pressure and low-turbulent intensity, instead of the conventional theory using high-pressure and high-turbulence, to improve particle separation and energy efficiency.

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