Professor
Iowa State University
Dr. Lie Tang, associate professor in Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University, who earned his BS in Electrical Engineering in China in 1989 and then received his PhD in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002, is an expert in developing Automation and Robotic systems for agricultural and biological applications. Dr. Tang’s innovative research program encompass a broad range of applied robotic systems including high-throughput robotic phenotyping, robotic weed control, autonomous mobile robots, operational path optimization, and machine vision algorithms for plant and animal monitoring and characterization. He is the founder of FieldRobo LLC, whose flagship product “Plant Stand Analyzer” has for the first time successfully revolutionized one of the most tedious and error-prone jobs in plant breeding – maize plant population counting at a large field scale. He is currently leading the development of the robotic technologies of two NSF MRI robotic instrument development projects for indoor (Enviratron) and infield (PhenoNet) high-throughput and high-accuracy plant phenotyping.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
10:20 AM – 10:25 AM