People

Office: Ladd Hall 101E
Email: thomas.bon@ndsu.edu

Teaches: ABEN 479/679 - Fluid Power Systems Design

Office: Northern Great Plains Research Lab, USDA-Ag Research Service, room 208
1701 10th Ave SW, PO Box 459, Mandan, ND 58554
Phone: (701) 667-3011
Email: i.cannayen@ndsu.edu

Research Interests: Biomass feedstock engineering, machine vision image processing application in agriculture, and agricultural processing and post-harvest engineering
Advises: ABEN, NRM, ECS graduate students

Office: Ladd Hall 101J
Phone: (701) 231-1810
Email: clairmont.clementson@ndsu.edu

Research Interests: Postharvest Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Food and Feed Processing, Equipment Design & Optimization
Advises: ABEN, AGT undergraduate students; ABEN, NRM, ECS graduate students

Office: Ladd Hall 101B
Phone: (701) 231-3268
Email: sulaymon.eshkabilov@ndsu.edu

Research Interests: Machine learning applications in data analysis, MEMS design and development, machine vision and image processing applications, adaptive control applications of dynamic systems.
Advises: ABEN undergraduate students; ABEN, NRM, ECS graduate students

Office: Ladd Hall 101F
Phone: (701) 231-8351
Email: xiaoyu.feng.1@ndsu.edu

Research Interests:
Advises: ABEN, AGT undergraduate students; ABEN, NRM, ECS graduate students

Office: Ladd Hall 104L
Phone: (701) 231-5348
Email: paulo.flores@ndsu.edu

Research Interests: Precision agriculture, applications of UASs/Drones in agriculture, UASs/dron imagery analysis, and GIS applications for precision agriculture
Advises: AGT undergraduate students; ABEN, NRM, ECS graduate students

Office: Ladd Hall 311
Email: sunil.gc@ndsu.edu

Expertise Areas:
Precision agriculture, artificial intelligence, computer vision, robotics in agriculture, hyperspectral imaging, high-throughput phenotyping, crop stress quantification, embedded systems, cloud computing , edge computing, remote sensing, Software, and smart farming technologies.

Office: Peltier 3108A
Phone: (701) 231-8610
Email: ademola.hammed@ndsu.edu

Office: Ladd Hall 101C
Phone: (701) 231-6453
Email: xinhua.jia@ndsu.edu

Research Interests: Tile drainage and subirrigation, hydrology, water management for sustainability
Advises: ABEN, AGT undergraduate students; ABEN, NRM, ECS graduate students

Office: Ladd Hall 104C
Phone: (701) 231-7118
Email: zhulu.lin@ndsu.edu

Research Interests: Managing complex, large-scale agricultural and hydrological systems for sustainable uses of soil of water resources
Advises: ABEN, AGT undergraduate students; ABEN, NRM, ECS graduate students

Office: Ladd Hall 104E
Phone: (701) 231-6273
Email: adrian.lund@ndsu.edu

Research Interests: Precision farming, remote sensing, phenomics, AI/ML based agricultural data collection, on-farm experimentation, and data analysis best practices.

My goal is to collaboratively develop effective in-class and remote learning opportunities in the field of advanced agricultural technology. I plan to leverage my 26 years of industrial agricultural biotechnology research experience to give the students of NDSU and the people of North Dakota the best possible tools and advice available.

Office: Ladd Hall 101K
Phone: (701) 231-7277
Email: ewumbua.monono@ndsu.edu

Research Interests: Application of engineering to the science of bioprocessing, biofuels, bioproducts, and food safety engineering
Advises: ABEN, AGT undergraduate students; ABEN, NRM, ECS graduate students

Peltier Institute for Advancement in Agricultural Technology
Office: Ladd Hall 104H
Phone: (701) 231-7269
Email: matthew.olhoft@ndsu.edu

Advises: AGT undergraduate students

Office: Ladd 101A
Phone: (701) 231-4190
Email: laxmi.prasad@ndsu.edu

Research/Specialty Interests: Cold Region Hydrology, Soil and Water Conservation, Agricultural Water Management, Water Quality, Frozen Soil Physics, Watershed Modeling

Office: Ladd 104F
Phone: (701) 231-5389
Email: rob.proulx@ndsu.edu

College of Engineering
EML 255C
Phone: (701) 231-8432
Email: scott.pryor@ndsu.edu

Office: Ladd Hall 104K
Phone: (701) 231-4122
Email: ahmed.rabia@ndsu.edu
Expertise Areas: Precision agriculture, soil health, UAS/drone imagery analysis, applications of UAS/drones in agriculture, satellite remote sensing for crop moitoring, GIS application for precision agriculture.

Office: Ladd Hall 101D
Phone: (701) 231-7268
Email: dean.steele@ndsu.edu
Research Interests: Development of water management practices and tools for improved crop production and natural resources management
Advises: ABEN, AGT undergraduate students; ABEN, NRM, ECS graduate students

Office: Ladd Hall 101H
Phone: (701) 231-5756
Email: xin.sun@ndsu.edu
Research Interests: AI, Robotics, and Remote Sensing
Advises: AGT undergraduate students; ABEN, NRM, ECS graduate students

Office: Ladd Hall 214
Phone: (701) 729-2562
Email: arjun.upadhyay@ndsu.edu

Expertise Areas: Robotics and artificial intelligence in agriculture, farm machinery & mechanization, Sensors & Instrumentation, precision agriculture, Remote sensing and IoT applications in agriculture.

Office: Ladd 214
Phone: (701) 231-6674
Email: ademola.ajayibanji@ndsu.edu
Responsibilities: Support Dr. Iris Feng's research.

Office: Ladd 311
Phone: (929) 451-4966
Email: kelvin.betitame@ndsu.edu
Responsibilities: Support Dr. Xin "Rex" Sun’s Precision Ag group in research, data collection, sensor maintenance, field visits, collaboration, lab management, and manuscript preparation.

Office: Ladd Hall 104B
Phone: (701) 231-7273
Email: julie.bietz@ndsu.edu
Responsibilities: Maintain student files, issue class permits, student liaison, new employee paperwork, timeslip processing

Office: Ladd Hall 101G
Phone: (701) 231-4302
Email: michael.cavo@ndsu.edu

Office: Ladd 300
Phone: (701) 231-7264
Email: jana.daeuber@ndsu.edu
Responsibilities: Maintaining departmental IT and assisting faculty with research

Office: Hultz Hall 273
Phone: (701) 231-6225
Email: susan.finneseth@ndsu.edu
Responsibilities: Grant support for School of Natural Resources | Ag & Biosystems Engineering | Microbiological Sciences

Office: Engineering 228
Phone: (701) 231-9676
Email: joel.hanson@ndsu.edu
Bison Advise Scheduling Link: www.ndsu.edu/undergraduate
Responsibilities: Academic Advisor for Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Precision Agriculture Technology & Management. Advises all freshman, sophomore and first semester transfer students in the ABEN department.

Office: Ladd 202
Phone: (701) 231-7155
Email: dongqing.lin@ndsu.edu
Responsibilities:

Office: Service Center/Pilot Plant
Phone: (701)
Email: kyle.d.radke@ndsu.edu
Responsibilities:

Office: Ladd Hall 104
Phone: (701) 231-5629
Email: sara.razi@ndsu.edu
Responsibilities: Assistant to the department chair, purchasing, reimbursements, department telephone administrator and key control officer.

Office: Peltier 1358
Phone: (701) 231-8602
Email: niloy.sarker@ndsu.edu
Responsibilities: Assist Bioprocessing Group faculty with research

Office: Ladd Hall 311
Email: ramita.shah@ndsu.edu
Responsibilities: Assist Dr. Flores' Precision Ag research group