Affiliated Faculty and Staff

Director, Dickinson Research Extension Center
Programs at Dickinson REC include livestock, range land, agronomy and soil science
Email: chris.augustin@ndsu.edu
701-456-1103

Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Research interests: phased array antennas, conformal antennas, antenna designs for RFID, electromagnetic interference, computational electromagnetics, antennas in complex radiation environments, metamaterial-based antenna designs and electromagnetic source transformations
Email: Benjamin.braaten@ndsu.edu
701-231-7608

Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Research interests: Precision agriculture, applications of UAS/drones in agriculture, UASs/drone imagery analysis, GIS applications for precision agriculture
E-mail: paulo.flores@ndsu.edu
Phone: (701) 231-5348

Director, Big Data Pipeline Unit
Research interests: Data analysis, plant breeding, experimental design, agriculture, database administration
Email: ana.heilman.morales@ndsu.edu
701-231-6344

Department Head, Plant Sciences
Interests: Barley breeding, malting barley improvement program
Email: richard.horsley@ndsu.edu
701-231-8142

Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Research interests: Irrigation and drainage, evapotranspiration, hydrology, water quality, controlled environment agriculture
E-mail: xinhua.jia@ndsu.edu
Phone: (701) 231-6453

Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Research interests: Precision agriculture, artificial intelligence, robotics, automation and remote sensing agriculture, technologies for improving crop, livestock and food production
E-mail: xin.sun@ndsu.edu