Meet the editors

Dr. Redmond R. Shamshiri is a scientist at the Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie working toward digitization of agriculture for food security. He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural automation with a focus on control systems and dynamics. His research fields include distributed collision avoidance for autonomous navigation of agricultural mobile robots, LPWAN sensors for digital farming applications, and

optimization of controlled environment crop production systems. He is currently working on the adaptation of the 5G technology for reducing yield losses from potato fields.

Dr. Sanaz Shafian is an Assistant Professor of Smart Farming at Virginia Tech University. Prior to this, she was an assistant professor at the University of Idaho. Her expertise lies in remote sensing research, with a focus on using advanced technologies and methodologies for economically and environmentally sustainable crops and tree monitoring and management. She integrates satellite/drone images and AI to develop methodologies

for environmental monitoring, crop modeling, and water and nutrient conservation and she has published widely on these topics. She has been involved in several USDA projects. At the University of Idaho, she led an educational and outreach project to initiate a Precision Agriculture certificate. Sanaz is currently working on two agriculture-related projects, one mapping invasive plants in temperate forests and evaluating forest health in Virginia and another looking at developing smart tools for the early detection of soybean diseases.
