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: Peltier 3108D
Phone: (701) 231-1810
Email: clairmont.clementson@ndsu.edu

Research Interests: Granular material handling, particle technology, bioprocessing, storage and processing of biological materials
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: NDSU,Lad Hall 311, Fargo, ND
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: Peltier 3108B
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

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 104E
Phone: (701) 561-2672
Email: billy.ram@ndsu.edu
Personal Site: https://billygrahamram@github.io
Expertise Areas: proximal hyper-spectral imaging in food and agriculture, robotics and imaging sensor application for plant trait estimations.

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: Precision Agriculture, artificial intelligence in food and agriculture, precision livestock production, meat quality non-destructive detection methods
Advises: AGT undergraduate students; ABEN, NRM, ECS graduate students

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: 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