Lan Yubin
2021-06-17

Lan Yubin, Ph.D., doctoral supervisor. Overseas Master Teacher of the Ministry of Education, Director and Chief Scientist of the National International Joint Research Center for Precision Agricultural Aviation Pesticide Spraying Technology, Professor and doctoral supervisor of South China Agricultural University, Adjunct Senior Researcher at USDA, Adjunct Senior Researcher at Texas A&M University Professor and doctoral Supervisor, Chairman of the Precision Agriculture and Aviation Branch of the International Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ISABE), Executive Vice-Chairman of the Aviation Branch of Agriculture of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CASAE) , appointed by the China Association for Science and Technology as Chief Science Communication Expert of National Agricultural Aviation Technology Discipline, Vice-Chairman of the AOPA Expert Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the National Aviation Plant Protection Science and Technology Innovation Alliance and Agricultural Aviation Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance.

He has long been engaged in the development and application research of precision agricultural aviation, aviation pesticide spraying technology and aerial remote sensing technology.

He has published more than 300 academic papers, including more than 140 SCI (EI)-indexed papers.

He has won the Outstanding Young Agricultural Engineer of Texas Chapter of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE), USA (1994)Lifetime Achievement Award in Agricultural Engineering of Texas Chapter of the Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (2012), Overseas Chinese in Agricultural Biology and Foods Lifetime Achievement Award (2013) and Distinguished Contribution Award (2014), Distinguished Service Award of the Institute of Engineers and United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Agency Agricultural Aviation Technology Center(2014) among other honors. While working for the USDA (2005-2014), he received the Distinguished Contribution Award of USDA Southern Plains Research Center in consecutive yearsand in 2015 received the CEAA Award for Outstanding Contribution to Agricultural Aviation, and in 2016 received the Scientific Chinese Person of the Year Award( (2015). He is currently serving as the deputy editor of Trans. of the ASABE and Applied Engineering in Agriculture, and the Editorial Board Member of Engineering in Agriculture.