AGRIMEET2023

David Zilberman is a Professor and holds the Robinson Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Zilberman’s areas of expertise include agricultural and environmental policy, marketing, risk management, the economics of innovation, natural resources, water, biotechnology, and biofuels. He is a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. He received his B.A. in Economics and Statistics at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley.

Prof. Bažok works at the University of Zagreb as member of the Faculty of Agriculture. Renata is a full professor working 28 years in higher education. She was recipient of two fellowships including a USDA/ARS, Cochran, and Fulbright fellowship. Her research proficiencies are applied entomology, integrated pest management, plant protection, and phytopharmacy. Since 1993 she has been conducting research on integrated control of Colorado potato beetle, wireworms, sugar beet pests, oilseed rape pests, western corn rootworm, and other maize pests. Her publication includes 150 referred journal articles and over a 100 miscellaneous.Her current research interests are integrated pest management (IPM) in field crops (maize, sugar beet, potato) and insect resistance development. The overall research emphasis is focused on the development of safe, effective, and economical methods of IPM, and the biological/ecological interactions related to insect species and their environment. Under her mentorship, eight students completed their dissertations and currently she is mentoring three PhD students.

Dr. Theib Y. Oweis works at Independent consultant & former Director, Water, Land and Ecosystems, ICARDA. Formerly, a distinguished guest professor at Tottori University in Japan. From 1991-2021 worked for ICARDA as director, scientist, and research manager. Earlier, assistant professor in irrigation and drainage engineering at the University of Jordan. Received a BSc. degree in agriculture from Aleppo University, Syria in 1972, and MSc and Ph.D. in 1980 & 1983 in agriculture and irrigation engineering from Utah State University, Utah, USA. Has over 40 years of experience and leadership in international research, development, human capacity building, and the management of water for agriculture. Visited and conducted work in over 80 countries mainly for planning, designing, and implementing research projects in developing countries, training nationals, and mobilizing funds. Author of 86 refereed journal papers; 13 books; 34 book chapters; 110 proceedings; 58 research reports and 30 other publications in the areas of water productivity/use efficiency, supplemental irrigation, rainwater harvesting, deficit irrigation, salinity, adaptation to climate change, and the management of scarce water resources in agriculture in the dry environments.

Emmanouil Roditakis is Associate Professor of Entomology and Agricultural Pharmacology at the Hellenic Mediterranean University, School of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agriculture. Current projects include studies on Tuta absoluta, Bemisia tabaci, Bactrocera oleae and other emerging pests. In addition management tactics on Xylella fastidiosa vectors are investigated.

Debashis De is a Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, India. He received M.Tech from the University of Calcutta, in 2002 and a Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2005. He is Senior Member-IEEE, Fellow IETE, and Life member CSI. He was awarded the prestigious Boyscast Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to work at the Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK. He received the Endeavour Fellowship Award from 2008–2009 by DEST Australia to work at the University of Western Australia. He received the Young Scientist award both in 2005 at New Delhi and in 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey, from the International Union of Radio Science, Belgium. In 2016 he received the JC Bose research award by IETE, New Delhi. In 2019 he received Shiksha Ratna Award from the Govt. of West Bengal. He established the Center of Mobile cloud computing (CMCC) for IoT applications. He is Vice-chair of Dew Computing STC of the IEEE Computer Society. He published in 320 journals and 200 conference papers, Fifteen books, and filed ten patents. His h index is 37, the citation is 6500. Listed in the Top 2% Scientist List of the world, Stanford University, USA. His research interest is Cloud, IoT, and Quantum Computing for healthcare and agriculture.

Shikai Hu is Professor of China National Rice Research Institute. Dr. Shikai Hu is mainly engaged in genetic improvement of rice grain quality traits and molecular design breeding of new rice varieties. His current research focuses on the mining and breeding applications of key genes in rice, including rice nutritional quality, rice safety quality, rice appearance quality and disease resistance, etc. He received his Ph.D at Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). He has conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology- Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGDB-CAS), and Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, etc.

Dr. Ravishankar Narayana is an experienced Biologist with a demonstrated history of working in the area of agriculture research and development. He received the B.Sc. Agriculture (2003) and M.Sc. degree in Plant Pathology (2005) from the University of Agricultural Sciences, India and a Ph.D. degree in Plant Biology from the University of Torino, Italy, in 2011. Strong research professional skilled in multiple scientific disciplines, including pathology, entomology, molecular and microbiology, genetics, agronomy, and horticulture, as well as in quality control lab protocols, food production compliance and ornamental crop production. He secured third Rank in Postgraduate Diploma (Plant Protection) program at National Plant Protection Training Institute, India. As a Senior Research Fellow at Indian Institute of Horticultural Research he worked on Panama wilt of banana. He moved to Canada to work as Postdoctoral Scholar under Dr. Claudio Stasolla, University of Manitoba and then to Penn State University, USA. At Penn State, Ravishankar supported cutting edge research projects in collaboration with organizations such as the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Tanzania, Africa, and FAO. He also worked as a Biological Scientist at the Citrus Research and Education Centre, University of Florida, USA. He is currently working as Research and Development Manager at Fernlea Flowers Ltd, Florida, USA coordinating research in Florida, California and Ontario, Canada. His research interests include plant-pathogen/insect/environment interaction, transcription, and signal transduction, digital agriculture, integrated pest management. A passionate advocate for the use of data and technology to enhance agriculture production for small scale farmers. He has published several papers in peer reviewed journals and presented his work in international conferences. He is also an Editorial Board Member for Indian Journal of Environmental Sciences, Tropical Plant Research and International Journal of Advance Study and Research Work. And reviewer for more than 12 reputed journals.

Dr. Robert Hartmann is the group manager of the biomass fractionation group at the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes. His group focuses on the separation and fractionation of bio-masses, including pulps and seeds from various biogenic resources, and the up scaling of these processes to pilot plant stage. His background is in process engineering and inter-facial science and he currently works on the establishment interdisciplinary collaborations to combine the knowledge from different fields for the production of more sustainable materials.

Yang Bai is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Business, Shandong University of Technology,He received the Ph.D. degree in business administration from Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea, in 2019. His research interests include agricultural supply chain management, channel coordination, and marketing strategy.

Dr. Sultan Ahmad is an IEEE Member and faculty of Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Engineering and Sciences in Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al- Kharj, Saudi Arabia.He received his PhD (CSE) degree from Glocal University and Master of Computer Science and Applications degree from the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University, India with distinction marks in 2006. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He has around 70 accepted and published research papers and book chapters in reputed SCI, SCIE, ESCI and SCOPUS indexed journals and conferences. He has an Australian Patent in his name also. He has authored 4 books that are available on Amazon. His research area includes distributed computing, big data, machine learning and internet of things. He has presented his research papers in many national and international conferences. He is a Member of IEEE, IACSIT and Computer Society of India.

Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad in 2019. Currently, he is a postdoc researcher in the Department of Computer Engineering, at Jeju National University, South Korea, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Haripur, Pakistan. His area of research includes large-scale network simulation and modeling in Cloud computing, VM Migration and Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing, Blockchain-based Solution for lightweight IoT networks, and scheduling of delay-sensitive IoT applications in Fog and Edge based computing.

Professor Dr. Said Elshahat Abdallah is working as Professor of Agricultural Process Engineering, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. He was born on January 6, 1972. He obtained his Ph. D. degree in Technical Sciences in November 2005 from the Faculty of Design, Don State Technical University, Russia. He prepared many scientific literatures such as Engineering of Food Factories and Dairy Plants, Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, introduction to agricultural process engineering, Instrumentation, Properties and Testing of Engineering Materials, Fitting of Curves and Differential Equations and Differentiation & Integration, etc… He published more than forty research articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He supervised, has done and examined about thirty five M. Sc. and Ph. D. dissertations. He participated in several either local or international conferences on the topics of Agricultural Process Engineering. He contributed in the attendance of many meetings, workshops and training courses. He was awarded: Food Engineer of the Year Award – 2010; Excellence Award in International Scientific Publication – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 , 2019, 2020 and 2021; Arab Papers Published on Agriculture – 2012; Egypt 25 Foundation Award – 2012; Who's Who in the World – 2013, 2014 and 2015; 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century – 2013; Top 100 Engineers– 2013; International Biographical Center Man of The Year– 2013; Cambridge Certificate for Outstanding Engineering Achievement – 2013 and Cambridge Certificate for Outstanding Educational Achievement – 2013. He served as: Editor-in-Chief; Associate Editor; Editorial Board Member; Food Expert; Reviewer, etc… in more than seven hundred international peer-reviewed journals. He contributed as an Organizing Committee and Scientific Program Member of multiple conferences all over the world

Mr. Mohamed AbdelRahman is an Associate Professor, Division of Environmental Studies and Land Use (DESLU),National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Egypt. Ph.D. in soil science and agriculture chemistry to specialize in Pedology entitle "Assessment of Land Degradation and Land Use Planning by using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in Chamarajanagardistrict, Karnataka" obtained from university of Agricultural Science, UAS, GKVK, Bangalore, Karnataka, India., 2014.

Dr. Khaled Zayed is a researcher at Environmental Researcher and Medical Malacology division, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Giza, Egypt (affiliated to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research), and member at WHO-TBRI Collaborating Center for Schistosomiasis Control, Neglected Tropical Diseases (WHOCCs-NTDs). He is interested in the epidemiology of the hostparasite systems, mainly those concerning the schistosomes. His research includes studies on host-parasite relationships, Nanotechnology, immunology, host and parasite compatibility, parasite and host life-history traits, parasite and host phylogeography. He is also very interested in using molluscs as models for immunobiological investigations, chemicals, as bio-indicator for environmental toxicity and genotoxicity. He intends to expand area of interest to include marine molluscs and its medical importance as natural sources for drugs discovery. Training in Medical Malacology Dep., TBRI, Giza Egypt. Snails harmful to man and his domestic animals, Animal Reproduction Research Institute, Egypt. The use of modern immunological techniques in diseases diagnosis in farm animals, Electron Microscope Laboratory, TBRI, Egypt. Impact of electron microscopy on proper diagnosis and research prospects, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) Prevention of ionizing radiation and Al Azhar University, Center of Genetic Engineering, Egypt. DNA extraction, Karyotyping and Gel electrophoresis. Dr. Khaled attended many international conferences within Egypt and published 12 research papers in international journals.

Dr. Salma H. Abu Hafsa is Professor, Department of Livestock Research Department, Arid Lands Cultivation Research Institute, City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications (SRTA- City), Egypt. She completed her ph.D and M.Sc in poultry nutrition and a BS.c in fish farming at Alexandria University. Her main area of specialization is poultry nutrition, and her specific area of expertise includes broiler chicken, quail, rabbit, layers, feeding systems, management, production systems, feed additives, and gut health. She awarded a fully funded scholarship for her Ph.D. requirements at Iowa State University, USA. She also received a fully funded post-doc scholarship at NC State University, USA. She is a principal investigator in an Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) funded project for strategic projects in Egypt and also participated in an international research project for Marie Curie at Ovidius Constanta University, Romania. She is a member of many scientific societies in her career. In addition, she is the author/co-author of several publications on animal and poultry nutrition in prestigious national and international journals. She has guided M.Sc students in their dissertation or thesis work. She has published an eBook chapter in a reputed book registered in ISBN. Total job experience is 19 years.

Dr. Anugrah Tripathi is serving as Senior Technical Officer (Research), Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Directorate of Research, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education HQ, Dehradun, India (An autonomous body of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Govt. of India). He is also a faculty member of FRI (deemed to be) University, Dehardun for M.Sc. 'Forestry', M.Sc. 'Environment Management' and M.Sc. 'Cellulose and Paper Technology'. He has completed Ph.D. on the 'Forest Genetics' in Bamboo. He has eight years of field & lab research experience in molecular genetics, forest genetics, tree improvement, Forestry, Climate change, Forest and Environmental laws&Policies, Environment Management etc. He has published four research article peer-reviewed international journals, three book chapters on bamboo and participated in 26 international and national conferences, seminars, workshops, trainings. He is guiding several M.Sc. students for their project and dissertation work. He is associated in All India Coordinated Research Project on Bamboo run by FRI, Dehradun under the CAMPA funded scheme. Recently he has edited one book on the Bamboo. He has also worked in the National Bamboo Mission Funded project entitled 'Bamboo Genetic Evaluation, Improvement and Propagation'. He is a key resource person for the classes, practical sessions in the various topics in M.Sc., Ph.D. Compulsory courses and induction trainings organized by FRI, and Dehradun time to time. Recently completed DST sponsored 5 days training programme on "Climate Risk Management: Policy and Governance" at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. India.

Dr. Muraleedhar S. Aski is currently working at the Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India as Senior Scientist. He has expertise in Chickpea, Mungbean and lentils traditional and molecular breeding approaches. He has released more than 10 varieties for commercial cultivation in India. The significant one is the bio-fortified and early maturing (less than 100 days) lentil variety L 4717 (Pusa Agethi). His area of expertise is in bio-fortification, root trait analysis, phosphorus use efficiency, nutrition quality improvement and breeding for biotic stresses.

Harishankar is an Assistant Professor (Agricultural Economics) at Department of Social Sciences, S.Thangapazham Agricultural College, Affiliated with Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India. He completed his B.Sc. Agriculture, M.Sc. Agriculture in Economics and Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. His area of research interests are Production Economics, Natural Resource Economics and System Dynamics Modelling. He is a recipient of the ICSSR Doctoral Fellow Award in 2019 during his doctoral program. He has also an international research work experience in the field of system dynamics modelling of farming systems from 2019 to 2022 in International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad. His publication includes 25 articles in well-reputed national and international journals and 30 miscellaneous short communications.

Dr Neerja Rana obtained her B. Sc degree with medical subjects from Government Post Graduate college, Mandi (H.P) in 1991 and M.Sc in Biochemistry from Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, in 1994 in first class. She earned PhD in Forestry (Biochemistry) from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun in 1999. She has been awarded World Bank Fellowship by Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education during her PhD programme. Dr Rana joined Assistant Biochemist in the Department of Vegetable Science, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, Himachal Pradesh for about 9 years under All India Coordinated Project on Spices. She worked for the improvement of Ginger and turmeric under this project. Consequently she joined Department of Basic Science as Assistant Professor (Biochemistry) in August, 2009. She is actively engaged in UG and PG teaching, research and extension since last 21 years. Presently she is guiding M. Sc and PhD students in the field of Microbial biochemistry. She has about published 75 research papers, 15 book chapters, 4 manuals and presented 16 papers in National/ International seminar/symposia/workshop. Dr Rana is a life member of Indian society on spices, editor of International of Food science and fermentation technology. Presently, she handled two research projects under National Mission on Himalayan Research Scheme, one project with Himachal council of Science and technology and also working in various state projects. Dr Rana is also working on industrially important enzymes and for their application in food industries and eco-friendly technologies for improvement of horticultural crops/trees.

Shanker Suwan Singh is working as Assistant Professor (Regular Grade) in Food and Dairy Engineering Department at Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (India) since September 2011. He has got the degree of Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology in the year of 2017. He has completed M.Tech. in Agriculture Engineering (Agricultural Process and Food Engineering) from Allahabad Agricultural Institute- Deemed University, Allahabad (UP) India in the year of 2008 . He has got the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Food Technology from R.B.S. Engg. College Bichpuri, Agra-India in the year of 2000. After the completion of B.E. in Food Technology, He started his career as Production Executive in the Modern Food Industries (India) Ltd. Kanpur-India from march 2001 to march 2004 (3 yrs.). After the completion of M.Tech, he joined as Production Executive in Hindustan Uni Lever Ltd., Uppal, (A.P.-India) from July 2008 to July 2009 (1 year). After then he started his career in teaching in S.P. College of Food Technology, sawarde, chiplun, Ratnagiri, (M.S.) India from July 2009 to June 2011 (2yrs). He is member of Bioved Research society, Allahabad and Association of Food Science and Technology, Mysore, and Indian Dairy Association, New Delhi. He has 23 full paper conference proceeding. He has guided 40 PG and 4 Ph.D students in their dissertation or thesis work. He has published 7 Book chapters in reputed ISSN registered book. He authored 4 Books named as Wings of Reflection, The Book of Cheese, Aalekhon se Nikalti raahein, Aalekhon se Samwad. He has published 45 reserch paper in reputed national and international journal. He has more than 5000 editorial articles published in National Magazine (RNI Registered / ISSN), National Newspaper (RNI Registered) and Web Portal Blog (Govt Registered). All these articles are based on social, economic and scientific point of view. Through these editorial articles, they communicate positivity towards life in the students and give new direction to the society. Because a good teacher is also the builder of a good society. His articles are also based on science and technology. From these articles, students get to know about new product development and changes in technology and statistics. That's why Dr. Singh strengthens the self-power of the students through his writings so that the students can create new dimensions of success. The main newspapers, magazines, blogs in which their articles are published are as follows – Times of India, The Real Kashmir, The Hindu, Daily news activist, Uttam Hindu, Punjab Kesari, Hindi Milap, Amar Ujala, Dainik Jagran, Hindustan,etc. Magazines like - The Dairy Times, Youth Corner, kanti, The Natural News, Rashtra Samaj, etc. Blogs - Dainik Jagran Blog, Nav Bharat Times Blog, Times of India Blog, Amar Ujala Blog, etc. He received young scientist award-2012 & Dr. Bangali Baboo Medal-2016, from Bio ved research society, Allahabad-India. He has received Best Paper Award-2017 from NDRI Karnal-India. He has also received Distinguished Service Award-2018 from Allahabad State University-India. He has received Best Teacher Award-2019 from InSc, Bengluru,India. He received Hindi Service Award-2021 from reputed Indian Media Agency. He has also received many cultural activity related awards in the area of freelance writer. His Teaching/Research Experience is 18 years & Food Industry experience is 4 years. Total job experience is 22 years.

Peter Stephen Hermes is the Business development consultancy, formal AIESEC leaders and motivation Speakers that have been involved in implementing entrepreneur education and identifying investment opportunity that found in Tanzania and East Africa in General. Peter has been involved in making the community to explore the opportunity that found in the country and apart from working with the community Peter is involved in gems and metallic minerals business. His struggle in business brought him as the USA GIA Scholarship award winner and Tanzania GIA alumni volunteer president 2013 to 2014. When he was in his university studies with the cooperation of residential building service limited Peter started construction magazine directory in Tanzania. But Today Peter is the co-founder and managing director of Tanzania Mines, Gas and Oil forum and Terra Mining Company Limited dealing with Gold Mining. Peter have attended different conference as a Speaker based in Mining industry, real estate and agriculture. His professional education is based in business administration with finance and gemology.