Tao Lin Translator, Editor & Author

Dr. Shaochun Ma is a “Famous Ideological and Political Teacher” of China’s Ministry of Education. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the faculty of the College of Engineering by “Talents Program” of China Agricultural University.  His teaching and research focuses on Hydraulic and Pneumatic Transmission, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, machine intelligence for production agriculture, and agricultural systems modelling, simulation, and control.

Dr. Tao Lin is a a ZJU-100 Professor in the College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science at Zhejiang University. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on agricultural big data systems informatics and analytics, ranging from spatiotemporal analysis, remote sending, GIS, optimization modeling analysis, to decision support systems. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Prof. Enrong Mao teaches and conducts research on digital design and experimental method for tractor and harvester, automation, hydraulic control, human-factors engineering, and computerized simulation. He served as an Associate Dean of College of Engineering at China Agricultural University, P.R.China during 2002-2019.

Prof. Zhenghe Song teaches and conducts research on design and experimental method for tractor and harvester, automation, hydraulic control, and computerized simulation. He is currently the Dean of College of Engineering at China Agricultural University, P. R. China.

Prof K. C. Ting is Professor and Head Emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.  His teaching and research emphasize systematic human supervised cyber-physical integration of engineering and agriculture for advancement of complex agricultural production and processing systems. He served as a Vice Dean of International Campus, Zhejiang University, China during 2017-2020.