Media

Year 2025

1. UGA Public Service & Outreach: "Cultivating Georgia-focused scholars through New Faculty Tour" (7/2025) [link]

2. MSU MAFES Discovers: "If the Jetsons Could See Us Now: Berry Smart" (6/2025) [link]

3. Yang, Y., Wijewardane, N. K.*, Harvey, L., & Zhang, X. (2025). Real-time non-invasive detection of skinning damage on sweetpotato storage roots. North Mississippi Research and Extension Center 2024 Annual Report. [link]

4. ASABE Resource: "Getting a grip on automated blackberry harvesting" (3/2025) [link]

5. MSU Research Impact: "Automated Agriculture" (3/2025) [link]

Year 2024

6. MSU MAFES Discovers: "Bird’s Eye View: Satellite-based tool to take guesswork out of soil sampling" (12/2024) [link]

7. MSU MAFES Discovers: "From Field to Future: MAFES teams leading the charge in climate-smart row crop solutions" (12/2024) [link]

8. The Associated Press: "Autonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops and workers who harvest them?" (10/2024) [link]

9. MSU Newsroom/Future Farming: "MSU professors developing autonomous soil health-sensing system with $750K grant" (8/2024) [link] [link]

10. MSU Newsroom/Starkville Daily News: "MSU scientists use $1M grant to ‘get a grip’ on automated blackberry harvesting" (8/2024) [link]

11. MSU Newsroom: "MSU tackles climate change threats to soybean production through collaborative $6M NSF grant" (7/2024) [link]

12. Gharakhani, H., Martins, V. S., Wijewardane, N. K., Zhang, X., & Thomasson, J. A. (2024). Current AI Research at Mississippi State University. ASABE Resource Special Issue “AI in Agriculture” (Grift, T. E., & Rodríguez, L. F. ed.). (6/2024) [link]

13. MSU MAFES Discovers: "Berry Picking Bots: MSU scientists have an “eye” on blackberry harvesting" (5/2024) [link]

14. MSU Newsroom: "MSU students to visit UK this June to further autonomous agriculture research after hosting recent exchange visitors" (5/2024) [link]

15. MSU ABE Newsletter Spring 2024: "Faculty Spotlight" (4/2024) [link]

Year 2023

16. Cotton Grower: "MS State Engineering System Puts Autonomous Cotton Harvesting Within Reach" (11/2023) [link]

17. WCBI: "Mississippi State researchers develop prototype to advance cotton industry" (11/2023) [link]

18. MSU AAI: "Market Day Report talks MSU's Agricultural Autonomy Institute!" (10/2023) [link]

19. MSU Newsroom: "‘End-effector,’ robotic system developed by MSU engineering team puts autonomous cotton harvesting within reach" (10/2023) [link]

20. WCBI: "MSU’s Agricultural Autonomy Institute revolutionizes future of agriculture" (10/2023) [link]

21. MSU The Graduate School Newsletter: "Awards: Thevathayarajh Thayananthan" (10/2023) [link]

22. MSU Maroon Memo/MAFES Discovers: "Satellite-based tool in development by MSU researchers takes guesswork out of soil sampling" (10/2023) [link]

23. 2023 SEC Emerging Scholars (8/2023) [YouTube link]

Year 2021

24. MSU ABE news: "New ABE Assistant Professor, Dr. Xin Zhang, Wins Pellizi Prize" (11/2021) [link]

25. Inside ASABE October 2021 news: “ASABE Members Win Pellizi Prize” (10/2021) [link]

26. Pourreza, A.* & Zhang, X. (2021). Almond yield forecasting by drone – Virtual orchard technology captures light interception for improved crop forecasting. West Coast Nut. [link]

Year 2019

27. WSU Insider News: “Precision pruning can help machines safely, efficiently harvest apples” (7/2019) [link]

Year 2018

28. Good Fruit Grower Magazine Article: “Shaking it up in the orchard: WSU continues work on tiered shake-and-catch harvester” (8/2018) [link]