Feb, 2026. Dr. Seyit Uguz has been promoted to an Associate Professor, skipping the AP stage. Congratulations!
Aug, 2025. Our laboratory has moved to Michigan State University. Re-organization of the website is ongoing.
May, 2025. Talha has passed his M.S. thesis defense and will work for SD Soybean Processors.
Apr, 2025. Dr. Shalini Tiwari has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the University of the Ozarks. Congratulations!
Feb, 2025. Drs. Seyit Uguz and Serdar Ucok left our group and returned to their home country Turkey. Wishing them the best luck!
Nov, 2024. Our co-authored analysis paper has been accepted for publication in Nature Sustainability.
Aug, 2024. Youwen Yang joined our group as a Ph.D. student.
Jul, 2024. Dr. Noor Haleem got a position at the National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan and will work there as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science. Congratulations!
May, 2024. Noor Haleem passed his Ph.D. defense and is now a "Dr."
Feb, 2024. Drs. Seyit Uguz and Serdar Ucok joined the group as postdoctoral researchers.
Jan, 2024. Dr. Shalini Tiwari joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher.
Dec, 2023. Noor Haleem passed his written and oral exams and became officially a Ph.D. candidate.
Sep, 2023. Talha Khan joined the group as a M.S. student. He will work on the LPWAN cyber-security project.
May, 2023. Pradeep Kumar joined the group as a Ph.D. student. He will work on an FFAR-funded bioaerosol project, along with Dr. Hussain.
Jan, 2023. Augustina Osabutey passed her PhD dissertation defense and will be working as an Environmental Engineering for Barr Engineering Company in Bloomington, MN.
I am seeking two Ph.D. or M.S. students to join my research group in Summer or Fall 2026. The students will be enrolled in the Biosystems Engineering graduate program and will receive a 50% Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA), including health insurance and a tuition waiver. Prior engineering degrees are strongly preferred. Applicants without an engineering background may be required to complete prerequisite coursework as specified by the program.
Position 1 — Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture. This student will work on monitoring and process-based modeling of greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural sources. Prior experience in air quality, environmental monitoring, or instrumentation is highly desirable.
Position 2 — Drone-Based Water Quality Monitoring. This student will develop a drone-based monitoring system that integrates machine vision and gas-sensor-array–based olfaction to identify surface water quality anomalies. Prior experience in drone-based remote sensing, sensing technologies, or multimodal machine learning is highly desirable.
No position is currently available.
We also accept visiting scholars with backgrounds in biosystems/agricultural engineering, environmental engineering, atmospheric sciences, and data analytics. Please contact Dr. Yang at yangxuf1@msu.edu.