Peter Ling - VITA

Associate Professor

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, December 1989.

M.S. Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, August 1984.

B.S. Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, December 1980.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

7/98-present Assistant Professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, The Ohio State University, OARDC.

9/89-6/98 Assistant Research Professor, Department of Bioresource Engineering, Cook College, Rutgers University.

9/89-present Member, Center for Controlled Environment Agriculture, Cook College-New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.

REGISTRATION

Professional Engineer, State of Texas.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Departmental Nominee. Nominated by Bioresource Engineering Department for the Best Teacher of The Year Award. 1998. Cook College, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey. New Brunswick, NJ.

Team Award for Excellence in Research. 1995; 1996. Cook College/ New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers- The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Research Award for Foreign Specialist. 1995. National Research Institute of Agricultural Engineering. Tsukuba, Japan.

Paper Award, June 24, 1992. American Society of Agricultural Engineers. The award was given to the top 2 percent technical papers published in Transactions of the ASAE or Applied Engineering in Agriculture.

TEACHING AND STUDY SUPERVISION

Seminar. Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering 850. Winter 1999.

Seed Science. Horticulture and Crop Science 420. Winter 1999. Guest Lecture.

Graduate advisor for 2 Ph.D. students; graduate committee member for 1 Ph.D. student.

RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS

Development of a machine vision based early plant stress detection system (12/98-11/00). Ohio Agriculture Research and Development Center. $19, 925.

NJ-NSCORT for Bioregenerative Life Support Systems (1/1/1996-6/30/1998). NASA. Co-PI, H.W. Janes, P.I. $1,000,000/yr. I am the P.I. of the Machine Vision Monitoring of Plant Stress project, $122,000/yr.

A Novel Genetic Transformation Technique for Plants (2/1/96-1/31/97). Commission on Science and Technology, State of New Jersey. P.I., Lisa Lee, Co-PI. $70,000.

RECENT PUBLICATION LIST

Monta, M., N. Kondo, K.C. Ting, G.A. Giacomelli, D.R. Mears, Y. Kim, and P.P. Ling. Harvesting end-effector for inverted single truss tomato production systems. Journal of JASM 60(6):97-104.

Li, Z., P.P. Ling, and G.A. Giacomelli. 1998. Machine vision monitoring of plant growth and motion. International Journal of Life Support & Biosphere Sciences. 5(2):263-270.

Giacomelli, G.A., P.P. Ling, and Jaco Kole. 1998. Determining nutrient stress in lettuce plant with machine vision technology. HortTechnology. 8(3):361-365.

Kondo, N., Y. Nishitsuji, P.P. Ling and K.C. Ting. 1996. Visual feedback guided robotic cherrytomato harvesting. Transactions of the ASAE, volume 39(6):2331-2338.

Ling, P.P. and V.N. Ruzhitsky. 1996. Segmentation techniques for tomato seedling quality inspection. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research, volume 65:85-95.

Ling, P.P., Z. Cheng and D.J. Musacchio. 1995. Quantification of somatic coffee embryo growth. Transactions of the ASAE, volume 38(6):1911-1917.

Hashmi, S., P.P. Ling, M.L. Reed, R.R. Gaugler and W.S. Trimmer. 1995. A new technique for genetic transformation of nematodes. BioTechniques, volume 19(5):766-770.

Ling, P.P., G.A. Giacomelli and T.P. Russell. 1995. Monitoring of plant development in controlled environment with machine vision. Advances in Space Research, volume 18(4-5):101-112.

Ting, K.C., P.P. Ling and G.A. Giacomelli. 1995. Research on flexible automation and robotics for plant production at Rutgers University. Advances in Space Research, volume 18(1-2):175-180.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SOCIETIES

Vice chair, Information and Electrical Technologies Division, ASAE. 1998-1999

Associate editor, Transactions of the ASAE and Applied Engineering in Agriculture.1996-.

Chairman, Information and Electrical Technologies IET-312 (Machine Vision) committee, ASAE, 1994-1995.

Chairman, Structures and Environment SE-303 (Environment of Plant Structures) committee, ASAE, 1995-1996.

Program committee Member. 1998. SPIE International Symposium on Industrial and Environmental Monitors and Biosensors.

Technical reviewer for 7 refereed journal and granting agencies.

Participating in 3 USDA Regional Committees: NE-164, NCR-101, NE-179.

Member of 4 following professional societies: ASAE, ASME, SPIE and TCA.