Brief Resume<\/h2>\n<\/header>\nEducation<\/h4>\n\n- Ph.D. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering<\/strong>, North Dakota State University, August 2009<\/li>\n
- M.S. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering<\/strong>, Iowa State University, August 2006<\/li>\n
- M.Engg. Agricultural systems and Engineering,<\/strong> Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, August 2004<\/li>\n
- Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing<\/strong>, CDAC\u2019s Advanced Computer Training School, Ahmadabad (Ministry of IT, Govt. of India), January 2002<\/li>\n
- B. Tech.<\/strong> Agricultural Engineering, MPKV, Rahuri-India, June 2001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Honors, Awards, Fellowships<\/h4>\n\n- 2024 Early Career Excellence Award, <\/strong>College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences<\/li>\n
- 2024 Team Interdisciplinary Award, <\/strong>College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (Perennial Crops Spray Application Technology Team- M. Moyer, G.-A. Hoheisel, L. Khot).<\/li>\n
- 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award, <\/strong>Dr. A.S. College of Agriculture Engineering, MPKV, Rahuri, India<\/li>\n
- 2022 Outstanding Associate Editor, <\/strong>American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)<\/li>\n
- 2022 National Excellence in Multistate Research Award \u2018S1069: Research & Extension for Unmanned Aircraft Systems\u2019 <\/b><\/strong>(Technical Committee Chair: Lav Khot).<\/li>\n
- 2021 Fruit + Vegetable 40 Under 40, Class of 2021, <\/strong>Fruit Growers News (2021)<\/li>\n
- 2019 6th CIGR Agricultural Mechanization Next Leaders Class, Germany. CIGR <\/strong>[International Commission of Agriculture & and Biosystems Engineering]<\/li>\n
- 2018 New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research, <\/strong>Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, Washington DC (2018)<\/li>\n
- 2018 Outstanding Reviewer, <\/strong>Biosystems Engineering<\/li>\n
- 2018, 2015 Outstanding Reviewer, <\/strong>Computers and Electronics in Agriculture\u00a0
\n<\/strong><\/li>\n- 2010 Outstanding Reviewer,<\/strong> Information & Electrical Technology Division of ASABE journals<\/li>\n
- 2008 Frank Bain Dissertation Fellowship<\/strong>, North Dakota State University<\/li>\n
- 2003 Special Partial Scholarship<\/strong>, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand<\/li>\n
- 1999, 2000 Brihad Bhartiya Samaj Merit-cum-Scholarship Awards <\/strong>during B. Tech. (Agricultural Engineering)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Professional Memberships and Activities<\/h4>\n\n- International Society for Horticultural Science (Since 2017)<\/strong>\n
\n- Chair<\/strong>, \u2018Mechanization, Digitization, Sensing and Robotics Working Group\u2019 (2018-2022)<\/li>\n
- Chair<\/strong>, \u2018Precision Horticulture Engineering Working Group\u2019 (2017-2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (Since 2005)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Associate Editor<\/strong>, ASABE Transactions<\/li>\n
- Past Chair, <\/b>ITSC-348 Electromagnetics & Spectroscopy (2019-2021)<\/li>\n
- Past-Chair, Chair, Secretory<\/strong>, ITSC-01\/02 Executive Committee (2020-24)<\/li>\n
- Committees<\/strong>: <\/b>PM54: Precision Agriculture; MS60: Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Agriculture; IET312: Machine vision<\/li>\n
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (Since 2016)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- International Society of Precision Agriculture (Since 2012)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Life Member of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (Since 2004)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Invited Member of Alpha Epsilon Honor Society (2007)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Toastmasters International: Competent Communicator (2011)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Multi-state Project<\/strong>\n
\n- S-1069: Research & extension for UAS applications in U.S. agriculture and natural resources (Secretary 2019; Chair 2021<\/em><\/strong>)<\/li>\n
- NCERA 180: Precision agriculture technologies for food, fiber, and energy production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Associate Editor<\/strong>, CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, Springer Nature (Since 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\n
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Lav.Khot@wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\nDirector, AgWeatherNet<\/a> | Professor of Precision Agriculture<\/p>\nCollege of Agricultural, Human,
\nand Natural Resource Sciences
\nWashington State University
\nPhone: 509-786-9302\/335-5638<\/p>\n
\nGoogle Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n
Brief Resume<\/h2>\nEducation<\/h4>\n
Ph.D. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering<\/strong>, North Dakota State University, August 2009
M.S. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering<\/strong>, Iowa State University, August 2006
M.Engg. Agricultural systems and Engineering,<\/strong> Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, August 2004
Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing<\/strong>, CDAC\u2019s Advanced Computer Training School, Ahmadabad (Ministry of IT, Govt. of India), January 2002
B. Tech.<\/strong> Agricultural Engineering, MPKV, Rahuri-India, June 2001<\/p>\nHonors, Awards, Fellowships<\/h4>\n
2024 Early Career Excellence Award, <\/strong>College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences
2024 Team Interdisciplinary Award, <\/strong>College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (Perennial Crops Spray Application Technology Team- … » More …<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1351,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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- Ph.D. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering<\/strong>, North Dakota State University, August 2009<\/li>\n
- M.S. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering<\/strong>, Iowa State University, August 2006<\/li>\n
- M.Engg. Agricultural systems and Engineering,<\/strong> Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, August 2004<\/li>\n
- Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing<\/strong>, CDAC\u2019s Advanced Computer Training School, Ahmadabad (Ministry of IT, Govt. of India), January 2002<\/li>\n
- B. Tech.<\/strong> Agricultural Engineering, MPKV, Rahuri-India, June 2001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Honors, Awards, Fellowships<\/h4>\n
- \n
- 2024 Early Career Excellence Award, <\/strong>College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences<\/li>\n
- 2024 Team Interdisciplinary Award, <\/strong>College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (Perennial Crops Spray Application Technology Team- M. Moyer, G.-A. Hoheisel, L. Khot).<\/li>\n
- 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award, <\/strong>Dr. A.S. College of Agriculture Engineering, MPKV, Rahuri, India<\/li>\n
- 2022 Outstanding Associate Editor, <\/strong>American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)<\/li>\n
- 2022 National Excellence in Multistate Research Award \u2018S1069: Research & Extension for Unmanned Aircraft Systems\u2019 <\/b><\/strong>(Technical Committee Chair: Lav Khot).<\/li>\n
- 2021 Fruit + Vegetable 40 Under 40, Class of 2021, <\/strong>Fruit Growers News (2021)<\/li>\n
- 2019 6th CIGR Agricultural Mechanization Next Leaders Class, Germany. CIGR <\/strong>[International Commission of Agriculture & and Biosystems Engineering]<\/li>\n
- 2018 New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research, <\/strong>Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, Washington DC (2018)<\/li>\n
- 2018 Outstanding Reviewer, <\/strong>Biosystems Engineering<\/li>\n
- 2018, 2015 Outstanding Reviewer, <\/strong>Computers and Electronics in Agriculture\u00a0
\n<\/strong><\/li>\n- 2010 Outstanding Reviewer,<\/strong> Information & Electrical Technology Division of ASABE journals<\/li>\n
- 2008 Frank Bain Dissertation Fellowship<\/strong>, North Dakota State University<\/li>\n
- 2003 Special Partial Scholarship<\/strong>, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand<\/li>\n
- 1999, 2000 Brihad Bhartiya Samaj Merit-cum-Scholarship Awards <\/strong>during B. Tech. (Agricultural Engineering)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Professional Memberships and Activities<\/h4>\n
- \n
- International Society for Horticultural Science (Since 2017)<\/strong>\n
- \n
- Chair<\/strong>, \u2018Mechanization, Digitization, Sensing and Robotics Working Group\u2019 (2018-2022)<\/li>\n
- Chair<\/strong>, \u2018Precision Horticulture Engineering Working Group\u2019 (2017-2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (Since 2005)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Associate Editor<\/strong>, ASABE Transactions<\/li>\n
- Past Chair, <\/b>ITSC-348 Electromagnetics & Spectroscopy (2019-2021)<\/li>\n
- Past-Chair, Chair, Secretory<\/strong>, ITSC-01\/02 Executive Committee (2020-24)<\/li>\n
- Committees<\/strong>: <\/b>PM54: Precision Agriculture; MS60: Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Agriculture; IET312: Machine vision<\/li>\n
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (Since 2016)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- International Society of Precision Agriculture (Since 2012)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Life Member of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (Since 2004)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Invited Member of Alpha Epsilon Honor Society (2007)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Toastmasters International: Competent Communicator (2011)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Multi-state Project<\/strong>\n
- \n
- S-1069: Research & extension for UAS applications in U.S. agriculture and natural resources (Secretary 2019; Chair 2021<\/em><\/strong>)<\/li>\n
- NCERA 180: Precision agriculture technologies for food, fiber, and energy production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Associate Editor<\/strong>, CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, Springer Nature (Since 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nLav.Khot@wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
Director, AgWeatherNet<\/a> | Professor of Precision Agriculture<\/p>\n
College of Agricultural, Human,
\nand Natural Resource Sciences
\nWashington State University
\nPhone: 509-786-9302\/335-5638<\/p>\n
\nGoogle Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\n
Brief Resume<\/h2>\n
Education<\/h4>\n
Ph.D. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering<\/strong>, North Dakota State University, August 2009
M.S. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering<\/strong>, Iowa State University, August 2006
M.Engg. Agricultural systems and Engineering,<\/strong> Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, August 2004
Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing<\/strong>, CDAC\u2019s Advanced Computer Training School, Ahmadabad (Ministry of IT, Govt. of India), January 2002
B. Tech.<\/strong> Agricultural Engineering, MPKV, Rahuri-India, June 2001<\/p>\nHonors, Awards, Fellowships<\/h4>\n
2024 Early Career Excellence Award, <\/strong>College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences
2024 Team Interdisciplinary Award, <\/strong>College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (Perennial Crops Spray Application Technology Team- … » More …<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1351,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/khot-precision-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Chair<\/strong>, \u2018Precision Horticulture Engineering Working Group\u2019 (2017-2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Chair<\/strong>, \u2018Mechanization, Digitization, Sensing and Robotics Working Group\u2019 (2018-2022)<\/li>\n
- 2024 Team Interdisciplinary Award, <\/strong>College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (Perennial Crops Spray Application Technology Team- M. Moyer, G.-A. Hoheisel, L. Khot).<\/li>\n
- M.S. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering<\/strong>, Iowa State University, August 2006<\/li>\n