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Dr. Sindhuja Sankaran Phenomics Lab

Brief Resume

Education

  • Ph.D. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, North Dakota State University, ND
  • M.S. Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, IA
  • M.S. Environmental Science, Anna University, India
  • B.S. Zoology, University of Madras, India

Professional Experience

  • Associate Professor, Washington State University, July 2019 – Present
  • Assistant Professor, Washington State University, June 2013 – June 2019
  • Adjunct Professor of Biology, Polk State College, January 2013 – May 2013
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Citrus Research & Education Center, University of Florida, August 2009 – May 2013
  • Research Associate, Environmental Engineering & Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, January 2003 – June 2004
  • Project Associate, Institute of Ocean Management, Anna University, India, June 2002 – December 2002


Sindhuja.Sankaran@wsu.edu
(509) 335 – 8828
FAX: (509) 335 – 2722

Google Scholar Profile
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Office: LJ Smith Hall, Room 202
Lab: Vogel Hall, Room 136
Biological Systems Engineering
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-6120

 

Honors and Awards

  • International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) Medal, 2022.
  • Outstanding Associate Editor, ASABE Journals, 2022.
  • ASABE Leadership Citation, 2022.
  • Certificate of Excellence as an Associate Editor, ASABE Journals, 2022.
  • Early Career Excellence Award, College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, WSU, 2022.
  • Outstanding Reviewer, Information Technology, Sensors & Control Systems (ITSC), ASABE, 2021.
  • Outstanding Reviewer, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2015.
  • Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture for year 2013.
  • ASABE Superior Paper Award, 2013.
  • Invited member of Alpha Epsilon.
  • Invited member of Gamma Sigma Delta.
  • Frank Bain Scholarship, 2008-2009.
  • North Dakota State University, Masters of Success’s ‘2008 Student of the Year’ Award.
  • Lectureship eligibility through National Educational Test (NET) for the entrants in the teaching profession conducted jointly by University Grants Commission (UGC) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, 2002.
  • Anna University, First Rank, MS in Environmental Science, 2002.
  • University of Madras, Fourth Rank, BS in Zoology, 2000.

Professional Memberships

  • North American Plant Phenotyping Network (NAPPN)
  • National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB)
  • American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

Media Releases/Trade Magazines

  • University welcomes 81 students from 23 states for summer research. WSU Insider. 20 June 2023.
  • WSU hosts summer undergraduate researchers from across the United States. WSU Insider. 17 June 2022.
  • Excellence across CAHNRS honored in ’22 Faculty and Staff Awards. CAHNRS News. 18 March 2022.
  • WSU summer undergraduate research featured at virtual symposia. WSU Insider. 27 July 2021
  • Who you gonna call? Rotbusters! Sensors sniff out plant diseases. ASABE Resource Magazine, May/June Issue, 2020, Update, pp. 18.
  • Satellite monitoring could be next leap for crop management. Spudman. 26 November, 2019.
  • Satellites show promise as tool for monitoring crop development. WSU News. 18 November, 2019.
  • Western Innovator: Sensors ‘smell’ plant diseases. Capital Press. 29 August, 2019.
  • New global fellowship program grows discoveries, partnerships in ag research. CAHNRS News. 16 August, 2019.
  • Partners for better spuds: WSU’s 2019 Othello Field Day. CAHNRS News. 28 June, 2019.
  • Artificial intelligence and precision farming: does efficiency mean sustainability? Filling Space. 29 May, 2019.
  • Images from space could help farmers grow better wheat varieties. CAHNRS News. 23 May, 2019.
  • America can’t solve its migrant labor crisis with automation. Engadget. 31 May, 2018.
  • Police, scientists, hope to use drones for innovation. The Daily Evergreen. 20 March, 2018.
  • $1.5M for specialty crop research to improve fruits, vegetables, farming. WSU News. 13 October, 2017.
  • Why do feet smell? Ask Dr. Universe, science-education project based out of Washington State University and University Communications. 26 September, 2017.
  • Plant biologists welcome their robot overlords. Nature Magazine. 26 January 2017, 541, 445-446. doi: 10.1038/541445a.
  • BSE’s Sankaran presents at inaugural expo. CAHNRS News. December 2016.
  • High-throughput crop phenotyping technologies. ASABE Resource Magazine, May/June Issue, pp. 24-25.
  • Washington Scientists Forge Ahead Amid Uncertainty. Xconomy. 10 November 2016.
  • WSU researchers aim to make farming more efficient. The Spokesman-Review. 28 April 2016.
  • WSU researchers aim to make farming more efficient. Columbia Basin Herald. 28 April 2016.
  • Drones with Multispectral Cameras Bring Efficiency to High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping. BioPhotonics, April 2016. [Research featured in magazine cover page]
  • Agriculture 3.0: How researchers are harvesting the power of robots and drones to reboot farming. GeekWire News. 10 February 2016.
  • Developing technologies that will change agriculture. Precision Ag Expo. WSU CAHNRS News. 1 January 2016.
  • Phenotyping in the field goes high-tech. Good Fruit Grower, November 2015, pp. 20-21.
  • The robot overhead. The Economist, 6 December 2014.
  • Things that fly in the sky. Washington State Magazine, 2014.