International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Yibin YING

Profile:

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Yibin Ying is a distinguished Chinese agricultural engineer whose research and professional work have focused on intelligent agricultural equipment, agricultural informatisation, and rapid non-destructive detection of the quality and safety of agricultural products and foods. Born in March 1964 in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province, he received his B.Eng. in Tractor Design and Manufacturing from Jiangsu Institute of Technology, now Jiangsu University, in 1984, his M.Sc. in Agricultural Mechanisation from Zhejiang Agricultural University in 1989, and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Mechanisation Engineering from Northeast Agricultural University in 1999. After teaching at Jiangsu Institute of Technology and Zhejiang Agricultural University, he joined Zhejiang University in 1998, where he subsequently served as Executive Dean of the College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Deputy Director of the Division of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, Executive Dean of Chu Kochen Honors College, Assistant to the President, and Vice President. From 2017, he served as President of Zhejiang A&F University. He is currently Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Zhejiang University and Founder and Head of its Innovation Team for Intelligent Bio-industry Equipment. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Zhejiang Association for Science and Technology and holds leadership positions in professional organisations concerned with agricultural engineering and machinery. His honours include a Cheung Kong Scholar Distinguished Professorship, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Distinguished Teacher title, and recognition as a National Model Teacher. He is also a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and a Fellow of the International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

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Professor Ying’s research has centred on computer vision and spectroscopy for rapid, non-destructive assessment of agricultural products and foods, together with intelligent systems for sorting, grading, and handling. His research established computer-vision methods for real-time detection and grading of fruit quality, work recognised by a Second Prize of the National Technological Invention Award in 2008. He subsequently expanded his research into intelligent agricultural information perception and agricultural robotics, including methods for sensing internal plant characteristics. His academic work has also included the development of biosystems engineering education at Zhejiang University, where he helped establish undergraduate and doctoral programmes in the field and contributed to the development of agricultural engineering as a national “Double First-Class” discipline. He has served as a lead expert in the China–Europe Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology flagship programme of the Ministry of Science and Technology and as Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering and the Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery. He has received a Second Prize of the National Technological Invention Award, two First Prizes and one Second Prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, and six provincial and ministerial first prizes. His research has generated more than 20 ESI Highly Cited Papers and numerous patents, several groups of which have been transferred for commercial application. He has also supervised doctoral research recognised at national level. Through sustained research, academic leadership, and engineering education, Professor Ying has contributed to connecting intelligent sensing and information technologies with agricultural machinery, food-quality assessment, and the development of modern agricultural engineering in China.