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This is Smart Agricultural & Food Engineering (SAFE) lab in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Arkansas. SAFE lab’s primary research focus is developing and applying advanced artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine vision techniques to protect food safety, improve the food qualities and increase food consumer acceptance. SAFE lab also has broad interests in applying these engineering solutions to areas related to human daily lives, including agriculture and healthcare.

News!

  1. [Mar 2024] [Lab] Amirreza Davar joined in the lab as a M.S. student. Welcome!
  2. [Dec 2023] [Journal] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for Environmental monitoring in food manufacturing: Current perspectives and emerging frontiers was accepted by Food Control
  3. [Dec 2023] [Journal] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for Genome-wide association mapping reveals loci for enzymatic discoloration on cut lettuce was accepted by Postharvest Biology and Technology
  4. [Nov 2023] [Journal] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for Modeling and optimization of bioenergy production from co-digestion of poultry litter with wheat straw in anaerobic sequencing batch reactor: Response surface methodology and artificial neural network was accepted by Applied Energy.
  5. [Sept 2023] [Funding] The lab was funded by USDA AMS to develop a domain transferrable beef marbling evaluation system.
  6. [Sept 2023] [Presentation] Dr. Wang has a presentation at Arkansas Session ASABE annual meeting.
  7. [Sept 2023] [Lab] Peng Zhou joined in the lab as a PostDoc. Welcome!
  8. [Aug 2023] [Lab] Siavash Mahmoudi joined in the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
  9. [Aug 2023] [Lab] Pouya Sohrabipour joined in the lab as a M.S. student. Welcome!
  10. [July 2023] [Presentation] Dr. Wang, Yihong, and Chaitanya have 3 presentations at ASABE annual meeting.
  11. [July 2023] [Service] Dr. Wang and Dr. Cengiz Koparan formed the first AG robotic team at UARK who attended the robotic competition for cotton harvest at ASABE 2023.
  12. [June 2023] [Funding] The lab was funded by USDA AFRI A1521 program for develop robotic solutions for facilitating the blue crab industry. The program is led by University of Maryland.
  13. [June 2023] [Journal] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for A Review of Three-dimensional Vision Techniques in Food and Agriculture Applications was accepted by Smart Agricultural Technology.
  14. [May 2023] [Presentation] Dr. Wang made a presentation about robust vision intelligence for food industry in USDA AMS seminar.
  15. [March 2023] [Presentation, Best paper award] Dr Swarna Murugan presented at 2023 International Conference on Networking and Communications (ICNWC)
  16. [Jan 2023] [Funding] The lab was funded by USDA AFRI Meat and Poultry Processing and Food Safety program for developing mobile robotic platform for autonomous bio-mapping in chicken processing plant.
  17. [Dec 2022] [Funding] The lab was funded by NSF NRI 3.0/USDA AFRI program for developing autonomous and intelligence solutions for chicken handling
  18. [Nov 2022] [Presentation] Dr Swarna Murugan presented at The 27th NSF EPSCoR National Conference
  19. [Nov 2022] [Funding]The lab was funded by NSF I-Corp program to train postdoc Dr. Sethu for technology transfer.
  20. [Sept 2022] [Award] Dr. Wang won UARK New Faculty teaching award. Congrats!
  21. [Aug 2022] [Lab] Chaitanya Pallerla joined in the lab as a M.S. student. Welcome!
  22. [July 2022] [Award] Dr. Wang and his previous teammate Mohamed Ali won the second prize in the oral presentation competition at ASABE 2022 annual meeting, Houston. Congrats!
  23. [May 2022] [Lab] Gabriel Cox joined in the lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome!
  24. [May 2022] [Lab] Yihong Feng joined in the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
  25. [May 2022] [Funding]The lab was funded by UADA research incentive award to develop a digitalized and portable chicken fleshing score measurement instrument.
  26. [May 2022] [Funding]The lab was funded by UARK Engineering Research and Innovation Seed Funding Program to develop 3D imaging devices for food 3D scanning.
  27. [May 2022] [Award] Dr. Murugan won the second prize in the poster presentation competition at NSF EPSCoR DART annual meeting. Congrats!
  28. [Mar 2022] [Proceeding] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for developing active laser scanning system accepted by 2022 ASABE Annual meeting. [link]
  29. [Mar 2022] [Lab] Robert Blindauer joined in the lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome!
  30. [Jan 2022] [Lab] Olivia Torres joined in the lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome!
  31. [Jan 2022] [Funding] The lab was funded by South Region Small Fruit Consortium (SRSFC) to evaluate grape properties from non-invasive hyperspectral imaging system.
  32. [Dec 2021] [Lab] Dr. Swarna Murugan voluteered at the lab as a research associate. Welcome!
  33. [Dec 2021] [Proceeding] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for non-invasive glucose quantification based on HSI system was accepted by 2021 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC). [link]
  34. [Oct 2021] [Journal] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for LSTM based 3D->2D vessel segmentation in Adaptive Optics—Optical Coherence Tomography (AO-OCT) images was accepted by Applied Sciences [link].
  35. [Sept 2021] [Funding] The lab was funded by Arkansas NSF EPSCoR Data Analytics that are Robust and Trusted (DART) program to develop illumination robust deep learning models.
  36. [Aug 2021] [Funding] The lab was funded by FY22 UADA Infrastructure and Equipment Funding for HSI systems
  37. [July 2021] [Presentation] Dr. Wang presented his recent work on active 3D scanning system at ASABE 2021 annual meeting [link]
  38. [June 2021] [Lab] Dr. Wang joined University of Arkansas as an Assistant Professor