Dr. Cen Haiyan is currently a Professor and Vice Dean of College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science at Zhejiang University (ZJU). She received her Ph.D. in Biosystems Engineering from Michigan State University in 2011, and had been a Research Associate with USDA-ARS Lab from 2012 to 2015 before she joined ZJU. She was selected as Chang-Jiang Scholar Distinguished Professor in 2021 and China’s 1000 Young Talent in 2015, and is listed among the World Top 2% Scientists. Her research focuses on Intelligent sensing and optical imaging for plants to develop high-throughput plant phenotyping technologies and systems towards crop design breeding and precision farming. Dr. Cen has published more than 80 scientific papers in peer-reviewed top journals such as Trends in Plant Science, Nature Food, and Remote Sensing of Environment. She has 18 Chinese invention patents, one US patent, and one Japanese patent. Dr. Cen has received awards and recognitions for her research work, including First Prize of Science and Technology of MOE, DA-BEI-NONG Agricultural Science and Technology Award, and American Society of Agricultural and Engineers (ASABE) Annual Meeting Paper Awards. She serves as the Executive Committee Chair of ASABE-ITSC, ZJU Representative of International Plant Phenotyping Network (IPPN), Vice Chair of Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery – Basic Technology Committee, and Associate Editor of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.