Dr. Hiroshi Shimizu

KYOTO UNIVERSITY - JAPAN
Professor
Topic: Improving cost performance by automation, robotics and other ag tech.
Asian Association for Agricultural Engineering (AAAE)
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ASABE)
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
Japanese Society of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Engineers and Scientists
Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery
Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
Japanese Society of Agricultural Informatics
Japanese Society of Farm Work Research
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
The Asian Association for Agricultural Engineering
Awards
"Studies on softsensing of plant response to environment factors" Award for academic achievement from Japanese Soceity of High Technology High Technology in Agriculture, 2006
Outstanding Contrivution Award for outstanding contribution rendered to BIOROBOTICS III, IFAC TC 8.01 Control in Agriculture, 2006
Tau-Eta Prize, Japanese Soceity of High Technology High Technology in Agriculture, 2004
"Cuticle resistance of shoot-tip for five floral crops" Outstanding Paper Award from Japanese Society of High Technology in Agriculture, 2003
Outstanding Contribution Award from International Federation of Automatic Control, 2000
"Analysis of plant growth using image processing", Science Encouragement Prize, Japanese Soceity of High Technology in Agriculture, 1996