Yuxin Miao
Precision agriculture; remote sensing; on-farm research; nutrient management; artificial intelligence; geospatial analysis
Background & Expertise.
Yuxin Miao is a professor and director of the Precision Agriculture Center in the Department of Soil, Water and Climate at the University of Minnesota. Miao obtained his PhD in soil science/precision agriculture from the University of Minnesota in 2005, and did two years of postdoctoral research at the Precision Agriculture Center. He worked at the China Agricultural University as an associate professor from 2007-17. In 2017, he joined the Department of Soil, Water and Climate. He started to serve as director of the Precision Agriculture Center in 2023 and was promoted to professor in 2025. He served as associate editor for the Agronomy for Sustainable Development from 2009-20, the Agronomy Journal from 2019-24, the Precision Agriculture from 2014 to present, the Remote Sensing from 2018 to present and editor-in-chief for the European Journal of Agronomy from 2023 to present. He was the founding leader of the Precision Nitrogen Community of the International Society of Precision Agriculture. He started the Minnesota On-farm Precision Agriculture Research Network in 2019.
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