Manoj Karkee, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Biological Systems Engineering Department at Washington State University (WSU). He leads a strong research program in the areas of sensing, machine vision and agricultural robotics at the WSU Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems. Karkee has published widely in journals, including the Journal of Field Robotics, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture and Transactions of the ASABE, and has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences and universities. Karkee is currently serving as an elected chair for International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee 8.1, Control in Agriculture; as an associate editor for Computers and Electronics in Agriculture and Transactions of the ASABE; and as a guest editor for Journal of Field Robotics. He was awarded 2020 Railbird Engineering Concept of the Year by American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, and was recognized as the 2019 Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence and IoT’ by Connected World magazine. Karkee earned his doctoral degree in agricultural engineering and human computer interaction from Iowa State University.